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Roland E-60 and E-50 PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 06 April 2007

 A new generation of keyboards has arrived! The E-60(76 keys) and E-50(61 keys) offer advanced features, excellent music styles and high quality sounds, perfect for beginners and advanced musicians alike.

Incredible sound
Fresh musical content
Attractive and lightweight design
Powerful built-in Audio system
Intuitive User Interface

The Best Sound
With its 64-voice polyphony sound engine, the E-60 delivers impressive, first-class sound quality.
With a huge WAVE ROM onboard, the keyboard boasts the best sounds from the Roland library. Many new studio-sampled instruments including drums, guitar, bass and piano provide an ultra-realistic experience.

Fresh Musical Content
More than 120 fresh styles are included, created by a professional team of international style programmers using their local musical preferences. All these styles are expertly mixed and mastered for a truly authentic playing experience.

Attractive, Lightweight Design
New sleek look, created by a top Italian design team.

Powerful Built-in Audio System
The E-60 delivers incredible, hi-impact sound thanks to its powerful four-speaker, bi-amplified sound systems, complete with Bass Reflex System and Digital Bass Enhancer.

Intuitive User Interface
The keyboard incorporates a large 16 gray-scale graphic display with touchcreen for quick and simple operations. Moreover a multitude of buttons have been included on the control panels for ease to use. A large number of files including Styles, Songs, User Programs and Music Assistants can be managed easily through the onboard database, viewed through the large LCD screen.

Cover / Makeup Tools function onboard!
The E-60 includes Cover/Makeup Tools functions allowing you to change any part of your Style or Songs at will.
 
DigiScore
The E-60 features a high quality 4-stave score display and also provides chords and lyrics display function.
 
Data Storage
The E-60 features a 16 MByte internal memory (Solid State Disk), Floppy Disk Drive and Memory Card Slot that supports storage devices such as PCMCIA cards.
 
D Beam
The E-60 comes with a D Beam controller. This light-sensing controller can be used for realtime changes to a wide range of parameters adding extra visual interest to your musical performance.
 
16-Track Sequencer / Style Composer
New professional 16-Track Sequencer and a complete internal Style Composer (both with Micro Event List and Piano Roll editing).
 
Style Converter
The Style Converter is an easy and intuitive tool for creating custom Music Styles based on one of your own Songs or a pre-made Standard MIDI File.
 
Guitar Mode
The E-60 comes with Guitar Mode function which provides several down-and up-stroke patterns, realistic muting and other guitar techniques all controllable from the keyboards.
 
Easy Computer Connection
USB applications
A USB connector allows files (Styles, Songs, User Programs, File Text) to be exchanged with PC or MAC and also provides MIDI communication.
DATABASE MANAGER bundled.
The E-60 uses the “G-70 DATABASE MANAGER” software, which allows you to manage Songs, Styles and User Programs directly from your computer.


 

Specifications:

Keyboard: 76 keys with velocity sensitive

Sound Source
Max polyphony: 64
Tones: over 1000 Panel Tones, 34 Drum Sets
Multi timbre parts: 32
Effect Processors: 8 Reverb, 8 Chorus, 41 Multi-FX
Compatibility: GM2 / GS / XG Lite
 
Styles
Preset styles: more than 130 styles
Styles variations: 4 Main / 4 Intro / 4 Ending / 6 Fill In
Sync Start/Sync Stop: Yes
User Style Composer: 8 Tracks with Micro editing / Piano Roll editing / Guitar Mode programming
Direct Media Link: Yes
One Touch Setting: 4 for each Style with customization

Cover: For Songs and Styles, 26 ALL, 16 Drum, 24 Bass

Makeup Tools: For Songs and Styles, Makeup Tool Freeze Data function

Panel Controls
Rotary Encoder with push switch: Yes
Pitch Bender and Modulation: Yes
D Beam: Yes
Keyboard / Accomp Balance: Dedicated knob
Keyboard Part / Part Assign Switches: Upper1, Upper2, Lower, Manual Bass
Display: 16 gray-scale graphic LCD with touchscreen

Player / Recorder
Mark / Jump: Yes, 4 locations for each Song
Sequencer: 16-Track Sequencer, with Micro Event List / Piano Roll editing, Guitar Mode programming, SMF to Style Converter
DigiScore: Yes
Lyrics Display: Yes, with automatic Chord Extractor
Text Import / Export: Yes

User Programs: 144

Music Assistant: more than 300 presets, programmable

Data Storage
FDD: 3.5” 2HD / 2DD
Internal SSD (Solid State Disk): 15,5 MB (approx. 14,1 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-60 system manages up to 4 GBytes of the above storage Media

Type of files managed: Style, Song(SMF), User Program, MIDI Set, Play List, File.txt

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
Tap Tempo: Yes
Transpose: Yes, -6 ~ +5
Song Chord Extractor: Yes
Fade IN / OUT: Yes, programmable
V-LINK: Yes
Updating system: Yes, on Flash

Connectors
MIDI: IN, OUT
USB: for data transfer and MIDI
Audio Output: Main (L / mono, R)
Jacks: Hold, Foot Switch / Expression
Phones: 2

Internal Amplification
Speakers: 2 x 10 cm (woofer), 2 x 3 cm (tweeter)
Rated Power Output: 2 x 8 W + 2 x 2 W (with Bass Reflex System)

Others: Supplied accessories

Owner’s Manual, External Ac adaptor, Music Rest, bundled CD-ROM (it contains E-60 backup data, USB-MIDI driver (for Mac/PC), DATABASE MANAGER software)
 
Size and Weight
Width: 1,260 mm
Depth: 374 mm
Height: 324 mm (w /Music rest)
161 mm (w/oMusic  rest)
Weight: 13 kg    

Last Updated ( Friday, 18 May 2007 )