Product Description
- 61 Piano Style Keys
- Touch Response
- 48-note polyphony AHL sound source
- 400 AHL keyboard voices and 150 Rhythms
- Step Up lesson system
- Music Challenge
- Sampling function
- Can be powered by batteries or with the included AC adapter
CTK-3200 Features
The CTK-3200 at a Glance
The Casio CTK-3200 is an affordable instrument with a 61 Key Piano Style Touch Sensitive Keyboard, 400 total onboard Tones, 150 Rhythms and Digital Effects. Packed with great features such as Casios famous Step-up Lesson System, audio inputs for a MP3 player, USB port for MIDI implementation and a pitch wheel for additional expression over sounds. All this makes CTK-3200 more realistic and expressive than ever before at this price range.
- AHL sound source
All built-in tones, including piano and acoustic instrument tones, now sound better than ever before! 48-tone maximum polyphony provides plenty of margin to minimize the chance of notes being dropped when tones are layered and when playing with Auto Accompaniment.
-Acoustic & Highly-compressed Large-waveform
- Piano-style keyboard
An easy-to-play keyboard with an appearance resembling that of an acoustic piano.
- Touch Response
Touch Response let’s you add delicate nuances to notes by varying how much pressure you apply to keyboard keys.
- Digital effects
Use effects to add reverb for more depth and breadth in your music.
- Sampling function
You can sample a sound from a portable audio player or other device, and then play the sound on the keyboard. You also can use sampled sounds to compose music. The sampling feature is a great way to create new sounds that are highly creative.
Start playback of the portable audio player connected to the keyboard’s AUDIO IN jack to sample voices, musical phrases, and other sounds in the playback.
Play notes on the keyboard using the sampled sound!
If you sample the “Ting!” sound of a triangle, for example, you can then play notes with the sound on the keyboard. You even can add reverb, vibrato, and other effects to the sampled sound.
Incorporate a sampled sound into accompaniment patterns! You can sample a favorite musical phrase or drum sound, and use the same to replace some Auto Accompaniment drum sets.
- AUDIO IN jack
Connect a digital audio player, CD player, or other audio device and you can play along with music played through the keyboard’s speakers.
- Music Challenge
Test your response with an exercise that is just like playing a game!
Music Challenge tests your reaction speed by requiring you to press the keys indicated by the on-screen keyboard guide in time with the Auto Accompaniment tempo using the correct fingers indicated by the on-screen fingering guide.
- Step Up Lesson
To master a song, it is best to break it up into short phrases, master each of the phrases, and then put everything together. Step Up Lesson does exactly that, providing you with the support you need to improve your play.
- Performance Evaluation
Your lesson score appears on the display screen.
- Voice Fingering Guide
If the keyboard senses you are having problems, it will help you by calling out finger numbers in a simulated human voice.
- Lesson part select (right hand, left hand, both hands)
- Metronome feature for lesson support
- 110 Song Bank tunes including 20 Exercise phrases(Song Book provided*)
Built-in songs cover a wide range of genres for lesson play and for your listening enjoyment. Includes Exercise phrases!
*The Song Book does not include music for Exercise phrases. Due to copyright restrictions, some Song Bank tunes may not be included in the Song Book.
- A wide selection of tones (400 high-quality tones)
A wide selection of musical instrument tones supports play of songs from various genres.
- 150 rhythms and Auto Accompaniments for Latin music and other styles from around the world (150 rhythms including 55 ethnic rhythms and 20 patterns for piano play)
- Pitch bend wheel
Rotate the wheel to slide the pitch of the sound being output upwards or downwards. This effect comes in handy when reproducing the sound of ethnic instruments, etc.
- Musical Information Function (Large, Backlit LCD)
- Versatile expandability
- USB port for computer connection*
- General MIDI (GM Level 1) support allows connection with a computer or another GM-compatible device.
*Supported operating systems: WindowsXP Home Edition (SP2 or later), WindowsXP Professional (SP2 or later, 32-bit), Windows Vista(32-bit), Windows7 (32-bit, 64-bit), Mac OS X (10.3.9, 10.4.11 or later, 10.5.8 or later, 10.6.7 or later)
For the latest news about driver and application support under Windows7, visit here.
