Thanks Chris, certainly a demo I’d pass on to others, well done on that and have already made my comments before I saw this message from you

wow chris.. the is the first time someone has treated and feted an electronic musical instrument with so much love as if it were a living breathing creature.. say a thoroughbred race winner horse.. and your choice of simplistic yet beautiful playing makes anyone step aside to check the available credit on their cards and head to the nearest store.. I havent seen a better presentation on all my years surfing on youtube.. you truly are a soulful and sensitive person.. Good luck

Chris your playing is so powerful, empathic and embracing. Thank you for showing more expression and variety in this demo! And for explaining how the instrument transforms your playing. I can’t wait to finally afford this. My A4, B6 and D7 are stuck and dead :( so I’m suffering

Thank you 👍

Thanks for your support, Jason! 🙏

You're welcome! Thanks for your support.

Thanks for your support, James. Really appreciate it! - I really hoped that my personal thoughts about the keyboard, instead of a standard demo/recital of the specs, might offer an interesting perspective for people.

Also, stay tuned to our blog here: www.epianos.co.uk/newsroom for some thoughts about CK vs YC soon.

I just bought my ck61 for those reasons. My reface dx is the only set of truly portable keys I own and this seemed like the perfect compromise in terms of size and function. I do not regret my decision, it's a beautiful keyboard all around. I would say as long as I continue to progress in my playing, it will be worth the investment. However, I still wonder if I should have checked out the mx61 first.

My dadbod thanks you for this comment. 🙏

That's odd. Any word from Yamaha?

And format it with the keyboard.

Personally i would say so. This one has fantastic real-time controls. And frankly, best electric piano samples on any stage piano. The selection of different Rhodes is super inspiring. If you only play acoustic piano and you never change your sounds, then pick by which keyboard has your favorite acoustic keyboard feel. For the actual sound engine, this one, as a stage piano for more creative purposes than just acoustic piano, is far superior imo.

Yc

I have a DGX 660 and when I played the CK88 at my job, my playing transformed where I struggle for creativity and true expression on the DGX660. I’m sure the difference between your 670 vs CK88 is smaller, but the CK88 has to sound and feel better if I were to take a guess

You're welcome and thank you! There are so many reviews of this keyboard out there already that I really wanted to offer a different view, and I wanted to speak from the heart - this keyboard genuinely lit a fire inside me.

Explain more, please

it has bluetooth input so can play anything, but also stereo 1/4" inputs so you can plug in another keyboard and have it play through the onboard speakers :)

Do you mean the device on the right of the keyboard panel (you can see it in the overhead shots). That's the device I was recording the keyboard's audio into. It's a Yamaha POCKETRAK audio recorder - and is very handy.

@@ePianoscouk I bought this piano not knowing that it has no recording feature. I wanted to record my play of the left hand, because I am still learning to coordinate my to hands. I regret that it has no metronome built in an no rythm patterns. I love to experiment and compose music with percussions. Can anyone advice me how to record easily tracks? (Sorry for my broken english)

@judithnery958 it's not an arranger keyboard. You can't record into it. But you can send the line out to a cheap audio interface to record on your PC.

Try the volume knob?

You can adjust the volume for each part separately (bring the other sounds down with the fader). There is a global output boost under the menu button if you need more volume through the speaker 0db, 6db, 12db, etc.

@@darrylday30 thanks really helpful …

Honestly I think the default EQ is a bit dark/muddy. Try brightening it up with either some cutoff frequency adjustment or adjusting the mid/high EQ. Also, as with just about any Yamaha keyboard you can get some pretty luscious sounds by adding more wet depth to the damper resonance effect, and reverb to taste. It’s no Motif, Montage or CP4 even, but the selection of sounds here are all quite nice and with some customization you can get really great sounds.

I’m sharing the following as a piano instructor that taught out of music store for over thirty years and at times would help the store with customers (during student cancellations etc). So, the dedication of time one must put into learning any new keyboard/synth that isn’t an entry level toy, so as to capture it’s overall basic functionality (should someone be interested in knowing about it before purchasing) is nothing to shake a stick at. The above would be the requirement for an on-site worker at a music store, who’s instrument is that of the certain employees background/education. So…add to that, a video like this requires whomever to revise and make concise, what to pack into a review that will best inform potential online/social media customers, so as to spark not only sales but repeat customers that were satisfied that the description matched the purchase. Add to that the playing of the keyboard to show off the features spoken of… Add to that, the time it takes to set up the cameras in an area of the store that usually wouldn’t have a dedicated space for just making video content. So, setting up two cameras (above and in front) is something of an annoying time vampire. Add to that the setting up and tearing down up of the microphones necessary to capture what is being recorded. Add to the the calibrating of all devices, including the featured instrument, into a mixer. Add to that all of the time required for post editing between the two cameras. All together (and I may very well have missed some things) what you have is quite a bit of time, thought and energy required to create a video that is meant to stand as a rep for a store that has a channel. So, that said and considered…keeping concise and not getting off topic or perhaps forgetting key points, without laboriously memorizing a review to perfection…the help of a monitor to read from is a wise decision for a person who still has a store to run. I, personally (but knowingly am speaking for the majority of musicians who just want to know as much of the keyboard In interested in, in whatever amount of time they are able to record), couldn’t care if his eyes are on the idea of me at all times. Many videos feature reps for the company who’s job it is to know that specific keyboard as their only concern for a considerable period of time and that’s it. Or, if it’s a musician, who’s channel is dedicated to usually receiving the instrument free, or on loan, is most concerned with only selling their channel, for views (and also being a sort of rep for the company). But they are free of a primary demand of running a store.