Product: Roland D-5
Price Paid: US $300 used
Submitted
03/04/1997
at
05:39am
by
Panu Savolainen
Ease of Use
:
7
Like D10 and D20 but not discdrive, sequencer or effects. Nice EPs and bass-sounds and some pads. 256 waves in memory. No entry slider but many parameters -> editing not easy/fun. So get PG-10!!! (Programmer, 8-sliders etc.)
Features
:
8
Polyphony is 32. Some sounds eats that pretty fast! Keyboard action is not the best, quite light. 61 touch sensitive keys. There is NO effects. There is one card-slot for PCM and RAM-cards.
Expressiveness/Sounds
:
8
Acoustic sounds not good, cool bass sounds and EPs. Many organ sounds, pipeorgans, jazz etc. In performance-section some nice sounds. Good for rock music. Nice to play.
Reliability
:
8
Needs better drums and acoustic sounds.
Customer Support
:
8
I haven't been problems.
Overall Rating
:
9
It's VERY worth what I paid. I love editing, there is so many parameters. I had PG-10 and it was fun to edit own sounds. I have Roland XP-10 and D-5 is just what I need, wish there would be more polyphony.
