Was this a wind‑up? Was that the editor snickering in the background, by any chance? It's not April, is it? These and other such thoughts swam in and out as your trusty assistant editor went on to assure me that, really, he'd heard it was good, and that it was perhaps about time that such comparatively low‑tech morsels were scrunched under the SOS microscope. I've been asked to do some fairly odd things before, but I still nearly toppled off my perch when SOS called, shortly before I left for earthquake‑riven NAMM last month, to ask if I could review 'this new Casio keyboard'. Sixteen‑part multitimbrality, 32‑note polyphony and a respectable set of GM‑mapped Tones join some usable and fun auto‑accompaniment, and an absurdly low price tag, in a 'home' keyboard that deserves some attention from the studio musician.