Product: Casio LK-40/42
Price Paid: US $179.00
Submitted
04/21/2003
at
05:07am
by
Ray Stevens
Email: nonaste at cox<dot>net
Ease of Use
:
10
This is a beginner keyboard and as a beginner I think the presets sound pretty realistic. The manual is quite good. Everything is there to get you up and running
Features
:
4
This is a 12 note maximum polyphony instrument and it's midi capabilities are 5 multi-timbre receive. The keys are not pressure sensitive. It does not have an on-board sequencer
Expressiveness/Sounds
:
5
It doesn't sound bad. The onboard effects are good. It doesn't react to velocity and aftertouch
Reliability
:
7
I have it for two years and it hasn't broken yet. This is a learning musical instrument. I hardly think youw'd tote a device with flashing keys to your gig.
Customer Support
:
1
This is where Casio drops the ball. A big selling point of this instrument is the songs that you can download from their casiosongs.com, which is currently closed with no resumption date. They haven't offered a new song in a year and a half. Casiosongs.com support NEVER responded to email requests. With the limited polyphony and multi-timbre this is not a general midi instrument and it is extremly hard to download music from the internet (another huge selling point when featured on HSN)and manipulate it so that it'll work on the keyboard. I had to buy some software to help. But it's a real project, nevertheless. This is not good for a rank beginner who doesn't know jack about midi and who thinks he can learn a bunch of songs that Casio supplies or download music to learn.
Overall Rating
:
5
For what you pay for it I think it's overpriced. Go to Ebay and get it cheap. Then you are getting a bargain and it's a good way to learn a few songs. If you have the time to learn to read music I think this keyboard will do fine for a beginner. Yamaha makes a superior beginner's keyboard, for about 100 bucks more.
