All user reviews for the Roland E-50

61-key arranger keyboard, 16-track sequencer onboard.
2 MIDI IN, OUT, card connector (SM, CF ...)
2 out Jack, 1 foot switch jack + alim ....
1 ranks by thousands of sounds catgories, a hundred rows by style catgories
Sounds are ditables, the edition is basic but adequate (TVA, TVF low-pass only, Tune), edition of drum kits.
Effects section identical to the product Roland: Reverb + Chorus gnral, x MFX insertion algorithms choose a brand: classic, all parameter.
It has, in addition to the Arrangement (INTRO, MAIN x 4 variations + FILL, ending) of a 16-track sequencer with all the artifices which edition of the brand has more to brag (input quantize, insert , erase, delete etc. ....) and has four rental locations that can be recalled live if the public asks for more! The sequencer allows CRER of songs that can be rpertorier: a file system allows you to find the song, the CRER playlists or even find the song by playing the Premire notes (sisi !!!).

EDIT:
- The edition of the sounds is superficial: the "synthse" is just the one to change little CHARACTERISTICS sounds, TVF, TVA and coarse / fine tuning. Well, was enough, it's not like a DX7 synth Waldorf Micro Wave or ...
- The sound quality is not worth a Motif or Fantom Xx but passes through a mix: I use a lot more sounds in my rack for a ES (fortunately!!).
- For multitimbral channels is sixteen and not 32 as they say in Roland: the only addition is that you can paramtrer the E-50 so that, by launching the sequencer (ie sixteen track) and E-50 sends the notes recorded on 16 tracks of the sequencer, so up to 16 OFF LOCAL tracks and play the parts due to the E-50 parallle, that is say 4 parts (Mbassi, LWR, UP1 and UP2), which can paramtrer of Manir they do not transmit MIDI OUT! Roland advance CHARACTERISTICS "misleading "!!!!!!
For these "deceptions" I get off my rating: 7 of 9 passes it!! Although not a m'empche not deal with ....

UTILIZATION

The configuration is a bit complicated: it Drout havbitu the brand! However, with qques evening classes with a manual on the knees can be ...

The sound is basic edition, not a synthtiseur the Waldorf but enough!
The manual is quite clear.

I wonder passs o are the wave 512MB of memory, I do not understand why Yamaha does better (relativement. ...) with less ROM Aboard!
The sounds are adequate when it can even be making good grooves, good with partoches .... Anyway I have a Rack ES while ....

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- Configuration, APRS three good weeks of practice, is not as simple as a: although it allows some flexibility with regard to the possibility that the E-50 provides, in terms of CONTRL MIDI management pieces (PLAYLIST), and the function COVER MAKE UP TOOL that lets you change many things to steal and save the changes to the song or not ....

OVERALL OPINION

One week ....

Is the most weight, sequence, mode guitar is not bad, sounds of sax, guitar, bass and drums kits. One pet store / read the floppy too, in addition to the various card formats (Sm, CF ....). And the price which remains even when trs COMPTITE ...
The least: the feel of the keyboard!! Worthy of small keyboards with MIDI CONTRL Edirol .... You can not cut the HP keyboard, the E-80 yes but what a price!!

EDIT:
E-50 is the same when a good machine.
I am sr touch screen that has a lot to the retail price of E-50: qques buttons more aurra better made the case. On the other hand, I do not see the intrt sounds "electronic" there is now full of more efficient machines within that radius, the number of arduirait bank and can be as a leave the memory for sounds thinner (piano, sax, guitars, drums, violins ...).
The only points ngatifs are his touch and sounds that Roland still lagging behind a bit, I still do not understand passs o are the 512MB of waveforms in ROM!
At the risk of rpter YAMAHA, the Rack ES possde do that 175Mo and offers a pallet of sounds ... It would be more bluffing plutt 32MB sounds a m'tonnerait do not! !

This is an arranger keyboard 5 octaves
He benefitted from the south and south conventional USB, 2 headphone jacks, two assignable pedals
over 1,000 sounds, more than 100 ryhtme trsralistes, all ditable
43 effects
16 tracks full squenceur trs

UTILIZATION

There are lots of buttons and the screen is faade touch
the sound is basic edition (it's not a synth!)
the manual is quite clear, we must cling To create its own rhythm ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 8months
trs is light and the sound is not bad at all, what I like least is that his touch is a bit dcevant for a keyboard like this but you get done quickly
report quality price is excellent
with the same budget I do it again but this choice in more ...!!!

5 octave keyboard with touch ok for the price (still a little soft).
It has a MIDI connection without traditional MIDI Through, a USB port for transferring data from the keyboard to the PC and vice versa and to the south.
The multi effects are not bad overall
The sequencer, I board a say too, because I do not like working with a sequencer, it is not practical at all, I am more used to the pc is more comfortable.

UTILIZATION

Very easy to use, there are the sounds by category, and styles as classified in the same way, accessible via the buttons or the touch screen.
Sounds are not bad overall: for strength winds, saxes, piano, brass, guitars (some not all) accordion (already on the lot G1000)
As for the negative point against strings and sets short strings, not terrible, there are almost the same as the G1000, it would have been better to put those in va76 was well done. But hey, there are not too bad, well mixed but mostly ca can not go solo.

OVERALL OPINION

I have been using can and I'm pretty happy overall
The advantage is that it is very light and that's a good point.

What type of keyboard: Arranger Synthesizer, how many octave 5.
Has effects: Yes very much, what connections (audio, midi, usb pc share.
How about 1000 sounds, styles around 136.
What are the characteristics of the 16-track sequencer, to make symphonic music or Rock or audio edits + 8-track sequencer for styles made of rock, hip-hop, techno, ect ...
Floppy Drive + Card Ram 1 Gb or 4Gb Loint no more.

UTILIZATION

The general configuration is difficult for me, the manual is not easy.
Editing sounds and effects is no easy problem, many sounds of guitar synthesizer and other pleint, Iy-1000 to 136 Styles of music sounds,
Partition Editor on séquanteur, not easy to use + a séquanteur 16-track work for symphonic music or just music Rock, Ect + séquanteur of 8 tracks for the styles, which dwarfs the door.

OVERALL OPINION

How long have I utis: about 3 years, I tried another brand like Yamaha PSR-215, Roland E-66, Roland JD-800, Ketron X1 HD, and now a Roland E-50, What is the feature I like is the sound of synth and string, the guitar effects that sound good.
How do you value for money, very good: approximately 1050 Euro.
With experience, I referier this choice: Yes Certel month, I prefer Roland.

5 octaves, many connections, many effects ... It passes the barrier of 1000 tones, all editable and internal styles. The sequencer is very performant: 16 tracks, real or step by step, and polyphony is 64 notes. It can be multitmbral to 32 channels if you fly from software good enough.

UTILIZATION

The general pattern is both simple and complex. Simple, because we can access more or less easily to desired functions, and complex in the sense that the feeling is hard to find their way. It is clear that sometimes a particularly thorough study of the manual. However, editing sounds is fairly easy to make, although it should have some knowledge to get somewhere. But we can always tampering.

OVERALL OPINION

I use very little. I received a Christmas gift in 2009. I certainly know a lot of E-series keyboards, but without the latter did not reach such technical capabilities.
I like the touch screen and new sound quality it offers in addition to alumni who are now classics (the Fantasia for example). For cons, I do not like the touch that has been on the dashboard. They made buttons by I find pleasant to handle.
The price / quality ratio is excellent because it was impossible to acquire a keyboard as good in the past. Repeat this choice? Not sure given the fact that I still lack experience on this device, but the day I mastered, for sure he has very high performance and you can spend nights over.