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While at Summer NAMM I got to film brother Mike Martin showing off the new Casiotone series. They're an intentional shout back to what the Casiotone series was originally all about: fun, affordability, and music anywhere. IMHO a great "my first keyboard" choice for a young person. And check out the new MPN animated logo!

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While at Summer NAMM I got to film brother Mike Martin showing off the new Casiotone series. They're an intentional shout back to what the Casiotone series was originally all about: fun, affordability, and music anywhere. IMHO a great "my first keyboard" choice for a young person. And check out the new MPN animated logo!

[video:youtube]

 

Excited about comparing this to the GoKeys / GoPiano.

Love the built in handle. September is approaching fast!

 

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Cool. Would love to see a re-release of the MT-40 from the 1980's. When I moved from drums to keyboards back in the 80's and joined a working band I had a MiniMoog and an Arp Omni II. Two nice keyboards, but I was missing a lot of sounds. The bass player suggested I pick up a little Casio and I grabbed an MT-40. It was a small 2 octave mini key unit with no velocity but I made it work and used it for piano, ep and a few other sounds. We did a lot of songs by The Cars and the Casio nailed a lot of sounds they were using.

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While at Summer NAMM I got to film brother Mike Martin showing off the new Casiotone series. They're an intentional shout back to what the Casiotone series was originally all about: fun, affordability, and music anywhere. IMHO a great "my first keyboard" choice for a young person. And check out the new MPN animated logo!

[video:youtube]

 

Excited about comparing this to the GoKeys / GoPiano.

Love the built in handle. September is approaching fast!

I think the Go Piano will be in another price class, the two 61 note boards go for $319 and $349. Whereas these new Casiotones are more likely around $80-$100. There are a number of competing boards, Yamaha and Casio, under $349 that give the Go Pianos a compelling run for the money, though at twice the weight and much more depth.

 

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Just took a look at the SW site. The lowest end of these new boards are throwaways, as I have come to call super cheapie boards.

 

$109 gets you a board with no velocity sensitivity, no PB, and 4 watts of speaker power.

 

$139 bumps you up to velocity sensitivity, PB, and a whole 5 watts of speaker power

 

$159 bumps you up to having lighted keys (connected with their Chordana app) to show you which notes to play, and also has mic and line inputs, but no PB

 

Any keyboard with no velocity sensitivity becomes a throwaway, a keyboard that parents buy without knowing basic features and is practically worthless.

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Love my Go Keys. You could say $349 is a lot for a toy keyboard, but the action is better than what you find at the lower price levels. To me it's worth the extra jack.

 

I'd like to see a 4-octave battery powered keyboard, but I don't think it exists. 5 octaves is better to play of course, but 4 gets you into a different level of portability, much more backpackable, and 4 octaves is still minimally two hand playable.

 

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Edit: Go Keys is $319, though $299 when I bought it.

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