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hello, ujiie here. the xw-p1! from casio! yes indeed. here it is! "hybrid processing sound source." xw-p1. casio waited until the time was just right, to come out with the xw series.

they're great! they need a pat on the back! i mean, with casio, there was the z series. i was a faithful user myself! right? yeah. and for making such a nice series of synths again, casio deserves a toast! am i right? great work! bottoms up!

anyway... well, just what kind of synth are we dealing with here? let's find out. ok, as you can tell just by looking, the xw-p1 uh, p standing for performance, as it says right here, performance synthesizer. it's made to be played. like at the start of this demo. or something along those lines, ok? now, the buttons. solo synth.

hex layer. drawbar organ. a series of pcm sounds. the sounds, well actually the synth engines, have been categorized here for you. first, solo synth. as the name implies, there are lots of solo sounds here. like this one. yeah, i mean, really... that's a pretty nice, analog-ish sound! these four knobs here are assignable.

you can control cutoff or resonance or whatever. attack time? banging! next, hex layer. what's that? well, it's called hex, so it's six of something. a sound comprised of six layers, actually. thus, some pretty fat sounds here. this! right. drawbar organ. from the name,

you understand. look here. drawbars. using these, uh, well it's just like an organ. move these, and the lcd screen shows the settings too. see it moving? ok? it's just like a drawbar organ! the keys on this are very square, very organ-like. nice. a button for percussion here.

4 feet or 2/3. you can change it. and a button for rotary speaker speed, fast or slow. right here. the drawbar organ sounds good! that's casio for you. pcm sounds are further categorized here. piano. let's go to number one, stereo grand piano.

oh that sure is nice! loads of sounds in here, naturally. electric piano sounds, with velocity switched layers, they've got them in here! a nice sound, right? strings next. yeah, that sounds good. really good sounds in here. wide strings next. let's use the knobs. maybe you wanna add more reverb...

right? sounds really nice, doesn't it? guitar sounds next. mmm. nice indeed. let's check out bass. bass sounds. synth sounds. lower the cutoff... yeah that's a nice, solid sound. good. ah, simple sounds like this are important too!

yeah, i like to use sounds like this. yeah, good. other sounds include ethnic sounds like this. or sounds like this. there's an arpeggiator too. the phrase sequence feature is also very useful. well, let's see here. let's set up a new one. ah, quantize. let's go with sixteenth notes.

here we go. perfect. it's in there. now, key play is really neat! if you press a different key... you can change the key of the phrase on the fly. depending on your idea, you can get some really interesting results out of this! some very interesting features here! and... ...something i found really neat,

uh, something i used during the beginning of the demo, is the step sequencer here. this is really interesting! for example... here! you see how there are different patterns here? these keys are in the lower mode now. you see? now, when in this mode,

you can use the step sequencer, i used it for performance earlier. but here, the bass drum. the currently active track, uh, track number eight. bass drum. just go like this... you can hear the bass drum pattern changing, right? how about doing snare next? i think the snare is on track nine. yep. right, so uh, this one...

it's all the same pitch at the moment. but if you use the sliders here... you can control the pitch of the steps! so what you've got here is a sixteen-step sequencer, for all intents and purposes, basically. this is something you'd think would've been common by now! it's. very. neat! and if you use this for "minimal" music? man, you can get a lot of mileage out of it for sure!

and patterns? there are tons of patterns in here already! tons! ok, let's check some out then, right? right, how about... ...this kind of thing? that's just one example of this. casio is like the king of patterns. they've got millions of 'em! they've made a point to utilize their technology especially technology & features that support music-making! as far as that goes, this is just great!

well, we've looked at a lot of what the xw-p1 can do, and its many features. but no matter what, it sounds good! this, uh, yeah, especially these solo synth sounds! and there's a lot of them! this really has lots of good sounds! and this mg thing here, mg low lead... mg stands for what? that well-known synth,

you know, the vintage one, right? yep. ok or how about this, uh, for example, when it's set to solo synth, this line over here lghts up blue. see it here? what that indicates is these parameters listed here can be directly edited via the sliders. let's give it a little spin. ok, let's see. so you can alter the balance or different levels,

things like that. yeah, there are definitely a number of solo sounds that would just cut through a mix. ah this! cz sounds!!! cz low lead. yes! cz's sounded like this! this next one too, cz. it does sound good! the hex layer sounds too, six layers, six sounds, man they sure are fat!

like this. you hear the various layers? the sliders work here too. for balance. this line, hex layer. this is the first sound. the second. you can use these... ...mix them together gradually. right? some very fat sounds can come out of this thing.

for a variety of songs and/or situations, the sounds are in here by the truckload! personally, that they've included so many analog synth-like sounds just makes me very happy! and in performance mode, you can use these different sounds and have fun performing with them! the casio xw-p1! you can put an ipad here by the way!!! translation & captions by:swcreativejapan.