Product: Casio CT-615
Price Paid: N/A used
Submitted
10/19/2003
at
09:44am
by
Ian Gustafson
Email: ioaon at hotmail<dot>com
Ease of Use
:
10
extremely easy to use. there are no "software versions." there is simply a button interface with 20 sounds and a mode that allows for 2 simultanious voices.
Features
:
2
no midi, software, velocity sensitivity, or sequencing. there is a drum machine with 20 uneditable rhythms, along with a fill button and intro and outro buttons. there are accompniments to all the rhythms, and the chords are controllable with single keys. it also lacks a 1/4" output, having instead only an 1/8" headphone jack. and it's output is mono.
Expressiveness/Sounds
:
3
the organ is pretty much the only decent-sounding setting. you can get nicer sounds by using the "tone bank" to combine 2 sounds.
Reliability
:
7
i've had mine for15 years and it's never failed me. i never gig with it though, so it hasn't really taken any abuse other than being owned by a 4-year old boy.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
3
great first keyboard but not gig-friendly, and the sounds are cheesy as hell for the most part. i reccomend for "cheesy keyboard" enthusiasts though.
Product: Casio CT-615
Price Paid: US $400 (in 1990)
Submitted
05/06/2001
at
08:51pm
by
hernan di pietro
Ease of Use
:
10
very easy to use: few buttons and keys.
Features
:
3
no sensitive keyboard, and very low polyphony ( I think 6 when 2 sounds are combined). No expansion, no midi capability, no sequencer.
Expressiveness/Sounds
:
1
the sounds are a joke, all useless. The built-in speaker is constantly saturated with most of the sounds. Very low quality samples (you can hear the loop finish and start if you press a key for long time).
I use it for playing some things, but i'm searching for a synth like the Roland XP30.
Ah, the rythms and accomp. are joke also.
Reliability
:
10
After 11 continuous years, this baby continues to hurt my ears! :)
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
3
The CT-615 is a keyboard? with very poor features and very low quality sounds, which renders it unusable for playing in a band.
When you play solo, it's also unplayable.
It's a relic from the past, without any value. I'll donate it (if i get my XP30)
