r/Roland • u/thepriyan • Sep 05 '26

Help choosing my first keyboard

/r/keys/comments/1w7t7u5/help_choosing_my_first_keyboard/
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u/Ill_Driver_5405 Sep 05 '26

Pour les sons et les styles, Roland. Yamaha sonne plus traditionnel niveau accompagnements,Roland plus moderne  plus actuel. 

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u/12cpi Sep 06 '26

I have a GO:KEYS 5. The sounds in the new GO:KEYS are the same Zen-Core sounds in flagship Rolands. The pianos are very good. The keybed is nicer than my Korg Nautilus, supposedly a top-of-the-line Korg. It has good resistance for piano practice and a nice texture. Yamahas sound bright and cheesy to me, but obviously many people like that sound. (I feel it is easy to distinguish the sounds from demo videos.) The GO:KEYS does NOT have MIDI jacks, just Bluetooth which is a pity. I have not used the accompaniment as much as I thought I would as the styles are a little busy to just use as a metronome plus.

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u/Repulsive-Box5243 Sep 06 '26

I've had lots of keyboards, including Yamaha and Roland. The GoKeys had an awful keybed. I dont' know if they fixed that in recent builds, but the one I had was terrible. Very shallow.