RockJam 88 Key Digital Piano Keyboard

I can't praise this keyboard piano enough. This is a great value keyboard for beginners, with features that can only be found in big brands worth 3 or 4 times in $$$. It sounds amazing, not stellar, but amazing, and I'm not knocking out a star for that, because, for the price, it is incredible! And you can always hook up an external speakers if you feel like you want to bring the house down. It has all the right connections. The feel of the keyboard is premium, and the weighted keys---the harder you press the keys, the louder the sound, the softer... okay, you get the idea---are what first grabbed my attention to check this out. It was a gift for my 8-year old who had been pleading for a piano since the pandemic started. My only regret is that I didn't buy this sooner. I almost bought the one that has a more established name, but that's what you're actually paying the extra money for, the brand. Don't fall for that. I encourage you to check this out first and prove me wrong. We've had it for a month now, and boy! This is THE beginner 88-key piano you've been looking for. I bought it with a separate sustain pedal and it works great with this keyboard. What else can I say? RockJam knocks the ball out of the park with this one. Highly recommended for you folks who are looking for a professional and highly functional (and then some) beginner 88-keys keyboard piano. 5 stars times 2!

March 2022 UPDATE: This unit is STILL awesome and working great. I practice 30-45 minutes every day on it and it is exactly like new. Definitely a blessing and worth every penny. Nov 2019: The first order had a bad power plug, but Amazon replaced the entire unit. Nonetheless, the RockJam 88 key piano replaces my 20 yr old Casio 61 keys. I was able to reuse the old Casio stand and foot sustain pedal. I have provided a video of the sound with and without an external speaker. For a beginner, the keyboard sound is fine. For an advanced person, it is a bit electronic, but I added an old Altec Lansing VS4121 2.1 Computer Speaker System that I had stored away. It has a large bass subwoofer that gives the lower notes a deeper tone and the speakers give a fuller sound to all the keys. The feel of the keyboard is great. It is not too tight, nor too soft. The few customer service interactions I've had have been above par. As a personal note, I had a console piano for many years and gifted it a church over 3 years ago. The longing was growing, but has been satisfied by the RockJam 88 key unit.

Pros: The keyboard is very simple and straightforward to set up and use. There aren't a lot of instrument choices, so beginners won't be overwhelmed. The keys are full-size and while not weighted, they do feel reasonably good for a ca. $200 keyboard. Cons: The sound engine and speakers are acceptable, but don't sound all that great. There are only three levels of touch velocity sensitivity (plus no touch velocity sensitivity). More nuanced contol would be nice. While the keyboard can be used as a MIDI controller for playing virtual instruments using software such as Reaper, Cantabile, etc., it does NOT output the sustain pedal to the MIDI data stream. This means that there is no way to play virtual instruments with any real expression. For those of us into recording, this is a very serious drawback. I have, however, found two work-arounds: 1. Cantabile has a built-in virtual MIDI keyboard in which the SHIFT key acts as the sustain pedal. By adding a USB footswitch and configuring it to act as a foot-controlled SHIFT key, you can have a working sustain pedal in Cantabile, which is optimized for live performances. 2. While the Reaper DAW software also has a built-in virtual MIDI keyboard, none of the keys correspond to the sustain pedal, so work-around #1 can't be used here. My solution was to buy a very inexpensive MIDI mini-keyboard that has a sustain pedal jack, then configure Reaper to capture MIDI data from both controllers (select the All Channels option). You can now play the full-sized Rockjam keyboard and use the sustain pedal connected to the mini-controller and the system acts like a single keyboard with a working sustain pedal. I don't know why the Rockjam keyboard doesn't output sustain pedal data to the MIDI datastream. If it did, I would give this 5 stars for its great combination of price and keyboard feel.

I've always been musically inclined, and although I had guitars at home, my fingers itched to touch some keys. The piano in my community hall was a little out of tune and not very accessible, so I decided to give myself a musical Christmas gift :) Best decision ever. I was surprised at the great online deal and bought it, not knowing what to expect. It came packaged beautifully and was great to play with from the get go. You don't need anything extra with this. You will need to create your own makeshift back support for the stand if you don't have an ipad or your phone won't fit. But other than that - it plays perfectly. Best, it has weighted keys and none other models that I checked in stores had this option within this price price. Great buy and I highly recommend it!

Excellent full 88 key board. Build quality exceeded my expectation as it within the budget price range. Bough during a lighting sale therefore very happy. The keys are semi weighted giving a authentic feel of a real piano and the sound quality is excellent. Great keyboard for a beginner.

Wirklich TOP, absolut professionelles Gerät, Super-Klang, sehr hochwertig!

El teclado está perfecto para principiantes, las teclas son suficientemente sensibles. La aplicación gratuita 3 meses es una maravilla. OJO: El botón de encendido y apagado cada vez iba más duro, por la mala calidad del componente y al final se rompió, por tener que darle cada vez más fuerte. Tuve que hacer un arreglo para poder seguir usando el teclado. Este es el único botón físico y el más importante y es de muy mala calidad, sorprende que le resto del teclado sea bueno y justo ese botón falla. Menos de un año de uso.

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