Roland GO:KEYS 5 Music Creation Keyboard, 61-Note, Graphite

This unit is advertised as a beginner keyboard, however it packs the punch of a much more expensive unit.I play professionally and it has come in handy as a great travel unit for the style of music I play. It doesn't have a full 88 keys but I'm not playing classical music just modern so I can easily shift the octives down or up when I play a song that needs it. If you are taking lessons on a real piano, and playing more classical pieces, I recommend getting a full 88-key board. The sound options are amazing. I've been playing it for weeks and still have hundreds of sound options to try. It hooks up to a mixer very well, and even has a dedicated microphone input. The arranger feature is great, even just to view the chords you are currently playing. Really great unit to use to learn lead sheets. It also has a a couple hundred already written chord progessions with set styles and beats which you can individually mute as you please. This is great to use as a backtrack when I play my saxophone. The power cord is strong and well made with a decent length, and conveniently it can utilize batteries as power as well. The look and feel of the unit are great. You can tell that a lot of time and energy went into the design. The buttons are responsive and accurate. The turndial was a great choice to easily scroll through the options. The screen is bright and easily readable. Can't recommend this unit enough.

I purchased this for my grandchildren, 5 and 3, hoping they will play with it, begin to learn some music, and enjoy active learning. Myself, I’m a pianist/keyboard guy who loves to play his Steinway piano. I write music on that and on my Kong Kronos. My old Roland RD-600 still has beautiful sound and its weighted touch still feels great after 20 years. So I know what works for experienced adults and I wanted something fun and interesting for the kids. The big pluses are the sounds are great, the touch is good, it has its own speakers but not so loud as to drive parents nuts, and it only weighs 11 pounds, so my daughter can easily handle it. For simplicity, you just press the on button and the grand piano sound comes up. Volume is adjusted with a slider. Right then you have a 61-key instrument for the youngsters. I also purchased a keyboard stand and a seat, and the stand on its lowest makes a small appearance even with the keyboard on it. Very nice, and important because my daughter is a minimalist and wouldn’t like a big keyboard requiring powered speakers etc. The “music reading stand” I didn’t buy yet. Other reviewers commented that it’s a piece of plastic for $35 and it looked flimsy to me. I happened to have at home an extra, double-wide professional metal music stand which is perfect for the wide spiral-bound kids’ beginners books I bought for them. You can record and play back music that you play, in MIDI format, which just plays the instrument sounds back, or in audio format, which you use if the kids want to record their own singing along with the music. My grandkids really like to sing, and I’m hoping this recording feature will help them fall in love with enjoying music. Overall, I think this is a good choice for the price. Good sounds, good company, and not too complicated.

I want so bad to 5 star this keyboard. Sound quality is the same if not better then my FP80. Piano is amazing. I use fiddle, strings, organ, and harmonica and the sounds are absoltely perfect! The bender wheel works great with these. 5 STAR ON SOUND QUALITY! I am still learning the keyboard. I am an oldies country, southern rock, and 50s/60s rock-n-roll musician and Roland simply lacks catering to the "American" tradional sounds and beats in their accompaniments in lieu of more global style sounds of other countries. 98% of the accompaniments to me are unusable. The paid downloads for country music are modern and not oldies. The bass guitar is fixed and cannot be changed in accompaniments. The preset bass sounds like an upright bass intead of an electric bass and tends to bounce around too much. All recorded sounds is midi and not actually recorded. With all said, you can very much gig in a band with the quality and feel of this tiny keyboard due to the professional sound quality and touch sensitivity if you needed to travel light. IT IS WELL WORTH THE MONEY! I'm still working out the vocal harmonies as I'm getting some in and out fading possibly from the effects settings, but the harmonizer sounds great! It did not come with an AC adaptor and in my opinion it should have. This is going to be a great travel keyboard for me to rehearse and practice new songs on while traveling with my work.

Perfect keyboard for learning and for accompanying my guitar work. Intuitive programming and great sound.

