Roland FP-E50 88-key Arranger Keyboard Demo 

Compose with ease and perform with passion with the Roland FP-E50 88-key arranger keyboard, available now at Sweetwater 👉 imp.i114863.net/zaAPJW

The guy demonstrating this keyboard is fantastic !He made this keyboard come alive for me. I feel this would be a great keyboard for me to play in the band at church. As soon as I can afford it I'm going to purchase one of these keyboards.

Thank you Jacob. Very nice playing. You covered some really helpful tips. Can't wait to get mine soon

JD you always make it look sooo easy...🎹🎼🎹🎶

Tips for buyers on competition Yamaha DGX - 670 Pros - 4 style variations/ better style programs/ reads PSR style files with 4 variations ( there are thousands if free styles) Can write user styles/ more realistic and musical styles that can be used/ can play midi files ( Roland can not) 40 plus Super Articulation sounds ( best nylon/ acoustic guitars / saxes, etc that Roland or Casio can’t touch) Will read midi files ( including Roland ‘s GS and Yamaha’s XG files). Remember most pro GM files are written in GS format) Has 16 track sequencer Cons- heavy/ bulky/ GHS keys ( not as good as Roland) . Not gig worthy ( screaming “amateur keyboard)/ no vocal harmony / no modulation wheel/ only headphone out/ no separate LR outs Korg XE- 20 Light weight( 25 Ibs)/ terrible key touch and response/ PA80 arranger styles/ will read SMF/ Wav/ Mp3 files but poorly designed for live playback. No joystick/ pitch bend/ mod wheel/ PA 80 arranger styles means 2 fills and jumpy fills / no style writing/ has basic sequencer Roland FP- E50 Pros - great key feel/ individual weights ( key response not as fast as Yamaha’s GHS for fast notes runs due to escapement mechanics for certain patches but great for piano tones - better piano tones ( than Yamaha or Casio) - pro looking keyboard on stage ( well designed/ no speakers on top or front) -individual LR outs - Vocal harmony - 37 pounds ( lightest pro feel/looking arranger with build in speakers) - blue tooth midi and audio - chord sequencer Cons- Can’t read or write midi files ( only Wav files) . That means you can’t play pre sequenced general midi files with VH data) - other sounds ( non super natural tones)are good enough but not great ( especially saxes/ guitars still has Juno Di / Ds quality) . Not super articulation quality - arranger feature is afterthought and style are poorly written ( limitations start to appear if you are One Man Band / solo performer) - 2 style variations means 1990 era backing with improved sounds ( you will not be able to load even BK3 styles which has 4 variations) Overall verdict- There is no competition in the market.great if you need one keyboard that has 88 keys and pro piano sounds and other acceptable sounds with manageable weight that has pitch/ mod wheels . Looks great as well. For OMB players;You just have to load wav files and play and sing on top while using real time harmony by pressing chords in real time Unfortunate for Casio. Which is still not considered as “pro” looking/ considered KB on stage ( regardless how they improved with the sounds, etc, the stigma is still there). It may take a decade and multiple endorsements.

great demo. thanks!

I had a Nord Elecro 6D for about a month and sent it back due to the serious oversight of not having pitch and mod! I should have been paying more attention when I ordered! This Roland sounds fantastic!

I am retired and coming back to music after taking 30 years away. Played flute for around 15 years but always played by ear and never really learned about chords. I finally went out and picked up a Yamaha PSR-E473 and tinkered around learning scales and chords. We are in a small condo for another year and once we moved I was thinking about a Yamaha DSX 670 but after seeing this, it is hard to think the 670 could compete. This seems like a much more serious instrument. I sure would love to see a comparison of the two.

Great video! Thanks!

Ciao Jacob Bellissima macchina Ma soprattutto grande pianista. Grazie mille e ciao dall'Italia.

I love this thing.

That jp8 synth sound is so good

That vox key progression 😩🔥😮‍💨

I’ve watched many of your very nice demo videos. They are excellent. I’m leaving this comment just to tell you how much I appreciate your talent on the keys, especially your jazz licks. You’ve almost convinced me to try the keys again after not touching them for many years. Keep up the good work. Do you play in clubs or other -laces besides Sweetwater?

I really like Roland gear, I enjoy my Juno ds 61. Great video thanks for sharing 🤘

Sounds great

I love it.

Love this keyboard…just purchased it and a pedal from sweetwater…it comes with a pedal, but no quite a real pedal. Great demo…thanks.

I've taken the stock GRT Strat sound in Studio One, ran it through their Amp simulator, added BlueCat Chorus, added some reverb/delay and have fooled even guitarists. As you say, play in their style and mask the sound a bit and your good for 80-90% of stuff.

