Product Description
- 61 Note, touch response, piano style keyboard
- 600 Built in tones including stereo pianos
- 180 Rhythm accompaniment patterns
- 48 Note polyphony
- Large backlit display with notation / fingering display
- Integrated step up lesson system 5 Song, 6 track recorder
- Class compliant USB MIDI port
- 1/8 inch Audio line input Headphone output
- Power supply included
CTK-4200 Features
The CTK-4200 at a Glance
The new Casio keyboard, CTK-4200 portable keyboard, features a 61-Key Piano Style Touch Response Keyboard with 600 total onboard Tones, 180 Rhythms, and Reverb plus Chorus Digital Effects. Packed with great features such as Casio's famous Step-up Lesson System, a 5 track recorder, audio inputs for an MP3 player and a class compliant USB port for MIDI. The CTK-4200 comes with an included power supply but it can run on batteries if you'd like to take your music with you. All this makes CTK-4200 more powerful and expressive than anything like it.
The Casio CTK4200 keyboard is equipped with Casio's renowned Step-up Lesson System, which allows novice users to learn the 152 built in songs phase by phase, at their own individual pace. Utilizing the LCD display, aspiring musicians can learn both music notation and correct hand positioning, while Casio's innovative lesson system evaluates performance so you can track your progress and incremental success.
Also features a class compliant USB port, allowing for easy access to utilize the keyboard to rock out with popular music education and composition software, essentially eliminating the need to Download drivers. The Casio 61 Key CTK4200 also includes an Audio input, which transforms the keyboard into a stereo speaker system for a MP3 player.
Product Specifications
| Number of Keys |
61 Keys |
| Maximum Polyphony: | 48 notes |
| Tones/Rhythms: | 600 Tones; 180 Rhythms |
| Dementions: | 37 x 5 x 14 inches |
| Weight: | 18.3 LBS |
Similar Casio Products to Consider
Casio CTK-3200 61-Key Touch Sensitive Personal Keyboard with Pitch Bend Wheel and Power Supply -- The Casio CTK3200 61 Key Personal Keyboard Package is the ideal start for ambitious music fans. With its 61 touch-sensitive keys, 150 rhythms, 110 songs, sampling function and pitch bend wheel, and more!
| List Price: | $219.99 |
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #8743 in Musical Instruments
- Color: Silver
- Brand: Casio
- Model: CTK4200
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 22.00" h x 9.00" w x 45.00" l, 20.00 pounds
Features
- 61 piano-style keys
- Touch Response (2 sensitivity levels, off)
- 48-note polyphony (maximum)
- 570 high-quality tones including stereo grand piano tones
- 180 rhythms including 74 ethnic rhythms and 20 patterns for piano play
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
By S.
After month of research, I bought this keyboard over the Casio CTK-3200. It was on sale at a nationwide toy store. I paid $119.99 before taxes.
I am a guitarist of over a decade, and found myself playing with virtual keyboards in my favorite DAW (Reaper). I wanted the real thing, and this is as close as I could get to a piano.
61 keys are enough I think. You can transpose up or down 12 semitones, and I believe there are further options for 1 to 2 octave shifts of part of or the entire keyboard.
Why this, and not a slightly cheaper model? The demos of this one sound MUCH better. The 3200 to my ears sounded like a toy, very flat, electrical sound.
The 3200 and the 4200 both have dynamic, touch responsive keys. But the 4200 in the demos (at the worlds most popular video sharing site) just sounded more musical, more alive, more dynamic. I personally wouldn't buy any keyboard that didn't have touch responsive keys. The whole joy of classical piano is in the shifts from loud to soft, bright to thundering. It's dramatic music which is ruined without dynamics. I think the 4200 has a "sharper" tone when hit really hard, rather than just being louder, and that may be why it sounds miles better than the 3200.
The main thing the 3200 has that this one lacks is a pitch bend wheel for whammy / bend effects. Ironically this is used to imitate guitars, and kind of miss having it.
In person, this is a big keyboard with big sound. It does everything you could want. Be prepared for a steep learning curve if you want to do anything besides turn it on and play.
The volume knob is nice (I know right, a knob for volume in 2012, how quaint). It does not get loud, not even stereo system loud, not even "Tv loud," which might be a good thing if you're buying this for a child. It has a 1/4" headphone output which can double as an audio out to an amplifier or your home stereo system. I think if you turn off the dynamics settings, it will get 2x as loud, but that isn't worth it for me.
It comes with a USB port (you need a full size USB cable). With drivers installed and the device enabled in my Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), everything worked fine to record a midi track using a VST based synth. The keys are velocity sensitive (!), and seemingly more dynamic thru midi than thru the presets. There is some latency (delay) but I've heard worse (maybe 250ms - its just enough to make you wonder what the latency is). Windows 7 x64 is my OS. You could probably monitor from the keyboard itself, record both the audio output and the midi, and sync them later. That's probably what I would do in the future. The advantage to Midi over audio is that it is easier to edit and manipulate.
The USB onboard and the included power supply are the main reasons I chose Casio over a Yamaha.
If I had more money or was more experienced I'd get one of the Casio 76 key series. This for me is good enough for now, and with the pitches lowered an octave, works fine for the music I'm learning.
It has a visual LCD screen, which displays the note you are playing on a grand staff (well 2 staves). It only goes down 1 ledger line on the bass side, which isn't really enough for the Schubert pieces I'm learning. But I think for most music in the treble register, it's a great help to press a key and see where that note is on the staff. It also has a chord dictionary, which I haven't figured out, but seems very handy to have. The LCD screen is backlit in blue and easy to read (another reason, it seems, to get the 4200 model over the 3200).
It comes with about 100 songs that it can teach through several different kinds of lessons which show notes on the stave and a visual representation of the keyboard. The songs are about half classical standards and half folk, world, and children's songs. It's interactive enough to show you what to play piece by piece, and will prompt you note by note if you are struggling.
In summary, the piano tone sounds alright. Certainly sounds a lot better than older models. The other tones sound great, very musical and usable. Like anything, if you want a great sound, you have to usually get an original instrument, and not a synth. That being said, the synthetic guitars, basses, strings, etc sounded very musical and usable for certain kinds of compositions. Which is my way of saying if you forget your expectations of what each instrument is supposed to sound like, you can find great uses for various tones, especially the synthesizer type sounds.
Additional notes:
Advanced users can import MIDI files to the keyboard to have it teach you music (not easy and must be channel 3) or provide backing tracks via software from the casio site (data manager). Sampling is possible but rather crude because it changes pitch by changing tempo (instead of changing pitch while maintaining tempo), so you get a "sped up tape recorder" effect. After a couple weeks, the keys are a bit acoustically noisy but seem to work as intended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
By Hb
Good time good product. Perfect to beginners and comes whith the ac charger Very easy to learn whith the. Piano learning system once you get to know how to use it
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
By The real Amazon fan
Bought this for my kids and they love it. I play keyboards as a hobby and own several flagship stage pianos and workstations in my home studio (Roland, Yamaha, Nord, Korg). I know what quality is as far as digital instruments go.
This Casio actually surprised me when I first played it. Honestly, I was expecting more of a toy... This Casio is a lot more dynamic than I expected, cleaner sounding, and musical. It's well built. The speaker output is clean and loud too, plenty for playing in the living room. For $149, it's a steal!
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