Casio CT-K731 61-Note Touch-Sensitive Portable Electronic Keyboard

by Casio

Product Features

• 5-octave, full-size keyboard
• 3.5-inch floppy disk drive for song playback and storage
• 232 synth tones
• 110 rhythm patterns
• MIDI compatibility

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 23.7 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004ZA08
• Item model number: CTK731
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #150,625 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Casio CTK-731 full-size five-octave keyboard with backlit LCD includes 32-note polyphony, 232 tones, and 110 rhythm patterns. You can create your own songs with accompaniment or use Casio's chord/fingered chord auto-accompaniment. The CTK-731 also includes a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive, allowing you to load and save data for song and pattern sequencer, registration memory, and synth parameters.

The onscreen keyboard displays notes and chords played, and a metronome icon indicates beat. A mixer-function allows control over each MIDI channel and accompaniment part, while one-touch preset configures keyboard for each individual rhythm with proper tone and tempo.

The CTK-731 includes MIDI in/out jacks that make it simple to connect to a computer or other peripherals. It also features transpose and tuning control and an assignable pedal jack for sustain, soft, sostenuto, or rhythm start/stop. It operates on D batteries or the included AC adapter.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent mid-range keyboard, January 4, 2001

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Chiron (....) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casio CT-K731 61-Note Touch-Sensitive Portable Electronic Keyboard (Electronics)

This CTK keyboard by Casio is easily the best in its price range. It features, among other things, modifiable sounds (letting you tweak with parameters such as attack, release, pitch, etc), 61 full size keys, and a 6-track onbaord digital recorder. It also is MIDI compatible, so it's easy to operate alongside your PC.

Let's discuss the sounds: there are over 200 tones, among the best being the piano, strings, and several of the synthesizer waveforms. It also has 32 slots for user-programmed tones, which you can use to store your edited sounds.

I don't particulary care for most of the drum patterns, but there are still a few good ones, which come complete with fill, intro and outs. This keyboard also has a diskdrive for easy storage of your performances.

There are drum pads also, which can be cumbersome at first, but are still fun to learn and use.

Overall, it's a good keyboard for those who want more than the basics, but would rather not blow $1000 on a Roland or Korg. Like I said, best value for the money- and with a very nice piano section.