Would love to see you sit down with an arranger keyboard and make some original tunes. Great playing!

it's a keyboard it don't have to strum like strat or les paul... as a casio owner i like it.. if it release 7 years ago i probably choose this over my casio combo rig... and the scat voice you can't find it in other brand... and editable chord accompaniment this roland is something else...

..Seriously debating between this piano and the rd88 for my home studio. ..Most of the time I'll be using it as a grand piano. The rest of the time, mostly using for pads, rhodes, strings, cello, or occasionally a hammond b3.. so the pitch bend wheels are definitely nice.

This looks like a great instrument!!! Both SuperNATURAL and ZEN-Core sounds with 256-note polyphony for $1,000??? It's amazing!!! Of course, the final buying decision [for me personally] will come down to the look and feel, build quality, sound, and features. It looks good so far, and it sounds great. The feel and build quality I have to check myself when the instrument is available to try out at a local dealer. One major gripe though... The MIDI 5-pin DIN jacks are a must for me, since I am not planning on using the computer with this. Oh well, there's always some tradeoff. But, as a stand alone instrument, the FP-E50 looks very desirable so far.

Could you explain how to use the favourite bottom to create the list of sounds that interests more? Thank you so much

Best review of the FP-E50. I'm looking for my first keyboard and this looks like the best option. Also considering the FP-60X and RD88. Both great keyboards, I tried the RD88 and found the menu system a bit awkward though.

This seems like Roland's answer to the Yamaha DGX-670. More competition is good! Before I ever consider upgrading my DGX-650, I want to see some more sophisticated customization of the sounds...a quasi-synth where you can pick a sound and then adjust it. My newest crusade is to persuade manufacturers of keyboards to stop segmenting arrangers and synthesizers and just make keyboards that do it all. Arrangers alone can sound cheesy, and synthesizers alone can feel limited if you're a solo performer. But together, they can sound amazing!

While I really appreciate your help, rather than a demonstration of what FP-E50 can do, what beginners really need is a beginners tutorial. The manual is impenetrable and might just as well be written in Spanish.

Hi Jacob, are the 2 outputs +4 or -10 ? Thank you.

Bonjour, est-ce qu'on peut changer la couleur de l'écran (mode sombre) ? Merci beaucoup

This one gonna compete directly with the Yamaha dgx 670 which is way cheaper, but the most interesting thing is who has better : styles/accompaniment, sound's quality !!

Hi Jacob, do you know if it necesary to download a driver fo windows to set the builtin audio interface?

Hi there, I recently tried the fp30x side by side to the fpE50 and was confused that the "Concert Piano Sound", even though on paper are the same, sounded quite different between the two, even through headphones. The fp30x seemed more detailed and focused with a nice fade out of tone when a key was struck, and the tone changed more dramatically as you hit the key louder. The fpE50 sounded a bit muddier and notes didn't have the same natural fade when being struck individually. The tone also appears to have less change when you hit keys harder on the fpE50. Have you noticed this? And can you explain why that is?

Darn, the period to return my beloved RD-88 has just passed. ugh. 256 note polyphony plus ZEN-Core! Are the piano samples the same as the RD or a new library? we probably won't get one at our local music store for comparison.

Can you control the cutoff of sounds for live performance? (Building moments in songs?) Thank you! Maybe like an expression pedal mapped to it?

Hi there, nice video! Thanks, i have a question: is it possible to adjust volumes separetly when you are playing with layers like piano/strings for example?

This is awesome. My opinion: why didn't they make the screen bigger and also touch-screen? That would've been great.

Can you use Apple's Mainstage with this keyboard?

What is the output format of the recorded songs when you save them to a thumb drive? Can the recorded songs be output through a MIDI interface?

Excluding a few sounds from acoustic and electric pianos, what continues to astound me is the remarkable stagnation in the quality of all the other sounds, which seem to have been stuck in the early 2000s. How significant companies like Roland, in an era where memory and processors run at unimaginable speeds, still rely on samples from a time when every megabyte cost us $100. Adding the (hardly revolutionary) Pitch & Mod Wheel is nice, but with guitar sounds at General MIDI level, it doesn't offer much unless used as a controller for serious sound libraries - companies that are hesitant to sell us the same sounds for 20 years with a new packaging.

Is it possible to have a pad that holds without staying on the pedal? I play on a worship team and would love to see if I can just set a pad in a certain key and be able to leave it until I want to change into another key. Great video, thanks!

Looks like the price point is roughly between the FP-30X and the FP-60X. Also seems like the same keyboard action as those two. So have they just left the FP-60X without a market?

Can I use the FP-E50 as a midi control for a Roland Integra-7? In essence, can I turn off the sounds of the FP-E50?

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Can you record both voice using the mic input together with the keyboard playing at the same time in one take?

