Casio CTK900 61-Key Touch Sensitive GM Keyboard

Casio's newest portables utilize the high performance Zpi sound source to deliver the most realistic piano, organ, and synth sounds, plus a huge library of built-in tones, rhythms, and DSP settings. These powerful instruments feature an on-board sequencer and a mixer, for unmatched creative possibilities, plus powerful built-in speakers to take your performance to the next level. These keyboards are ideal for home/project studio use, open-mic performance, education/classroom applications, or simply for pure musical enjoyment.

Produce your own sound. The CTK-900 makes it possible to produce very special sound creations -- with 824 tones, 176 rhythms and 242 digital effects. The CTK-900 also has FLASH ROM to expand sounds, rhythms and to download songs from the internet, an SMF Player to play the downloaded songs. It also includes a Internet Data Expansion System that lets you download new sounds, patterns, songs and keyboard settings over MIDI from the Casio music site.

Features
With a advanced backlit LCD, see everything that is happening when you are play the CTK-900.

The CTK-900 has a combined 824 Preset/User Tones with 176 Rhythms, 15 of which are user rhythms. Also includes 242 Digital Effects/Reverbs.

This keyboard also has 2, 12 cm Speakers that product 3 Watts Stereo on each side. It also has a bass reflex so you can hear the lower sounds.

With a main volume dial, and at the touch of a button have Intros, Endings and different fill-ins. Also change the tempo of the songs.

Technical Info

Number of keys: 61

Polyphony: 32

Lighted keys: not available

Touch sensitive: yes

Mic terminal with volume control: not available

Preset tones/user tones: 600 / 224 total of 824 tones

Stereo sampled piano tones: yes

Rhythms: 176

Split/layer: yes

Auto harmonize: yes

Digital effects/reverbs: 242

Synthesizer function: yes

Drawbar organ function: yes

Digital equalizer: yes

Auto accompaniment: yes

Registration (set-ups): 32

One-touch preset: 176

Tunes: 3

Song expansion: not available

Song controller: not available

Song memory (tracks x songs): 6 x 5

Pitch bender: not available

Modulation: not available

Tuning and transpose: yes

Flash ROM: yes

Metronome: not available

Mixer function: yes

SMF player: yes

SmartMedia card slot: not available

Floppy disk drive: not available

TV connectivity: not available

Display: LCD (Backlight (LED/Blue)), 99x39mm

MIDI/General MIDI: General Midi, 16-channel Multi

Internet Data Expansion System: yes, 4M Byte Flash ROM wave, SMF, tone, ptn with OTP DSP, song, registration

Terminals: headphones: not available

Phones/output: yes

Pedals: assignable

Line in: not available

Line out: not available

Mic in: not available

USB port: not available

MIDI in/out: yes

Speakers: 12cm x 2, 3W + 3W stereo, bass-reflex

Batteries: 6-D batteries

AC adapter: AD-5 (not included)

MIDI allows the keyboard to play MIDI data files

For unlimited possibilities Casio has created a brand new keyboard program where wave files can be downloaded directly onto a keyboard via a PC. The full program is available at Casio's site as a free download. Using this software, new tones, tones with wave data, drum sets with wave data, rhythms, standard MIDI files, songs registrations and DSP settings can be loaded onto a PC, edited and eventually loaded directly into the keyboard. All you need to get started is to visit Casio's site, download the Data Management Software and you can begin transferring to the keyboard, onto a SmartMedia Card or Floppy Disk via a PC.