Have you ever imagined a keyboard with sounds so real and music styles so alive that it seems like a real band? A music workstation that allows you to play at your best your favourite songs? And how about an attractive industrial design that is a pleasure to look at and use. Now stop looking for such a keyboard! It’s time to discover the latest Roland Music Workstation: the E-80!

A variety of “lively” sounds
Breathtaking musical contents
High quality playback of your SMF
Powerful onboard speaker system
Attractive cosmetic design
Vocal Harmonist built-in
Guitar Mode
User-Friendly interface
2 x Expansion slots
Text and Image Viewer
Mastering Tools
An easy computer connection

A variety of “lively” sounds
A first-class selection of sounds have been “captured live” including stunning sampled Guitar and Piano sounds. The E-80 features electric and twelve string guitar, 88-key split stereo-sampled piano tones and timbres that change according to finger pressure.
Newly sampled drum kits (Rock, Pop and Folk to name a just a few) have a realistic, natural resonance and various “one touch” sampled drum articulations such as Cymbal Roll bring sophisticated drum styles to your performance.

Breathtaking musical contents
The E-80 comes with more than 350 styles created by a team of international programmers. All these styles sounds incredibly “live” and are expertly mixed and mastered. Each tone and drum instrument has individual EQ, along with three dedicated multi-effects for the overall Style/Song.

High quality playback of your SMF
Enjoy the new sound potential by playing back your favourite Standard MIDI files, which will play back flawlessly thanks to the powerful new technology within. Moreover thanks to the Song Makeup Tools editing you can easily customise your songs using the intuitive graphic interface.

Attractive cosmetic design
Even the most demanding aesthete will be surprised by the brand-new cosmetic design of the E-80 music workstation.
The outstanding new cosmetic cabinet comes from a top Italian design studio. Truly, the E-80 is a treat for the eyes and the ears.

Vocal Harmonist built-in
The E-80’s Vocal Harmonist has over 80 different settings plus additional effects and features, including Voice-FX, Auto Pitch, Singer, Vocoder, Small/Ensemble and Talk.

User-Friendly interface
The E-80 features many switches, buttons and sliders on its control panel ensuring that the most commonly used operations can be accessed quickly and simply. A full-colour graphic touchscreen means that this is one of the easiest keyboards to operate currently available.

Powerful onboard speaker system
The E-80 delivers incredible, hi-impact sound thanks to its powerful four-speaker, bi-amped sound system, complete with a Bass Reflex System and a Digital Bass Enhancer. The E-80 also provides the “Speaker Modelling” to easily change the sound character of the speaker just by pressing a switch. Finally a dedicated switch allows you to disable the built-in speakers if you need to connect to an external amplifier.

Guitar Mode
The acclaimed Guitar Mode function is now available together with dedicated Guitar Mode button. Guitar strumming and various articulations can be controlled directly from the keyboard for both realtime performance and programming (on User Style Composer, 16-Track Sequencer and external software Sequencer).
 
2 x Expansion slots
The E-80 provides two SRX expansion slots, allowing users to expand and customise the internal sound set to suit personal taste. Roland’s SRX and SR-G01 expansion board series offers a wide selection of the highest quality sounds produced in some of the world’s top studios.
 
Text and Image Viewer
The E-80 is able to import and show both (.TXT) and image files (.BMP) and by connecting to an external monitor your E-80 can easily display text, lyrics, photos and slideshows.
 
Mastering Tools
For detailed sound control, the E-80 provides powerful mastering tools (Parametric EQ, Multi-Band Compressor) for Accompaniment (Style/Song) and Solo parts.

An easy computer connection
USB applications
A USB connector allows files (Styles, Songs, User Programs, Bmp Images, File Text) to be exchanged with PC or MAC and also provides MIDI communication.
DATABASE MANAGER bundled!
The E-80 uses the “G-70 DATABASE MANAGER” software, which allows you to manage Songs, Styles, User Programs directly from your computer.

Keyboard
61 keys velocity sensitive with aftertouch

Sound Source
Max polyphony: 128

Tones: 1100 panel tones, 54 Drums kits, dedicated EQ for each Oscillator (on Realtime/Style/Song parts) and for each drum instrument on Styles and Songs

SRX Expansion Board slots: 2 (for SRX series and SR-G01)

Multitimbral parts: 32

Realtime Effect Processors
REVERB section: 12 Reverb;
CHORUS section: 6 Chorus;
MFX section: 84 Multi-FX;
MASTERING TOOL section: Parametric EQ, Multi-Band Compressor;
HARMONIC BAR section: Rotary, Vibrato and Overdrive;
EXTERNAL AUDIO INPUT: 84 effects;
MIC INPUT section: Noise Gate, Compressor, 9 Reverb, 9 Delay;
VOCAL HARMONIST section: 9 Reverb, 9 Delay, 9 Chorus

Style/Song Effect Processors
REVERB section: 8 Reverb;
CHORUS section: 8 Chorus;
3 x MFX section: 84 Multi-FX;
MASTERING TOOL section: Parametric EQ, Multi-Band Compressor
Compatibility: GM2/ GS/ XG Lite