Thank you for teh nice video. I have on question: is it possible to play a style with only rhythm and e.g. bass? Or can the styles not be adjusted?

how does this compare with the fp 30x? In terms of playing touch/feel and sound? I won't be using other functions too much. I'm debating on purchasing between the FP-E50 and FP-30x.

You do really nice demos. Regarding the Roland, I am not so impressed, especially as an arranger. I own the Yamaha DGX-670 which retails for $150 less and it has way more features, especially when arranging (the lack of direct access buttons and the small monochrome screen in particular). Yes, the DGX has less voices, but at 600+ you are starting to get into diminishing returns. And based on your demo, I think that the DXG sound samples are, overall, more realistic.

Is there anyway to connect 2 or more microphones to the mic input?

Hi, can this FpE50 do recording through USB Midi? or can you only do recording via bluetooth Midi? Are the connections through bluetooth stable for recording? Thank you

Depth review of sound, one question, it's possible to record a sequence of chords with arranger?

Although it's fairly easy to make it, keyboard makers should include a preset for the "No Quarter" electric piano sound. Also, wheels. All digital pianos should have wheels. You should be able to use it as a viable controller. Even if you don't get knobs, at least the wheels should be there.

A POTENTIALLY HUGE ISSUE THAT IS OVERLOOKED IN MOST ONLINE REVIEWS ON THE ROLAND FP-E50 is the fact that MIDI implementation on the FP-E50 is crippled: it sends and receives on one MIDI channel only. So if you have created a dual sound that you love - say a piano-pad combination - and you send it to your DAW, you will only get ONE of those sounds when you play the performance back. That's right, that beloved dual voice that you painstakingly created on the FP-E50 and saved to a "scene" will only be played back through the FP-E50 by the DAW as a SINGLE VOICE. In other words, in this case, you can hear the piano, but not the pad. The FP-E50 can't play dual instruments AND it can't play split keyboard performances back through your DAW. This is a very basic maneuver for anyone using a DAW: record a performance from a piano, make changes on the DAW, play it back on the piano, and then record the perfected performance into audio. Nope. Not gonna do it on this with dual voices or keyboard splits. It also will not record anything to MIDI on the keyboard and export to the DAW. And you won't be able to play multiple FP-E50 instruments on multiple tracks on your instrument (on different MIDI channels) from your DAW. What instrument these days only sends and receives on one MIDI channel each? The FP-E50 is not a multi-timbral instrument with respect to MIDI. The RD-88 is. While the latter does not have a record or accompaniment function it SHOULD (I don't own one) perform these basic MIDI functions with dual sounds, keyboard splits and multiple instruments on multiple MIDI channels as is normally expected. For the home user, the lack of a recorder and accompaniment is easily compensated for by the simple purchase of something like Band-in-a-Box for a hundred bucks. None of the reviews I've seen online has addressed this "disability" and no one in the stores was able to explain this to me in advance (and I really tried to find out). WHAT WAS ROLAND THINKING (??) when they crippled the FP-E50 in this way??? I wish I had purchased the RD-88 or some other piano for my home use to connect to my DAW.

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Really great demo on a magnificent musical instrument. The only problem I have with such do-it-all instruments is that if your cat walks across the keyboard, the musical sound it generates would take someone years to duplicate, even with constant training.

Can you edit the chord progression?

In your opinion, which the one you recommended to buy - Roland FP E50 OR Roland RD88? Tq

does this Roland FP-E50 keyboard have built in speakers?

This one or Yamaha dgx-670???🤔

Could this be used to gig with built in mic no external amp in a coffee shop, nursing home, book store or say 40 x40 room?

Nice presentation. Is it possible to download - add more styles in this? I think having only 100 accompaniment-styles will be too limiting for live gigs in the long run. Can you tell us please? Kind Regards.

How is the build quality of this FP-e50? Is the top panel made of plastic or metal? Thanks!

What key bed action? Same as the Rd-88?

Would you know if you can actually load a .wav file from a USB Stick and play it on a key like a ''sampled' sound? Can you send a sound module via midi to be played like a controller? And if you do splits, can you control the octave range of each side individually and can you save any sound changes to be able to call it up at a later time quickly? Thks! Cheers!

Harp?

Wich Is better Roland fpE50 or Casio px7000 ?

How come not one of these keyboards have combo organs. Didn't they never hear of the Doors, Animals, Iron Butterfly or the 1960's at all? Don't they know how many guys busted their asses learning the lead to LIGHT MY FIRE or IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA?

Can I put sounds in performances and change them with the pedal?

Can you save favorite sounds for easy access?

I thought this was their answer to the DGX-670 from Yamaha, but it appears to have fewer features, and the guitar sound options do not sound as realistic.

Which Roland keyboards in the $1000 price range have bluetooth and an attachable music holder?

