hello my name's Alistair Parnell and I'm
here to show you today some of the new
updates that are coming to the era phone
this is going to be a free firmware
update and it would be downloadable from
the Roland website very easy to do just
to connect to your computer and update
the era phone we're going to talk about
three main sections here today the first
thing is the improved control we're
gonna have Oh over the lip response this
is for vibrato and for bending the pitch
then we're going to look at some new
sounds there are some really interesting
new sounds coming out and then we're
going to look at some special controls
that allow us to not only change the way
the internal sounds work but
particularly useful for the way that we
can control computer sounds or sounds
that we might use from a keyboard or a
sound module so let's go ahead and look
at these in a little more detail so with
this new update we've got three more
controls that we can use to control how
the lip response works on the menu
system we've got the first control here
which is the vibrato sensitivity how
much movement does your lip have to make
to make a change to the pitch of the
sound the next option is how much the
sound will go down in pitch when you
move your lip and the third one is how
much will that sound go up in pitch when
you move your lip and this needs to be
adaptable for an individual's own
preference so saxophone players can tune
this exactly how they want it to respond
to their own lip movement let's hear
some musical examples here's a harmonica
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and here's a trumpet sound
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so have a listen to the lip control on
this baritone sax
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so now let's have a little look at some
of the new sounds we've got more than a
dozen new sounds with this update now
there are three main sections to this
the first one is that the sounds have
some interesting filter control so with
the synthesizer sounds we're not only
getting a volume control but as we get
louder the filters inside the sound are
opening up which gives it a different
tone a change of character of sound as
we get louder
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the second thing we have is we have some
sales are now layered sound so now
effectively I'm going to take that first
sound and I can layer it with another
sound this is effectively playing two
sounds at the same time
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so some great breath control there as
well and then we've got some nice grungy
low synth sound
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we've also got one new acoustic
instrument sound this is a grand pipe
organ and I'm also going to demonstrate
here something that I'm going to feature
in the next section which is how I can
set up with the thumb to be like a pedal
hold that a keyboard player might use
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so you've just heard that pipe organ
sound and I was using a sustain pedal
effect if you like now what this is is
part of the new special controls they're
called CC controls continuous control
messages and we've got quite a lot in
this new update that we can use here in
fact there are six different ways of
sending out these control messages now
for the internal sounds this can change
things like perhaps adding a growl
effect or a plucked sound to a string
instrument and you just heard on that
pipe organ sound this sustain effect so
here it is on a synthesizer sound
works like a like a sustain pedal would
work on a piano
here's another sound where I'm going to
use a trumpet sound and I've decided on
my thumb here to make the control
introduce some flutter tonguing or some
growling effect and here on the violin
if I can play my first section with a
orko sound with the bow then at the last
moment I can change to a pitsee carto
sound
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and then we've got the sound of an ear
whoo and this is a two string instrument
and what we can do here is we're going
to control a typical ornament sound
sometimes these sounds are difficult for
wind players to recreate now all I have
to do here is move the thumb lever over
to the right and it's also gonna get me
that little ornament sound
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so I've set up here on my computer the
es - synthesizer and there's a lot of
sales in here that I wanted to use but I
couldn't do up to now because I didn't
have these CC controls so now what I've
done is I've mapped my breath output to
these dials here the CC control for the
filter you can see that as I'm blowing
louder it's moving those filter dials
and that changes the tone of the
instrument so now I've got a whole new
library of sounds that I can use very
quickly and easily set up through the
era phone going into the computer here's
some little demonstrations
is another one
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so here's another example using the
alchemy since this is a fantastic
synthesizer and what I've done this time
is I'm controlling the filter again from
one of the breath outputs but now I'm
using this controller here which is
giving me a different layer of sound to
be introduced as I blow harder you can
see this moving on the screen as well as
hear it so that's the update we've got
some much improved lip control we have
got some great new sounds and we've got
a vast array of controllers now to
control internal sounds and external
sounds as well this update is free and
it's available from the Roland website
thanks very much for watching