Whether you’re an adult looking to pick up some jazz chops, or you’re shopping for a great keyboard for your child’s practice sessions, keyboards for beginners offer remarkable tool sets for learning piano. Most keyboards come with multiple voices that will let you flip from baby grand to harpsichord, as well as midi connections that can sync your keys with your digital audio workstation if you're interested in recording your music.
The LK-S450’s sound library is surprisingly replete for the price. When testing it out, I found a sine wave I loved, added sustain, and then used the layering function to pair it with strings for an ethereal synth tone. Then, dialing in a rhythm, I was pleased to find that as I played bass over the dance beat, I could trigger an intro dance beat or add a fill from the menu controls with my off hand.
That said, I was a little let down by the connections on this keyboard. It has a midi connection, but it doesn’t ship with the proper midi cable. The standard midi cable I had didn’t connect to the device’s USB-A midi slot, and when I tried two other USB-A cables, neither connected the device to my computer so it could be found in the musical product software Ableton Live. There’s also no quarter-inch slot, so I wasn’t able to connect the keyboard to my computer this way either.
Changing between functions on the P-45 is easy. The top left of the keyboard features a few small buttons: a power button, volume slider, and a function key . Holding down the function key allows you to change the keyboard’s voicing with simple key presses, moving between grand piano tones, organs, electric keyboards, and even a pleasing harpsichord tone.
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