Casio Keyboard Wk 200

We recommend that you download the large PDF files that are available from this site and view them off-line. To view the contents of a file. The Casio WK200 Personal Keyboard offers great tones, sampling, and lessons in one great keyboard! Casio is showing how much they can fit in to this keyboard while offering at a price that makes it impossible to turn down.

• Casio Wk 2000 Keyboard
• Casio Keyboard Wk 200

Enhanced high-quality basic functions!

All built-in tones, including piano and acoustic instrument tones,
now sound better than ever before! 48-tone maximum polyphony
provides plenty of margin to minimize the chance of notes being dropped
when tones are layered and when playing with Auto Accompaniment.

• *Acoustic & Highly-compressed Large-waveform

An easy-to-play keyboard with an appearance resembling that of an acoustic piano.

Touch Response let's you add delicate nuances to notes by varying how much pressure you apply to keyboard keys.

Digital effects

Use effects to add reverb for more depth and breadth in your music.

You can use the Chord Book to look up chords you do not know how to play. You can hear what a chord sounds like and a simple operation even shows you inverted forms of the chord, making the Chord Book a valuable reference.

Entertainment features!

You can sample a sound from a microphone and then play the sound on the keyboard. You also can use sampled sounds to compose music. The sampling feature is a great way to create new sounds that are highly creative.

Use a microphone connected to the keyboard’s MIC IN / SAMPLING Jack to sample the sounds of things nearby.

Play notes on the keyboard using the sampled sound!
If you sample the 'Ting!' sound of a triangle, for example, you can then play notes with the sound
on the keyboard. You even can add reverb, vibrato, and other effects to the sampled sound.

Incorporate a sampled sound into accompaniment patterns!
You can sample a favorite musical phrase or drum sound, and use the same to replace some Auto Accompaniment drum sets.

Connecting a music player to the AUDIO IN jack causes the audio from the player to be output through the keyboard's speakers. Of course, you can play along with the audio, which means you can enjoy jamming with your favorite artists. It's a great way to liven up a party or any other type of social gathering.

Sing along with built-in songs or songs loaded from outside sources.

Music Challenge

Music Challenge tests your reaction speed by requiring you to press the keys indicated by the on-screen keyboard guide in time with the Auto Accompaniment tempo using the correct fingers indicated by the on-screen fingering guide.

New lesson functions guide you along the way to music proficiency

To master a song, it is best to break it up into short phrases, master each of the phrases, and then put everything together. Step Up Lesson does exactly that, providing you with the support you need to improve your play.

Your lesson score appears on the display screen.

If the keyboard senses you are having problems, it will help you by calling out finger numbers in a simulated human voice.

Lesson part select(right hand, left hand, both hands)

152 Song Bank tunesincluding 50 Exercise phrases(Song Book provided*)

Built-in songs cover a wide range of genres for lesson play and for your listening enjoyment. Includes Exercise phrases!

• *The Song Book does not include music for Exercise phrases. Due to copyright restrictions, some Song Bank tunes may not be included in the Song Book.

You can load songs from external sources and use them for listening, play along, or even lessons.

• Memory capacity is approximately 320KB, which is enough for up to 10 songs. Note that the actual number of songs that can be stored depends on the size of each individual song and other data stored in memory.
• Songs you add using Song Expansion can be used for Step Up Lessons, but fingering guide will not be displayed for such songs.

Recorder and metronome features for lesson support

Designed and engineered to help you sound your best!

A wide selection of tones (600 high-quality tones)

A wide selection of musical instrument tones supports play of songs from various genres.

180 rhythms and Auto Accompaniments for Latin music and other styles from around the world (180 rhythms including 87 ethnic rhythms and 20 patterns for piano play)

An advanced Auto Accompaniment feature provides you with access to a large collection of ethnic rhythms from around the world, with a special emphasis on Latin rhythms. In addition to Bossa Nova, Samba, and other basic rhythms, you also get Cumbia, Reggaeton, Calypso, and more!

10 user rhythms created by editing built-in rhythms

Selecting a Music Preset instantly changes the keyboard setup (tone, rhythm, tempo, etc.) so it is ideal for playing a specific song. The selection of setups covers a wide range of musical genres.

Change the scale (temperament) of the keyboard quickly and easily to suit Oriental music or certain types of classical music.

A wealth of information is displayed to support your keyboard play.

Versatile expandability

• USB portfor computer connection*
• General MIDI(GM Level 1) support allows connection with a computer or another GM-compatible device.

• *Supported operating systems: Windows^®XP Home Edition (SP2 or later), Windows^®XP Professional (SP2 or later, 32-bit), Windows Vista^®(32-bit), Windows^®7 (32-bit, 64-bit), Mac OS^®X (10.3.9, 10.4.11 or later, 10.5.8 or later, 10.6.7 or later)
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• Recorderfor composing and play
• Registrationfor storage of keyboard setups and instant recall when you need them
• One Touch Presetautomatically sets up the keyboard to match the Currently selected rhythm.
• Auto Harmonizeadds appropriate harmony notes to your melody automatically.
• Arpeggiatorsimplifies arpeggio play.

Overall, the Casio WK-200 is an excellent keyboard for the price. Beginner pianists can take advantage of its built-in exercises, which can help build a relationship the piano keyboard layout; while more experienced players will find the 76 touch-sensitive keys useful when playing a piece of music with a broad range.

Features

• Keys: 76
• Polyphony: 48-note; 24 for some voices
• Touch Sensitivity: 2 velocity settings, or off
• Reverb/Chorus: 10 reverb settings; 5 chorus
• Metronome: Yes; 30-255 beats per minute (BPM)

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*The touch-sensitivity on the WK-200 is dependent on how quickly a note is pressed, which is not only measured in how hard you touch the key—a method that can be confusing for ear-hand coordination and one that may hinder the development of more refined dynamic techniques on the piano.