Casio introduces new keyboard. (Music Marketplace).

Casio introduces new keyboard. (Music Marketplace). Casio, Inc., 570 Mt. Pleasant Ave., Dover, NJ 07801; (973) 361-5400; www.casio.com. $1,499.95. Casio's Celviano PL-40R is a new eighty-eight-note weighted (hammer action) keyboard that uses the company's "key-lighting" lesson system. Developed by Casio, Inc., in conjunction with Casio Computer Co., Ltd., in Tokyo, Japan, the PL-40R features 271 different instrument tones and is sixty-four-note polyphonic The ability to play back some number of musical notes simultaneously. For example, 16-voice polyphony means a total of 16 notes, or waveforms, can be played concurrently. . In addition to piano sounds, if offers sounds of every instrument of the orchestra as well as percussion, modern synthesizer synthesizerMachine that electronically generates and modifies sounds, frequently with the use of a digital computer, for use in the composition of electronic music and in live performance. textures and sound effects. The PL-40R also has 100 built-in rhythm patterns and the Casio Chord system, enabling keyboardists to play chord progressions without knowing the notes that make up the chords. It also has a seventeen-track song sequencer See MIDI sequencer. (music) sequencer - Any system for recording and/or playback of music via a programmable memory which stores music not as audio data, but as some representation of notes. , a backlit An LCD screen that has its own light source from the back of the screen, making the background brighter and characters appear sharper. LCD window, mixer function, MIDI in/out jacks, sixteen-channel multi timbral, two headphone See headphones. jacks plus stereo line out jacks and a two-speaker audio system. For more information contact Casio, Inc.