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It all starts with the sound and feel, and thanks to the carefully sampled grand piano sound and scaled hammer action, the Casio CDP-100 Digital Piano gives you both. The HL Sound Source and 88-key, naturally scaled hammer action with three levels of touch sensitivity give you a realistic and satisfying piano experience in a portable, affordable digital piano. The Casio keyboard has five sounds including stereo grand piano, 32-note polyphony, eight digital effects, five demo songs, layer and transpose function, speaker system, MIDI I/O, plus headphone and sustain pedal jacks. The Casio CDP-100 digital piano comes with a sustain pedal.
Features
- It has 88 keys
- Scaled hammer-action keyboard
- 3 levels of touch sensitivity, plus off
- 5 tones including stereo piano
- HL Sound Source
Customer Reviews
Nice starter keyboardDon't buy a non-weighted keyboard for your first keyboard! It's not the way to truly learn piano.
This is the most decently-priced weighted keyboard that I could find. I am glad that I bought it. I agree with the other reviewer who said you should try to find it for $299 instead of $399. I bought mine for $299. I've now had it for about 2 years. I am glad that I bought it. It has been great to learn on.
I totally agree with the other reviewers who said that the speakers kind of suck. They do. But hey, for the price, it's still a nice keyboard to practice on. I guess you could hook it up to an amp if you don't like the built-in speakers, although I haven't tried yet.
I recently had an issue where my right speaker wasn't working. But then, the next day it started working again. However, 90% of the time, I use headphones. Another disadvantage is that it only has a 1/8 in. headphone jack, not a 1/4 in. jack, so you can't use your studio-quality headphones.
I have only used this keyboard as an alternative to an actual piano, and solely for at-home individual practice. I don't recommend this as a performance keyboard, because it has the built-in speakers and because it only has 5 different sound effects. But, for just practicing so you can learn the piano by practicing scales, hanon exercises, etc., it works great.
I imagine that if I ever do get around to buying a nicer keyboard, I may just keep this one around just to practice my fingering technique, because it really does have a pretty genuine piano feel. In fact, I find that it is actually a tad bit harder to push down than a regular piano. I find that this helps, because when I do get to play a regular piano, it is a bit easier.
Can't beat itThis keyboard is excellent especially at this price point.
It does have very basic features (no metronome, no recorder). It comes with 5 voices. The firt piano voice is much better than any digital piano that I've tried before buying (even much more expensive yamaha's. The keys feel exactly like a grand piano. This product is very sturdy and there is nothing cheap about it. A real tour de force by Casio. This type of quality at this price should just be encouraged.
Worth it's priceHi,
I'm a pianist and have always wanted to own a digital piano. Although I searched for quite a lot of them, I zeroed on this one owing to monetary constraints. I love the quality of the sound and the feel of the keys although if you are looking for different kinds of sounds then this isn't the best one around. The only drawback's I see with these are that the MIDI ports aren't of USB type and if you are playing it at very low volumes you tend to get annoyed by the sound the keys make as they get back to their usual positions, nevertheless its an amazing piece to own for the amount you pay for it.
Cheers,
MRM
