Casiotone CT-S1 (Unbiased Full Review)

welcome back to milan recording studios my name is james pavel shockross and in today's video i wanted to bring you a fun review of the casio tone cts-1 which is a product that both myself and many of my followers have been very interested in ever since it first launched i'll tell you a little bit more about what this instrument is after tell you about where i got it from and how we'll be recording it um as i almost always do for many of my reviews i purchased this product through an online retailer they didn't know who i was and i wasn't sent it free of charge i purchased this online with my own money and as my videos always have been and as they always will be this will be an honest review as always the product will be recorded through the direct line output i'll talk more about that in a little bit um it will be recorded through that direct line output for the vast majority of this video i do want to give you a sound demo of what the built-in speakers sound like so i will do that at one point in this video but aside from that the rest of this video will be recorded through the headphone jack on the instrument so for many of you who often ask how is this piano being recorded that's how now the casio tone ccs1 comes in three different colors you can get it in the kind of slightly off-white ivory color you see here you can also get it in a traditional black with like a satin black color you can also get it in red if you want that kind of baby nord aesthetic which is a very nice looking color um the casper tone cts-1 has a really unique little aesthetic feature that i've never seen on a digital piano before it's probably been done before but i've never seen it where the speaker grills are covered with the fabric it looks really nice and it just somehow makes it look a little bit more premium i know that's weird but having this nice little flexible fabric over the speaker grills rather than just having speaker grills with exposed plastic holes it just looks really really nice in all three colors i think in the black it's kind of like a gray the red is like a kind of a modeled red and here you have like a gray fabric it looks really really good the overall build quality of the instrument is actually pretty nice for 200 us dollars you have some pretty solid feeling plastic like for 200 us dollars for those of you who don't know anything under the 200 price point typically you're looking at junk unless it's a used market or a friend is selling you their old digital piano that they don't need at a really discounted price unless it's a situation like that in the new market under 200 is usually gonna be junk for most digital pianos but casio has managed to provide a pretty nice build quality and a very nice visual aesthetic for such a low price point which is part of why i like this digital piano so much now on the back of the instrument as i've already stated you have one headphone jack that's your only line output on the instrument now if this instrument was 600 or 800 and it was actually intended to be used professionally um or it really could be used professionally then i would make a big deal about that but this instrument is not meant to be brought to your local coffee shop and played you could technically do that but nobody would really take you seriously it's not meant for that um the instrument has little uh guitar straps here so you can put a guitar strap on it and play it like a keytar right it's meant to be fun it's meant to be taken to your friend's house and jamming out with them or learning how to play the piano for the first few months it's not meant to be a serious professional instrument and no 200 instrument would be professional uh at that price point so that's why i'm not going to make a big deal about it only having one singular headphone jack however i will have one complaint about that and that is the fact that the headphone jack is in the back and that is actually a big annoyance most nice digital pianos will have a headphone jack up front and that's because when you put your headphones on if you're using wired headphones as every digital piano has to use that i know of um your wire is going to come from one of your ears or maybe both down to the floor and then up into here with this instrument especially if your headphones have a really short cable it has to come underneath the piano or around on top or around the side and if your headphones have a really short cable that makes it very annoying so you'll have to get a headphone extender which can be you know six seven bucks so i do wish they had a little headphone jack it's only one uh three and a half mil jack they could have easily i would imagine fitted right in here or right in here right in the side and that would be very very nice i'm imagining the reason they didn't was because that would cost a little bit more to have to run a couple of wires up to a little daughter board to have it up here to just have one little uh you know three and a half mil jack but that little extra cost i think maybe would have i don't know how much that would have had to raise the price of the instrument by but it would have been a very nice quality of life feature um around the back there's also a couple of other different um inputs and outputs you have two usb ports as well you have the power supply obviously this instrument can also run on batteries which is another thing that makes it really cool and there's also another little three and a half mil jack that i can't remember what it's for oh yeah it's for the line in um you can also run like a phone or something and play your audio through the built-in speakers of this instrument um that's the other quarter inch jack back there not quarter inch three and a half mil so those are all the inputs and outputs of the casio tone cts-1 and as you