At Frankfurt Messe 2008 Roland hands away a CD-ROM with 20 styles from the Roland Keyboard Club Music Shop library. All 20 styles are produced by MidiSpot , which will guarentee for the quality of the styles. All 20 styles come in versions produced for the G-70 and the E-series models.

At the Roland Keyboard Shop website you can find inspiration to play specific songs with the styles. Go to the music shop and browse the styles for e.g. the Roland G-70. Enter the style name in the search field and you will see song suggestions in the result list.

Listen to demos of the styles or download the styles from the download section.

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Roland releases E80 Version. Thanks to the OS version 2 you can play back MP3 files generated on (or downloaded with) your computer. You can also create playlists of several MP3 songs to be played back consecutively. The New E-80 Version 2 is also supplied with new Music Styles collection, called “Gold Standard Styles”. If you own already an E-80, you can upgrade it to the version 2 using the “E-80v2 Upgrade Kit”. Please contact your local Roland dealer to have the “E-80 version 2 Upgrade Kit “.

The onboard MP3 playback function represents a big improvement since it is much more convenient and faster to find the Mp3 songs in the E-80 big display rather than the small MP3 player. Moreover, with the E-80 onboard MP3 playback function it’s not necessary to have any external device and no audio cabling to have audio playback directly from the E-80 Speakers. The MP3 files can be stored in both E-80’s internal memory or in a PCMCIA External memory card. To enter in the new “MP3 playback mode”, is very easy. You have just to press simultaneously the [Song] and [Style] buttons (in the FINDER section).

Version 2  is supplied with 15 "Gold Standard Styles". These new Styles are based on versatile, sober arrangements consisting mainly of drums, bass and guitar and they can be used for a wide variety of songs. These Styles are ideal for any musicians because they can be played in a very easy and intuitive way.

The “E-80v2 Upgrade Kit” package contains a CD-ROM with:

15 Gold Standard Styles
New OS file
- 3 x Stickers:
1 to be put on the E-80 top panel*
2 to be put on E-80 carton box
- Addendum Manual to the OM (6 languages)
- Instruction sheet to Upgrade the E-80 to the Version 2

To use MP3 on the E-80, Roland strongly suggests to use a External PCMCIA Card Memory, so that you can store a big number of MP3.

Important: the E-80 version 2 System Version cannot be downloaded by any official or unofficial websites. Unauthorized uploading, downloading, copy, sale, share, lending is prohibited by law(Copyright © 2008 ROLAND EUROPE).

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OS3.01 is available for the G-70. The release of OS 3.01 was shrouded in mystery. You can read more about the release and the details about the content of the update in forum. Please click on the link below to visit the forum thread before doing the update!

If you decide to go forward with updating your G-70 to OS3.01 the user club administration strongly recommend you to do a backup of both internal and external memory before you proceed!

You can download the update from the download section.

Update instructions can be found here.

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OS1.10 for Roland E-50 and E-60 is released. Click here to download the OS update from Roland Germany. TUnfortunately there are no detailed information about the content of this released.

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