The instrument makes one person to experiment and explore the small nuances of music with its various features. It has more than 180 versatile Indian rhythms ranging from Bhangra, Bhajan to Indian pop and more than 600 high quality tones including 15 Indian tones and stereo sampled grand piano tones. It basically has,
• 48-tone maximum polyphony to minimize the chance of notes being dropped when tones are layered
• This resembles an acoustic piano and the touch response helps you to add many delicate nuances depending on the pressure you apply to the keyboard
• For the depth and effect, you have 10 types of reverb and 5 types of chorus to choose from
• A chord book can be referred if you forget how to play the particular chord by listening to it and this makes the chord book a valuable reference
It is one of the best professional digital keyboards ever and helps you to play with music, to create soothing and catchy tunes. It takes composing to a different level with its added entertainment features. The sampling function helps you to connect another portable audio device to it and use the sounds for composing new ones. It made me to think more creatively and this was really the great way to create new sounds. The playing function helps you to play the created sound and helps you to replace some tones by Auto Accompaniment like adding reverb, vibrato, and other effects to the sampled sound.
You too have few lessoning functions like, Step up Lesson breaks the song into phrases and puts it back together and your performance score appears on the screen and the voice fingering guide helps by calling out fingering if you have any trouble. You have recorder and metronome features for lesson support.
It also has some added features like Pitch Bend Wheel which alters the pitch of the tone and produce effects that are essential when performing Indian music. It has a SD memory card slot and has 10 user rhythms created by editing built-in rhythms. It has a Music Preset and a Preset Scale which helps you to change a preset initially installed in the keyboard and also helps you to change the scale of the keyboard quickly and easily to suit Oriental music or certain types of classical music. It has a versatile expandability and several other powerful functions like the recorder and Auto Harmonize.
So go ahead and experience the new dimension to music through Casio CKT850IN.