Then around 25 different brass instruments and nearly as many reed offerings. Now moving on to strings such as violin and cello and from there to around 25 different orchestral sounds. Nearly 20 different guitars and about the same number of acoustic and electronic basses. 15 different pianos and that's before you move onto a whole raft of electric pianos, close to 40 different organs and around 15 different percussion instruments such as vibraphone and glockenspiel. This is not just a piano keyboard there are in fact 513 instruments inside the unit. I am well aware that this is not the way a 'real musician' should learn however anyone wanting to play for fun can soon grasp the basics. The keys you should press light up to show you which to press. Between the speakers are a whole host of buttons, sliders and even a clever LCD display.Ĭertainly unless you are already a musician you are unlikely to get far without the 74 page manual, I have had days of fun starting to grasp the basics - not by playing scales - by playing along to tunes. Should this be too loud for others then there is a earphone socket. Behind the keyboard are a pair of reasonable speakers - one at each end - with plenty of output for a normal room, in fact when practising I had the volume down almost to nil. It is 95cm long, 34cm deep and 3cm tall at the front increasing to 13cm at the back. It is a five octave keyboard but what lies behind the keyboard is the guts of the unit. This top of the range offering is a world away from that. Around twenty years ago I got an old Casio keyboard and that is exactly what it was a keyboard and little else.