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GoldLyrics.com - Casio WK3700AD 76 Full-Size Key Performance Keyboard with Power Supply
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List Price: $549.99
Our Price: $370.35
Your Save: $ 179.64 ( 33% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Casio Inc.
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Casio
EAN: 0079767313173
Feature: 76 full size keys with touch response
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Casio Inc.
Manufacturer: Casio Inc.
Model: CAS WK3700AD
Publisher: Casio Inc.
Studio: Casio Inc.
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Features
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76 full size keys with touch response
Tones- 516 presets + 32 new + 124 user tones
Digital Effects- 100 DSP, 100 user, 16 reverb, 16 chorus
Data Expansion- 4M Byte FLASH ROM wave, SMF, tone, ptn with OTP DSP, song, registration
Song Squencer- 5 Songs, 6 track, real time recording, step recording, (10,000 notes)
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Editorial Reviews:
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76-Key Smartmedia Keyboard
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Swallow Your Pride...
Comment: Forget the name, the sounds this keyboard makes are up there with the best - and at a price which makes it the best value around - bar none. Yes, the "wall-wart" is a pain but that can be remedied. What can't be overcome is the somewhat flimsy-feeling keyboard and the rather fragile casing. Casio markets this as a "performance" keyboard - which implies it's for the gigging musician. That musician is going to need to cosset this baby. However, the upside is the fact that you can sling this under one arm and get to the gig hernia-free. From a playing perspective, it's great to be able to switch instantly from, say, electric piano to drawbar organ sounds (complete with controllable Leslie simulation) without having to dial in half a telephone number. The only issue with the way the mod-wheel is configured is that it needs resetting every time you switch sounds - the initial state for the patch overrides the mod-wheel position. Unfortunately, the litle buttons that control the drawbar are awkward to use, but it's easy to program and store your favorite settings. The organ sounds are not quite B3 standard, but they are a great deal better than they ought to be for a general purpose keyboard. What's also good is that when you reboot, the unit remembers the last patch you were using. The included software allows you to download new waveforms and patches from the Casio site (although, so far, I prefer the ones that came pre-programed). Pianos are excellent, strings fair to good and some of the more analogue-style synth sounds are great. Generally there's a whole bunch of really useable sounds. I've been so impressed with this keyboard and it's older sibling the CTK 691 that I've ordered a Privia PX-310 unseen (and unheard). I'm confident I won't be disappointed.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great sounds, but not user-friendly
Comment: The user manual is poorly written. Also, when you record a song, any changes to the mixer or tracks for that song, makes the keyboard "forget" the tone settings of certain tracks. Very frustrating.
The sounds offered by this keyboard are really nice, though.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Incredible value for money, but.....
Comment: I bought this keyboard to replace a couple of 'old road warriors' that needed a rest. I was sceptical at first, thinking that it would be a glorified 'toy' keyboard. One tryout in a store convinced me otherwise. In terms of sounds, this thing is impossible to beat, and played through a good system, this thing is excellent- the Pianos sound great-the Drawbar organs are great as well...a great package.
Now the 'buts'.
It's very light, and I'm wondering how long this will last doing a minimum two gigs a week. My old Kawais and Ensonic have lasted me over 10 yrs- I'll give this pretty thing about 2yrs before it gives up the ghost, but at the price (I paid $415 for it), I can afford to buy another one next month.
Second-The manual...it explains a lot and tells you nothing! There are 2-one in English-one in Spanish so you can get confused bi-lingually! It's typical 'techno-garble', badly written. Mine have both been well-used-the paper they are made from is good for wiping up coffee spills. I'll use 'trial and error' and e-mail support-which is VERY GOOD! I got a reply in 4 hrs.
The other usless stuff is the CD-ROM 'Music managment Software' which doesn't add anything at all-I have already uninstalled it. There are dowloadable 'songs' available from the casio site for $2 each- By 'songs', I am talking about nursery rhymes-nothing useful. If you want real midi files-look elsewhere.
And last but not least is the big clunky adapter that takes up 3 spaces of a distribution board- that got pitched in the trash just as soon as I found one from an electronics workshop with the same rating that has a plug and 3 ft of cable, the Trans in the middle and another 4 feet of cable.
All in all-it's a damn good board-I tried the Yamaha models at more than twice the price and the sounds from this Casio are just as good in my opinion. Get over the bad points-they are just irritants that are not much different on other boards-they can be fixed.
Available at about 400 bucks, Casio should sell these by the truckload....now they need to come out with a 'Professional' line with thicker plastic and a more 'meaty' construction.
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