Roland XP-50

the presets are very clean and well sampled,i have the vintage board there are some great sounds on this board, the bass sounds are good and the pads are exellent,i cant really say ive had a go at sound editing,its easier to buy the expansion boards, that cover the full spectrum of music styles,the manual sucks its like reading in a different language. who the hell employs the writers!

poloyphony is a healthy 64 voice plenty for my use, the keyboard feels better than my other synths,i have a yamaha cs1x and a roland xp10 not really in the same league as the xp50, now to the thing that really pisses me and no doubt thousand of other users off, two global effects and one insert not enough i believe theres no better effects section on the xp60 or xp80,the onboard seqeuncer is really usefull with cut copy paste and loop record functions,great just to sit down with the synth and make music not a computer in sight,i am thinking of getting the techno expansion board it sounds like it has some great drum patches on it.

the pianos are exellent power grand will cut through any mix,piano blend is nice and soft some great electrics as well. over all the xp50 works well with all music styles from classical to rock to techno,one thing that annoys me in multi mode you cant set the controller sliders for cut off and resonance,if im wrong can someone tell me how to do this.

i had mine for about a year and had to get a new power switch fitted its been ok scince,if i was to ever do a gig i would have full confidence in it, i would sync it with my rm1x to give me a kick ass drum backing.

ive never dealt with customer services i got mine repaired by a friend who does keyboard repairs

if it was stolen i wouldnt buy it again, because technology as moved on and new synths are starting to offer so much more value for money with more control knobs or sliders more effects etc, but even today the sounds are still good for someone just starting in music, it offers a good seqeuncer good sounds expansion options.

This is a complete musical instrument. I have it for three years now and enjoyed all the time I spent with it. You can compose almost any kind of music with it. The ROM version is 1.01, which is the oldest, however I have experienced no problem with it. They have fixed the bootup click in the newer versions but that is a small problem. It is not software upgradable since it doesn't have a flash ROM. You have to keep in your mind a map of internal connections of oscillators, efx processors, sequencer, LFO's etc, because most of the parameters are hidden deep in the operating system and it is a tough time for the beginner to follow the menu in its small display. However you soon get used to it and it is a fun to discover a parameter unnoticed before. The manual sucks for sure! You only need it to get the internal organization schemes. I have a notebook computer which have no MIDI ports on it, so I must do everything using the display and the buttons, which are extremely durable-I must be pressing the buttons millions of times a month! But it is nice to have a single machine to do your work. Especially the microscope thing enables you to edit anything to an enormous degree. I can't play keyboards well, I am a bass player, but using the microscope and notebynote recording you can create professional sounding tracks with nuances not achievable by hand. Sequencer is powerful, thanks to the vvverrryyy powerful CPU. The note-lags or fluctuations in the tempo is easily overcome by shifting busy tracks a few computer clicks back or forth; this annoying lags would almost cause me to sell the machine the first week I bought it, but soon I learned this shifting trick to solve the problem. Most of what is complained of by the reviewers here are solveble with minor editing. Afterall, this is a complicated beast...

Keyboard is fine but noisy I guess. You have to bend over the keyboard to activate the aftertouch. The modulation stick sucks, I'd prefer a wheel instead. It is 64 polyphonic. I don't agree with the reviewers who find this figure less than enough. You can switch off unimportant osc's to create room for complex chords. Though I write songs that uses more than 16 patches, which is more than the maximum number of parts allowed in a performance setting and many simultaneous notes in a track, I have never encountered a problem. People may contact me to learn how I do this. The effects are more than enough. Although the XP has one EFX processor you can change the whole settings, including the type of EFX in the middle of a song. You may have a flanger, a distortion and a stereo quadruple delay in one song. You guys, you have to learn to use the sequencer, it memorizes everything; got the clue?

Since I only had one synth before, a DX7, I cannot recommend on the quality of the sounds. But I am sure my XP sounds are very beautiful and realistic. It has piano sounds better than my sister's real piano. Guitar and bass patches are of studio quality. The presets banks are full of unusable thrash. One more thing, make some editing on a patch, this changes the feel considerably. The XP has a wide dynamic range and low background noise (almost none).

The thing is sturdy. The sides are plastic and easily scratching. The metal panel is finished in a sorta granular thing, that is when your nails scratches on the panel, a white line is drawn and a jjeeeeekkkss heard! Never had a problem anyway.

www.rolandus.com is an unfriendly page for XP users. Most of the information and support is available on other music sites. Never needed repair.

