Yamaha CK61 vs Yamaha PSR-SX600 - Which Is Better Value?
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Interesting because in Europe at least the prices are about 750 euros for the SX-600 and about 1000 euros for the CK-61. So the difference is quite considerable. In the end the SX-600 is oriented more to people who prefer arrangers. The SX-700 is also about 1200 euros and has the FSB keyboard like CK-61. Now that would be a touch decision...
the SX600 you can transmit midi data and also digital audio data bidirectionally, i.e. in both directions with 44.1Khz/16Bit/stereo in wav
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I wanted to ask you something about the Korg PA- 700 I know it's discontinued have you heard any news about what they're going to do to replace it???
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Excellent video, as usual, and both keyboards are incredible for what there are, but I still would go with the CK61 for what I need and want, and I will mention another reason not to get the other in a bit.
The CK61 has the battery power option, but is lighter and more compact, more solidly designed and constructed, with a lot more professional features and better keyboard action, has full sized key Reface series and much more and everything else that you mentioned well.
On and more affordable scale, I have Two keyboards vaguely similar in comparison. My Roland Go:Keys is a different approach to an arranger keyboard, with lots of sound tone choices, but my Casio CT-S1 is more like the CK61 and having all the basic, essential goodies for simplicity. Which is why I am keeping both.
So, I still would opt for the CK61 despite the ther having all those great features and sounds, because I also intend on getting the Roland FP-E50 at the same price, with us also a more professional keyboard with great 88 weighted keys, totally blows away the PSR-SX600, despite some of its unique sounds and features.
The SX600 is perfect for those proficient, familiar with, and at home with Yamaha arranger keyboards, but the FP-E50 is probably the best, professional arranger keyboard, stage piano with unique performance features, cutting edge sounds and much expandability.
I would just get that, if the CK61 was not so good, but the CK61 would be better to get first for me, then the FP-E50 when I need the 88 keys and live performance features of the arranger keyboard in a pro stage piano, which I can use as my church keyboard when the time comes, and keeps the CK61 at home and take with me when I need it.
I will.probably not need another keyboard after those. Plus, I have my Roland JD-XI synth, vocoder, and little Yamaha PSS-A50 for versatility.
I have my Roland CD-2 CD/CF recorder which is almost like a professional studio recorder with effects, so many inputs and other features. I plan to get the Roland Go:Mixer Pro X, Zoom H4n Pro portable digital audio recorder, an Apple iPad mini, and later the full blown new Apple Mac Mini that is almost like a Mac Pro now, for a lot less.
But other than the peripherals I mentioned above, my present keyboards do just fine, as I am so busy with work and other things.
But the CK61 I can probably get soon, for all the premium sounds, and still can use that for church, later until I get the FP-E50, or use both, for versatility and portability of the CK61 when I need it.
Life is good. 👍
Again, there's great choices, and these two keyboards are great for those that want or need it.
Even the little $100 PSS-A50 is incredible for its sound, features versatility and compact portability, like a budget Reface arranger keyboard and even controller, like you demonstrated previously. A great portable studio set up with an iPad or laptop.
Thanks for the subtitles in english!.
took me a lot of time. I am happy you appreciate.
@@JeremySeeThanks for the subtitles in German, in Germany I paid 615$ for the SX600, €=$, by the way, with the SX600 you can transmit midi data and also digital audio data bidirectionally, i.e. in both directions with 44.1Khz/16Bit/stereo in wav
Jeremy, do you consider the Yamaha SX600's PA output to be more powerful than the CK61 in terms of sample strength? for live sound?
Ez 300 for right now 😂. M getting too excited about advancing 😂 to next level ,Good video.
I own a PSR SX600 and it DOES have a DIGITAL AUDIO INTERFACE as well as the ability to send and receive midi. Question: Did you install the appropriate driver that communicates with your computer?. I can send 2 tracks of audio (stereo) and receive 2 tracks of audio (stereo) AND send and receive midi data all at the same time through port 1.
*I'd add one point:* powering a keyboard without a battery compartment in the absence of external power may not be as painful as before because of products like Shargeek's 100 Storm2 powerpack, which is only the size of a few D batteries in series and weighs
Jeremy which two keyboards work best together or will obe do for small gigs
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The CK is a cheaper and more portable version of Yamaha's larger stage keyboards--the CP electric pianos and YC organs. It's a fairly professional instrument meant for band members or performers mostly playing solo keyboard parts.
The PSR is an entry-level arranger in the line that ends in the Genos. It is mostly for home players or for professional musicians playing solo (in a bar, retaurant, wedding, etc.).
The extra features of each keyboard are closely tailored to these different roles. For example, the drawbars, standard 5-pin MIDI and 1/4" inputs are important for a keyboard player in a band, whereas the rhythm and accompinament features would be almost useless.
The two instruments really don't appeal to the same players at all. It's like compating the Montage and Genos--both expensive, high-end professional instruments--but for totally different markets and players. I'd choose the CK (or Monatge) for myself, because that's the kind of performance that I do.
