Casio CTK 3500 Review

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The Casio brand is one of the best electronic keyboard brands within the music industry. And in this Casio CTK 3500 reviews will help you why this brand is one of the pioneers in the music industry.

In fact, it is one of the most suitable electronic keyboards for children who want to take their first musical steps with a keyboard, or for those adults who want to start in this world of electronic keyboards. And, given its reduced price, without risking too much money.

Let’s see what the lights and shadows of this small Casio keyboard are.

Overview + Key Features

if we take into account the functionalities that it offers, the Casio CTK-3500 keyboard is placed at the top in terms of the price-quality ratio of the device. Let’s check the specification of this piano.

Casio CTK 3500 Specifications

  • Weight: 3.5 kg. (without batteries)
  • Dimensions: 946 x 307 x 92 mm
  • 61 keys
  • The touch sensitivity of 2 levels
  • 400 instrument tones, 50 Dance Music rhythms and 60 recorded songs
  • Bend pitch wheel
  • Digital effects
  • Pedal connector
  • USB port
  • Power via AC charger or AA batteries
  • Amplified audio 2W + 2W
  • 48-voice polyphony
  • Chordana Play application
  • Transposition function

Advantages of the Casio CTK-3500 Electronic Keyboard

Its reduced price places Casio’s keyboard in the “top ten” of electronic keyboards with the best value for money.

It is ideal for children and adults who start and want to try a keyboard, without risking too much money on it.

With its 61-key keyboard, you will not be short of possibilities. Because a reduced price does not have to be at odds with features consistent with the most demanding learning.

In addition, your pressure-sensitive keyboard, which you can configure in two different levels, will bring you to play sensations similar to what you would have if you did on an acoustic piano. By default, touch sensitivity is disabled, so be sure to activate it if you want to benefit from this feature.

The Casio CTK-3500 keyboard has a surprising sound given the price you pay for it. In fact, you will expect a more artificial sound, in accordance with its price. And yet, it’s sound quality is at the height of more expensive models.

The Casio CTK 3500 is compatible with MIDI. You can generate MIDI files and work with them from your editing software (since you can transfer the generated files to your computer) or use them with Casio’s Chordana Play application.

Its characteristics and configuration possibilities make it ideal for electronic music, thanks to its Dance Music mode, with 50 samples/patterns of dance music. Now you will have no excuse to take your first steps as a DJ and animate those parties with your own compositions, or using the recordings included in the keyboard.

Its USB port allows you to connect it to the computer and take advantage of all the sound libraries that your music editing software has. In this way, you can take your first steps in the recording, editing, and processing of electronic music in a simpler way than you expected, and without limiting yourself to the recordings included in the keyboard.

Function One-Touch Preset, which sets the keyboard very easily, just by pressing a single button, depending on the selected melody.

Compatible with Chordana Play. You can download the app on your Android or iOS device and learn to play any of the 50 songs included or the MIDI files you generate.

What is Chordana Play?

Chordana Play is designed to introduce you to the world of the keyboard, guiding you through the entire learning process.

You can use only your device to follow the lessons (thanks to the keyboard and piano roll that appears on the screen) or connect your device to the keyboard with an audio cable and follow the lessons from there.

Find out what Chordana Play is and how you can use the application to learn to master the keyboard.

Pros

  • Unsurpassed quality-price ratio
  • Quality sound
  • Extensive database of sounds, rhythms, and songs
  • App Chordana Play
  • Brand experience
  • Digital effects, sounds, rhythms, and recorded songs

Cons

  • Quality of some components, such as the lectern.
  • For professional use, it is a limited keyboard
  • Although the keyboard is sensitive to touch, its keys are not counterbalanced.

Final Verdict

Its sound, without reaching the performance offered by more professional keyboards (and, also, considerably more expensive), has the sufficient quality to fulfill the expectations of its target audience (that is, amateurs in levels of initiation who wish to take their first steps in the world of electronic keyboards or fans who want to experiment while continuing their training).

Thanks to its wide range of sounds, rhythms and recorded melodies, the creative possibilities of the Casio CTK-3500 go beyond the mere use of the keyboard as an instrument of practice.

As negative points, we can point to a too weak lectern and speakers that, without the help of external amplification, are somewhat short if we want to use it in quiet or open-air environments.

However, in general terms with the Casio CTK-3500, we get much more than what we pay. Without forgetting, in addition, that we have the guarantee that supposes the quality of its mark.

Another good keyboard from ctk is Casio CTK4400 Review – Electronic Keyboard which is not that available in the market. If it was, it would have become one of the best electric pianos that can compete with Casio CTK 3500.

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Questions and Answers

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