Casio CTK-3500 61-Key Touch Sensitive Portable Keyboard with Power Supply,Black

I use this product to play music!

My (adult) son tells me this is a good quality organ with a good sound; he just plays for fun and is a grade 7 standard on the piano. Only downsides - it did not come with an adaptor and music does not stand up easily, a groove would have solved this.

Sound quality not bad, everything what you need for the beginners but could be a bit chipper. My advice to decrease a price.

I bought a Casio CTK-2500 from M H Technologies via Amazon and it arrived yesterday. I'm a complete beginner and already disappointed with this keyboard - and I haven't even turned it on yet! The reason is that this keyboard will operate on 6 batteries or via a mains adapter. However no adapter is included? Whats more, there is no indication which is the correct adapter to buy. I don't think I've ever bought a piece of equipment that requires a mains adapter that doesn't have it included. Is this even legal?? I would ask Amazon to remove M H Technologies from its list of suppliers. A further problem is that this keyboard is squarely aimed at beginners and yet Casio can't be bothered to include a booklet with a few simple tunes and instructions to help beginners to get started. I really want to send this keyboard back to Amazon. My advice - don't buy this unit.

Intentaré ser lo más objetivo, ya soy 6 años desde que decidí adquirir este teclado y le he dado un uso sumamente rudo y constante en presentaciones, grabaciones y transporte a lo largo del tiempo, decidí comprarlo para tener un teclado portátil que me sirviera en escenarios, de rápida instalación (solo requiere su conector y un cable plug mono), con sensibilidad en las teclas (algo fundamental para un pianista profesional) pero sin que fuera propiamente un piano eléctrico (carece del peso de las teclas imitando al piano), me llevé una enorme sorpresa al darme cuenta de la cantidad de efectos que tenía, ya que solamente pensaba utilizarlo con el stage piano, el teclado tiene un efecto retro llamado VIRTUAL HALL que me fascina utilizar, ya que me recuerda al sonido de eco o reverb de los pianos/teclados sampler antiguos de artistas como Lito Vitale en la época en la que tocaba con Jorge Cumbo, y es un sonido que buscaba mucho para lo que toco, además de esto incluye muchos efectos midi justo de la época de los videojuegos de los 90s de super nintendo, por lo que para interpretar música de este estilo es un teclado ideal, son sonidos artificiales por completo, no lo recomendaria para quien busca samples realistas, pero si para aprovechar esos sonidos midi caracteristicos de la época, es un excelente teclado, admite pedal de sustain y tiene una salida midi para utilizarlo como interfaz, es un gran teclado para quien no quiere gastar en un teclado profesional. Lo mejor del teclado: 1. Durabilidad, resistencia y el efecto VIRTUAL HALL 2. Alrededor de 50 efectos (leads/pads) con sonidos casi idénticos a los de los videojuegos retro de super nintendo, además de un sonido de piano stage piano bastante decente para el precio, y un efecto de percusiones de dance retro, y ecualización en bajos graves que en lo personal me gustan mucho. 3. Sensibilidad de las teclas con una gama bastante alta, casi a la altura de los teclados de 10 veces su valor. 4. Extremadamente portable sin necesidad de recursos externos como computadoras u otros complementos, listo para tocarse con su pedal de sustain, su conector y un cable plug mono. 5. Excelente interfaz midi que además funciona como stage piano decentemente. Desventajas: 1. Poca versatilidad, he visto y utilizado teclados de alrededor de la misma gama de precio con algunas opciones adicionales interesantes, por ejemplo teclados yamaha que permiten tener cierto tiempo de grabación en bucle tipo loop, tampoco se puede modificar la ecualización del teclado de forma nativa, entre otras opciones que podrían incorporarse, pero para el precio es entendible. 2. Es un teclado solo con salida de cable mono, por lo que las grabaciones en estereo son imposibles, se puede grabar mono y el sonido quedará algo plano por lo que al igual que otros instrumentos que graban en mono, lo ideal sería grabar 2 veces para resolver esta carencia. 3. Se comparte la salidad de audifonos y audio, y es la única salida de audio disponible por lo que la monitorización en vivo es imposible, lo ideal sería que tuviera su salida para audifonos y para audio por separado, y funcionales al mismo tiempo, para poder utilizar los audifonos como monitor. 4. Las opciones adicionales que ofrece como el acompañamiento autómatico de acordes, el pitch bend, la app para android/ios con compatibilidad de entrada del jack de 3.5mm, las veo personalmente inútiles, sobre todo la app que realmente podría tener más opciones ya que se tomaron la molestía de incluirla en la compatibilidad con el teclado, la app no ofrece mucho, solo algo de accesibilidad para las lecciones incluídas con el teclado, pero podría tener modificación de partituras o poder escribir a través de la propia app, lo cual aumentaría muchísimo su versatilidad. A pesar de las desventajas con 6 años de utilización ruda, puedo decir que es uno de los mejores teclados que he tenido, ha cumplido su proposito y hasta la fecha lo sigue cumpliendo y además al explorarlo por primera vez me llevé muchas gratas sorpresas que no esperaba, si en el futuro necesito un teclado similar estoy seguro que volvería a comprar una versión más actualizada de este mismo.

