@@sharongornic7418 yes definitely you could contact me. My email is. [email protected] I would definitely love to see your collection

I have a Casio CT-X5000, which is Casio's highest end portable. It's quite good sound-wise, but it's arranger features can be confusing and requires re-reading the manual a lot. The arranger features being the 17 track recording and phrase pads. Also confusing are using DSP effects, registration banks, mixer, part selection, part volume, and creating auto-accompaniments. Some of those I still don't understand how to work properly even after reading the manual multiple times. On the plus side basic features are easy to use (selecting tones, selecting and playing rhythms and songs, playing auto-accompaniment, layering, splitting, octave shift, metronome.) Some of the keys developed a rattle by month 4, which is annoying. I don't care to send it away for a month for "repairs" (i.e. lubing the keys) and have to pay for shipping (which costs a fortune for such a heavy keyboard.) I plan to just open it up to add lube. I preferred the waterfall key shape over Yamaha's synth key shape. While the X5000 is overall good, I still wonder if I should have gone with the Yamaha PSR-EW425. The Casio doesn't have the variety of human voices the Yamaha has and can't output WAV audio format over USB. I bought the Casio for the arranger features (17 track support + 4 phrase pads) and the additional expression pedal jack. Some issues with the tracks and phrase pads (other than the confusing UI) is the tracks won't loop without a noticeable pause and phrase pads require flawless timing to avoid hiccups. The built-in quantize filter always sounds like crap if you use it, so it's effectively useless. Putting down a drum beat requires recording all the measures at once because recording a few measures and duplicating them with copy and paste usually produces a hiccup between cuts. Also the expression pedal can only modulate volume. I was hoping it could do more. On the plus side, the expression jack can double as a 2nd assignable pedal if you plug in SP-3 or SP-20 pedals (assignable to sostenuto pedal, soft pedal, or foot controller). Also, given phrase pad recording is confusing, having to redo them over and over is a big pain point. A cheaper keyboard with an external looper might have worked better, IMO. Maybe using a software DAW would have been simpler, but that's harder to operate from bed which is my preferred spot. I plan to get into modifying the built-in tones with the effects filters. There is a long list of them to try, but it is an intimidating UI. Combining modified tones with layers and splits would expand the play options quite a bit.

@@MajinJr I wonder if there’s anyway you could send me a picture of your dad and I could do a side-by-side comparison. Thank you so much for watching my video my friend.

@@mixinginthebox yes I have it in my Studio setup

@@KMNKeyboardVault Great ty..

me too :) one of the best devices i bought

@@pshimmons to be honest with you there is a short distance from the Keys, but they feel really good a little plastic touch to them, but you can expect that from a illuminated key their super portable and they could fit in a backpack only thing that I wish it has was a sustained pedal

@@KMNKeyboardVault yeah... I heard you mention the lack of a sustain pedal! Seems like I remember reading about one that was bluetooth. Really awesome that you are using these!

@@DMNTR-oy8xo yes I do

That's because the LUMI keys are designed to be used with MIDI. MIDI signals are received by dedicated software to process and create notes through digital instruments. Because there is no actual acoustic instrumentation here, they are forced to use a low-quality digital piano, which nearly always sounds worse than acoustic (Unless you use a plugin like D-280 Platinum, which is dedicated to creating realistic-sounding piano presets.)

@@gunpowderboardgames thank you my friend 😊😊

@@matthewmeno5279 it’s at the end of the video