Casio 61 Key Portable Keyboard with Stand Black CTK720STAD

Manufacturer:Casio Label:Casio EAN:0079767343231 Model:CTK720STADV

I got this at a Target during a christmas sale for [ GOOD 61-Key Digital Keyboard Rating 5 ] bucks! Even at 99 I'd have to say for the price it is a a good buy 2009-01-25 I like all the different tones you can choose from If you are a beginner and want a few songs to play along with or rhythms to improvise to, this keyboard will do the trick Barely Adequate Keyboard for Beginners or Children It's OK for young kids, but could use some improvement 61-Key Digital Keyboard The positives: * Lots of songs, tones and rhythms (rhythmic patterns), and a piano bank, essentially a group of pre-recorded pieces using the piano sound * Fairly long battery life (takes 6 AA batteries or a 9V Adapter, included here) * Shuts off automatically after a few minutes * Lightweight * Somewhat sturdy * Includes USB General MIDI function in order to use it as a MIDI controller with a computer (with music notation software such as Finale or Sibelius, for example) * Metronome function The negatives: * Songs not alphabetized on list printed on keyboard, so finding songs takes longer than it should Rating 2 * Somewhat worthless, overly complex "Music Information System" information on the front screen (including a keyboard diagram showing which keys you struck - is that really necessary?) * Keys not weighted, so if does not really feel like a piano, but you get what you pay for * No velocity sensitivity (loud and soft) * No native Apple Macintosh OSX support for USB General MIDI (see below) * No way to prevent the volume slider from being pushed all the way up all the time, so if a children are playing this and they figure out how to adjust the volume, there's nothing you can do other than to keep reminding them to keep the volume at a low level Unlike a previous reviewer, I didn't encounter any keys out of tune, but the piano sounds (let alone the most of the others) hark back to the 1980s in sound quality 2008-12-29 Regarding the lack of support for Apple Macintosh OSX, you can find an Apple Macintosh OSX MIDI driver for ALL Casio keyboards here: http://code My boyfriend loved it as birthday gift nice It has everything, no further shopping needed 61-Key Digital Keyboard I'm stil waiting for a concert though Rating 5 2008-10-18 Now, it's been ages since I have had a keybaord or piano around the house You get what you pay for... I wanted to get myself back into the swing of things again so I thought I would low-ball it on the price and just get something to get the creative juices flowing again 61-Key Digital Keyboard Well, you get what you paid for Rating 2 The CTK-720 arrived today perfectly fine (sans a few nasty dings in the box, the unit was unscathed) 2008-06-27 I set it up, hooked it up to my own speaker system to make sure it would have the chance to produce a nice clean sound 61-Key Digital Keyboard .