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Roland EM55 61-Key Interactive Keyboard
64-voice/32-part multitimbral. D-Beam.
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Description
Roland is proud to announce the affordable EM-55 Interactive Keyboard. It offers beginners and pros thousands of top-quality Roland sounds and hundreds of musical styles-all in a compact, 5-octave keyboard with a built-in sound system. But this new kid on the block also makes performing music fun, thanks to new Session Partner Pads for triggering live phrases and a D-Beam controller with 50 ready-to-use templates.
Features
61-note velocity-sensitive keyboard brings new interactive features to an affordable price
64-voice/32-part multitimbral sound engine with 3,559 Tones + 116 drum kits
Up to 128 onboard musical styles (64 ROM styles and 64 via floppy disk)
Helpful Music Assistant with setup templates for 100 popular songs
Light-sensing D-Beam with preset templates for controlling various functions
New Session Partner Pads for triggering phrases and muting parts
Create cool DJ mixes using DJ Pads with 64 real-time phrases
16-track song recorder for recording performances or loading Standard MIDI Files
Game function (Guess the Tone and Guess the Chord) helps students learn about music using interactive games
Built-in stereo sound system and 3.5 in. floppy drive
The EM-55 has a 64-voice, 32-part multi-timbral sound engine and is packed with 3,559 of Roland's best sounds - including everything from piano, strings and bass sounds to synths and sound effects - and 116 drum kits. The EM-55's EZ Search feature tames this massive collection of sounds, making them easy to find. Users can get started in a heartbeat with the EM-55's 64 exciting onboard musical styles (expandable to 128 music styles via floppy disk).
With the Session Partner Pads, arranging music on the EM-55 is truly interactive experience. Users can trigger any of 96 pre-recorded phrases that automatically follow the left-hand chords as a style is playing, or they can mute the style's instruments - its drum kit, bass or piano, for example. The pads can also serve as "DJ Pads" that trigger scratching sounds and other DJ effects.
The EM-55's D-Beam controller is lots of fun, and easy to set up. Users simply select one of the 50 preset D-Beam templates and start waving a hand through the D-Beam's infrared beam of light to play melodies, mute parts, change filter cutoffs, and more.
An onboard Music Assistant takes the work out of selecting the right instruments with setup templates for 100 popular songs, allowing users to focus on music. Three games - Guess the Tone, Guess the Chord, and Chord Finder - help children and students at all levels learn about music. The EM-55 also contains a 16-track song recorder for capturing performances or for playing Standard MIDI Files loaded from the EM-55's internal 3.5 in. floppy drive.
Features
61-note velocity-sensitive keyboard brings new interactive features to an affordable price
64-voice/32-part multitimbral sound engine with 3,559 Tones + 116 drum kits
Up to 128 onboard musical styles (64 ROM styles and 64 via floppy disk)
Helpful Music Assistant with setup templates for 100 popular songs
Light-sensing D-Beam with preset templates for controlling various functions
New Session Partner Pads for triggering phrases and muting parts
Create cool DJ mixes using DJ Pads with 64 real-time phrases
16-track song recorder for recording performances or loading Standard MIDI Files
Game function (Guess the Tone and Guess the Chord) helps students learn about music using interactive games
Built-in stereo sound system and 3.5 in. floppy drive
The EM-55 has a 64-voice, 32-part multi-timbral sound engine and is packed with 3,559 of Roland's best sounds - including everything from piano, strings and bass sounds to synths and sound effects - and 116 drum kits. The EM-55's EZ Search feature tames this massive collection of sounds, making them easy to find. Users can get started in a heartbeat with the EM-55's 64 exciting onboard musical styles (expandable to 128 music styles via floppy disk).
With the Session Partner Pads, arranging music on the EM-55 is truly interactive experience. Users can trigger any of 96 pre-recorded phrases that automatically follow the left-hand chords as a style is playing, or they can mute the style's instruments - its drum kit, bass or piano, for example. The pads can also serve as "DJ Pads" that trigger scratching sounds and other DJ effects.
The EM-55's D-Beam controller is lots of fun, and easy to set up. Users simply select one of the 50 preset D-Beam templates and start waving a hand through the D-Beam's infrared beam of light to play melodies, mute parts, change filter cutoffs, and more.
An onboard Music Assistant takes the work out of selecting the right instruments with setup templates for 100 popular songs, allowing users to focus on music. Three games - Guess the Tone, Guess the Chord, and Chord Finder - help children and students at all levels learn about music. The EM-55 also contains a 16-track song recorder for capturing performances or for playing Standard MIDI Files loaded from the EM-55's internal 3.5 in. floppy drive.
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Roland EM55 61-Key Interactive Keyboard Reviews
10 out of 10
"It seems to be good value for the money"
I liked different tunes I could play on it, still a way of selecting them is not very comfortable to me. Maybe due to a fact that it was a first Roland I played on.
This gear can change articulation of a sound depending on how strongly you tap the keys - this is cute. This is more than a simple dynamic keyboard.
I think it hasn't such facility as a registration memory as Yamaha, although some equivalent is through the disk styles, but I'am afraid they are not so quick to change during a live play. I still have to check it out. And maybe the feature I'm seeking is hidden in user programs.
The one touch settings (4 per style) are not programmable, I believe.
There are 2 settings(A/B) of 3 sections of the accompaniment per each style to choose from independently. That gives 8 combinations.
You can switch on and off different parts of the accompaniment. But you can't change the volume or select another sound.
I think the so called session partner settings which are handled by the same buttons as the parts of accompaniment are interesting and it makes pleasure to play with.
The display in reality looks much better than on the pictures I saw earlier on the net.
I didn't check yet the 16 track sequencer.
The keys feel a bit hard to me but habits can change.
I'm still hesitating to buy but I will go once more to the shop and check it out because Roland offers many features and good quality of sound for the price and on the other hand this keyboard requires some time to know.
Hope this helps others who like me seek some information beyond the technical specs.
Jarek
This gear can change articulation of a sound depending on how strongly you tap the keys - this is cute. This is more than a simple dynamic keyboard.
I think it hasn't such facility as a registration memory as Yamaha, although some equivalent is through the disk styles, but I'am afraid they are not so quick to change during a live play. I still have to check it out. And maybe the feature I'm seeking is hidden in user programs.
The one touch settings (4 per style) are not programmable, I believe.
There are 2 settings(A/B) of 3 sections of the accompaniment per each style to choose from independently. That gives 8 combinations.
You can switch on and off different parts of the accompaniment. But you can't change the volume or select another sound.
I think the so called session partner settings which are handled by the same buttons as the parts of accompaniment are interesting and it makes pleasure to play with.
The display in reality looks much better than on the pictures I saw earlier on the net.
I didn't check yet the 16 track sequencer.
The keys feel a bit hard to me but habits can change.
I'm still hesitating to buy but I will go once more to the shop and check it out because Roland offers many features and good quality of sound for the price and on the other hand this keyboard requires some time to know.
Hope this helps others who like me seek some information beyond the technical specs.
Jarek
Submitted: 07/30/2002
Style of Music: pop dance
9 out of 10
"DOES NOT LOOK LIKE MUCH....."
TURN IT ON AND WOW GREAT BOARD FOR A GREAT PRICE EASY TO WORK WITH AND OVER 3000 SOUNDS AND LOTS OF STYLES TO CHOOSE FROM DONT LET THE LOOK OF THE BOARD TURN YOU DOWN ITS GREAT..
Submitted: 06/11/2002
Style of Music: CRISTIAN CONTEMP.
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