No, it's just a midi controller.

Best of luck with it!

still mad

In theory it works. You install it and then run the calibration, the Kaosspad firmware has tolerances built in for different digitzers. Good luck!

Thanks 😅

I didn't, I recorded a drum loop into the looper pedal.

No identifiers otehr than what you can see in the video. Good luck in your search!

thanks for your help yes i hope i can find the keyboard and thanks for helping me have a nice evening

Honestly, I don't know enough about how piezos work to say whether yours will work or not, but the ones I wired in worked perfectly.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out the video, hope your Octapad treats you well!

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In short, they're there for better hit detection. I won't pretend to know exactly how it works, but the gist is the onboard computer senses the slight time difference between the pad's piezo and the chassis' piezo and uses this to better the hit detection.

@@SpennyDubz thanks! I figured it was some type of noise cancelling scenario. Thanks again my friend!

Amazing tip

Short answer is no. The five programmable patches all have the same set of parameters, when I got this keyboard, the previous owner had already created some custom patches. I could in theory have gone through all the parameters and set them to zero to have the "init state", but as you saw in the video, it's easier for me to start with sound and see how the parameters effect it. The other thing I think you might be asking, is if I had selected the built in flute patch, and changed those parameters around, would it be different than if I had selected the violin and changed those parameters. Unfortunately this isn't possible, you can't tweak the built in sounds, you can only tweak the 5 user patches.

@@SpennyDubz Thank you for answer !

The correct answer is yes. There are different init sounds that the instruments are based off of. They aren't all based on a simple sine wave. If you configure sound A to have the same settings (attack, decay, modulation, etc) as sound B they will sound different if sounds A and B are based on different initial sounds.

@@rth314 So the only difference between preset instruments is the waveform shape, correct? The rest is just tweaking. Do you know how many waveform there are and tell me one instrument of each?

@@kingkorg7583 To be clear, the answer to "is it important which voice you select" is "yes". The answer to "Could you get the same sound if you start tweaking two completely different voices" is "only if the two voices share the same waveforms" (although maybe you wouldn't consider them "completely different" if they did). Each of the two oscillators of a voice has a waveform. For each, the choices are "sine", "square sine", "sine half", and "square sine half". Since there are two oscillators and four waveform options for each, I suppose there are 16 different combinations that the voices could use. I don't readily know which voices use which waveforms. However, there are apps called "PSS Edit" and "PSS Wave Editor" that allow you to import and export voices, and you can modify the voices in the software. There is also an app called "Ctrlr" that has templates you can download for the PSS keyboards. The PSS-680 doesn't have controls to change the waveforms for a voice, but these apps do. If you're editing in the software, it doesn't matter which voice you start with since you can change the waveforms. There are other parameters that can be controlled in the software other than the waveforms that aren't available on the PSS-680. I recommend playing around with the software to get a better idea what you can control.

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Heya, I used a mono breaking output, the breaking makes it so the signal still runs to the speaker when nothing is plugged into the output, but when a cable is plugged in, the signal no longer reaches the speaker. Check out the diagram here makezine.com/article/craft/music/basic-bending-diagram/ ...and like that diagram shows, you should consider adding a volume pot

Yo, thanks for stopping by and watching my video!

Haha, always glad to have another comment letting me know I'm not alone 😁

Heya, 👋 Thanks so much for watching 😃 I agree with you, whether it's the specific FM chip, the included presets, or whatever, these cheap keys are all their own unique little thing, and warrant investigating what they specifically sound like.

Yeah good points all around, I didn't mean to imply that FM synthesis was impossible to understand, merely that it's harder to comprehend than subtractive synthesis. I think my flailing demo is case in point 😆😅

@@SpennyDubz Absolutely! The complexities of FM synthesis is why so many musicians in the 80s used presets on the DX7.

A tutorial in setting reasonable expectations 😂

Certainly not surprising to hear the predecessor has similar sounds, like I say in the video, the approach to synthesizing traditional instruments achieves very samey samey results. I had a lot of trouble recording the track, and that did need a lot of post processing. Eventually I found there was somewhat of a sweet spot on the volume slider, pretty high but not full blast.

Thanks friend 😃

I ordered a 10 pack of 35mm piezos and used them to replace the ones inside the unit. I still have the old ones but haven't yet tried using them in something else.

Thanks for checking it out 🤙

Glad this video can help and good luck with the repair! 😁😁

🌬 ...and the wind cries "spenny" 🌬

@@SpennyDubz Greetings friend I have one but how do I get sounds for it???

Start with a preset and then use the synthesizer functions to morph the sound. Apparently you can also use midi cc but I have no experience with this.

If that set is very very old, then I must be very very old too 😩💀 Thanks for stopping by 👋 😆