Roland keyboard - Amazing synthesizers and workstations

Roland keyboard - Roland is known for its amazing line of synthesizers and workstations. Their sounds are of extremely high quality, be it cutting edge or normal acoustic instruments like the Piano, Guitar and strings.

At the entry level, though, they do not have a wide range of arranger keyboards to compete with Yamaha and Casio, but Roland keyboards offer you a variety of music styles, including Western, Middle Eastern, and Asian cultures. In addition, they have some amazing synth sounds.

Fantom-X series is the most popular and widely used Roland workstation among professionals. It competes with Motif (Yamaha) and the Triton (Korg) and has managed to retain its share of loyal users.

Amazing Sounds
Almost all the Roland keyboards have their trademark high quality sound irrespective of the price of the keyboard. Be it the cutting edge sounds or acoustic ones like the string section, drums, guitars or the piano, the samples that have been used are of top quality.

World Music/Styles
Roland keyboard scores over its competitors in this area as they offer a wide range of ethnic sounds and music styles, including Western, Middle Eastern, and Asian cultures. With a global array of musical accompaniments under your fingertips, you are never going to fall short of ideas to create any kind of music.

Easy-to-Use Interface
Though, all the instruments are packed with a lot of features, it is very easy to access them. Knobs and sliders have been provided for easy access to things when needed. Controllers like the data wheel, D beam, and pitch/mod levers have been provided for modulating your sounds on the fly. The LCD screens are large enough to show a lot of relevant information and in models like the Fantom-X Series, you can find color LCD screens.

16-Track Sequencer
Most of the models have a 16-Track Sequencer which can help you to start recording your own stuff. If you are a teacher, you can even record a difficult piece and then your student can use it as a reference guide. The student can play it back at a lower tempo to understand it. He can even repeat difficult sections by use the marker/repeat function.

Professional Mix
In the higher models, you can find lot of studio effects, mastering tools and additional vocal tracks which you can use to record vocal parts like the guitar or pure vocals. It will provide you all the tools to make that professional sounding mix using just your keyboard.

Computer friendly
To make communication with a PC easier, USB ports have been provided in most of the models. You can use a software sequencer like Sonar or Cubase for your recording, though the Fantom-X and the JUNO series can be used by itself to create complete songs from start to finish. You can even send and receive AIFF/Wav files which can use in your recordings.

V-LINK: For the Ultimate Performer
This will surely excite the professional performers. Just imagine being able to instantly trigger video clips using your pads, or create video transitions and effects using your keyboards controllers like the pitch bender and other knobs. It's a live performer's dream! Using the V-LINK technology, you can trigger and manipulate video clips but you will need a video editor like the Edirol DV-7PR.

Roland Keyboards - The various models

• Workstations: Fantom X-6, Fantom X-7, Fantom X-8
• Synthesizers: Juno-D, Juno-G, SH-201, VP-550, V-Synth
• Arranger Workstations: G-70, GW-7
• Arranger Keyboards: E-09, E-50, E-60, E-80, EXR-5S, EXR-7, EXR-7S

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