CASIO CT-X3000 - 54: THE DRUM MACHINE

The Casio CT-X 3000 and 5000 keyboards allow you to create your own accompaniment rhythms (styles) - 50 user rhythms on the 3000 and 100 user rhythms. These can be saved onto a USB drive and then loaded into the 700 and 800 keyboards too as user rhythms (up to 10) - but can't be created or edited.

In this video I'm just focusing on creating a set of drum rhythms with an intro, 4 variations, 4 fills, and an ending. In its own way, this demonstrates that the 3000 & 5000 boast quite a powerful drum machine - especially when compared to some of the DMs of the past - for a keyboard in this price range.

Each pattern within the rhythm set can be up to 16 measures (bars) long, and each one can have its own beat (time signature). In addition, you can even use a different drum set (collection of sounds) for each pattern. And that's just one set of patterns which make up a complete rhythm (style).

And once you've got a rhythm consisting of patterns you've created, jamming along whilst playing the keyboard is really fun and flexible - the fills will add variety and spontaneity - and don't forget the phrase pads can add rhythmic variety on top of the created patterns.

I've produced music and grid notations for the patterns that I create in the video, so if you want to download a FREE copy then click on the link below.

Link for notation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1latQ...

Alternatively, just follow the steps in the video and you should be able to create your own sets of patterns.

0:00 Introduction
0:39 Yamaha RX21 patterns
1:00 Features of CT-X drum machine
2:40 Rhythm pattern sets
4:38 Delete user rhythm
6:12 Recording (edit) the patterns
7:22 Setting measures and beats
9:00 Setting quantize, metronome, pre-count
10:12 Recording the intro pattern
11:54 Repeat the process - VAR1 & FILL1
18:24 Recording VAR2 & FILL2
22:43 Recording VAR3 & FILL3
25:15 Recording VAR4 & FILL4
26:51 Record the ending pattern
28:30 Writing and naming the rhythm set
31:00 Jamming along and controlling the patterns in real-time
33:00 Thanks for watching


Thanks for watching. All the best.