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Comment on Casio CTK-4000 : Bring Home The Music by Rajib Ghosh

Rajib Ghosh — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:44:07 +0000

Hi Jayesh,

The built-in rhythms are not alterable time signature wise. You can modify their instrument set and save it as a custom rhythm.

HTH

Comment on Casio CTK-4000 : Bring Home The Music by Jayesh

Jayesh — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:49:06 +0000

Hello,
Is there any way to change time signature of built in rhythms of my CTK 5000?

Comment on Casio CTK-4000 : Bring Home The Music by Rajib Ghosh

Rajib Ghosh — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:05:32 +0000

Hi Jayesh,

Congratulations on your new purchase.

w.r.t. the build quality of the keyboard, it is meant for light playback. Playback styles that require quick hammering of the keyboard may actually be impossible because of the slow tactile response of the keyboard.

‘Delete All’ only deletes user samples (tones & rhythms). The built-in sounds exist on a ROM Chip (Read Only Memory) and can neither be erased nor backed up.

Regards

Comment on Casio CTK-4000 : Bring Home The Music by Jayesh

Jayesh — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:48:35 +0000

Hi Rajib,

So finally I purchased CTK 5000. I just want to say thanks to you for all your useful advices.

I am really satisfied with this keyboard but I must mention that build quality of keys is average.

One question, If by mistake I delete everything using DELETE ALL then will it also delete built in tones and rhythms of keyboard? If yes, then how can I take back up of all built in instruments and rhythms to my SD card?

Again THANKS.

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Comment on Casio CTK-4000 : Bring Home The Music by Rajib Ghosh

Rajib Ghosh — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:32:48 +0000

Hi Jayesh,

Regretfully I cannot do a detailed review of the CTK-5000 because I do not have a unit handy. However, I do find it available at many malls and find it very similar to the CTK-4000 in sound quality.
The CTK-4000 cannot export song/sample data on a card/floppy, but features a USB MIDI port. By connecting a computer with suitable MIDI Editor installed to the keyboard, you can easily capture the Song Data.

To the best of my knowledge, though the CTK-5000 can export songs onto a SD Card, it does not save them in MIDI format; saving them in a Casio proprietory format instead.

HTH

Comment on Casio CTK-4000 : Bring Home The Music by Jayesh

Jayesh — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:42:06 +0000

Nice Review!!

Can you please review CTK 5000 also? If you, please upload demo of CTK 5000.

In CTK 4000 there is no direct way to export the songs/samples stored on the keyboard as files. Is this is possible in CTK 5000?

Thanks.

Comment on Casio CTK-4000 : Bring Home The Music by mark

mark — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:09:56 +0000

Hello, recieved my ctk4000 and was happy to make the plunge, good quality and nice sounds..

Comment on Comparison between Yamaha PSR I425 and Casio CTK 5000 by Rajib Ghosh

Rajib Ghosh — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:52:24 +0000

You can definitely change the tones and styles quite independently. This has been a feature of practically all keyboards since 1980s!
In new keyboards, you can infact configure the parts of each style (bass, drum, backing) to different instruments than the default ones. Imagine tweaking the basic Waltz style to play using Techno instruments like Synth Bass and Synth-Leads!!

Comment on Comparison between Yamaha PSR I425 and Casio CTK 5000 by Rajib Ghosh

Rajib Ghosh — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:50:09 +0000

The Yamaha PSR E413 too comes with a small set of Indian instruments. The PSR I425 is an improved model featuring many Indian tones & styles and most importantly two knobs to tweak the sound.
The I425 does not seem to contain a sampling function but supports some USB drive functionality about which I don’t have much info.

Auto-Harmonize wise, I think the Casio has a greater number of choices.