Hamzer 61-Key Digital Music Piano Keyboard - Portable Electronic Musical Instrument - MIDI Output & Touch Sensitive Keys

The Midi doesn't work. I spent weeks with Steinberg Cubase support trying to get this keyboard to work with Cubase 8. Notes hang when using this keyboard! Using an application called MidiOx I was able to determine that this keyboard doesn't send the correct midi note off when a key is unpressed. It uses another message (incorrectly!) called All Notes Off (#123) to turn off midi notes. That doesn't work with the most recent release of Cubase. Steinberg's support was unable to reproduce this problem using my midi project with over 8 different midi controllers. I ended up buying a used MAudio 61es from craigslist. It worked immediately with no problem at all. Ok so the midi doesn't work at all. On top of that, the "Touch Response" on this keyboard is very bad and the Pitch Bend wheel doesn't send midi messages also! This keyboard is only good for people who only need to play the sounds that come on the keyboard. Totally useless with Midi.

Not intuitive, not easy to use. Make feels light, not solid. Tone is not great. Keys feel good. Most of the voices and tempos and etc are awful. Stand hook directly into keyboard, which is cool. Enough going on that I can work with it and midi-out.

I got it for my husband and he loves it. It has enabled him to practice more than when he had only the piano. This is a new challenge for him and he is very impressed with the quality and performance and price.

Power cord "conked" out after 1 month. Been unable to use until we buy another power cord.

I am a professional musician and songwriter. I use keyboards like this as a kind of shorthand in composing songs. I've used a Yamaha PSR-210 for the past 25 years and thought something new would give me a creative boost. Never heard of Hamzer and now I know why. This is a TOTALLY inferior instrument in every possible way, although it is nice looking and relatively easy to operate. The claim of 136 timbres is bogus as most are slight variations. The bass timbres are a joke. I found 5 or 6 rhythms that I might reference. A lot of the others sounded like they were put together by a drummer not in compete control of his limbs. One of the screw holes in the stand's floor supports wasn't cut right and stripped the screw making it impossible to fasten tightly. My advice (which I wish someone had given me before I got suckered into ordering this cheap toy): go to a store that sells keyboards and find one that suits you before comparing prices. Do not order blindly as I did.

This keyboard was purchased as a Christmas gift for my Granddaughter. She absolutely loves it. If there is any complaint at all, it would be that I kept getting emails wanting me to rate and review it. Most purchases around this time of year are for a Christmas gift and we can't rate it till after it is opened.

Overtones and undertones, a persistant buzz, very uneven key action. I returned it and got stuck for $43 in postage. Totally unsatisfactory in every sense.

It makes beautiful music and allows me to transscribe music to paper--------