can see we also have uh in the back of the instrument we have the little music desk it looks really nice both without the music desk and with the music desk something that can't be said for all digital pianos i have to find where this went now there it is basically it just sits in there it's a pretty nice music desk it can do a good job of holding your music um and i don't actually have any complaints with it for the 200 price point it's actually very well done and it's actually a higher build quality of than the previous music desk was for the cts 200. i kind of feel like the cts-1 kind of replaces the cts200 because it kind of takes what that instrument did and refines it to a new level and the reason i say that is because the sounds built into the cts-1 are a bit higher quality than you'd expect for a digital piano around 200 us dollars now i'm not saying that these are going to rival a yamaha p515 but they're in my opinion a lot better than most if not all of the sounds on the previous cts 200 and a lot better than most of the sounds you'll find on other cheap entry-level pianos and instruments like this so let's take a quick listen here to the default piano sound you have four different variations actually a few more than that but right here at your fingertips you have four different variations of each sound category and you have quite a few sound categories you have one acoustic piano category you have two electric piano categories you have one organ category which is really good you have a another keyboard section which has some kind of oddball stuff that we'll get to we have a synth category which isn't my favorite there's a pretty good one in there and you also have the others category which features some some basic symphonic sounds and stuff there's also some additional hidden sounds hidden within the keys and we'll talk more about that later hiddens features and sounds within the keys are not really my favorite thing i do wish there would have been a way to have them be more accessible without having to hold tone variation actually the function button down and pushing the keys but it is what it is it's 200 instrument and most of the functionality is hidden away in the keys aren't usually things you're going to need on a day-to-day basis so let's dive into the acoustic piano sound and take a look at that let's play a couple of different things here a couple of original compositions [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] so there's the sound of the default acoustic piano sound of the casio tone cts-1 and although it's not perfect remember that this is a 200 digital piano and a lot of the times you don't even get that nice of a piano sound on a 200 digital piano um the af the overall sound quality of these sounds a lot of them for this price point is actually really really nice now there is this little shortcoming of this instrument and that of course would be the action the synth style key bed of this instrument as with many actually all synth style keyboards i've ever played be it on high-end instruments like the nord grand not the nord grand the nord stage 3 or on simpler instruments like the even the yamaha refa cp they don't lend themselves incredibly well to playing in a pianistic style if you're trying to play pianist smoke and get really nice soft consistent volumes none of these synth style actions are really going to be the best for that so that isn't necessarily a problem with the cassiotone cts ones action is pretty much all of these weightless or non-weighted uh synth style key beds they don't really lend themselves well to playing it like you would a piano um and i don't know exactly where this problem lies it probably has something to do with the sensor because i find that a lot of the times on many of these key beds you will find that notes will often jump out at random that was a problem i had with the nord stage 3. notes would just be jumpy and random and you know kind of not great and so you can hear that a lot in this instrument too so if you're learning how if you want to play classical music at a high level this isn't the instrument for you but do i need to say that it's 200 i really don't think i need to say that obviously an instrument like this isn't going to perform like a higher end instrument with an actual weighted keybed that actually feels and responds pianistically so i think that's kind of the given that you would find some kind of a shortcoming with the action in something that's disaffordable you have to understand the price point and align your expectations to that price point for something that's a little bit less than 200 dollars there's a lot more give you can be a bit more generous with yeah it's not perfect but it's cheap then you can with something that's say close to 900 dollars like the pxs 3000 for example so there's a lot more free a lot more leeway uh and a lot more forgiveness that can be made towards a really affordable digital instrument then there can be made towards one that borders lines on being close to expensive and premium and a high quality price so with that out of the way let's move on and take a look at some of the other tone variations in the piano section the default one for the price point is surprisingly surprisingly nice now the next one that i find interesting the next thing i wanted to touch on with the tts one is the naming scheme for these tone variations this isn't like a flaw or a weird thing but it just is a weird thing um but it's just something i wanted to talk about you have four tone variations and then an additional tone and memory slot so your first one is standard your second one is advanced your third is named modern and your fourth is called vintage now these are cute little names but in most of these cases those names don't actually apply to the sound that falls under them this