Styles
Preset styles: more than 350 styles on 12 families
Style Variations: 4 Main / 4 Intro / 4 Ending / 6 Fill In / Break Mute on ASSIGN SW
Sync Start / Sync Stop: Yes
User Style Composer: 8 Tracks with Micro editing / Piano Roll editing / Guitar Mode Programming / SRX tones selection
Direct Media Link: Yes
One Touch Setting: 4 for each Style with customization
Cover: For Songs and Styles, 30 ALL, 18 Drum, 24 Bass

Makeup Tools easy editing
For Songs and Styles with SRX/SR-G01 tones selection;
Makeup Tools Freeze Data function;
Indipendent 3-band EQ (with Q) management for each instrument (including each drum instrument);
3 dedicated MFX for each Style/Song.

Panel Controls
Multi-function sliders: 9
Rotary Encoder with push switch: Yes
Cursor: Inc, Dec, Up, Down, Right, Left
Pitch Bender and Modulation: Yes
D Beam: Yes, (4 modes)
Knobs: 3 dedicated knobs for:
Master Volume
Keyboard / Accomp balance
External Source Volume
Keyboard Part / Part Assign Switches: Upper1, Upper2, Upper3, Lower1, Lower2, Manual Bass
Display: Color Touchscreen with selectable beep

Player / Recorder
Mark / Jump: Yes, 4 locations for each Song
Sequencer: 16-Track Sequencer, with Micro Event List / Piano Roll editing, Vocal Harmonist control track, Guitar Mode programming, SRX Tones selection, SMF to Style Converter
DigiScore: Yes
Lyrics Display: Yes, with automatic Chord Extractor and Text Import/Export possibility
Viewer: Yes, for .txt and .bmp files

Harmonic Bar
Virtual ToneWheel technology:
9 bars: 16’, 5-1/3’, 8’, 4’, 2-2/3’, 2’, 1-3/5’, 1-1/3’, 1’ for Upper1 / Lower1;
2 bars: 16’, 8’ for Manual bass.
Percussion: On, Off, 2-2/3’, 4’, Slow, Fast
Leakage level: Min - Max
Harmonic Bar effects: Rotary, Vibrato, Overdrive
Registrations: 8 sets

Vocal Harmonist
Mode: 4 Modes: Talk, Voice-FX, Auto Pitch, Singer
Programmable Harmony: 3 Types: 30 Small, 30 Ensemble, 24 Vocoder
Control possibility: Realtime, on 16-Track Sequencer, via MIDI IN

Music Assistant / User Program registrations
Music Assistant: unlimited number (approx. 580 as preloaded factory data), programmable
User Program: unlimited number, 144 User Program links on each set

Data Storage
FDD: 3.5” 2HD/2DD
Internal SSD (Solid State Disk): 62,4MB (approx. 35,3 MB as preloaded factory data)
PC Card Slot - 1 PCMCIA slot for:
Microdrive (1.0-inch hard disk drive)*,
Compact Flash*,
Memory Stick*,
SmartMedia*
*using Card adaptor
*the E-80 system manages up to 4 GBytes of the above storage Media
Type of files managed: Style, Song (.mid /.kar files), User Program, User Program set, MIDI Set, Play List, File.txt, File.bmp

Other functions
Guitar Mode: Yes, for Acoustic and Electric Guitars, with Stereo Doubling function
Finder: Song, Style, User Program
Easy Setting: Arranger, Organ, Guitar, Piano
Chord Alteration System: Adaptive Chord Voicing
Melody Intelligent: Yes, 18 Types, Melody Intelligent 2nd Tone customization
New dynamic Split function: Yes, two modes
Tap Tempo: Yes
Transpose with Singer Key Adapter: Yes, -6 ~ +5
Song Chord Extractor: Yes
Fade IN/OUT: Yes, programmable
Assignable SW: Yes, 2 programmable with Break Mute selection
V-LINK: Yes
Updating system: Yes, on Flash

Connectors
USB / MIDI: 1 USB socket for File transfer - MIDI IN, OUT, THRU sockets
Audio Output / Audio Input:
Audio Output: Main (L/mono, R)‚ Metronome Output;
Audio Input: External Audio Input (L, R), Vocal Harmonist Input (XLR / TRS, Phone balanced / unbalanced)
Jacks: 1 x Hold Pedal, 1 x Assignable Switch, 1 x Expression Pedal, 1 x FC-7 Control Pedal
Video Output: Yes, for Lyrics and Chords (2 types),Text and BMP files viewer
Phones: 2

Internal Amplification
Speakers: 2 x 13 cm (woofer), 2 x 6,6 cm (tweeter)
Rated Power Output: 2 x 35 W, 2 x 12 W (with Bass Reflex system)
Dedicated speaker off switch: yes

Others
Owner’s Manual, Power Cord, Music Rest, bundled CD-ROM (it contains E-80 backup data image, USB-MIDI driver (for Mac/PC), DATABASE MANAGER software)

Size and Weight
Width: 1,176 mm
Depth: 489 mm
Height: 198 mm
Weight: 22.5 kg