Casio CTK3200 Portable Keyboard
The Casio CTK-3200 is a reasonably priced instrument with a 61-key piano-style touch-sensitive keyboard. It has about 400 total onboard tones, 150 rhythms along with digital effects. It is an ideal keyboard for fresh players, and it’s packed with immense features such as Casio’s famous step-up lesson system. The acoustic inputs for an MP3 player are beneficial to make the learning of your preferred songs easier by use of a USB port for MIDI implementation, along with a pitch wheel for supplementary understanding over sounds.This Casio portable keyboard features a sampling function, so you can capture audio from a portable device for playback via the keyboard, adding stylistic flair to your compositions. MIDI support lets you connect the keyboard to a computer.
The CTK-3200 has a couple of ways to make you more skilled on your keyboard without having to pay for your lessons. The first among them is the Music Challenge, which analyses your response speed by necessitating you to press the keys indicated by the onscreen keyboard guide in time with the Auto Accompaniment tempo. It can be done easily by using the correct fingers indicated by the onscreen identification guide. The next step is the step up lesson, which splits up the songs into shorter phrases so that you can master each phrase and then put them all back collectively. It also features performance evaluation, voice fingering guide, lesson, part select which includes either right hand or left hand or even both, metronome, as well as 110 Song Bank.
- 150 rhythms
- 61 piano-style keys
- Built-in metronome
- Voice fingering guide
- Sampling function
- Stereo mini input
- Sustain pedal jack
- AHL sound source
- General MIDI compatibility
- Step Up lesson system
It has all built-in tones, including piano as well as acoustic instrument tones, which now sound better than ever before. Its 48-tone maximum polyphony provides an abundance of margin to reduce the chances that notes will be plunged, and especially when tones are layered and when you’re playing with auto accompaniment. The CTK-3200’s easy-to-play keyboard looks a lot like that of an acoustic piano. Also its touch response lets you add insubstantial nuance to notes by varying how much pressure you apply to keyboard keys.
| Specs | Details |
|---|---|
| Keyboard | |
| standard-size keys | 61 |
| Touch Response | 2 |
| sensitivity levels | Off |
| Maximum Polyphony | 48 notes (24 for cetain tones) |
| Tones | |
| Built-in Tones | 400 |
| Sampling tones | 1 |
| Sampling time | 1 second (fixed) |
| Effects | 10 types |
| Digital Effects | 10 Reverbs |
| Pitch Bend Wheel | Pitch Bend Range; 0 to 12 Semitones |
| Lesson | |
| Step-Up Lesson | 4 (Listen; Watch; Remember; Auto) |
| Lesson Part | L; R; LR |
| Functions | Repeat; Voice Fingering Guide; Note Guide; Performance; Evaluation |
| Song Bank | Built-in Songs 110 |
| Music Challenge | 20 notes |
| Built-in Rhythms | 150 |
| Auto Accompaniment | |
| Chords | Fingered 1/2/3;CASIO Chord; Full Range Chord |
| Rhythm Controller | Accomp ON/OFF; Start/Stop; Synchro/Ending; Variation/Fill-in; Normal/Fill-in; Intro |
| Metronome | Beats per 0; 2 to 6 |
| Measure Tempo Range | 30 to 255 |
| Other Functions | |
| Transpose | +/-1 Octaves (12 semitones) |
| Tuning | A4 = approx. 440 Hz +/-100 cents |
| One Touch Preset | 150 |
| MIDI | 16 multi-timbre received; GM Level 1 standard |
| Musical Information Function | Tone; Rhythm; Song Bank; numbers and names; staff notation; fingering; pedal operation; tempo; measure and beat number; chord name etc. |
| Terminals | |
| USB Port | Type B |
| Sustain jack | Standard jack (sustain; sostenuto; soft; rhythm start/stop) |
| Phones/Output jack | Stereo standard jack; Output Impedance: 200Ω; Output Voltage:4.8V (RMS) Max |
| Audio In jack | Stereo mini jack;Input Impedance: 40KΩ; Input Sensitivity;200mV |
| Power Jack | 9V DC |
| Power Supply | 2-way |
| Batteries | 6 AA-size zinc-carbon batteries or alkaline |
| Battery Life | Approximately 4 hours continuous operation on alkaline batteries |
| AC Adaptor | AD-E95100 (included) |
| Auto Power Off | Approximately 6 minutes after last key operation (Operates during battery use only) |
| Speaker Output | 3.94″ x 2; Output 2W + 2W |
| Power Consumption | 9V – 7.7W |
| Dimensions | Details |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 37-3/8 x 13-15/16 x 4-7/16 inch |
| Weight | Approximately 8.6lb |
