Casio AL150R

The AL-150R is a totally new concept in digital pianos that will bring musical enjoyment to your home for many years to come. An Advanced Lessons System featuring a remarkable dual color Key-Lighting keyboard provides a powerful, yet easy to use teaching tool that will help make your dreams of piano proficiency come true. Now, for the first time, an instrument has been creafted that truly delivers the joy of playing the piano to anyone who has ever dreamed of learning to play. Authentic tones, carefully sampled from a concert grand piano mate with an all-new Naturally Scaled Hammer Action to provide for a most realistic and satisfying musical experience. An Advanced Lesson System featuring a remarkable dual-color Key-Lighting keyboard provides a powerful, yet easy to use teaching tool that will help make your dreams of piano proficiency come true.

The AL-150R is a totally new concept in digital pianos that will bring musical enjoyment to your home for many years to come. The AL-150R provides you with 64-notes of polyphony to easily accommodate sustained passages and complex arrangements To ensure clear, rich authentic sound, Casio's Zygotech Polynomial Interpolation (ZPI) utilizes fortissmo and pianissimo samples of a fine concert grand piano, recorded across the entire range of the keyboard.

The AL-150R comes with many special features that will bring musical enjoyment to your home and make learning easier. Auto-Accompaniment With a choice of 100 accompaniment patterns, you'll always find a background to suit your mood. Several of the patterns are piano-based, allowing you to sound like a pro utilizing as few as 2 fingers. Accompaniment Mode Players of varying skills will enjoy the benefit of a choice of FULL RANGE, FINGERED, or CASIO CHORD modes. One-Touch Preset With the touch of a button the right-hand instrument, tempo, effects, harmonies and more are all automatically selected, awaiting your performance. Song Sequencer (17 Tracks) Record your performances, lessons, compositions, phrases and more for future playback. Store up to 10 songs in internal memory and an many more on floppy disk or external PC.

Large Backlit LCD (Musical Information System) Easy-to-read display panel shows current piano setup, fingerings, chords, dynamics, etc., providing a wealth of information about the keyboard's many functions. Song Controller Just like the controls of a CD player, PLAY/PAUSE, STOP, REWIND and FAST-FORWARD provide you with control of the internal music library or MIDI file on floppy disk. Music Library For practice or simply for your listening enjoyment, 80 tunes are provided.

An accompanying song book is also dedicated. Advanced Lesson System Select the lesson that matches your skill level and play along with either Music Library tunes or those imported from a floppy disk, advancing at your own pace. 3-Step Lesson This easy-to-follow feature can be used with any Arrangement or Lesson Part. Step1... Master the timing of melody. Simply press any key and the correct melody will play.

Step 1 allows you to first concentrate on the tune's timing before moving on to the next level.

Step 2: Play at your own pace. Melody play waits for you to press the correct key before continuing on. This allows you to practice playing the correct notes at your own pace.

Step 3: Play at the preset tempo. This is the step where you master real keyboard play. Now the keys light and the melody plays at normal speed without waiting. Take center stage with your virtuous piano performance. Lesson Part Selection Practice that which you need most - right hand, left hand or both as the "Lesson Part."

Features

• 88 Keys
• Naturally Scaled Hammer Action Keyboard
• Dual-Color Key Lighting System (On/Off), Voice Fingering Guide, On-Screen Fingering Guide
• 3 Sensitivity Levels, Off
• 64-Note Polyphony
• 271 Tones(63 Panel Tones, 128 GM Tones, 70 Variation Tones, 10 Drum Sets)
• 100 Rhythms
• Auto-Accompaniment (include Bass, Rhythm, Chorus, Intros, Ending and Fills)
• Built-In Metronome
• 80 built-in tunes, 10 User Tunes
• Play/Pause, Stop, Rewind, and Fast-Forward
• 3 Advanced Levels, Lesson Part Selection, 3-Step Lesson, Fingering Guides, 3 Fingering Guide Options
• 100 One Touch Preset
• 17 Track x 10 Songs, approx. 15,500 Notes, Real-time Recording, Punch-in Capabilities
• 32 Digital Effects: 8 Reverbs, 8 Choruses, 16 DSP)
• Layer/Spilt Included
• Auto-Harmonize: 12 Types
• Mixer Function: 31 Parts (Group A:15, Group B:16)
• One-Touch Automatic Key Transpose
• Tuning Control Included
• Floppy Disk Drive: 3.5", 2HD/2DD, SMF Direct Play, Data Save/Load, Convert to Lesson
• GM: Level 1 Compatible
• 3 Pedals (Soft, Sustention, Damper)
• Phones (x2), Line In (L/Mono), Line Out (L/Mono R), Mic In (Volume Adjustment), MIDI IN/out, To Host
• Speakers (16cm x 2, 5cm x 2)
• Amplifier (30w + 30w)
• Keyboard Cover: Slide Type, Two-Step Stopping Mechanism for Safety
• Song Book Included
• 7 Tunes Included on Floppy Disk