Yamaha CK88 88-Key Portable Stage Keyboard

It's function friendly(no manual need for normal use) and at least easy to carry to gigs. Very nice sounds (love the e-piano sounds) but the piano sounds are good not great (made adjustments to improve them). Still give it 5 stars though. Great feel on the keys too. Love playing this!

Ive had this board a little over a year and it CONSTANTLY breaks down. I've used it for two gigs and otherwise has been only a studio board. To start with some positives, the control layout and on board programming are phenomenal, this things a joy to write patches on. It's sample library is pretty excellent as well, although I will say its onboard Leslie emiulator leaves a lot to be desired, and definitely feels like yamaha purposefully loaded a poor leslie emiulator into it to not be too good as to start competing with the YC serries. That being said this is the least relyable bord I've ever had, eight months into owning it a board connector failed and left its keyboard non-functional, then a week after I got it back from that warranty repair (now out of warranty) the power switch failed to the on position(the only way to power it off is to pull the plug or remove the batteries), and now a key, F3 to be specific, is starting to badly rattle like part of its plastic weighted mechanism has cracked or failed. Yamaha is known for their outstanding build quality and reliability, and I'm absolutely appalled by how poor this one's is on both fronts. With a price tag of just under $1500 this is absolutely inexcusable.

I was looking for an upgrade to a 20 year old keyboard. I looked at several and kept coming back to this one. It is easy to control, well thought out, sounds fantastic, and has the most realistic "piano like" feel to it. I opted to go with this one and I'm glad I did.

I use the Yamaha CK88 for home playing and cover band gigs. I like the key bed action, it has nice acoustic and electric piano patches, overall very easy to operate.

Love all of the 'one-function' buttons and ease of use. Having so much fun with this. Action is piano-like. Not amazing but good realism for the price. Absolutely love the ability to run on battery power, play audio via Bluetooth, onboard speakers, and it's light weight. Could use more sounds but I can also just hook it up to my computer and Mainstage to have more available patches.

I use the CK88 in my eclectic band and also for a solo/duo piano gig. Love the piano sounds as well as the organs and synths. I also love the interface , especially for effects control.