Casio AT5 76-Key Oriental / Middle Eastern Keyboard
You can have pleasure with oriental music: The AT-5 Oriental Keyboard offers its keyboard users a host of options for generating authentic sounds by making use of samples of key oriental instruments. Furthermore, tuning of the built-in source of sound can be changed easily using, which especially help to recreate the scale required for Oriental music. The Oriental scale can also be used for both composing as well as during live performances. Not only that, the final scale setting can also be used on the Auto Accompaniments.
The Song Sequencer, on the other hand, provides about 16 tracks plus one system track that supports recording of up to five songs and a total approximating to about 30,000 notes. Every individual musical instrument part can be made use of for recording a different track, and even for real multi-track recording capabilities. In addition to it, the real-time recording of the keyboard, the Auto Accompaniment player, as well as the Song Sequencer also supports punchin and punch-out spot of recording of specific parts of a song, along with event editing. It is this feature that lets you edit recorded data, note-by-note. Furthermore, the full selection of editing tools includes the event inserter, event delete, event copy, a locator feature for selecting the range of notes to be edited, quantize, and others. A step recording function also lets you input notes by specifying the length as well as the pitch. The completed recordings can be converted to SMF or the Standard MIDI File format and can be stored in an SD memory card.
- 800 Tones
- 250 Rhythms
- Touch Responsive
- Built-in Rhythms: 250
- Pitch Bend Whe
The Keyboard player, Auto Accompaniment, Song Sequencer player, in addition to sound input by means of the INST IN or MIC IN terminals can be recorded as a digital audio data to an SD memory card. It is inserted in the card slot for playback later. Of course, you can also play it along on the keyboard during playback from an SD memory card. The saved audio files can also be transferred to a computer, connected through the USB for long-term storage. A special data manager 6.0, application software, downloaded from the URL shown below, can be used especially to convert information to the WAV format, which can be played back easily on a computer. All of this to a great extent simplifies the chore of creating original demonstration recordings.
Specs | Details |
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Keyboard | 76 piano-type keys |
Touch Response | 2 sensitivity levels; Off |
Sound Source | AHL (Tri-element) |
Maximum Polyphony | 64 |
Tones | 800 built-in tones including 54 oriental tones (100 user tones) |
Layer/Split | Layer; Split |
Digital Effects | |
Reverb | 10types |
Chorus | 5 types (simultaneous use with DSP not supported.) |
DSP | 100 preset; 100 user (simultaneous use with Chorus not supported.) |
Rhythms/Patterns | 250 built-in rhythms including 83 oriental/Arabic rhythms (100 user rhythms) |
Auto Accompaniment | Modes: CASIO Chord; Fingered 1; Fingered 2 (6th off); Fingered 3 (on bass); Full Range Chord |
Controllers | Start/Stop; Intro; Normal/Fill-in; Variation/Fill-in; Synchro/Ending |
Built-in Songs | 5 (demo tunes) |
Metronome Beats | 0; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6 (Tempo range: quarter note = 30 to 255); Recorder;Song sequencer: 16 multi tracks + 1 System Track; 5 songs; approximately 30000 total notes (real-time recording; step recording; song edit; track edit;event edit; punch-in/out) |
Other Functions | Audio recording/playback: 5 files maximum (Approximately 13 minutes of recording per file); Mixer: 32 channels + EXT IN (INST IN; MIC IN); 9-slider operation; Pattern sequencer: real-time recording; step recording; quantize; Easy Edit; Event Editor; part parameters (100 user rhythms); Tone editor (100 user tones); Registrations: 96 setups (6 sets x 16 banks); Music preset: 305 preset with chord progression; chord edit (100 user presets) ; One-touch preset: 250 presets ; Auto harmonize: 12 types; Arpeggiator: 150 types; Octave shift: ±2 octaves; Rhythm/song controller; Pitch bend wheel : 0 to 24 semitones;Modulation button; Dial;Oriental scale: Scale fine tune ±99 cents; 17 preset scales; 4 scale memory Oriental scale setting |
Key Transpose | 25 steps (-12 to +12 semitones) |
Tuning Control | A4 = 415.5 – 440.0 – 465.9 Hz |
Display Screen | LCD with backlight |
SD Memory Card Slot | Supported memory cards: From 2GB up to 32GB SD memory cards or SDHC memory cards ; Functions: SMF playback (up to 320KB per file); file ; save/ load/ delete; card format Save/ load: Registrations; user rhythms; user tones; scale memory data; user DSPs; user music presets; song sequencer songs; audio recording files. |
MIDI | GM Compatibility: Level1 ; Terminals: USB |
Speakers | 12cm x 2 + 3cm x 2; bass-reflex system; speaker on/off |
Amp Output | 7W + 7W |
Input/Output Terminals | Mic in ; Inst in ; Audio in ; Line output (L/MONO; R) ; Headphones (standard stereo jack) ; Sustain/assignable ; USB: type B ; External power (12V DC) * USB cable (A-B type) required to use USB terminal for computer connection. |
Power Requirements | Batteries: D-sizex6/AC adaptor: AD-A12150LW |
Dimensions | Details |
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Dimensions | 53 x 10 x 21 inches ; 26 pounds |
Shipping Weight | 30.2 pounds |