Piano World Home Page Forums Our Most Popular Forums Digital Pianos - Electronic Pianos - Synths & Keyboards Do you think Casio will unveil a new px360 at Summer Namm?

I'm not sure what they would upgrade on it though. The P160 has a few new sounds (Electric pianos and strings) taken from the PX-5S, but the main upgrade was the inclusion of line outs, something the PX-350 already has. I suppose they could increase the number of auto-accompaniment styles or something like that, but I imagine that if there's any update at all it will be very minor.

I hope you're right that they won't unveil a PX-5S successor this year. I barely got mine.

Mike Martin himself shot down rumors that surfaced about a month or two ago about a successor to the PX-5S. He indicated Casio had no plans to release a new version to the PX-5S or that they were working on any such successor. So at the very least (which I highly doubt) 2016 for a next version. Most likely sometime 2017 would be a more appropriate guess.

If Then. Advances in technology in the digital piano sphere could perhaps best be described as glacial. While Casio has put some nice feature bumps into the PX-160, there's essentially no innovation there at all. They basically back ported some of the better sounds from the PX-5S and added minor hardware improvements.

That's a bit harsh on one brand, isn't it?

They don't tend to do wholesale updates that frequently - tends to be a upgrade to the action and / or sound-engine, then some incremental tweaks after a year or two.

Look at some of the criticisms of the PX-150 - the speakers and connectivity options, the PX-160 seems a reasonable update - they did get it very right with the action and sound engine in the 150.

Lester,
No, I don't think it's harsh on one brand, I think it's true of the whole industry. I simply referred to Casio specifically because that's what this thread is about. But it's true all over the industry. Look at the Non-update that the Nord Stage 2 got in the NS2 EX. I mean, now the Electro has better features than their flagship product in a lot of ways. With the Nord Stage 2 EX we got more memory and....new accent colors on the paint job. And Yamaha is Notorious for dribbling out updates over very long periods of time. It's the nature of the beast in the DP world.

And I didn't mean my post to be an indictment of Casio. I think the PX-160 is now a much more attractive board than the PX-150 was. Even though the updates were minor and not innovative at all, they were good and useful updates to make. I'm sure it well sell well, and it should sell well, it's arguably the best piano in its price range. But innovative? it's just not.

I expect at some point we'll see some new things from casio that makes us all want to go "shut up and take my money!" I also expect that at some point we'll see a Nord stage 3 that represents an amazing improvement over the stage 2 EX. But I don't expect that we'll see those things for a long time, because the pace of innovation in this industry is, as I said, glacial.