Correct, in fact you cannot compare these machines.
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Are tactile keyboards any different? Which is better? Thank you.
Weighted vs no weighted for piano that's the difference
@@RayRai8262 Is there a weighted keyboard in this pair? If CK61 can only be weighted?
QUESTION.... I just love the organ. Can you tell me what keyboard is the BEST value that includes speakers and maybe batteries. $1000 or less or even little more , which is the best organ keyboard out there that isn't OVERLY complicated. Thanks.
Yamaha CK61/88
Very strange comparison, different class keyboards. And there is a mistake at 12:52. In SX600 USB can be used for audio, unlike SX700 and 900.
Which keyboard sounds better?
13 minute. No! The SX600 on the latest firmware supports the transfer of both midi and audio data to the DAW! I connected it to Logic X Pro and correctly configured it to receive and transmit both audio and midi. So everything works. All the sounds of the SX600 can be recorded in a DAW via usb, even from the microphone input, the signal can be recorded in a DAW. Just correctly find the input signal on the audio track in the DAW.
Obviously you find the integration with a DAW to be invaluable, am I right? If you had the money, would you have gotten an
Sx700’or sx900?
The CK series are sold as professional keyboards, but their soundchips are the same as in the PSR keyboards. No wonder that they're found to be sounding thin.
The AWM2 tone generator found on the CK61 is also found on the Montage. PSR SX600 has the AWM tone generator
Correct@@cocovi
I have a Yamaha P-125 and I want to have the layered sounds to play gospel praise shout music. Which keyboard at what price point would I have to get to get 3 or 4 sound layering capability with good synth, electric piano, etc sounds?
13:00 Is that information WRONG? Jeremy, can you confirm this? Does SX600 require really an external audio interface to transmit audio to DAW? Has anyone tried and can confirm this? I am currently checking this SX600 with trade off with EW425 (aslo due to its 76 keys), so checking SX600 manual, page 97, if I understand well, audio transmission to DAW should not be a problem then!? And why EW425's USB Host can transmit audio to DAW while SX600 cannot then? They should have the same USB Host, no?
I stand corrected. The SX600 USB interface transmit/receives both MIDI & audio data
@@JeremySee Many thanks for your information Jeremy, that helps me as I was hesitating between EW425 (due to its 76 keys) and SX600 :) (Still hesitating by the way :p)
CK looks like professional stage keyboard. But PRS looks like hobbyist home keyboard.
Keyword here is "looks" 😉
@@JeremySeeSorry, I'm from Guatemala and I'm undecided about the ck61 and the sx600, which one is better in sound...
Bells and whistles compared with tubular bells. CK is made to use with a USB drive. Rather use the CK.
Just to add the tags on the thumbnails are matched to the wrong keyboard.
That is what they are..
Weird question - I've been watching your EZ300 videos and this is the keyboard I'm currently considering.
However, my main interest is playing live drums on a keyboard.
So, what keyboard in that price range do you think has the best drum voices?
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The question is, do you need styles or not. For OnStage performance in a gig the CK-61 is a killer machine. See other reviews. No styles in the CK-61, so if you need styles go for the PSR-SX600. End review 😉 Both keyboards are targeted for a completely different market, and in fact you cannot compare these machines.
Dear sir when is psr i700 will come?
I wish to see your review take on the AKAI MPC Key 61.
I would love to. Unfortunately, my channel just doesn't have enough clout for Akai to send me a review unit.
@@JeremySee how many subscribers do you need so that Akai would send you review units?
They didn't tell me.
Thank you for an excellent video. Please tell me which Korg Arranger Keyboard is on a par with the Yamaha PSR SX600 Arranger. Thanks.
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It’s Pianoman here, I think your thumbnail points to the wrong keyboards 😮
Sharp eyes! The text got reversed. 😅
I honestly don’t think this is a fair or equal comparison. Both are nice keyboards, but they’re not aimed at the same market. The SX600 is an Arranger Workstation, and the CK61 is a Performance Synth. They are both “budget model” keyboards, but designed for different applications. Even if some of the sounds between the two are shared/crossover, the SX600 is an Arranger Workstation designed not really for performance, but intended for the “home player”. The effects, sound palette, OS, and features are designed for that “out of box” experience that makes arrangers (in some countries) so popular for music production, again with the home player in mind. The CK series is a budget performance synth, aimed at a different market. The sound palette is tailored for this, and so is the layout and features. If memory serves me correctly, the CK61 doesn’t even have drum sounds. I don’t recall seeing them in the Voice List when I read the manual. If you plan on using the CK for song production with a DAW for midi recording, the absence of drum kits is a pretty substantial omission. You’d have to use a VST along side midi for your drum tracks. The CK reminds me of a budget performance synth Korg released years ago, and I’m fairly certain it too did not have drum kits.