Number one importance! 37 ilbs!!!!!! I love my KORG Kronos but at 100 ilbs its never leaving my studio! EVER!

I've been looking for an affordable PHA-4 keyboard with pitch and mod wheels. I am sad to learn that this keyboard is 6-7/8 inches tall, that is almost 2 inches higher than my FP-60x. Due to my body proportions and long legs, a tall keyboard like this is very uncomfortable or awkward to sit in front of, or to fit under/in front of a music production desk as the main MIDI controller. I wish Roland moved to making flatter keyboards. I understand the speakers need room, but still.

does it have speakers?

Stuck between this piano or dgx 670, anyone know which one is better?

Does this keyboard have the famous roland scat voice?

FP-E50 vs FP-30X?

Can you isolate the drums and play them on the piano, like you would with the guitar sound? For instance, perform a drum solo? Thank you for your time!

Can we tuned it to 432Hz ?

I torn between getting my daughter the Yamaha DGX-670 Versus Roland FP-E50 Digital Piano. She just wants to make music at home

I thought the E50 was the perfect keyboard, until I learned that it could only communicate on one MIDI channel. This means only one instrument can be recorded, so if you've got a drum track going with a couple layered tones, only one will be recorded via MIDI. A one channel MIDI keyboard is basically useless, and essentially means that you have no midi capability on this board.

Anyone help me?? New to keyboards in general and have a brand new Roland FP e50 but my piano sounds do NOT sound as vibrant and beautiful as this?! Ahh. Why? I have been looking through all the settings. Tried changing the settings in piano designer. I am at a loss. It sounds like the soft pedal is down if it were a real piano. Probably something simple and I just am so clueless. PLEASE HELP if you have any ideas? Thanks friends 🙌🏼

Are you able to layer BOTH a Piano and Electric Piano...and then have a volume control for each OR are there only preset sounds of layers??

This or Yamaha DGX670?

10 years later still every workstation keyboard is less capable than the Korg M3, Kronos and Kronos 2. Can a company please just release a keyboard that sets a new bar?

Que raro suena esa Guitarra, pareciera de Yamaha, siendo sonido se Roland, q se caracteriza x tener los Sonidos mas Realistas.... Yo poseo un Roland Juno DI y la Guitarra Over es Impresionante el nivel de Realismo con q lo emula el Juno DI.... El Sonido de Piano de FP- E50 si q está Impresionante, me encanta, pero la Guitarra me desanimó, pensaba q todos los Roland usaban la misma base de Datos en cuanto a Sonidos, xq a como repito el Juno DI tiene un Nivel mas Realista, y la Guitar de este FP pareciera de Yamaha...

Deep menu dive just to pitch bend. PHA-4 = dealbreaker

Does it have a vocoder on it

Okay, the guitar patches might not be the best...BUT...run them through an effects pedal, and you’re into something.

0:17 was that the lick lol

This “chord sequencer” is the same as the on on Fp-7f (even the concert piano sound is identical) users can’t make a custom chord progressions, therefore is not a sequencer really. Also there’s a drum fill at the end of every progression 😂 oh Roland, I thought it was 2023

Gospel sounds like Moses complaining. Ha. Just kidding. Nice instrument. Which should I get, this or RD88 or the 30? Mostly for the grand piano and home recording with live instruments. Great video!

When it comes to guitar patches in a electronic keyboard I just play the guitar...otherwise most other patches are useful...sax is a little iffy

Some of those backing tracks were definitely inspired byJohn Shuttleworth.

no support from Roland and I bought a FP E50 and it will not connect to any thing and I cant talk to any one from roland support Im so sorry that I bought this please be careful if you are considering a Roland FP E50

so we supposed to ignore the fact that you started eating at 2:49? okay.

Well thank you for keeping the clavs and jazz to a minimum. Unfortunately, Superstition still crept in, but only briefly.. maybe it'll finally be gone in the next Sweetwater demo 😅 Oh, and thank you for not using the vocoder.. "I am a robot" DERP 😝 If this is Zen-Core, I'm guessing it means you can download some high quality sounds to make up for the mostly-stale ones? They probably should've included a selection of these built-in, instead of "OMG 700 sOuNds". But then the next question is whether they give you sufficient storage space. Where's the scroll wheel though? Such a pain going through sounds with up and down arrows 😕 Given its potential capability, it should've also included an arpeggiator. I do like how compact this keyboard is while having the option for more than just piano sounds. The music stand slot is also welcome. I also appreciated the presenter's example of when you may need a guitar sound.

Did anyone ever told you that you look like Justin Timberlake 😂 with glasses 🎉

Only way this could be bettter is if it had polyphonic aftertouch.

Trombone with pitch bend...missed opportunity.

"Sounds just like a guitar ..right?" ....NO