ProKeys 88sx - 88-Key Lightweight Stage Piano with Semi-Weighted Action
Have you been waiting for a great sounding digital stage piano that travels well? Meet the ProKeys 88sx. At just 17 pounds, it’s hard to imagine an 88-note instrument that weighs less. Yet its semi-weighted action is the next best thing to a full hammer action that costs and weighs significantly more.
Most digital stage pianos offer little more than a MIDI jack for communicating with other gear. In sharp contrast, the ProKeys 88sx inherits much from M-Audio’s years of experience pioneering mobile MIDI controllers, incorporating a USB MIDI interface for recording and playback with your PC or Mac. (The instrument features class compliancy with Windows XP and Mac OS X without installation of additional drivers.) The ProKeys 88sx also incorporates performance controls that are rare on digital stage pianos, including pitch wheel, modulation wheel, two footswitch inputs, and expression pedal input. These are all fully assignable even including the volume slider. Of course, a standard MIDI Out jack is provided for control of outboard MIDI gear as well.
Every digital piano has a sustain pedal jack. But what about the sostenuto pedal (the middle pedal on an acoustic piano)? ProKeys 88sx has it. There’s also an assignable expression pedal for foot-control of volume. And all three of these pedals serve as MIDI controllers for outboard gear as well.
Where most digital stage pianos cram as many as 128
instruments into limited space, the ProKeys 88sx dedicates all of its memory to seven sounds that players rely on constantly, devoting extra attention to the multi-layer stereo samples of a Yamaha C7 concert grand. Piano 2 is designed to really cut through in popular music. Electric pianos are covered too. There’s also a percussive Hammond B3—and the Clavinet has “funky” totally nailed. Add on-board reverb and chorus to customize your sound.
Specifications
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| MIDI Controls: | - Program Change - Bank LSB - Bank MSB - MIDI Channel - MIDI Out from USB - Local On/Off - All Notes Off - Reset All Controllers - Channel Mode messages - Pitch Bend range |
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| size: | 54"(L) x 10"(W) x 3.5"(H) |
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| weight: | 17.32 lbs. |
USD 449.95 MSRP
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"When the 88sx turned up, I was shocked at how physically small and light it was; this is the one to go for if your space is at a premium. Indeed, the sx will fit into a Smart Car with the passenger seat down, and you can't say that of many 88-note stage pianos!"
- Sound on Sound, April 2006
- Sound on Sound, April 2006
"The ProKeys 88sx is a great go-to axe; keep it around for those gigs in town, rehearsals, practicing and writing. Put it on your desk in the studio, throw it over your shoulder with your laptop and take it on your boat, or carry it onstage with one hand and your drink in the other." - "...it's sheer bang-for-the-buck makes giving it our Key Buy award a no-brainer."
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“I worked with our front-of-house engineer to find a sound that would sit well in the mix for the size venues we would be playing on this tour. I use the Grand Piano 1 sound (on the ProKeys88), which sounds great in the two octaves above middle C, where I spend plenty of time in the typical Train set.”
- Brandon Bush, keyboardist, Train
- Brandon Bush, keyboardist, Train
“[The ProKeys 88SX is] great-sounding, reliable, and ultra lightweight.”
- Scott Healy (keyboardist, Late Night with Conan O’Brien) for Keyboard Magazine
- Scott Healy (keyboardist, Late Night with Conan O’Brien) for Keyboard Magazine
