RolandGO:KEYS 3 Music Creation Keyboard | 61-Note Keyboard | Built-In Stereo Speakers | Bluetooth Audio/MIDI Support for Music Streaming - Dark Red

I had doubts about the small speakers, but they turned out perfect for me. Within minutes I pulled up the Soft Stage EP sound and was improvising for hours. Months later and it is the only sound I've used. The keys are a little slippery, but I've gotten used to it. I was going to get a different pitch bend controller 3d printed. It looks easy enough to do, but I've gotten used to it too. And because I'm a trombonist, I use that pitch bend a lot! It's funny how I translate those bending ideas when I'm playing a real piano! m o t h

This keyboard has amazing sounds. Its Concert Piano setting is incredible. But you won’t be able to hear it through its little speakers nor can you play it with its inadequate keys. Play it through a good sound system with another MIDI controller and you'll hear what I'm talking about.Cool features:* it looks really nice. It's very light weight. I like the boxy design. You can set a computer on top of it.* Rhythms and auto accompaniment are super fun to play with* 6 AA batteries have good life. I have rechargeables.* You can bring this keyboard in bed with you to make sweet music for your lover* Use the MIDI Bluetooth to change voices. You can only save 5 favorite voices on the board itself, but I have all my favorite sounds saved on my iPad and can send those Program Changes wirelessly.* use a USB-C TO USB-3 cable and connect it to your iPad. The MIDI messages are sent bi-directionally. And the audio from iPad goes to the Go:Keys3, so sound from both iPad and Go:Keys3 will come out of the Go:Keys3 speakers, or whatever sound system that is connected to. So you don't need to connect iPad separately* With the latest firmware update (1.1.0 as of today) Press EXIT + ENTER + HOME and then turn the dial to quickly disable local control. This is useful when you have sounds produced by another controller and you don't want to hear sounds made by Roland's own keys.* Hold HOME and then turn the dial. This will change the home display quickly.* Hold TRANSPOSE button and click a key around middle C to quickly transpose.* Overcome the missing 1/4" outputs by using a summing cable on the 1/8" output. I made one myself by soldering the T and P from a TPS cable, but you can also buy summing adapters.* Create a free account on Cloud Connect. You can download the freebies and transfer them with a flash drive to the keyboard.* Create CSV files for chord patterns and put them on flash driveBad:* the keybed is not good. They are very hard to press. The pivot point is at the top of the keys, so if you have to play black notes or more complex chords, your fingers will get tired. I have the keyboard set on the lightest velocity curve to compensate but it's still harder to play than a real piano.* Little memory. I tried loading all of the styles from the 15 style packs available on Roland Cloud and there was not enough room for all of them. This makes me estimate the available memory at around 4MB. But if you keep a flash drive handy you can load stuff from there. And the recommended method for recording audio tracks is to the flash drive anyway.Things that could be fixed with a firmware update:* USB Audio Volume and BT volume should be in the Menu>Mixer panel. To get to these you have to go to Menu>System>Input* More MIDI support. Right now you can send messages to Channel 4 and control the upper voice program and play it. But you can't control the lower voice, the accompaniment or the scenes. I'd love to see MIDI clock messages so it can sync with other apps. Start and stop MIDI clock with the accompaniment. I realize that the Go Keys 5 allows an expression pedal to start/stop the acccompaniment, which is nice.

I'm not a keyboard player, although I'm a musician. This keyboard was recommended by a friend of mine that does play keyboards. It is very easy to learn if you have the patience and very easy to play and satisfies all my music needs as a multi-instrumentalist. Anyone from beginner to an experienced musician enjoy this.

Excellent all around piano style keyboard. Easy to use and great value for the money and you can take it on the road wherever you go.

This takes advantage of the Zen core processor and if you want a light 61 key keyboard this does produces some respectable synthesizer sounds, however the piano is the most important to me and the zen core piano make me not want to play this. It doesn't have the PHA key action which is fine for a low end light keyboard, however Roland should have added a quality piano which starts with the supernatural sound sound engine if only a few quality piano samples but this doesn't have it. Sometimes the piano bass and high notes are ok but not for me. It gobbles up batteries I'd expect 1-2 hours if you're lucky .. but it is portable so carrying a bunch of rechargeable batteries might make sense. It does have very powerful effects probably ported from their other keyboards and likely the software too, and I believe it even supports 1/2 pedaling with the DP10 pedal. You can watch the demos to see how powerful it is and if you're mainly synth and not piano this would be a good starter workstation.

Received very quickly. Nice color (chose the red). Great sounds and features for learning basics. Number of keys is great and keyboard also allows you to adjust octaves quickly if you want more up or down scale sounds. Definitely recommend.

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I think that for the price it represents good value. The sounds are great and way better than what you would expect from a keyboard in this price range. For me, the big let down was the key action. It's fine for a kid to bash around on but not good for playing piano, so I upgraded to a weighted Korg D1.