They may not be aimed at the same market, but it doesn't mean say a Stage Keyboardist can't select the PSR-SX600 over the CK61 for his work. There is ignorance in some circles on what arrangers can do, such as in Japan where SX600 is lumped along with PSR-Es into "Portable Keyboards" (the word Arranger doesn't even receive Katakanization) and is described as such:
"... they are made to be used only (sic) with internal speakers or headphones. If you are performing only at home, 'portable keyboards' are fine, but in a band it will be washed out by the drums and the *electric guitar* (sic!) and its sound will not reach the audience."
Is the writer stupid? By itself, the electric guitar barely produces sound. It's the amp that bumps the electric guitar into being usable on stage, and one can plug a "portable keyboard" into an amp, too.
Continuing on, the same article tries this analogy:
"If you play basketball, you wear basketball shoes. For baseball you buy something with spikes. If any shoes are fine, you can make do with sneakers, but you won't be doing well against competition."
Given how general purpose arrangers are, it's possible to analogize them with sneakers, but how hard does Yamaha-Japan want to kick an entire line of its own products🤣? The purpose of the video is to show how good "sneakers" may be more suitable than spiked shoes.
@@kosomolsk very good analogy with shoes
Hey JS!! What do u know about the Yamaha PSR E383? I got one of these used, (really new, still in the box, unused) as i couldnt find one anywhere online or in a store, its fabulous, I love it, cant find anything online about this item at all! Ive never had a piano lesson, but can play about 150 hymns by ear, as i dont read music, i can play with both hands, two keys/hand with single interlocking notes; i have about a 90% correct note flowrate. Does anyone know anything about the 383? ANYONE???
Hasta donde se no existe el E383
Review the CK 88 please
Thats funny. In Germany the SX600 costs about 750€ and the CK61 about 999€.
I wouldn't even compare those two products. They are made for completely different use cases.
One is an entertainer keyboard and the other is a band session keyboard. Having learned piano, I still don't understand why anyone buys these 61 key versions. An entertainer keyboard with 61 is ok, because of the acompainment section and the special way you play on such an instrument, but nobody should buy a CK61, because with a piano or epiano you always will want to have 73 keys at least.
I personally bought a Roland VR-730 for organ and epiano use. Got one for 900€. It's versatile and has a superb keybed. For piano you may want to go for an 88 hammer action keybed. People shouldn't make compromises in regards to keybeds. 61 keys are ok with a synthesizer only. jm2c
I hear you about that, but some people still would prefer semiweighted keyboards. And the compactness of 61 keys, but also agree with Jeremy that mentioned they should have a 76 key version, which I would get if available.
And I would not get the CK88 when I can get the Roland FP-E50 for the same price as the CK61. I was going to get the FP-E50, and still plan to do so, but will get the CK61 first, as it's more usable for me at this time, and it sounds fine to me. But the Roland has the cutting edge acoustic and epiano sounds that sings. IYKYK.
But like you mentioned, you are trained with traditional piano, so are biased with the 88 weighted keyboard action. But that is not necessarily a bad thing. You got your chops. Yohan Kim is an incredible young, multifaceted keyboard and piano player at a young age, and he plays both extremely well. I love Roland Keys, but Yamaha and Casio make some great keyboards, too. I have the Go:Keys and JD-Xi with mini keys and am amazed how he can play that so well.
you are right, they are targeting different groups.
You are wrong, 61 is ok if you are not really playing piano or you play leads or maybe just pads , nothing crazy in aband. In my band, I m the singer and I just play occasionally the keys. Ck 61 perfect for that.
If you're mostly a pianist, than yeah, get the 88-key version. But, if you're mostly an organist and are buying this as a cheaper version of Yamaha's organ keyboards (the YC series), than you'll definitely prefer light, organ-weighted keys. It depends on what you primarily use it for.
The CK is just a PSR with easier sound controls and no rhythms. But no better than a PSR, just different.
The real difference is the interface. The ck is straightforward and simple. The PSR is not.
This is the definition of comparing apples and oranges.
Do you know pitch bend wheel available in e373?
It's not available
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You should mention that the CK61 is a "synth keyboard" while PSR-SX600 is a Personnel Arranger.. which I don't think you should compare these two because of difference category.
I'd disagree. For one thing, they are very broadly the same price bracket, and some people just don't use the arranger features. In that case, opinions for whether the fewer sounds on the CK61 may actually be a plus due to better average quality, or the power and flexibility of the effects may be real reasons to favor one or the other.
Agree both are different catagory.
A Yamaha PSR is not suitable for playing in a band. The sound charactertics of a PSR have a negative pole on all sounds, which will make them unhearable in a mix. If you want, I can let you hear some demos of me with my PSR-8000 in a band. Lots of what I played wasn't hearable.
The SX600 sounds like a professional keyboard!! It has a lot of more functions!!! The other keyboard is like a toy...😂😂😂
900 dólares aqui no Brasil é 9000 mil reais
The best keyboard to buy is the DGX670. And its cheaper.
Except the weight. 🤣
Exact same sound engine as SX600 as well
Kinda’ chalk and cheese - one is an arranger, one is a stage keyboard. They serve different purposes, and the CK allows for far more sonic manipulation and layering possibilities.
Le seeing 100$😂😂😂
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