Yamaha genos 2, korg pa5x, only Roland with the EA7 which almost 10 years? (if not more) old ...
Is Roland planning to have a new arranger sometime soon ?
Is Roland planning to have a new arranger sometime soon ?
Is Roland going to release new arranger sometimes in the near future??
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I doubt it.
The EA7 is not in the same league as a Genos or 5X it is more equivalent to a Korg Pa700 or Yamaha SX700.
The newest keyboard with arranger features is the e50 digital piano and that is way more inferior to the equivalents from Yamaha and Korg, even way inferior to a Casio S3000
The EA7 is not in the same league as a Genos or 5X it is more equivalent to a Korg Pa700 or Yamaha SX700.
The newest keyboard with arranger features is the e50 digital piano and that is way more inferior to the equivalents from Yamaha and Korg, even way inferior to a Casio S3000
Only insiders really know what Roland are planning, and those folks are probably subject to an NDA. Roland corporate closed down their European operation around 2014; that's where its arrangers were developed and produced. The E-A7 was ultimately manufactured in China. As its name implies, the "A" means that it has micro-tuning for Asian scales (but it also has a full complement of "Western" voices and styles.) I think arrangers still sell well in Asia and the Middle East so Roland followed their market.
To clarify the above post, an "E-50" mid-tier arranger workstation was released circa 2007. The FP-E50 that I presume Biggles is referring to, and the GO:KEYS 5 are recent releases with clear Roland arranger DNA. But both stop well short of being an E-A7 replacement.
I have a room full of keyboards--top arrangers from every brand--and I've tried them all. Roland has the best "intelligent" chord fingering. I'm convinced that it's the easiest system for playing a wide variety of common chords with the minimum number of keys pressed, and a minimum of hand movement. Roland's system doesn't require you to play notes that aren't part of the chord, and it doesn't penalize you for playing all of the notes if you know how to do so. Casio's comes pretty close, but other major brands require more skill. Fingering is muscle memory that's hard to relearn, so I would personally LOVE to see Roland get back in the arranger game! At the very least, they could add "sync stop" and legacy style support to the GO:KEYS 5, so that when our older Rolands fail, we have a migration path. My $.02.
To clarify the above post, an "E-50" mid-tier arranger workstation was released circa 2007. The FP-E50 that I presume Biggles is referring to, and the GO:KEYS 5 are recent releases with clear Roland arranger DNA. But both stop well short of being an E-A7 replacement.
I have a room full of keyboards--top arrangers from every brand--and I've tried them all. Roland has the best "intelligent" chord fingering. I'm convinced that it's the easiest system for playing a wide variety of common chords with the minimum number of keys pressed, and a minimum of hand movement. Roland's system doesn't require you to play notes that aren't part of the chord, and it doesn't penalize you for playing all of the notes if you know how to do so. Casio's comes pretty close, but other major brands require more skill. Fingering is muscle memory that's hard to relearn, so I would personally LOVE to see Roland get back in the arranger game! At the very least, they could add "sync stop" and legacy style support to the GO:KEYS 5, so that when our older Rolands fail, we have a migration path. My $.02.
"Is Roland planning to have a new arranger sometime soon ?"
To be honest, I think we've seen the last TOTL / MOTL arranger keyboard from Roland.
If their intention was to continue the development and competition, we would most likely have seen successors to G-70 and the BK serie long time ago. Too bad it come to an end.
Just as Technics KN's, in my opinion those was really some grat arrangers.
To be honest, I think we've seen the last TOTL / MOTL arranger keyboard from Roland.
If their intention was to continue the development and competition, we would most likely have seen successors to G-70 and the BK serie long time ago. Too bad it come to an end.
Just as Technics KN's, in my opinion those was really some grat arrangers.
I’m sure it’s foolish optimism, but GO:KEYS has some easy ways to add styles and sounds and it looks like there is a group at Roland thinking and trying a little bit.
—We know they aren’t hesitant to make hardware.
—We know they like to sell subscriptions.
— So it doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility that they take it a little further and give us something we can enjoy.
—We know they aren’t hesitant to make hardware.
—We know they like to sell subscriptions.
— So it doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility that they take it a little further and give us something we can enjoy.