Casio CT-K651 61-Note Touch-Sensitive Portable Electronic Keyboard

by Casio

Product Features

• Selectable touch-sensitive keyboard with 61 full-size keys
• 2-song/6-track memory (5,200 notes)
• Create and store your own sounds with synthesizer function
• 200 tones, 8 drum sets, and proprietary reverb with 3 presets
• Mixer function, built-in metronome, and MIDI compatibility

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 17.6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00004Z9WA
• Item model number: CTK651
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,859 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Casio's CTK651 features 61 full-size keys with a touch-sensitive keyboard that spans five octaves, letting you create or play music with full-size piano sound. Its useful onscreen keyboard with music staff and finger icons displays notes and chords played, while a built-in metronome with six drum pads keeps the beat.

The CTK651 enables connectivity with MIDI instruments and musically equipped computers for recording, editing, and scripting. A mixer function allows for control over each MIDI channel and musical accompaniment. Its 24-note polyphonic keyboard offers more than 200 tones with 128 general MIDI, 32 presets, 32 user synth tones, and eight drum set tones. Other proprietary sounds and play modes feature room, stage, and concert hall presets and 100 discrete rhythm patterns.

You can record your own compositions (5,200 notes) directly onto the keyboard using a two-song/six-track memory in real time or editable stereo time. A useful synthesizer function lets you create and store your own sounds. Its backlit LCD displays music selections, along with tone, rhythm, mixer, tempo, and keyboard function. Built-in two-way speakers deliver a 5-watt output and include bass reflex sound.

The Casio CTK651 offers a 0.25-inch stereo line-out/headphone jack. It uses an AD-5 AC adapter or becomes portable with just six D batteries, neither included.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a keybard for a symphony, March 10, 2001

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"saajida" (cleveland, ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casio CT-K651 61-Note Touch-Sensitive Portable Electronic Keyboard (Electronics)

My son owns this keyboard and it has been a dream for him. When he is sent to bed he plays the keyboard and has taught himself several songs. The keybard has allowed him to teach himself from the easy learning instructions he is 10 and has learned to play like a true pianist. We are enrolling him in a school for music and we receive a partial scholarship to learn.

I have 5 children and they have had different keyboards but they have elected this TOP RATED. They are all finding it extremely pleasing and of good use for all of them even if its for the one son they have all found it to be the best.

The keyboard has easy instructions,easy to learn, and best of all THE BEAUTIFUL PRICE. Which since I have been shopping at amazon.com I will honestly say the prices have been the best and the products are the best. I am appreciative for amazon.com.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Made my piano teacher jealous!, August 18, 2001

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S. J. Deal (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casio CT-K651 61-Note Touch-Sensitive Portable Electronic Keyboard (Electronics)

Great Keyboard, Can't say enough good things about it. Within seconds I was playing it like a pro. It sounds like the instraments on it. This really isn't a keyboard its a synthisizer.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love this thing!, March 16, 2006

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Frayo "www.livejournal.com/users/frayo" (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casio CT-K651 61-Note Touch-Sensitive Portable Electronic Keyboard (Electronics)

I got this for Christmas at the end of 2001...right after they came out.
I was looking for a cheap MIDI keyboard controller. Basically, I was looking for it to control my MIDI soundcard, while MIDI controllers were still incredibly expensive.

The piano voices on it...are just as good as the default piano voices on the Korg Triton..this is no lie.
The voices follow those of the voice architecture similar to that of the Nintendo 64. I love this thing. Its a little on the heavy side..and the sequencer and synthesizer are deeply imbedded and hard to use. Otherwise, the keyboard is just a great all around sample playback board with some nifty sounds to go with it. Its got 200 of them...and they are all modifyable!
It features touch responce like a real piano. It has a huge backlit display with a staff on it that shows which notes your are playing.
Its a wonderful keyboard..and also very durable. This thing survived the trip to the college dorm..and survived my friends, who banged it up pretty good, but it still works and sounds as awesome as it did the day I got it.

As a MIDI controller...its the most basic you can get, but at least the controller sends the touch responce.