Yamaha CK88 88-Key Stage Keyboard with GHS Action

With intuitive controls, built-in speakers and authentic piano, organ and synth sounds, the CK88 Stage Keyboard goes wherever the music takes you. Its 88 key, Graded Hammer Standard action is suited to acoustic and electric piano. Its combination of sounds and effects allow you to explore new sonic palettes. Pianos, electric pianos, strings, brass, organ and modern synth sounds. Easy-to-use controls let you focus on the music, not the menu. Dedicated organ controls and Synth and Effect controls. And with its long battery life, you’ll turn every place, from campgrounds, tour buses and hotel rooms into a stage or studio.

Key Features

• CK lets you split, layer, mix and process all from the front panel. Making it easy to create with a nearly endless combination of sounds. Split bass and piano. Layer organ with strings. Experiment with modern synth sounds. CK gives you three parts that let the music go wherever you want.
• Whether you’ve got a gig, studio time or an impromptu jam session, CK has the sound. With the realistic instruments, modern synths and organ you’d expect from a Yamaha Stage Keyboard. All ready to perform or record at a moment’s notice. Just like you.
• CK features piano sounds from three legendary Yamaha grands: the CFX, S700 and CF3, plus the character-rich U1 upright piano from the Yamaha YC Series. “Digi Piano” sounds let you get your 90s dance party on.
• There’s also a selection of vintage electric piano sounds in both the reed and tine style, funky Clavi sounds and the classic 80s DX7-style FM electric pianos Yamaha helped make famous.
• When it comes to organ, the versatile CK is all about options. Classic 60s surf rock Check. Soulful R&B? Check. Gospel and everything in between? Amen. CK has a dedicated organ section based on the Yamaha reface YC mobile mini keyboard featuring five different organ types, rotary speaker effect, percussion and a newly enhanced vibrato/chorus.
• You get nine dedicated drawbars with controls for the rotary speaker, percussion and a vibrato/chorus section.
• Need to cover more parts? CK’s got your guitarist, bass player, orchestra and choir covered. CK ensemble and solo versions of brass, woodwinds and strings let you create big orchestral backgrounds or more intimate quartets. Add drama with choir sounds. Choose acoustic and electric guitars and basses to accompany you or fatten your sound.
• CK even has chromatic percussion sounds including vibraphone, marimba, bells and more. Because you can’t count on the drummer to play a string ostinato.
• CK gives you a variety of complex synth sounds without the complex menus. You get analog style pads, leads and basses, synth brass, strings and pads. Even synth bells and textures to add to your synth sound palette. All with modern synth controls to tweak your sound without menu diving.
• Elegant filter and envelope generator (EG) controls to shape the tone and amplitude of all of them. Mono mode with panel switch and customization features that are great for synth leads and basses. Unison mode with panel switch, three modes and deeper adjustments.
• Make massive sounding synths for stabs, pads, leads, basses or anything you can imagine.
• CK effects make it easy to turn its sounds into your sound. It'starts with three dedicated effects processors: Drive, Effects 1 and Effects 2 plus an A/D Input with two dedicated Effects.
• Drive features five types of overdrive and distortion to add edge to your sound.
• Effects 1 and 2 gives you modulation effects like Chorus, Flanger and Phaser. Time-based effects like Delay and Reverb plus Wah, (even more) Drive, Tremolo and experimental synth effects such as Ring Modulation, Slicer, Lo-Fi, and more. Not to mention EQ.
• With 36 effects in all, it’s like having a built-in, customizable guitar pedal board.
• Analog to Digital (A/D) Inputs let you apply two dedicated effects to the audio and store them to a LIVE SET.
• CK connects to Soundmondo, a free service that lets you access and share one-of-a-kind Yamaha synthesizer sounds with music creators all over the world. Swap your unique sounds or get inspired by sounds from other players.
• CK features an intuitive, 1-to-1 interface that gives you the freedom to explore your sound. Everything, from dedicated Organ controls to Synth and Effects controls, is designed to keep you making music instead of diving into menus.
• CK Filter and Envelope Generator (EG) feature dedicated controls for the most commonly-used synth parameters and a dedicated bypass button to quickly return to the default state. You have total control to shape your sound.
• LIVE SETS store and recall the exact settings for anything on the front panel including your splits, layers and special effects. It also stores and recalls features such as A/D Input setting, sample playback and LED light color.
• CK has two pedal inputs which can be used for your choice of foot switches or foot pedals to control things like sustain, effect on/off, volume, wah and more.
• A four-zone controller connects with your external MIDI devices to turn CK into a full-fledged MIDI controller with your DAW or master keyboard in your MIDI rig. Which means you get four additional sounds at your fingertips with complete control of the splits, octave adjustments, patch changes and more.

CK makes it easy to playback 44.1 KHz, 16-bit .WAV files from your USB memory stick like a sampler. Simply play the highest or lowest note on the keyboard to trigger and save to a LIVE SET. Great for sound effects, backing tracks, cool intros or whatever you create.