next one is called advanced and basically it's the default piano sound or something very similar to it layered with synth strings and this one i think does kind of fall into the advanced category because how you get those synth strings to activate is still a mystery to me if you play one note there's no strings you play two there's no strings you play three there they are if you play four if you play five cool but if you roll the chord [Music] the strings aren't there anymore they gone even though i'm playing six different notes the strings aren't there anymore additionally if you play a chord and then hold the pedal down and play another chord your second chord doesn't have the strings applied to it [Music] i removed the pedal for added effect that g major chord had no strings applied to it so how exactly this uh tone works and how it applies the string effects to what chords is in fact very advanced i do not understand it it's just black magic over here i do not get it but it's not really the best it would be better if it applied the strings equally to all notes at all times because when you're actually trying to play a piece of music this can kind of lead to some problems um where the strings aren't always there [Music] i only had strings on the first note and then nothing else even though the next note was a triad [Music] you have to be very careful with the pedaling and and just treat it very special to get the synth strings to come out so that's kind of an oddball one not my favorite sound but the concept is very nice um up next is the modern tone for the tone variation for the piano which is a very very bright rock piano style thing [Music] i'd say that's probably pretty modern up next you have the vintage tone variation which sounds very very similar to the standard tone variation [Music] i like how i say this isn't geared towards classical music and then go ahead and play classical music on it anyway but it's still a very nice sounding piece um and a pretty nice sounding tone again i have to stress the fact that i've never seen a 200 digital piano with tones this nice in it before they're actually they're a little bit thinner than you expect from a higher end digital piano but they're actually like a little bit warm almost and they sound nice i like them a lot you also have that built-in reverb too that kind of adds to it [Music] that's also another thing that's making these sound pretty nice there you can actually go in through the keys and change the amount of reverb that's here up next is the electric piano category which also has some pretty nice surprises in it um in the past on other casio instruments i've played i haven't really been that happy with their road sounds they've had this one has a pretty decent road sound that i'd say beats out other more expensive digital pianos that i have played now it doesn't have that nice bark when you dig into it it doesn't bark like the reef cp does but and i'm making that comparison because the reface cp is a similarly sized it's more expensive but it's a similarly sized digital piano that fits the same niche that niche niche that this does where it's a ultra portable super compact digital piano that sounds really good that's why i'm kind of making those two comparisons anyway here's the default road sound the standard road sound [Music] [Music] like that's nice that's really fun to play up next you have the advanced electric piano which i think the rhodes or the phaser on it [Music] do [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] again surprisingly nice to the price point i've said that a lot and i'll continue to say it again because this is this is why i like the casio tone cts1 this is uh the approach that cassio has made with this instrument i think is really really excellent i've said for some time now that i've always wanted a digital piano and this doesn't quite meet these criteria but something that i would think would be really cool would be a digital piano that as simple as possible but yet as high quality as possible the finest action and the finest build quality that is possible and very few fancy effects except for the highest quality samples models whatever creates the best results the finest quality sound you can even if it's just one piano sound if it's the best digital sample piano in the world use that and have a very very simple digital piano with no bells and whistles just the basics good action and good sounds now this doesn't really meet that criteria it doesn't have the best action but they're kind of going towards that step a lot of other digital pianos in this price point for a little bit more like a lot of the yamaha ypt models um have a lot of other features you've got all the learning functionality and the accompaniment and the drums and this and that and that's cool and i've messed with i've done reviews of those and i think they're cool but i also love the simplicity of this where you just have the only other features besides being able to tweak the reverb and change the touch sensitivity more on that later if i remember uh besides those features the only other things you have is a metronome and a record function and beyond that it's just play the instrument yourself make music have fun and i like that approach that's kind of going one step towards my ultimate goal if i were to build a digital piano to make the simplest and highest quality instrument possible this is kind of going towards that step and i like that keep at it casio so up next here we have the modern sound effect here for the uh electric piano one when i think of a modern electric piano i think of a you know the yamaha dx7 type tone which this probably is not quite it's more of like a bright road to the phaser [Music] and that's kind of what i mean by the names naming scheme for the sound effects not really lining up with