I love my XP, I cannot do without it. I would positively buy it again if I were ever to lose it. I have my XP and my philipps headphones, that's all I have. It is a 1996 make, but the technology inside is still concurrent. I sold my bass and acoustic guitars lately. But I keep sending out great music to my friends out of this beauty.

OS Version 1.01. (Sequencer Mode -> Hold Shift-Enter-Exit in that order)
I have no expansion banks.

Acoustic presets are reasonable for the aging JV1080 engine. Don't expect it to be too realistic, be content.
You want a VERY good approximation of acoustic instruments? use yamaha's VL engine. but even yamaha's VL engine is probably like 1-4 note polyphony, but it sounds good!

The presets suck for electronic sounds. i'm complaining because i can't do realtime filtering on my XP-50, which many synths can do. it has to be pre-programmed into the patch to be able to do it. and 99% of presets don't make use of it. i can overcome this by downloading some nice User-Presets, or programming it in.

When editing patches... when you're used to it, it's pretty ok. but i'm lazy, i'd rather download. its irritating that the preset patches can't be saved over. you can only have 128 savable patches of your own.

Manual... i heard it was so bad, i haven't even started. But there are other downloadble Sequencing/Advanced Sequencing guides on the net that might be worth reading.

64 note poly (mentioned lots of times already) note that it can be easily used up in multi-timbre sequencing. i had a few notes cut off on me before.
(I hate yamaha for putting 64 note poly into MOTIF, giving the excuse that people rarely use that many notes, and telling people that it can be expanded with a piano expansion board)
1 Reverb, 1 Chorus, 1 Selectable EFX. to me, reverb/chorus doesn't count. that means, only 1 effect.
4 expansion slots. you know this by now. it is aftertouch sensitive, CC1, CC2 sliders.
it has onboard sequencer which i never used so i can't comment on this. i use computer midi.

patches sound... See 'Ease Of Use' above. in addition...

Preset patches:The nylon guitars are... very good if played well. The jazz guitar i faked fooled my friends.
Distortion guitars are fun. Too bad they require EFX to sound good. Sounds thin and lame without effects in multi-timbre. Multi-track.

Downloaded patches:i was pleasantly surprised by some User-Presets that breaths life into the XP-50. Novation Bass, TB303, Rebirth383, some Analog sounds, wow... saved me money from buying analog modules (for a while...). they sound quite close as well. the user presets were programmed well, with filtering/aftertouch, which can make it quite expressive.
as for how it reacts to velocity and aftertouch, i can't really comment, because EVERYTHING is programmable, you can change how it reacts if you know how to. this engine is good stuff.

Music it works well for: anything. if sequenced well.

EFX sounds good, too bad there is only 1.

the keyboard action is not bad. better than the CS-1x's toyish feel. some patches react well to playing (reacts to velocity/aftertouch). nice.
i think the yamaha's EX-5 keyboard action is better because its more rigid. but i have no complaints for XP-50.

it hasn't failed me before in the 3 years i used it. unlike the idiotic windows 98 computer...

Never dealt with customer support

If lost/stolen, i'd probably get the latest thing on the block, yamaha MOTIF! i might get the VL expansion...
but it was worth what i paid. other synths might be better, but they cost a lot more. i'm currently doing electronic music anyway so i don't really care for Korg's sax/brass, or Yamaha pianos.
and they don't sound nearly like the real thing either. and when you mix multi-channel music, the difference gets less.

i love the fact that there are so many sounds u can download.
i hate the fact that what you hear when you fool around with patches, isn't what you hear when you do multi-timbre sequencing.
i hate the fact that it doesn't have a cutoff/resonance/attack/decay slider which XP-60 has.
i hate the fact that the drums can't be filtered, unless used as a patch.

i compared this with the MOTIF... err... guess who won? not a fair comparison anyway.
this wins the yamaha CS-1x. on-par with CS-2x/trinity(empty). loses to CS-6x/trinity(fully loaded)/triton/XP-60.
i chose this becoz this uses an industry standard sound engine, and it is cheap. and it still sounds professional,
it is comparable to XP-60 and CS-6x quality.

it loses to XP-60 and CS-6x because it is a lousy controller keyboard. you only have 2 sliders (in addition to the standard modulation and pitch bend)
XP-60 has 4 more sliders (i don't care for its arpeggiator), and CS-6x got tons of knobs! (drool...)