- One Touch Preset (150 presets)
Product Specifications
| Number of Keys |
61 Keys |
| Maximum Polyphony: | 48 notes |
| Tones/Rhythms: | 400 Tones; 150 Rhythms |
| Dementions: | 37 x 5 x 14 inches |
| Weight: | 8.4 LBS |
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #828 in Musical Instruments
- Brand: Casio
- Model: CTK3200 PPK
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 21.00" h x 8.00" w x 44.00" l, 25.00 pounds
Features
- Premium bundle includes: Nady HP03 closed-cup headphones, AD5 power supply, and a World Tour SXKS keyboard stand
- 400 AHL keyboard voices and 150 Rhythms
- 48-note polyphony
- 61 dynamic touch keys
- Step-up learning system
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
By A. Coleman
I am very happy with this keyboard. It has the touch-sensitive keys so the harder you push the key, the louder the note sounds. It is polyphonic up to 40+ keys which is way more than I need considering I only have 10 fingers. Even if the whole family played at the same time (which sometimes does happen) we would be covered.
It comes with the 61-key keyboard; a music book which has ~ one hundred songs (they are all numbered so you can play them in demo mode on the keyboard to see what they should sound like before you attempt to play them yourself); a power cord (not very long, ~ 6-8 feet); headphones with a converter so that you can plug them into the keyboard with the converter(which has the wide headphone opening) or into a PC, MP3 player etc. without using the converter; and a single-X stand.
The keyboard is great. I played piano 20 years ago at the intermediate level (always on a real piano, never on a keyboard), and it felt pretty natural to me right away. The keys respond similarly to how real piano keys do. I felt a little bit strange at first playing on a keyboard with 2 octaves missing, but I got used to it quickly and I actually haven't noticed the missing keys on any song I've played yet. The one thing I miss the most vs. a real piano is the pedal. I sometimes switch to a different voice in order to get the sound I want of the notes flowing together since you cannot use a pedal to achieve that effect. There are over 400 "voices" including 15 pianos, 15 electric pianos, strings, brass, ensembles and drums. My kids love to play on the drum setting. You change the voice by pressing the voice button and then typing in the number of the voice you want on the number pad. There is a metronome, beats and demo songs you can play (you just press the appropriate button and then key the number of the song, beat, etc. you want to hear). When you press the a piano keys, you will see the corresponding note on the treble or base clef on the small screen in the top/middle of the keyboard. There is also an image of the piano keys on the screen where it highlights the key you are pressing. When you have it play a demo song it highlights the melody key as it plays. The keyboard is very light and not too thick; it could easily be stored in a closet or on a shelf. As for the sound, it sounds great. I notice a very slight ringing on the end of each note, but it is very very slight.
The headphones a decent. They are great for practicing so everyone in the room doesn't have to hear you play.
The stand is ok. I've seen reviews on similar products where reviewers have complained about the stand. I just think this is the type of stand you are going to get for the price. It assembles easily - with 4 screws. I've found the stand itself to be fairly sturdy, but the keyboard does not attach to the stand. There are adjustable caps on the top of the stand so you can trap the keyboard in between them a little bit. But I would be nervous having my kids play with it on the stand. I typically put it on the dining room table to play. It is portable enough that you can just pull it out when you want to play.
The music book has songs ranging from level A to level D. There are some Christmas songs (Joy to the World) religious songs (Amazing Grace) Folk songs (O Susana) and lots of classical pieces. There is good range of material and difficulty here to get started if you don't already have a music book. The keyboard comes with a curved wire rack that hooks into the top of it to hold the music. It won't hold too thick of a book, but it serves its purpose.
This was the perfect keyboard for me. I am glad I didn't spend any additional money for more features - there are more than enough features on this model for me. I might end up needing those 2 missing octaves as some point, but for now I'm glad to save some space and still be able to play.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
By Josh Sisson
It's four stars for two reasons. One, it doesn't come with a pedal. I just think that kind of thing should be standard. Moreso than a pair of headphones. Two, the keys are touch sensitive, but not pressure sensitive. The sensor actually only senses the speed the key was pressed at, not the pressure. So if you want to play a note loudly you only need to press it quickly, not harder as with a real piano.
The good part is it works great, there are lots of tones to choose from, the standard grand piano sounds very good and the teaching software it has on it works pretty well for me. But I haven't figured out how to get it to teach me the left hand parts of songs, it only teaches the right hand portions.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By pecosjoe
Good Beginner keyboard. touch sensitive keys but not piano action(or weighted). The kids do love it. Good learning tools for beginners.
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