what they represent so by taking the roads and putting a phaser on it makes it more modern than a rhodes without a phaser interesting up next we have the vintage electric piano sound don't know what this is i can't remember what it is let's find out here it's a yamaha cp-80 type sound i've never played a real yamaha cp-80 i actually have i've only ever seen two of them um and neither of them are really in a place where i could do a video review of them um so i've i don't remember exactly when they came out but i'm pretty sure that you know the word vintage means old right so i'm pretty sure the cp-80 came out after the rhodes did so if the vintage sound i'm being really nitpicky here i just find it funny if the vintage sound is implying that it's more vintage than the standard sound the cp-80 i don't think would qualify for that i know it's stupid um i'm just being nitpicky because i find that to be really funny and humorous i'm not actually saying it's a flaw or anything it's just it's just a funny quirk of this instrument up next we have the second electric piano category and the standard sound for this is actually i'm right this time it's a yamaha dx7 [Music] i really need to learn some like 80s ballad or something that actually used that sound in it because i know there were so many but i just can't think of any of them off the top of my head right now um up next we have the advanced tone variation for ep2 which is a pretty decent whirly it's not the best i've heard but it's also far from the worst i've heard it's pretty in the middle and it definitely sounds like a wurlitzer i like it the modern electric piano two category is i don't remember actually let's check it out let's do a flat major [Music] it's a bright very pretty version of the original standard dx7 the vintage sound for the tone variation um ep 2 is basically the same as the advanced [Music] so they're basically the same um but they both are nice something else that's really cool about this instrument that you won't sometimes find in much more expensive digital pianos the cream r7 for instance one of my favorite digital pianos on the market right now uh does not actually have this feature seamless sound switching where you play a chord on one sound hold the pedal down and change the sound to something else and then play in that sound and have the two merge seamlessly together a lot of instruments especially cheaper ones but like i said even more expensive ones will often cut the sound off as soon as you tell it to change the sound this you can kind of tell when it's changing the sound because the effects that are applied to each sound will kind of change as you're cycling through the different sounds um but it has near seamless sound switching look at this that was actually a terrible example because i cycled from the vintage to the advanced which sounds the same let me do that again we'll cycle from the advanced background to the standard [Music] so you can kind of hear the sound change as you're cycling through like i said but [Music] the fact that it doesn't just do this as soon as you tell it to change the new sound is a very nice touch so onwards to the next sound category here the organ sound category which is remarkably remarkably good check out the first standard tonewheel organ sound here [Music] like that is really really good i'm dying to have a little um uh mod wheel over here so i can apply like a leslie effect or something or a rotary effect to that sound because that's really all it needs to be actually really really good that is a very nice organ sound the advanced sound is similar it's another tone wheel organ sound um but it isn't um what's what i'm looking for sorry i lost my train of thought there the next one is an oregon toe wheel sound effect with a like a rotary vibrato tremolo kind of thing applied to it and with a different drawbar effect [Music] think about that which is kind of cool up next is the modern um sound and from the aspect of is the name of it accurate kind of uh because this is emulating a um it's like a combo organ like this uh transistor organ and that compared to the hammond b3 which came out first would technically be more modern uh than a hammond b3 but you know in the case of the organ category what would a modern organ be there is no like unique modern organ that i can think of because every modern organ these days is just emulating what used to be you have digital pipe organs and digital tone wheel organs clone wheel organs if you will there's nothing really unique because the organ is kind of a dying breed which is a little bit sad but the modern organ sound on here is like a uh for fisa or a vox continental it's not really a close interpretation of either one of them it's something in between but you can kind of get what they're getting at here [Music] kind of a neat little tone there and the vintage uh organ sound is actually very accurate because it's a pipe organ like a vintage pipe organ [Music] now it's not quite as nice as the sound that yamaha puts in almost all of their digital instruments from their cheapy 50 one to their more expensive flagship models but it's also not as bad as the one that kawhi puts in a lot of their instruments it's somewhere in between which makes it quite good um certainly for the price point i a 200 digital piano with a decent pipe organ sound i've never eaten tone wheel organ sound even most of them don't have one this is a nice tone wheel organ sound too now up next is the keyboard category which has a lot of miscellaneous little keyboard instruments some of them are fun um the last one especially is one of my favorite sounds in the whole instrument um and a lot of people feel that way a lot of people i think i've heard of people buying this instrument just to get that last uh sound in here because not many digital pianos have this