The presets are low quality and not very good for R&B (which is what I do). I use a rack module for most sounds (though I still use some sounds from the board itself). Editing patches is pretty easy but there isn't much I can do with what's in the board to adjust it to my style. Manual is good though I very rarely had to use it. I'm a hands-on-first-manual-later type learner and the XP-50 was a piece of cake.

Whoa boy here we go. This was my first synth and I didn't have mega bucks to spend when I got it. At the time it seemed like the greatest thing in the world until I started reading more about stuff like the Trinity & Triton. I also realized its limitations when I had much difficulty getting the sound that was in my head to come out from the board. The effects are way too limited and suck anyway. Expansion is excellent though. Could stand to be more expressive. The sequencer is soooooo easty to use but it hiccups like a baby after 10 bottles of water when you're playing multiple tracks. This absolutely sucks because It's my controller board (and I do all composing/sequencing on it) and I assign every instrument or sound to its own track. And without the quantizer, the timeing of the sequencer is an absolute disgrace. It never plays back the way you played it. It's often chopped and out of place. This is horrible when you want that human feel or when you want to do a riff or run that the quantizer can't handle. I count down the days till I finally own my own Triton (to replace the XP as the main board and midi controller).

As I've mentioned before, the sounds aren't all that. The pianos are good if you compare them to cheap Casio pianos. They suck more than anything has ever sucked before (well I hear the Triton's piano's suck, but I have a Proteus 2000 module which takes care of those for me). There are, at the very most, 10 sounds on the whole thing that I use regularly. But then again, I do this on a professional level which means I demand professional sound. The sounds may be excellent for a gigger or someone who doesn't necessarily need "recording quality" patches. The effects are to be pissed on (the Proteus effects are much better and they could stand improvement too). One would do best to just buy an outboard effects processor instead of relying on another machine with built in effects anyway. This board might do well for old style pop and probably old style anything but it's to be shat on (shat: past tense of shit) in modern music.

I don't gig but this son-of-a-bitch has been through some serious shit (even though the jog wheel thing-a-ma-jiggy pissed out on me about a year or two ago). I can't imagine a piece of musical equipment more durable. You could run over it with your SUV and the SUV would suffer more damage

WARNING: The above was an extream exaggeration of the truth. Do not attempt running over your XP-50 or any other synth or musical equipment you may own. To do so will result in sever idiocy, un-repairable damage to equipment, and unbelievable amounts of wasted money. SUV's may not suffer any damage to such actions.

Never delt with 'em, but like most customer support, they probably suck...

This may seem odd considering the ratings and ravings I've given, but I wouldn't trade this board for anything. Not even the Triton I'll be getting soon. Despite its shortcomings, it has helped me to create many great songs. I think this keyboard and I have somehow bonded over the years. It won't respond to anyone like it will me (everyone else catches hell with it...lol). I'd be heartbroken if it were stolen and I'd probably buy another one AFTER I aquire all the other stuff I need. And the Triton will replace it in duties only, meaning the XP will still be a major part of my studio but in a reduced role. That being said, my love for it still doesn't affect my overall rating for the machine...lol. That may seem cruel but I gotta be real about it. I would rate it much higher if I were speaking in terms of amature use. In fact, I'd probably rate it a perfect 10. But alas, this review is professionally speaking so...

Basically if you are a beginning to gig I would not suggest this keyboard because the industrial design does not really work that well ergonomically speaking. Korg is far more consistant. I bought it in JUne of 1997. The octave button can be pressed accidently while soloing and the presets do not register that easily when you are working in a big rig situation. I have had it happen at the worst time's during preformances.

The action is alright but if you come from classical training your hands will hurt trying to get expressivness from this board. The keys are kind of small for solo purposes. I have used this keyboard at least 200 times giging out. The squencer was not easy to use and the manual was not much help. I went and bought the video and there again some information was left out.

The sounds are ok but Yamahas pianos always are more consistant because they make pianos anyways. I do like A11,A25, and A26 THe expansion board has some nice organs. The orchestra hit b71 is nice too. Try using b-28,B-29, 002-4 from keyboards from the "60's and "70's if you have the expansion board. The strings are allright and brass ok too. Korg has the brass category hands down. Any Reggae band will use Korg's brass first.

