Number of Songs a Casio will Hold

[jjay]

Due to our church being small and we have not found a piano player for the retiring one, we are looking for a keyboard that could record between 25 and 50 songs.  Our option is that the retiring person records the songs for us and we play the pre-recorded songs for church.  We are looking for an easy keyboard that the music minister could start the songs before going up to direct the congregation.  Is there any keyboards that would hold 25 to 50 songs that is under $2000?  Any suggestions? 

 

Thanks

JJay

[Brad Saucier]

Are you looking for an all-in-one solution where the keyboard uses it's own speaker system for playback, or does your church have a sound system for instruments and microphones?    

[Jokeyman123]

The PX560 can store 100 songs in its memory. On a thumb drive-it can hold as much as the thumb drive can hold in addition to the 100 memory slots in the PX560-I have over 100 midi files (songs/arrangements) on the thumb drive, plus the memory slots available in the PX560s memory.

Either can be accessed instantly from the touch screen. There is however-no :jukebox" feature-you have to select and play songs one at a time-you cannot arrange a series of separate songs and play in series automatically. If you need to do that you could cut and paste entire arrangements together in a computer midi software program if you know how to do that-save it as a midi file and transfer to the PX560 thumb drive-then it will play all the arrangements automatically in whatever sequence or order you designed those for. Our church director for example doesn't usually need to play consecutive arrangements-only one piece at a time which she does with a digital piano that has her arrangements stored in it for times when she isn't playing live or is conducting the choir. The px560 can do that, Brad will be able to tell which other Casios can also do that, I think the PX360 can too but I could be wrong.

 

Both are under 1000 US dollars if you shop carefully, the PX360 costs less than the 560 and has identical sounds and almost identical features. The PX 560 also has excellent organ and piano sounds, but complete orchestrations are easy to put together-and you can also load any smf-.mid file into the PX560 for instant access for performances.