Was looking for a cheap portable piano for my dorm, and this is a great purchase so far for someone who hasn't touched one since he was a child. It's (relatively) firmly built, has decent (though not amazing) sound quality and speakers, and is pretty light at 6-7 pounds. There's plenty of tones to work with, though it's not by any means all inclusive (and I tend to stick with piano for the most part anyway). On top of that, there's a pitch bender (which I use occasionally), 4 step touch sensitivity, a metronome (which is slightly loud and which I never use), and a number of songs banked to start learning (which I also never use). The volume control has a noticeable gap in between a couple of increments (that is to say, it goes from slightly too soft to slightly too loud), and the display is good enough, though the notes/keys pressed are a little hard to read without a light directly over it. It does also need occasional wiping with a wet cloth/paper towel (like every 5 times I use it or so), and a couple of keys can be a bit squeaky depending on the angle at which I mash on them, but like I said, for CDN170 (plus 40 for a stand and 22 for a sustain pedal), this is a great practice/composing instrument.

I am a rookie & wanted to learn to play keyboard. I researched a lot before buying this one so... Casio Vs Yamaha If you are a beginner & care more about functions than sound quality , go with Casio. If you want a keyboard with louder & good quality speakers for performance , go with Yamaha. Note : Please don't buy Yamaha keyboards from on-line retailers as there is some sort of warranty issue. In case of Casio , you can buy online but there is an issue of not receiving adapters for many customers so choose your seller carefully. I would recommend Crystalarc Lifestyle as they are authorized Casio sellers & I received an official Casio adapter with my keyboard. Buy CTK 3500 if 1. You want touch response 2. You want USB-B port to connect your pc 3. You want Chordana Play connectivity 4. You want a pitch control wheel Now about the keyboard Speakers : I found them really nice & loud enough for personal use.. not much for performance though Keys : Really soft & nice to feel Functions : There are a lot of functions & once you read the manual , it is becomes easy to use There is an inbuilt step lesson teaching function which is similar to Chordana but way more awesome About Chordana App : To be frank I have used the app & I didn't find it much helpful. Even after connecting the app didn't recognize my keyboard keys in the step lesson mode.. anyway still you can use the app to transfer songs to the keyboard itself which is way more useful. Must buy accessories for beginners : 1. Dust Cover 2. Travel Cover 3. Usb A-B cable 4. Note Stickers If you interested in buying Casio keyboards & don't mind paying online then I would suggest you to buy from casioshopindia.in

A good product for learn music. Very nice product

Fantastic keyboard for a newbie or adult just getting into it. I purchased this keyboard based on the quality of the sound samples it came with - the 80s synth sounds were what I was looking for specifically - and the touch sensitive keyboard. I also liked its MIDI capability should I want to record anything with it. Build quality is pretty high - there is a bit of flex to the keys section, but I tend to hammer on it harder than I should, and as an amateur I haven't felt short changed by not having a full 88 keys. Sound quality is really great - and should be, digital technology is cheap enough now to support super high quality sound samples even in inexpensive devices - but I was really impressed by the built in speakers, which are usually not great on entry level keyboards. These sound fantastic. I haven't used the "dance music" feature at all as I found it a bit annoying, but children may get a few hours of entertainment out of it. I also really liked the fact that the LCD display shows you graphically what notes you are playing, both on a little keyboard diagram and in standard notation - great learning tool, well done Casio! *If anyone from Casio is listening, the only improvements I would like to see made would be onboard multitrack recording capability (super simple and cheap to implement nowadays) and a virtual FM synth model with user adjusted parameters.*