I sell both the Yamaha and Casio keybaords. The Casio CTK691 is the same keyboard as the WK3000 except it has only 61 keys instead of 76, no smart media card slot and no pitch bend or mod wheel. It sells for $199.00, the WK3000 is $299.00 and the WK3500 (adds floppy drive, stereo outputs and a modulation wheel) sells for $399.00. All models include a stand and an AC adapter. Although all the sounds on the Yamaha are good, I really like the acoustic piano, trumpet and sax sounds better on the Casio. I've had to edit out alot of the Reverb and store the sounds in user area, but this is very easy to do. The styles are good on both keyboards, but there are more exciting styles in the Casio, with the exception of the ride cym. being a bit less realistic, although it is very acceptable to most. What don't you get from Casio.......good tech support. Here's an example. It says in the owners manual that you can use the metronome while playing the piano for practice purposes. However, the manual doesn't tell you how to turn it on and after hours of reading and trying everything I called Casio and found out that the same person giving customer support for all their electronic products also does the keyboards. She didn't even know what a metronome was. I was put on hold and finally she returned and said she would have to research this and would call me back. Amazingly, she called me back about 20 minutes later and said someone else told her it explained how to use the metronome on page 46 of the manual. I said to wait a second while I looked up page 46 and all that was there was that you could use the syncro start function to start the style and you would see the metronome flashing in the screen. I explained that this was not using the metronome. I wanted to hear a click and be able to practice to it. She would do more research and call me back. It hasn't happend yet! This is a difference with Casio and other keyboard manufactures. They should have dedicated tech support people for keyboards only. By the way, I spoke to my Ca. rep today and we both agree that there is no way to turn on the metronome but we've emailed Casio and suggested that they record some styles with just a click, put it on their internet site and allow people to load these into their Wk keyboards and then use these user styles as a metronome. They thanked us for our input! Why didn't they think of this? I still like these 3 new keybaords alot. The designers are smarter then the distributor here in the USA at least!
George Kaye
kaye's music Scene
Reseda, California
818-881-5566