Artesia PE-88 Arranger Keyboard Piano with Full Size Velocity Sensitive Keys - 88 Key Semi-Weighted Keyboard Workstation - Portable Electric Piano Keyboard with 137 Voices & 100 Backing Track Styles

This keyboard is a "Sleeper" for this 2023-2024 season. It has remarkable applications for all genres of music. The price is definitely a bargain! Although it has limitations for on-board sounds, there is another application to use an external device to increase the sound library. It comes with an owner's manual that is easy to understand. One really needs to program the keyboard to enjoy what it has to offer. First thing to do is run a scale across the keyboard, This is a reset/release to the keys so they will behave much like an actual piano. It has a different touch for a lightweight portable keyboard, and it's to be expected. One can adjust the touch sensitivity, and find what works for their finger touch. I play professionally, and use this keyboard when I work with several bands. It gives me enough basic sounds to cover the basic piano sounds for an evening of musical success. The EQ adjustment works well to brighten up some of the sounds for a more enhanced sound. Like I said earlier, program this keyboard to your sonic tastes and you won't be disappointed. I found this keyboard to be ideally suited for another venue of my music. Money well invested!

We purchased this for our daughter’s birthday and for her first piano as it looked less intimidating than learning on our grand pianos.Originally we received a unit that had been damaged during delivery, the seller was very helpful and quickly replaced our piano. I really appreciated the timely response and quick assistance.The piano has numerous features:Built in MetronomeBuilt in tunerAbility to record and playback (rec 3 slots)25+ sound settings with each allowing pitch and tone customizing‘Fill in’ mode(Included) pedal(Included) Piano sheet standAbility to plug mic in to add vocals or to create SFXInput for micOutput for external speakersUSB port for connecting to computerFree App (not necessary to operate, but a decent app nonetheless) for learning and tuningFor a beginner/amateur player this piano is well built and possesses many professional features at a great value.I would recommend this to others.

I've been playing piano for over 25 years. I didn't get this to perform with. I got this as an 88 key simple midi controller. I also upgraded the pedal. One is included but I I prefer one that is more like a piano. So I'm going to give you the two biggest cons and two biggest pros...Cons: (1) The action is a little light and controlling the velocity is a little wonky. the key D2 is less sensitive that all the others so if I'm not conscience of it you'll hear this beautiful chord with D2 sticking out like I took a hammer to it. (2) You'll need to keep the instruction manual on hand. There's alot more function that you first think but none of it is labeled.Pros: (1) Over all this is a great keys board if you need something light to play in a bar somewhere. This is not a steinway. It doesn't pretend to be. But it GREAT for traveling. (2) This is the BIG one! Attach this thing to an ipad or laptop and it will play all the patches through it's own sound card. What that means is that I can record straight out of it's stereo outs and use the $400 patches from Sony Studios and it sounds as good as if I were recording out of the system. Take your ipad with you and you have unlimited sounds to work with.Over all this is great keyboard and would have earned a 5 star if it weren't for that stupid D2.

I took piano lessons for six or seven years when I was growing up. I often played for Sunday school. However fifty some years later I had lost it all. Most of my interest for the past twenty years has been guitar but I had a longing to get back into piano again. I had several criteria for my situation; I had no room for a piano so it would have to be a smaller footprint like a keyboard; it had to have the quality of a piano including all 88 keys that strike and feel like piano keys; and it had to be affordable since I did not know how much of my piano playing skill could be revived. I selected the Artesia 88 key piano after reading the reviews and considering all the options. I'm very happy. I've had it for a month now and with the help of youtube, online sheet music, and a couple of instruction books I think I'm going to move ahead nicely with my skills. The things I like best: 88 keys (very important for many piano pieces), great feel on the keys, nice size and weight to move around my office, excellent sound even without additional amplification, good volume control, and it has pretty extensive voice selection, but for now I'm just using piano. Its offered as a beginner keyboard, but I find nothing limiting about it. I plan to use it until I outgrow it - which probably won't happen

For a budget piano with semi-weighted keys, the PE-88 sounds very good. Action is as expected for a semi-weighted design - certainly not hammer-like, but far better than purely spring-loaded keys. Build quality of the main unit feels pretty solid.Keys squeak a tiny bit when played, but can only hear when volume is ultra low.Supplied music stand seems like it should hold up pretty well, so long as you don't get rough with it. (It's plastic, and so are the tangs which seat into the keyboard to hold it in place.)Built-in metronome is easy to use and extremely useful.Aux port allowing for practice and/or performance with recorded music - this feature is fantastic.The pedal supplied is nothing special, but it functions well enough.Power supply cable is pretty standard - approx 5-6 feet. Unless your piano is set up very near an outlet, prepare to bring an extension of some kind.Overall the PE-88 plays very well, and seems an excellent instrument for its price point.