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Panasonic SXKC600 61-Note Touch-Sensitive Portable Electronic Keyboard with Disk Drive and AC Adapterby Panasonic
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Features
- Stereo speakers with bass port
- Built-in 3.5-inch disk drive for direct playback of standard MIDI files
- XBS (Extra Bass System)
- 61 full-size, touch-sensitive keys
- 250 digitally sampled sounds and 100-song library with play-along music book
Amazon.com Product Description
Panasonic's SXKC600 keyboard with disk drive features 61 touch-sensitive keys for expressive playing, skill-enriching training functions, 150 digitally sampled sounds, and 100 rhythm patterns. Your live sound won't suffer with stereo speakers and a bass port. Panasonic even added its XBS (extra bass system) for enhanced sound.Beginner and intermediate musicians will appreciate three built-in trainer functions and a large backlit LCD. The SXKC600 is MIDI equipped for PC connectivity and includes a built-in 3.5-inch disk drive. The drive enables direct playback of standard MIDI files and storage of your own recordings. An auxiliary-in terminal allows you to connect your portable CD player and play along with a favorite recording. In addition, Panasonic has included a 100-song library with a play-along music book.
The SXKC600 keyboard's power supply is included.
Reviews
Expensive waste of time.I'm a game designer, looking for a decent midi keyboard to compose my music on. This music will then be transferred to my PC, ready to be used in whatever game I fancy. At least that was the plan.
A few slight problems- there are no drivers included with this keyboard (nor are there any availiable) and neither do any of my music software programs work with it. But wait...it has a disk drive ! Midi files are small and fit onto a floppy disk easily, so I decided to save my files to disk and then transfer them to my PC. I checked the disk and guess what ? My PC does not recognize the file format (I use Win 98 with a pentium 3 and a good soundblaster). The files it saved were not in the midi (.mid) file format or the standard midi file (.smf) format, much ballyhooed in the instructions- instead, they were in a completely unrecognizable format which I was unable to do anything with. Don't get me wrong; the keyboard itself sounded great, but if you are buying this with the same purpose in mind as I had, then don't bother.
But then again, isn't keyboard -> PC music transfer one of the sole purposes of having a midi keyboard in the first place ? Hence the well-deserved one-star rating.