last sound the vintage tone so let's start off with the standard here a harpsichord [Music] [Music] nice attention to detail on this by the way with the little sound of the plectrums and the jacks falling back into position after the note is released it's nice i like it it's not too loud to be annoying but it's not not there it's well done um the advanced keyboard sound is a clavinet with a touch schwa and the modern is a clavinet without any effects applied to it at all [Music] kind of odd there um but a decent clavinet sound and finally the one we've been waiting for the vintage sound i love this [Music] so it's a melotron you know the tape flute thing the old crazy keyboard instrument that used tape loops for each note it's a digital reproduction of that and it sounds really nice i it's not a tone that you usually will find in digital pianos you'll usually have your flutes but they won't be emulating specifically the melotron's flute which had a really an interesting kind of a character to it it's such a nice sound and it's really really cool um that is by far one of my favorite sounds on the casualtone cds uh one and that's another reason i like this thing it's just the sounds that it has are really cool and that's what i mean um by when i say that this instrument has some high quality sounds in it that's one of them it's awesome now the synth category which is up next is not one of those i don't like most of the sounds that are in it the first three not really my cup of tea but the last one is my favorite of the four so here's the first three followed by the fourth [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and finally the last one [Applause] [Music] bye [Music] [Music] [Applause] that's fun and that's kind of where this action shines is doing that synth stuff um the really fast motion things like that on the simple scale is actually it handles it quite well surprisingly well actually that was very easy to do um up next is the final category the others category which has more kind of the generic tones but there's a couple of them in here that are pretty good it starts off with what is truly a standard sound for the others category on every digital piano ever some strings [Music] [Music] they almost sound they have like a phaser applied to them which is kind of interesting the advanced sound is i don't actually remember what this is oh it's a guitar [Music] do [Music] you can really hear what i mean in that particular example by the notes being easy to accidentally play a little bit too loud um it was really prominent in that particular piece partly because the way that piece is but it kind of if they weren't quite as extreme it would have fit the piece very well because it was on a guitar and when people play that piece on a guitar you often do get some kind of notes like that all right up next is the modern sound um for the others category which is [Music] it's both one of the nicer and one of the more cheesier vibraphone type sounds i've heard obviously it's meant to be a vibraphone um vibraphones have a um a tremolo effect the tubes have a little rotating pad in them that gives a tremolo effect and this isn't the most realistic interpretation of that but it is very pretty it is very very pretty and i really really like the vibraphone sound in here despite it not being super realistic i love it it sounds great [Music] [Music] do [Music] it's beautiful what other 200 digital piano can do that i can't think of one uh finally in the others category we have and again i'm poking that others button to try to get the sound to change i don't know why that's such an instinct for me um but to me it just would make sense to have both the the category button or the tone variation button cycle through the sounds i don't know maybe that's just me but to me the others button and all the other buttons as well should cycle through the tones finally we have the vintage sound which is kind of like a brass band kind of thing kind of nice [Music] so [Music] so those would appear to be all of the sounds of the casio tone cts-1 but wait there's more literally um in the little owner's manual here cassio tells you how to select a tone using the keyboard keys and this is a feature that they've kind of brought back from the dead i think because the original casio tones uh what were they called this the the 202 and the 201 um those used a very similar way of selecting your sounds now on those instruments which i did a review of the 202 i found like a almost brand new one did a review of it it was pretty nice especially for the day um the way that selected sounds was you would um hold down a certain switch and you would push any key on the instrument and each key would be a different sound and it would give you a preview of what that sound would be then you let go of that switch and every key would be that sound and that's how you can select additional tones in the cts1 using the keyboard keys so you hold the function button down actually the tone variation button down and then you have a whole bunch of other tones now most of these tones are simply the ones that you'll find in here um the electric piano has a few extras the organ has a few extras and so does the keyboard section i think it might not but you also have extra synth sounds and even more interestingly classic casio tones like vintage classic casio tones you might have found on the original cts202 or whatever they were called 201 202. forget the first i think was ct 202. um tones you might find on the instruments of that era so that's kind of a cool little throwback here so if you hold the tone variation down and let's hit e3 here [Music] for every note i push it will give me a little taste of what that note is going to be [Music] you've got the oregon sound that's the same default organ sound as you call up the keyboard you get