Comments on: Casio CTK-5000 61 Key Digital Keyboard

By: NIKOLOZ BAKRADZE

NIKOLOZ BAKRADZE — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:33:55 +0000

this is a really good thing. lot of features and low price, good quality.

i love it!!!

By: femto0

femto0 — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:48:13 +0000

Loaded with features. Acoustic sounds are pretty real, leads and pads are great, better yet is layering them and make up your own sounds.

Internal speakers are loud and clear with no noise, and so does when fully amplified into a PA.

Using it is simple and having a SD card gives a practically limitless storage for setups and songs.

Action has been enhanced from previews generation Casios (ie WK 3300 and such). It is deep and almost as hard as a “semi weighted” or “light weighted”, I am used to an acoustic upright piano and I love it. It still makes a little noise when pressed but not as much as the previews generation.

It`s very light for transportation.

As usb-midi controller it works very well. Connecting it to a PC was what plug and play was meant to be. WinXP and all the software I tried recognized it immediately and worked perfectly.

As drawback the back connectors aren’t fixed to the chassis but to the internal circuit, so they don’t feel too strong. And the AC adapter must be bought separately.

By: kahlia72

kahlia72 — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:43:31 +0000

After reviewing many different keyboards, I decided on this one. After unpacking the box, I was extremely irritated that the keyboard did not come with ac adapter. It never occurred to me that I’d have to buy a separate ac power supply. (The product review does note that a separate ac power supply must be purchased. It was my own fault for only reading the headline – “Battery or AC power”. However, this doesn’t lesson my irritation.) Before going out and buying one, I tried several adapters I had but none worked.

In the manual, it lists the type of adapter to use; unfortunately, all the stores I stopped by (including Radio Shack) did not know what an AD12 ac power supply was. This is what irritated me most of all – I went to several stores with the power supply information and no one understood what the manual was talking about. In the end, I had to take the keyboard into Radio Shack and in less than a minute they had me hooked up.

Fortunately, I’m completely satisfied with the keyboard itself. I think it’s very easy to use, the interface is intuitive, and the sound quality is quite good.