With a free 3-month subscription to the Skoove online piano lessons platform included to sweeten the deal, if you’re just starting out as a keyboardist or just want a simple, fun, quality keyboard for writing or practising on out of the house, we’d recommend giving this keyboard a GO.Disabling Audio input/output (Microphone/Speaker/etc) in Device Manager does not disable device in Sound Control Panel or stop audio.oh my! With the GO-61K Roland have put their own spin on the traditional arranger keyboard and in doing so have created an instrument that’s relatively unique, entertaining, fun and easy to use whatever your level of playing, but particularly appealing to beginners. It’s a lot of fun and pretty entertaining whatever level you play at, and the patterns have been programmed to a standard that just about elevates them above the cheese level that’s often associated with this kind of thing.
Once you have a groove going, you can either jam over the top with the selected sound across the entire keyboard, or enter Chord mode, in which the lower octave lets you dictate which chord the virtual band is playing while you use the upper part of the keyboard to solo and play melodies over the top. You can choose from a variety of 22 genres via the front panel +/- buttons, with a different set of loops available for each genre, which go from Trance to J-Pop via Hip-hop and Reggaeton to name just a few. For example, each key in the octave C1-B1 triggers a different drum loop, next octave up, in C2-B2, the keys trigger bass parts, and the upper three octaves are each dedicated to other individual instrumental parts. You enable Loop Mix mode with the press of a button, after which each octave on the keyboard is used to select a loop from a different category. This is somewhat akin to the auto-accompaniment features found on arranger keyboards from the likes of Yamaha and Casio.
When we showed a 14 year old musical ingenue how to jam along to her favourite three-chord wonders from the playlist on her phone, she was instantly hooked, and moved to admit that she now wished she’d taken Music as a GCSE instead of History - quite a result! The GO-61K also features MIDI via Bluetooth, enabling it to be used wirelessly as a controller for apps like GarageBand, for instance.Īnother unique selling point for the GO-61K is the Loop Mix function. Once connected, you can stream audio from your device through the speakers in the GO-61K and play along using the currently selected sound. Pairing the keyboard to a nearby device, such as a mobile phone or tablet, is simple to achieve. If you’re thinking of getting one of these for a child or teenager to start out on, let’s just say that the Bluetooth features are a big selling point. If you’re thinking of getting one of these for a child or teenager to start out on, let’s just say that the Bluetooth features are a big selling point
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