more and more different types of tones [Music] so here's a tone that we didn't have in the organ category it's a uh like a what's the word i'm looking for squeeze box [Music] pretty fun and you've got other sounds in here too i think that was b flat [Music] so we've got all these different sounds in here that are hidden away in the keys which is kind of fun up here in the classic casio tones we've got some pretty interesting ones we have this one which is actually the last of the synth category um so it's not a classic cassioton but nonetheless it's very pretty [Music] that's really neat so we've got other casio tones here this one here if you hold down lower notes this is a fun little oddity in here if you hold down lower notes it gives you beats and you can play the melody along with the right hand i actually have a little casio thing that's about this big and it actually does this exact thing um i don't know if it has the same violin sound but it has the same beats in it [Music] so kind of a cute little quirk here we've got more things too this one's very nice [Music] i like the way the notes decay as they age [Music] that's cool oh we've got more here i like the last one as well that's another kind of plucky one [Music] [Music] so you have a lot of really neat little sounds packed away inside of this small little unassuming and very affordable casiotone cts1 so that has pretty much been my review of the cts1 as a whole there's a couple of things i'm missing however and that is to demo the built-in internal speakers so i'm going to remove this i don't need this anymore i'm going to take this off because i need to reach the headphone jack and i'm going to unplug it here [Music] now i've unplugged it i guess i'll put the music desk back on because why not let's see if i can find where it's supposed to go real quick oh is that it not quite there we go perfect so now we can demo the internal speakers uh the ones that are built into the instrument i probably should have done this first off in the video um but i kind of forgot until now because this instrument is quite fun to play uh so here's the default piano sound i'll play my test piece on it again like i did at the beginning um to show the internal speakers here you ready let's test it out do they're honestly not bad like there's no i mean okay i'm not playing it loud but even when you do play it loud which i've done off camera there's no distortion coming from the built-in speakers they hold their own they actually don't sound terrible now you don't get a lot of bass response out of them here's the rode sound [Music] so that's not quite as big and bassy as it would be through the headphones or like it was through the amplifier that i was using to listen to these while playing and recording but you can still tell what it is and it still sounds fine [Music] they're not the loudest speakers ever but for something that can be powered off of double a batteries it's pretty decent [Music] and the organ actually sounds really good [Music] coming through those internal speakers oh let's try the melotron out so as you can see the built-in speakers are actually not bad i'm actually pleasantly surprised with how good these internal speakers are um i like them i think they're quite adequate the final thing i wanted to discuss very quickly was the touch sensitivity you can't actually change that here i'm going to quickly find it here in the paper um there are things in this paper that are not actually like included things that this keyboard can do like changing the reverb but cassio put those on their online manual but playing with the touch response by changing by holding function and pushing f five you can hear this weird little click sound and the that tells you what touch touch sensitivity you have so we'll keep using these internal speakers here this is off you can put it on the uh most powerful touch sensitivity so the most sensitive [Music] it doesn't really change how loud the instrument can play but it changes how easy it is to play loud you've got your middle which is your default which is two clicks and you have your hardest touch sensitivity the heaviest which is when you hear those three clicks there and that's where i've been playing it at this whole video i think that's where this instrument plays the best to get the most um the most consistent touch response available without having none at all um to get the most uh consistent dynamic response out of the instrument put it on the heaviest touch and just touch sensitivity that's hard to say touch sensitivity put on the heaviest touch sensitivity and i think you'll probably find the most consistent and best results with this instrument i'm glad that they made a simple way of changing the touch sensitivity in this instrument and that i think is just about everything that i had to say about the cassiotone cts2 uh one i almost called it the cts202 um part of the reason i wanted to make this video was like i said at the beginning was because i was curious about this instrument and so were many of my followers but i also wanted to make this video to just kind of show that there is no beef between cassio and i a few people online have suggested that i'm out to get casio and that honestly is farther from the truth than could possibly be i wanted to take a quick minute at the end of this video to talk a little bit about industry standards in the world of keyboard reviews as you may know this video is kind of writing off the coattails my most recent video previously my review of the or not really even a review but a discussion about casio's smart scaled hammer action keyboard and all of the instruments that it comes in the pxs 3000 the pxs 1000 and the new pxs 3100 and 1100 more importantly so i just wanted to talk a little bit here about industry standards and my kind of thoughts about those