It's a fairly simple keyboard, but it does the things that matter really well. The keybed feels sturdy and is great to play, allowing for lots of expressiveness. The quality of the sound banks is high and there's a nice variety of different sounds. The connectivity is simple, but enough for recording and music production through MIDI.
A few cons I've encountered after about a year of playing:
- The included sustain pedal isn't great -- it doesn't allow for half-pedaling and the feel is pretty lackluster. Get the DS1-H pedal for this one, the difference is night and day.
- I've managed to hit the polyphony limit a few times now when playing fast notes around the keyboard, which leads to some notes abruptly dropping out -- especially when effects and layering sounds increase the amount of concurrent notes. It's not really an issue with reasonable pedaling though.
- The "brilliance"-setting's default value is 2 out of 3, meaning the sound always has a slight low-pass filter on it when you boot up the keyboard. It's not a hassle to change the value when you start playing, but it'd be nice to be able to change the default values.
- The amount of built-in time signatures for the metronome is quite limited and restricted to a single subdivision (2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/4) -- obviously mobile apps and such can fill in the gaps, but more options would always be welcome.
- The metronome's tempo can't be adjusted with the physical dial, which is a little cumbersome when going from 60 to 144, for example.
These are all minor grievances though, and all in all I'm very happy with my purchase.
