Casio CTX-5000 Portable 61-Key Keyboard w/ Touch Response - 100 Rhythms

Overview of Casio CTX-5000 Portable 61-Key Keyboard w/ Touch Response - 100 Rhythms

With a wealth of new and exciting features, the Casio CT-X5000 offers unrivaled musical potential for the ambitious performer. It features pioneering AiX Sound Source technology, has an expandable library of 800 instrument tones, 260 accompaniment styles, and a dual 15-watt speaker system, giving you nearly endless avenues of tonal and stylistic exploration. The 61 touch-sensitive keys respond beautifully, letting you chord effortlessly as well as work on melodic runs - a feature that keyboardists really appreciate.

The CT-X5000 is a portable, sound-exploration dream. It has a 17-track MIDI data recorder and a 42-part mixer that lets you craft elaborate sequences and songs. You can also record up to 100 different phrases and replay them using the phrase pads, adding all kinds of interesting aspects to your performances. Create new and interesting tones directly on the keyboard, or interact through USB with your computer and control external sounds and virtual instruments. The CT-X5000 has 100 DSP effects, including amp modeling and a rotary speaker simulation that let you tap into all kinds of classic tone. There are also assignable expression pedal inputs on the CT-5000, allowing for external creative control of various parameters - it's all up to you with the CT-X5000.

Features:

• Affordable, portable keyboard with high-end features and AiX Sound Source technology for great sound
• Expandable library of 800 instrument tones
• 260 accompaniment styles offer endless tonal possibilities
• 100 DSP effects including amp models and a rotary speaker simulation that let you dial in cool vintage tone
• Bass reflex 30-watt speaker system puts out amazing, rich tone
• 61 touch-sensitive keys respond beautifully with 3 types of touch response
• 17-track MIDI data recorder with a 42-part mixer
• Record up to 100 different phrases and replay them using the phrase pads
• Bright, backlit LCD display makes finding controls easy

Specifications:

Keyboard:

• 61 standard size keys
• Touch Response: Sensitivity 3 types, Off
• Maximum Polyphony: 64 notes (32 for certain tones)

Tones:

• Preset Tones: 800
• User Tones: 100
• Other: Layer, split (configurable split point, lower point, chord point settings)

System Effects:

• Reverb: 32 types, Off
• Chorus: 16 types, Tones
• Delay: 20 types, Tones
• DSP: 100 types (Can be applied to user tones using DSP editing.), DSP tones

Master Effects:

• Equalizer (10 presets)
• 4-band User Equalizer
• External Input Effects: Center cancel (vocal cut) for input from the Audio In jack

Metronome:

• Beat: 0 (accented tone off), 1 to 16
• Tempo: Tempo value: 20 to 255
• Demo Songs: 3

Song Bank:

• Built-in Songs: 30
• User-recorded Songs: 10
• USB Memory Songs: Playback of standard MIDI files (SMF format 0/1), CASIO MIDI files (CMF format) on a USB flash drive is supported.

USB Audio Playback:

• Playback of audio files on a USB flash drive is supported.
• Supported File Formats: WAV format, 44.1 kHz 16 bit

Auto Accompaniment:

• Built-in Rhythms: 235
• User Rhythms: 100
• One Touch Presets 235
• Music Presets: 310 (With chord progressions)

Phrase Pads:

• Number of Pads: 4
• User Phrases: 100 (4 phrases x 25 pads)
• Editing Mode: Copy, delete, phrase editing

Mixer function:

• Affected Parts: Sound source parts, microphone input part
• Parameters: Part on/off, volume, pan, reverb send, chorus send, delay send
• Registration: Maximum 128 setups (8 setups x 16 banks), registration sequence

Tone Editing:

• Preset tone editing, DSP editing
• Memory for storage of edited tones (up to 100)

Rhythm Editing:

• New rhythm creation, rhythm editing
• Memory for storage of created/edited rhythms (up to 100)

MIDI Recorder:

• Real-time recording, playback
• Keyboard Performance Recording: 10 songs, 17 tracks (1 system track, 16 solo tracks)
• Memory Capacity: Approximately 40,000 notes (per song)
• Editing Mode: Song editing, track editing, event editing, step input
• Other Functions: Overdubbing, punch-in recording
• Pedals: Sustain, sostenuto, soft, rhythm/song, expression
• Controllers: Pitch bend wheel, sustain button, portamento button, modulation/ assignable button

Other Functions

• Transpose: ±1 octaves (-12 to 0 to +12 semitones)
• Octave Shift: Upper 1/Upper 2/Lower 1/Lower 2, ±3 octaves
• Tuning: A4 = 415.5 to 465.9 Hz (Initial Default: 440.0 Hz)
• Part coarse tune: For each keyboard part, ±2 octaves (-24 to 0 to +24 semitones)
• Part fine tune: For each keyboard part, ±99 cents
• Scales: 17 preset scales, scale fine tuning
• Auto Harmonize: 12 types
• Arpeggiator: 150 types

• MIDI: 16ch multi-timbre received, GM Level 1 standard

Inputs/Outputs:

• USB Flash Drive Port: Type A
• USB Port: Type B
• Pedal 1: Standard jack
• Pedal 2, Expression: Standard jack
• Headphones: Stereo standard jack
• Audio Input: Stereo mini jack/Input impedance 9 kO, Input sensitivity 200 mV
• Line Out: Standard jacks x 2/Output impedance 2.3 kO, Output voltage 1.9 V (RMS) MAX
• Microphone Input: Standard jack (Connect a dynamic microphone.)/ Input impedance 3 kO, Input sensitivity 10 mV

Power Supply:

• AC adaptor only (D-E24250LW)
• Power: DC 24V
• Auto Power Off: Approximately 30 minutes after last operation; Can be disabled.
• Speakers: 10cm x 2 (Output: 15W + 15W)
• Power Consumption: 15 W
• Dimensions: W 94.8 x D 38.4 x H 11.6 cm
• Weight: Approximately 7.0 kg
• Included Accessories: Music stand, AC adaptor

The Casio CT-X5000 Portable Keyboard is an outstanding keyboard for nearly any skill level.