RolandGO:KEYS 5 Music Creation Keyboard | 61-Note Keyboard | Built-In Stereo Speakers | Mic Input | Bluetooth Audio/MIDI Support for Music Streaming - Graphite

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.

Great little keyboard to have around the house. Most of the sounds are good. They are better if you run the sound through some external speakers.Average for using as a midi controller, so just buy it for the sounds, not to use as your main controller.

I do mostly love this keyboard. First of all it is just aesthetically pleasing. The key bed feels great and the keys feel matte and not slippery as my old Yamaha synth. As someone who started with a piano, I really wish I could have weighted keys, but the extra is just not practical for someone who would be gigging.The tones/voices are very modern and a wide range of lush tones. I love that it has some serious synth capabilities, but includes the built in speaker. It save me from finding an amp every time I just want to practice.The audio fx feature is very limited, more than I realized, but it is fun and an interesting addition.Now for the annoyances. On some instruments, like one of the violins, the touch sensitivity is not as natural between levels of impact. And for anyone who will be doing gigging with the use of a wide range of voices like me, It has already become very annoying having to turn and turn and turn until I finally find the instrument I need in the other category.There should be a number pad as well to type in a number associated with the voice. Also, if I select. certain piano voice, for example, it should STAY on that piano voice every time I press "piano" until shut off. I know there is a way to program this into the "piano" or instrument button, but it changes from day to day and I can't always remember how to get there.Lastly, I have to plug in my ac adapter, sustain pedal, and audio out every time, but I can't see from the front or the back the names of the ports. I have to lift the keyboard up on it's side every time. Other keyboards have indicators on top. I am going to add stickers on the top of the instrument to help guide me, so I don't have to lift it up every time I want to plug in, so I can work around it, but it's annoying.Another thing -the voices are very modern, so there are certain sounds I find myself missing from my old synth that just don't have a comparable sound on here, despite the huge range of sounds.Yet another thing, transpose only goes +5 and -6. Why they didn't simply go +/- 10 I'll never know.Lastly, It seems very difficult to buy a gig bag and music rest. You'd think Roland would have thought of this and made it easier to find these items, but that's not the case.All in all, it's not perfect, but I think it is the best all around keyboard on the market because of its playability, rich sound, portability, and range of function.

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.

Just what I expected. This is my first keyboard by the way. Great quality and the weight is not heavy. Sounds are amazing! I love the white color on this keyboard. Would recommend definitely, worth the money. 👍

This Keyboard is perfect for beginning piano player. It is fun and it has 1000s of sounds and songs types. Well wortth the cost.

Volume is not very good. Not any Better than the gokeys 3