It's a good product, BUT you absolutely need to connect external powered speakers. The Volume is so low

It is a very nice keyboard. Nevertheless, I give it 1stars because of an issue with the headphones input. Whenever I finish using the keyboard with the headphones, and I unplug the headphones, the sound does not come out from the speakers. This happens randomly, some days I can hear the speakers, other day I can't. I have to turn it off and on again. Even with that, sometimes the speakers do not make any sound and its unuseable. I dont even know what to do in terms of returning it. I live in Puerto Rico so I am not sure who takes care of the return shipping costs

The GoKeys 5 requires a heavy touch and is slippery for elderly players. The sounds have layers and respond differently to the pressure applied to the keys. This could be an effect or other sound variation. There is a very wide range from soft to loud produced by the keys. There are many settings for sounds, and sound layers. You can save your customizations to memory. An example would be to create various layers with different sounds ,,layer volumes, effects and pedal assignments and save the scene (alll keyboard settings custom selected) and save them with a name you pick. Using the keyboard settings and menus is a breeze with the sharp Lcd screen. I think this. Is much more than a beginner keyyboard and a good choice for the pianist with a heavy touch to dabble with a keyboard with a keybed that doesn’t feel light. If you want a lighter keybed the more expensive Roland Juno D series might satisfy you. I am elderly and play better on a lightly weighted graded hammer action with textured keys.

Played it every Tuesday and Sundays I love the microphone feature when I sing through it ong!! I think I sing better than Jackson The downside to it was the build quality was cheap plastic and we cannot see the plug in labels at the back

Loving this so far after 2 weeks with it. I started teaching myself piano/keys as a bass/guitar player/songwriter, and was kind of disappointed with a 49 key MIDI keyboard. Having to rely on plugins and a DAW to be able to learn the instrument was not a great experience for me. Also wanted something portable to take to jam sessions with friends. Realizing I wanted something with speakers/sounds built in, and weighted/semi weighted keys lead me to this. The huge tone library was a big draw for me and the extra sequencing is something I've enjoyed jamming with that I could never easily do before. The speakers are a mixed bag, but mainly positive, and I really like having dedicated line outputs separate from the headphone jack, which is what made me pick the Go Keys 5 instead of 3. I love the quantity AND quality of tones included and theres just enough control over each one that I'm never unable to easily find a sound I like quickly. You can have 5 tones easily accessible as preset buttons and each "scene" has 2 tones so theres a couple ways to get to saved sounds quickly. Each scene is kind of like a song/project, where it saves your 2 tones, chord sequence and backing track style. There are over a thousand individual tones but you can scroll through them super easily by either reading the names and listening or just spin the scroll wheel quickly and audition the sounds by pressing a key repeatedly; loading new tones is instant. I really love the arranging/recording features included but there are some small things I wish were included. The chord sequencer is great and you can program entire songs or structures to jam with, with rising/lowering dynamics after a certain repeat etc. In my first week Ive programmed some of the chord progressions of songs I like/am learning and being able to experiment is super fun and a great way for me to practice improvising on this unfamiliar instrument. The built in backing tracks (named styles) are very hit or miss but you can download more and they have a lot of different musical genres already included so lots of choices. They are just drum/bass/chord tone patterns though, and there are times where I wish I could take the drums from this style, bass from this one, and accompaniment from this one but oh well. The song recording works, but sometimes when I rename the song it changes the length of the song to 2 bars or something which basically ruins that recording. I've stopped renaming songs as a workaround which is annoying but I dont record much internally anyway. I thought this keyboard could record your playing and loop it but not really. It starts recording automatically and it would be great to play a specific bassline/chord progression with one hand and hit stop with the other hand to perfectly time the ending to loop. If you try that there is a second or so gap before the song repeats which is too bad. You could use a dedicated looper pedal with the line outputs, but its too bad you cant do it inside the device. The keys feel great in general but the pressure it takes when pressing part of the same key farther away from you is all over the place, which makes does not make for consistent playing. Its almost a deal breaker for me, but otherwise I like how the keys feel and the weighting of them (but I have nothing to compare it with as my previous keyboard was not weighted at all). The speakers are good, can go quite loud, but as I read in some reviews they do have a slight buzz or rattle when using certain tones - specifically the default piano sounds but it does seem to be a tone specific problem. Not really much of an issue to me most of the time though. I dont think there are many other options in this price range for the tone and arranging capabilities in a portable keyboard so I will be sticking with this for the foreseeable future but this is really great for someone wanting a portable synth/digital keyboard that does it all. I love it as someone learning play simple songs and improvise on keys!

I am beginner in playing the piano. This keyboard is just right! Good sound, perfect for small apartments, and aesthetically pleasing. Love it!

Soy músico profesional dueño de muchos otros teclados de alta gama y colección, pero quería algo con sonidos buenos, ligero y portátil y definitivamente fue una excelente opción a un increíble precio. Suena increíble y sus teclas son suficientemente decentes para llevártelo a tocar a un bar los fines de semana y dejar tus teclados caros en casa.

Product and packaging, all as expected, very good 👍

the packaging was good, the product was delivered before the delivery date. the features of roland go keys 5 are great focusing mainly on live performances. has lots of ports only thig, I dislike is the speaker sound quality. it isn't good as my old ctx 9000 in.