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Zuma Otto Rivers Zuma Otto Rivers

«  My first keyboard »

Published on 06/21/12 at 01:19
Arranger keyboard with 61 keys pressure sensitive. Touched kind synth. A bank of 100 rhythm patterns and another 100 sounds divided into 10 categories (Rock, World, ect ... for patterns, and piano, winds, sets, ect ... for sounds).
MIDI In and Out. It's a good point!
Jacks for headphone and sustain pedal.
Tone knob to adjust the pitch.
9V DC power jack.
No effects section.
No sequencer.
Ability to record his compositions with the small included memory.

UTILIZATION

Configuration (too) simple. Nothing is editable, everything is already pre-registered.
Almost nothing is realistic in this arranger, both sounds (ugly, it must be said, except the sound of cathedral organ, which I liked), and in terms of patterns (too mechanical and repetitive, and often do not really correspond to reality).
To play chords on beats two possibilities: either they are really playing (the keyboard is able to recognize the main types of agreements, reversed or not) or was the Casio system: it plays a note (eg C ), the agreement is major (C major), two (Do Re), the agreement is a minor, three, was a dominant seventh chord, four, was a minor 7. It's good for a child, but to learn to play really ...
Each pattern has a right to intro (long or short), a wagon, a fill-in, and a coda (short or long).
Ability to independently adjust the volume of the battery (or drums), and the other intruments.
I never read the manual, except for learn how to use MIDI.

OVERALL OPINION

I used it for over ten years. I improvised and composed my first songs on it. It was a gift, and I've always been very happy.
He is now in the basement (there is a button that is not responding).
Its features are completely outdated today, it is also why I no longer use it but it is a keyboard which I like because it has sentimental value ... my first contact with a musical instrument!

And, on occasion, I may be reused in me as a master keyboard ...