If you are looking for an affordable and reliable keybord, I really don’t think you could found a better keyboard at the price of the [2] CASIO CTK-3000.

The Casio CTK-3000 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 Casio’s 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 [3] CASIO CTK3000 more realistic and expressive than ever before at this price range.

CTK-3000 Premium Pack

The Premium Pack bundles the CTK-3000 keyboard with a Yamaha power supply, keyboard stand and professional closed-cup stereo headphones.

Standard-Size Keys with Touch Response

The [4] CTK-3000 features 61 standard-size keys and two sensitivity levels for a more piano-like experience, along with 48-note polyphony (24-note for certain tones).

400 Built-In Tones

Find just the right sound with 400 built-in tones, and select from ten different reverb settings to add depth.

USB Port

For many musicians, the computer has become a music-making center. Connect the CTK-3000 to a computer using a USB cable and exchange MIDI data between the two devices. Send play data from the keyboard to music software running on your computer, or send MIDI data from your computer to the keyboard for playback.

Built-In Sampling

You can use the CTK-3000 to sample a sound from a portable audio player or other device, and then play the sound with keyboard keys. For example, you could sample the bark of your dog and then use the sound in a melody, or grab passages from a CD. The sampling feature is a fun way to create new sounds.

110 Built-In Songs With Step Up Lessons

The CTK-3000 comes with a bank of songs for your learning and enjoyment, from classics like “Greensleeves” or “Auld Lang Syne” to holiday tunes like “Jingle Bells.”

To master a song, it is best to break it up into shorter parts (phrases), master the phrases, and then put everything together. The CTK-3000 features a “Step Up Lesson” feature that helps you to do just that. The built-in songs are pre-divided into phrases to help you master keyboard play. Step Up Lesson takes you through practice of the right hand part, left hand part, and both hand parts for each phrase of a song. Master all of the phrases and you master the song.

Music Challenge Keyboard Game

Music Challenge is a game that measures your reaction speed as you press keys in response to on-screen keyboard indicators and fingering guide indications.

Auto Accompaniment

Simply specify a chord and the keyboard automatically produces the matching rhythm, bass, and chord patters. One-touch fill-ins make accompaniments sound interesting and natural. 150 built in auto-accompaniment rhythm patterns.

CASIO CTK 3000 REVIEW

One satisfied customer said :

I bought this for a friend who needed an inexpensive practice piano, thus Casio came to mind. The keyboard is ready to plug and start playing. The sounds aren’t the best, but for the price it serves as a home practice or for classes/schools who need an extra keyboard. There are the general options in which most Casio budget keyboard come with. Reveerb, Touch Response, you can octave shift 1 octave up or down, which is handy for a keyboard this size.

Other customer said :

For a complete beginner like me, this package (keyboard + stand + headphones + AC adapter) has been ideal. An experienced friend recommended that I opt for a touch-sensitive keyboard, and it has indeed been the right way to go. You could surely learn on a lesser keyboard that doesn’t have the touch response, but it wouldn’t sound very good, and you’d want to upgrade pretty quickly.

It has quite a number of alternative tones, which I seldom use other than when just goofing around, and a large number of rhythm tracks and some other digital effects that I’ve not needed either, but they’re on there & they work.

I’ve also not experimented with the USB, MP3 or MIDI I/O functions, as mine didn’t seem to come with any connectors for those. The irony is, I would think people who need that stuff would probably also get a fancier keyboard, but who knows…

This keyboard does have some built in “instruction” functions that are kind of fun and have a very patient way of helping you along, but they are more geared toward the total newbie, in that they help you familiarize yourself with using all fingers on your hands and playing in time with accompaniment. An interesting feature is, when you get stuck in a song, the accompaniment will stop and wait on you, and a voice will speak the number of the finger you should be using (”One” = thumb, etc). Once you hit the right key, the song will move on with you. It doesn’t do much for helping you to actually read music in my opinion, but that would be a lot to ask. The digital readout during the lesson will show you the proper key(s) to press on a key diagram, which finger(s) to use on a hand diagram, and does in fact have the note(s) shown on a staff, but the staff is teeny tiny and not very useful for learning to translate a note to a piano key. You’ll want to seek that level of instruction elsewhere.

It would have been even better to have a package that also included the sustain pedal, but that omission hasn’t at all been a problem at this early stage. Those are for sale individually if you want one.

I highly recommend this as a starter keyboard. I would not rely on it as your sole instruction resource. At the very least, get a “for dummies” book or something to get yourself started reading music.

Another satiesfied customer said:

If you are looking for an affordable and reliable keybord, I really don’t think you could found a better keyboard at the price of the CASIO CTK-3000. After much research, I think that this is the best keybord because of the number of keys and the fact that it came with a stowaway stand, headphones and charger. For me, an adult who is just learning piano, it was essential for me to have headphones so I wasn’t disturbing everyone in the house. The keyboard is really easy to use. I didn’t even have to read any of the instructions. I just plugged it in and started practicing.