The keyboard is still in mint condition after all this time and has served me well.

Never had to deal with customer support.

Actually with the Yamaha S-80 and Triton and CX-3 out there now I would not buy it again knowing what I know now. But it might not be fair to compare it to today's synths. It is a good all over synth but some patches don't cut it in a live situation and you alway's have to have that or else it gets lost in the mix. In fact I am trying to sell it with the manual and video manual.

Preset sounds are very good, especially important seen as editing is a complete pain (the editing interface is quite difficult to get to grips with). Using a patch editor such as SuperJV is easier. Best sounds are Acoustic Guitars, Basses, Strings and Pads. The GM bank is a real letdown - the sounds on a sound canvas are much better - in particular, the Pianos and Drums are quite honestly DIRE. Manual is comprehensive as far as what parameters can be changed but doesn't tell you actually how to use them creatively. Didn't fancy paying an additional #30.00 for the video manual. This should have been included in the synth price.

64 Voice polyphony but can be limiting if you like your sustain pedal. Keyboard action is responsive although the noise of it will annoy your flatmates late at night. Built in effects are good particularly the compressor (good for that Phil Collins Drum sound) and Space-D (adds some ambience, expecially good for the lacklustre piano presets). Good MIDI implementation, aftertouch and velocity sensitive keyboard. Intergrates well with my other gear (Alesis DM5 and Yamaha P-50m). Onboard 16trk sequencer is as good as any I've used and it's especially useful as a scratchpad for ideas. Use your computer sequencer for the final stuff. Editing songs onboard is quite easy although you'll be pressing a lot of buttons.

Best sounds are Strings, Guitars and Electric Pianos. Organs are really quite amazing - particularly the Hammond-type presets. Not so good sounds are Acoustic Pianos (when compared to my Yamaha P-50m) and the drums are OK but not astounding (you can remedy this quite easily using the onboard EFX module though). Good for Pop and Rock music, not so good for Acid/House. Generally a fantastic sound set overall that will always provide an excellent quality set of bread and butter sounds.

Generally reliable although some memory problems and it has frozen a few times on me. This hasn't happened that much recently though. Don't gig it because I use it for writing and not performing. Probably would gig it if I did perform though.

If it got stolen I wouldn't buy it again, but not because I don't like it. Just because I would buy one of the newer models i.e an XP-60. Love the sounds overall and it forms the heart of my MIDI setup. I find the noisy keyboard a bit annoying but that's just nit-picking after all! When I bought it (Oct. 97) it was the best all rounder in my opinion and still holds up today as a great synth. I wish it had better Drum sounds all though I've got an Alesis DM5 now so it's not much of a problem anymore. Best thing about the unit is the ability to get ideas down fast with it and it is generally very reliable. All things considered, I would recommend it unreservably to other keys players!

As a sound module easy to use. But you can get more out of this box than just presets.

64 Voice, 16 part multi-timbral rompler workstation w. small but well readable 2 line display,
61 plastic keys (loud! but good response), two assignable data faders, joystick (pitch, mod.)
32 User Performances. 128 User Patches. 1Multi Effects (40 Types), 1good Chorus, 1 so so Reverb/ Room/Delay section, all with Sends and Returns. Only Stereo Outs (plus Headphones).
Built in 16track sequencer w. 20 000 events capacity, 100 user-Patterns (also playable realtime
via keys) well done event editing (sadly no controller fades possible), about 60 Quantisation Templates (straight, shuffle, tuplets). Seq. records fader movements and Sysex!

W. up to 4 Osc's in a single Patch it's easy to make lush single finger textures.
Some 400 multisamples offer you sound basics but raise appetite for the manyfold expansion cards.
With Aftertouch and the Realtime Controllers you can play expressive. There is a matrix for assigning most important parameters to many Controllers (Mod Wheel to LFO Speed....)

Different Portamento modes different trigger modes for Waveforms. Analog Feel emulates an instable pitch generator. Each Osc can Crossmodulate itself (no real X-Mod but useable). Multimodefilters (Lp, Hp, Bp, Peak) w much Reso (Reso at 126 is full, at 127 it gives you awfull Aliasing, attend your ears!), Pitch Env., Tune, Fine Tune, Amp, Panorama Mod.. Pitch and Pan have its own Random, Alternate Generators. Filt, Amp, Ptch are Velo sens, Keyrange sens, have their own multi stage Envelopes with modulatable Times/Levels. Each Osc has it's own Pan/Fx Routing. Best I've seen so far in Romplers.

