Product: Roland A-80
Price Paid: HFL 1650 used
Submitted
04/19/1999
at
03:17am
by
Marc Rundervoort
Email: m<dot>a<dot>c<dot>rundervoort at rcondw<dot>rug<dot>nl
Ease of Use
:
8
I bought this one second hand, and immediately had to gig with it that evening. That meant that I had exactly half an hour to program it. Luckily I had the manual, and within half an hour all the presets were in to control my rack. Easy to use.
Features
:
10
This thing is the rolls of the keyboards. It weights a f*&^%$#$$%cking 30 kiliograms (with case 47!!!) but when it's on your stand: Way to go! 88 fully weighted keys with editable velocitycurves and polyfonic aftertouch (which one has it? This one does!) 4 MIDI outs, all mutable, 2 midi Ins and midi thru. The MIDI 1 is equipped with an merge-possibility with the data processed bij A80 own keybord, so oyu can connect another controller sending on differnet channels (I use Roland D70, also sending on 4 channels, thats 8 at once!) Besides of that you can hook up a remote keybord, which sends on the same channel(s) as the A80 own keybord. Data backup with cards and MIDIdump.
Expressiveness/Sounds
:
No Opinion
No sounds.
Reliability
:
No Opinion
I have mine for two weeks now, so I don't know yet.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Never had support from Roland
Overall Rating
:
10
This thing is the amsterpiece of my setup (Roland D70, Roland JX10, Korg Polysix; Rack: Kurzweil MicroPiano, Roland JV880, Yamaha TX802) It controls everything. Playing it feels like driving in a Rolls Royce.
