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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Help For an 82 year old Beginner who hopes to buy Pianoteq]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>tmyoung wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>My understanding (and I&#039;ve never used the CT-S1 only read up about it) is you&#039;ll be able to (fairly) easily route the keyboard signal via a Micro USB cable to the computer.&nbsp; You will need to the correct drivers installed for the keyboard, and then PTQ (Pianoteq) or a DAW hosting PTQ will &quot;see&quot; your MIDI USB device and can be configured to route the keys played to PTQ.</p><p>It&#039;s also theoretically possible that the &quot;Aux in&quot; port allows your computer sound card&#039;s &quot;Line out&quot; port via an 1/8&quot; TRS Audio Cable (marketed under various names like &quot;Stereo audio cable&quot; or &quot;Stereo headphone cable&quot; etc.) to return the PTQ sound to the keyboard (as the keyboard&#039;s marketing would imply is possible), but that same online literature doesn&#039;t make it clear if that will work automatically or only with special configuration settings in the drivers or through some other means.&nbsp; You&#039;ll only know through testing: happily plugging a 1/8&quot; Audio Cable should be generally safe for experimentation as that&#039;s usually quite a low voltage connection.&nbsp; You might need to depend on your computer&#039;s speakers rather than the keyboard&#039;s speakers if that doesn&#039;t work.</p><p>There is a Bluetooth Antenna pack (that seems to be a separate purchase) which works instead of the USB connector: it&#039;s possible that offers different connectivity options for routing the sound back to the speakers; however, that&#039;s only a guess.&nbsp; You might from the driver configuration for the USB connection be able to route audio directly to the speakers, if that&#039;s supported in the drivers, such behavior would be atypical compared to other keyboards on the market but not at all impossible/unprecedented.&nbsp; If that&#039;s the case, you&#039;ll be able to select your keyboard speakers as the sound output device in PTQ (or your DAW) whenever the keyboard is plugged in.&nbsp; Against, that&#039;s just a guess that it supports, I can find no evidence for or against that functionality online through quick reading of a small portion of the documentation and marketing literature.</p><p>One final observation: when using certain operating systems (like Windows 10), Bluetooth is notoriously unreliable in some situations.&nbsp; This varies from computer to computer, but in general, USB will be inherently more reliable and require less tech debugging to setup and keep working.&nbsp; While bluetooth may offer different and more attractive connectivity options, it could come with less reliability that might require frequently restarting the keyboard, the bluetooth connection, and PTQ.</p></blockquote></div>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (Albatross 82)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Help For an 82 year old Beginner who hopes to buy Pianoteq]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>My understanding (and I&#039;ve never used the CT-S1 only read up about it) is you&#039;ll be able to (fairly) easily route the keyboard signal via a Micro USB cable to the computer.&nbsp; You will need to the correct drivers installed for the keyboard, and then PTQ (Pianoteq) or a DAW hosting PTQ will &quot;see&quot; your MIDI USB device and can be configured to route the keys played to PTQ.</p><p>It&#039;s also theoretically possible that the &quot;Aux in&quot; port allows your computer sound card&#039;s &quot;Line out&quot; port via an 1/8&quot; TRS Audio Cable (marketed under various names like &quot;Stereo audio cable&quot; or &quot;Stereo headphone cable&quot; etc.) to return the PTQ sound to the keyboard (as the keyboard&#039;s marketing would imply is possible), but that same online literature doesn&#039;t make it clear if that will work automatically or only with special configuration settings in the drivers or through some other means.&nbsp; You&#039;ll only know through testing: happily plugging a 1/8&quot; Audio Cable should be generally safe for experimentation as that&#039;s usually quite a low voltage connection.&nbsp; You might need to depend on your computer&#039;s speakers rather than the keyboard&#039;s speakers if that doesn&#039;t work.</p><p>There is a Bluetooth Antenna pack (that seems to be a separate purchase) which works instead of the USB connector: it&#039;s possible that offers different connectivity options for routing the sound back to the speakers; however, that&#039;s only a guess.&nbsp; You might from the driver configuration for the USB connection be able to route audio directly to the speakers, if that&#039;s supported in the drivers, such behavior would be atypical compared to other keyboards on the market but not at all impossible/unprecedented.&nbsp; If that&#039;s the case, you&#039;ll be able to select your keyboard speakers as the sound output device in PTQ (or your DAW) whenever the keyboard is plugged in.&nbsp; Against, that&#039;s just a guess that it supports, I can find no evidence for or against that functionality online through quick reading of a small portion of the documentation and marketing literature.</p><p>One final observation: when using certain operating systems (like Windows 10), Bluetooth is notoriously unreliable in some situations.&nbsp; This varies from computer to computer, but in general, USB will be inherently more reliable and require less tech debugging to setup and keep working.&nbsp; While bluetooth may offer different and more attractive connectivity options, it could come with less reliability that might require frequently restarting the keyboard, the bluetooth connection, and PTQ.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (tmyoung)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Help For an 82 year old Beginner who hopes to buy Pianoteq]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>Albatross 82 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>which cables to connect to both laptop and Casio CT-S1 so <br />that I can play the Pianoteg sound thru the speakers on the Casio Keyboard</p></blockquote></div><p>For this part of the question, people in the <a href="https://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/forum/59-ct-s1-76-and-ct-s1/">Casio forums</a> might know more.</p><p>Based on looking at <a href="https://www.casio.com/content/dam/casio/global/support/manuals/electronic-musical-instruments/pdf/008-en/c/CTS1_usersguide_EN.pdf">the manual</a> and <a href="https://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/21941-let-ct-s1-send-midi-data-to-a-mac-and-at-the-same-time-let-the-mac-sends-the-vst-or-pianoteq-sound-to-ct-s1/">this post</a>, my <em>guess</em> is that it won’t work in any straightforward way.</p><p>You’ll be able to play Pianoteq from the keyboard, but getting the sound to come back out of the CT-S1 speakers will be problematic. It <em>looks to me</em> like you can’t route the sound from a computer back to the CT-S1 over USB; you’d need to use an audio cable to the input jack (which might or might not work, I can’t tell). But then you would run into a problem with what’s called <em>latency</em>: delay between pressing a key and hearing the sound. That’s just an inherent problem with Windows machines that requires another piece of gear, called an audio interface, to work around.</p><p>But, there might be another way out. It <em>looks like</em> the CT-S1 has a bit more functionality, possibly including what you want to do, with an iPad or iPhone; and Pianoteq can run on those. If you have either (or wouldn’t mind getting one), I suggest going to those Casio forums for more guidance on whether you can do what you want.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (Coises)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Hi&nbsp; I am hoping to buy pianoteq but need to be helped to start off. My Laptop is an HP Probook 450 G2&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Intel Core i3 </p><p>hd graphics 4400&nbsp; &nbsp; 4gb Rm&nbsp; &nbsp;500 GB HDD</p><p>My Keyboard is a new Casio CT-S1&nbsp; with 76 keys</p><p>Can anyone advise please if this Laptop is OK&nbsp; - If so Can you advise which cables to connect to both laptop and Casio CT-S1 so </p><p>that I can play the Pianoteg sound thru the speakers on the Casio Keyboard</p><p>Also which basic Pianoteq would you recommend</p><p>I would appreciate any advice which can be given&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Thanks</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (Albatross 82)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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