Roland HP5500

Purchased 85, 86 ...

- How many octaves?
7 1 / 4, 88 keys

- How many sounds effects available? Are ditables?
8 12-bit PCM sounds (Piano 1, 2, 3, Harpsichord, Clavinet, Vibraphone, Electric Piano 1 & 2)
Front, from left to right: An On / Off button, two knobs (Volume, Brilliance), two keys (Key Transpose, Program Change, the eight buttons sounds, touches two effects (Chorus, Tremolo), and the knob Rate of the latter.

- What connection (Audio, MIDI pedals ...)?
Rear facing: outlet, Output Section (inter High Middle Low levels 3, 2 jack 6.35 mm), Input section (ditto), a Tune knob, the two pedals (soft, damper), and the MIDI (In, Out, Through)

UTILIZATION

Numrique piano lounge, into two parts, the base with two boomers (50 kg) and keyboard with two tweeters (40 kg), and, with its 30 watts ads, a good "potato".

I Honours instrument today for the services he has rendered me during these 20 dernires Annes. I even carted (just the keyboard - even when 40 kg, my back was lucky) a fifty dates before buying me a keypad. This keyboard has "drunk" two beers because of the awkwardness of morons (I did not even open to clean the indoor). In one of my first groups, a duo with a percussionist friend, the output of four tracks on his HPs branch silent while I was pushing my brand new Atari STF MIDI. Since one over several decades, it is in a corner of my living room cot PC, and today I just bought a house, and continues to operate as it will always have my keyboard control of the next home-studio. (Its only default is a big buzz in the Lines Out, but due to my use, I do not care. The HPs are still working nickel, and also MIDI ...)

SOUNDS

- The sounds they agree your style of music?
Sometimes I like the sound of 12-bit sampling of beginners

- Are they ralistes?
In 1985, yes. In 2006, no.

OVERALL OPINION

- How long have you use it?
I m'rpete but 20 years

- What is the particular feature you like best and least?
+ Fortitude (This significantly influence my note)
+ Keyboard (for lightweight) heavy enough enjoyable (no aftertouch)
+ Son (even if the EPs as a Rhodes resemble a Pipo, they are expressive and "nappent" property).
- In 2006, I still sounds much better elsewhere

- With the exprience, you do again this choice? ...
Because of my life then (I dmnageais frquemment enough) I did not feel to have a piano acoustic vritable. The date when I even bought a musical instrument vritable