Most people don't know much abot the 10Algorithms of combining two Oscs.. A pity! Apart from simple structures giving you serial Filters (for Hp Lp or Bp Bp or just 24db Lp/Hp/Whatever) the Osc can modulate each other with differnt Ringmods (giving you Ringmod and type of simple FM) or have an "interactive" overdrive (depending on Waveforms and Filter settings). Suddenly BP vowels become deep, 303 emulations get dirt, a choir with x-mod ringmoded with Peak filtered aliasing strings occurs..... With these functions you really can expand the sonic capabilties of the XP/JV from clean and timid to razor sharp teeth. In addition to the realtime controls here you can achieve expressiveness even beyond reasonable usage.

Sound:
You may dislike it or love it. Apart from it's heavy output noise the signal is (same as the JV1080, 2080, XP 80, 60 etc.) very clean, dynamic and fine fitting in every mix. One could consider it's overall sound as warm, without the "overdriven" heihts of e.g. Korg products. It's no sub-sonic monster, unless you lay hands on the filters with full reso.
The wooden string instrument patches (ac. guit, harp, string ens) offer you a good alternmative for samplers. Reed instruments are well done too. The Shakuhatchi is the best I've heard in any rompler. Nice non-dominant bells, Massed Horns is a unique French Horns Ensemble for background. Moving orhestra scores perform very well on this engine, atmospheric orchestra scores of course suck (as they do on every machines under 128MB samples). Church Organ Multisamples are fading in to long, no use for faster pieces (how much slow organ pieces are found in the Kochelverzeichniss?)

As a pop/rock machine the XP 50 does it's job also well, even in multi timbral mode. You easily can do a whole pre-production. Pianos are more realistic than Korgs or Yanahas. E-pianos sound well (for D&B and Jazz they are to clean). Spinett, Chembalo, Metal Clav have no punch. Brass Ens. are okay, solo Brass are ashaming, so are Ac.Basses, Pick Bass is fine, Organs show their sunny side with Rock Organs and 50ies Soap Opera Queeks. "Nature"-Pads very well. Synth Pads have to much metallic components in their overtones (digital filters). Synth Basses are thin, leads really can be expressive, Fx and noises are crap and compensate this with being overdrawn (suitable for cartoon-soundtracks?).
Drums are entirely crap! Overpronounced mids. Annoying high spectres. No punch.
Techno can be done but you can get more out of Yamaha. For dirty Techno and Trip Hop a Korg suits better because their Overdrive Algorithms and the bad Interpolation of older machines (M1, X3, Wavestation .....) really deliver you the harshness you are searching for. Roland's Overdrive Algorithms are unable to generate acceptable overtone massacres (though you can choose out of 3different GuitarAmp types). If you're into Electronica and not into sampling the XP's are the alternative for Kurzweils. O.k. the K series offer 40 oscillator algorith

Had no bad experience. OS is stable. Cassis is metal with plastic at both sides. Machine is easy to open for the four expansion slots. Keys of XP 50 are not very good. Xp 80, 60 are better in this topic,
but a typical Roland illness is that older keys lose their sensitivity. Many freeware products are found in the net (programmers, librarians, sounds). The XP 50 is sound compatible to the JV's and other XP's.

Never needed. I always contact my dealer, never companies.

Studio standard. This thing hasn't feature XY giving you many jobs in Radio Jingles. What it does it does good. You can use it for every style of music. Using several Parts in a playback doesn't annoy.
Using it entirely for a playback....(so with every machine but Samplers). Learning to programm it is thankfull. If you consider to buy one of the older Virtual Analogs comopare them to the XP. It can do what they do an much more. I use it for most jobs together with Gigasampler and a Z1 without having the feeling of missing something.

A bit tricksy but everything is pretty clearly labelled and fairly intuitive. Best to use a patch editor if you are into that kind of thing

64 note poly, nice synth-type KB. This was a total bargain as it already had the Session, Techno and sounds of the 60s/70s boards installed. Sequencer OK, adequate midi. Effects..well its a Roland.