and my position on many things i've received some criticism for being unduly harsh in my review that specific review in fact as well as the previous videos about the pxs 3000 and i just wanted to say that in my opinion that is not true um my goal here on youtube is not necessarily to speak bad things about one given company or another my goal here on youtube is to provide honest feedback and genuine information about products that are for sale for my followers my my loyalty stands with my followers not with a big overarching company that wants me to bow to their wishes and say what they want me to say about a product and that kind of brings me to the topic of industry standards i actually received some criticism from specific people who will go unnamed but let's just say that they are affiliated with industry leaders we'll leave it at that um and they've specifically wanted me to change my review of the pxs3100 the most recent video and they wanted me to edit the description to add some information and stuff like that these are people affiliated with industry leading companies friends of casio will say so my loyalty although that particular person actually happens to be a pretty long time friend actually my affiliation and my loyalty does not stand with them my loyalty is with my followers and if i find a product that i find to be flawed in some way i'm going to mention that flaw and that's the other thing i wanted to talk about is flaws and negative reviews be they relatively small or relatively big if you notice that all of the reviews from many of the other piano keyboard reviewers who again will go unnamed my goal is not to throw shade on any particular person here but if you notice a lot of these reviews from other famous um piano youtubers and things you'll notice that a lot of them are receiving these products for free from nord from cassio from roland from yamaha not too often from kauai but sometimes you'll see those as well and notice how almost always those reviews are always glowing and positive and wonderful and never is a negative aspect mentioned and if it is it's a mere afterthought because the flaw they found is very small however i was the first one to find the problems with the roland fp30 the original fp30 that have been fixed mostly in the fp30x i was the first person to find the action flaws in the pxs3000 and that's because i'm not getting these products sent to me i'm purchasing almost all of them with my own money there have only been three digital pianos that were not purchased with my own money one was loans to me by a good friend i then sent it back one was sent to me by a wonderful company and the other one was also sent by a confident company who was confident in their product and two of those three reviews were positive one because it was a kauai mp11se and there's not much negative you can say about that thing the other because it was a genuinely quality product and the third was not so positive of a review because my goal is to be honest if i'm presented with a genuinely great product like akoi mp11se it will receive a glowing review if i'm presented with a product that isn't as good as others in its price category like that third review i'm talking about then that's what my review is going to be my loyalty does not stand with whoever sends me the product my my loyalty stands with my reviewers and the people who will be watching this video my goal here as i've probably said already is to provide honest information and genuine reviews a video discussing the specifications of an instrument and showing how it sounds can be a nice video and there are very well done videos like that on youtube however a video like that isn't necessarily a review that's called a product demonstration a review is when you actually talk about the instrument and you show its features and show what it does but also talk about the positive and the negative aspects about an instrument what makes this thing good why should someone buy it or conversely what makes this thing bad and why shouldn't someone buy it or even the third option this is a mixed bag here's why you might want to buy it or here's why you might not want to buy it those are tricky reviews to do that's just some things i wanted to say about product reviews and industry standards and things of that nature i hope you enjoyed my review here of the cassiotone cts one and you know my goal is not to trash casio as a whole there actually were some redeeming qualities that i did mention in my reviews of the pxs 3000 when i took it apart i found that the internals the action wasn't designed well as we've heard before but the way it was put together the assembly process was actually very nice when i took the keyboard apart the way cables were managed where they were routed the way you could simply unplug them the overall quality of plastics inside was actually quite nice i found the build quality of the internals and the way they were all put together to be actually higher quality than some yamaha products of the same price point which was kind of interesting so the pxs 3000 has some redeeming qualities and casio as you can see here is capable of making a competent product in a given price point casio can make good stuff keep it up please keep making good things and thank you all for watching my video i hope you enjoyed it i hope you enjoyed this little end thing rant whatever it is i hope you liked it and i'll see you all in the next video goodbye

Channel: ThePianoforever

Views: 136,245

Keywords: James Pavel Shawcross, ThePianoforever, Milan Recording Studios, JPS, JPS © 2016, JPS © 2017, JPS © 2018, Hamburg Steinway, Hamburg Steinway D, Bosendorfer, Bosendorfer 280 VC, 290, 214

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Length: 53min 24sec (3204 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 07 2021