Quite unbelievable. I read a lot of posts here and I'm never sure what people want from these machines. If you want to make your own sounds...get a sampler....where are all those sounds that people claim to be making....I've not heard anything 'new' since the Fairlight was splattered all over 'Never Forever' by Kate Bush, and YES I do get out quite a bit!! Literally thousands of sounds, including a great selection of 'bread and butter' stuff, but i mean is anybody really going to find a use for ALL those sounds?...NEVER. It sounds professional, high quality and there is no extraneous noise. As a guitar player driving it through a pitch to Midi converter and recording into Protools/DIGI001 it is more than adequate for me and my band. Don't like THOSE strings, then use one of the other 30 or so!!!

5 years old and effectively unused. Its a Roland.

Joke

I'll never find a bargain like this again....effectively brand new, almost fully expanded and #300 less than a basic XP30. The additional cards alone are worth the price......lucky me I guess

Using the presets is very easy, editing is somewhat harder then other manufacturers.

It is a workstation so it can do a lot.No sampling.
The expansion boards are very welcome. Keyboardaction is not the best.There is also a midi hickup from the modulation stick.

Overall the XP-50 sounds very good.Digital synths and effects are great.Piano sound is very good.I use the orchestral expansion for violins and strings, use the 60and 70's for rhodes and hammond sounds.I have also the dance expansion but that was a waste of money.
A don't like the preset drumsounds but I do like the drumsounds from the dance expansion (although they are electronic) buy the drum and bass for acoustic drum sounds. Some sounds are to digital and weak.

Never let me down

never used it

Great overall keyboard. Great for doing giggs. You have all the sounds and is expandable.In the studio you need other soundsources for drums and brass.Listen to TLC and Destiny's child for the famous nylon string guitar sound.Roland should consider mounting a modulation wheel instead of a stick

I've had my XP-50 for 5 years and overall I am completely satisfied with it. I am not a patch freak and don't expect every instrument to be electonically reproduced. About 50% of the presets are junk. I love Rolands piano sound for it's brightness and fullness. Compared to Kurzweil's piano sounds which I think are a bit muddy like playing a piano under a blanket.

The manual is not easy to use, but makes a great reference if you are looking for something specific.

Polyphony is fine. True, some patches use 4 osc., but unless your are programming symphonies, there is nothing to worry about. I only run into the polyphony ceiling if I'm on the sustain pedal and banging out 10 notes chords nonstop. even then, the key priority order is effective and you lose your old notes for the new ones you're bangin out.

It holds up it end on the workstation front as well. While the internal sequencer may not be feature rich, it gets the basic job done. Cut/Paste/Copy/PunchIn/Erase/Delete/Quantize/Mix/Replace. It is a bit clumsy only because you have a set a buttons to navigate and not a nice mouse interface on a big 19 inch monitor where you can see everything. I mostly use the sequencer like a scratch pad to record ideas and melodies etc.

I also use the hell out of the 'Performance' mode. This is one of the most convenient ways of setting up patches for songs. When in this mode you can set up 15 patches plus 1 drum patch in a cohesive collection. This is great during live shows because you can just click one button to move to the next patch for your next song and not have to spin the dial while the rest of the band waits for you, or have a 10lbs book next to you with all the patch numbers written down.

Also, Layering and splitting is a breeze. If you want to split your keyboard into 16 sections and assign a unique patch to each, go ahead.

The XP-50 also works great when you have other midi controllers pluged into it.

The string patches are excellent, only 4 horn patches out of 15 or so are usable. Only 2 organ sounds...unless you go with the 60s/70s expansion card...then you have 255 patches that I think all excell. Drum patches are not chessy at all, but if your drum sound is important to you then get a drum machine which specifically focuses on the drum sounds. The drums on the XP-50 lack dynamics...big deal.

The keys themselves are excellent. I think they are very expressive and reactive. You can't just come off another keyboard or a real piano and expect to retain the same style of play with the XP-50. Once you are familiar with how this keyboard feels, you will be disapointed with most others.

Very dependable, I've had it on the road for 5 years, it's full of stickers and expansion cards and I have never had a single day of trouble. Never had a backup keboard for this guy. is there some wood around here?

never needed it.....that may tell you something.

If I lose or break this thing I'd first look for another XP-50 used or just shell out the cash for an XP-80.

Remember, if you want a real piano sound, play a piano, all other play Rolands.