Hi I'm Rudi from Better Music, we are here with you today with the new
brand spanking new Roland F-130, it has just been released
we've only had a few in, we've sold a few as well.
very very nice piano lots of really really nice features they've
taken a piano in a nice compact cabinet, they've put a whole bunch of features in it
connectivity with all sorts of things which I'll show you,
supernatural piano sound
it's is jam packed with features
things that learners can use that
seasoned pianists can use, there's just a lot of stuff on here
but primarily you've got a really really good piano first and foremost
So I'm just gonna run you through a few of the features that are on the piano, show you a
few things that you can do
so you heard the piano that I was just playing there, which is the
concert piano it uses Roland's acclaimed supernatural technology
which is a little bit more than just sampling I won't go into too much detail
'cause it's quite a lengthy
thing to learn about, but you can read about it on the website
the piano sound is is incredibly real and very very natural
So It's very detailed,
and very controllable as well.
this particular piano has Roland's new
PHA4 action
with ivory feel so the keys are finished in
a simulated ivory finish so they are very grippy on your fingers which feels really
really nice to play
your fingers don't slide around, and it tends to absorb the sweat off your fingers
which is what ivory actually used to do.
also new in this technology with the F-130R
the senses under the keys that detect how quickly you're playing
and with the amount of force that your playing and therefore the volume that you're playing
on each note
the senses have been sped right up so they are very very very accurate in terms of the
tracking say you can
really feel the control and the piano
You've got a bunch of rhythms that they've put in this piano now as well, there's 72 rhythms built in,
including some piano styles as well and they've put in 305
additional tones so rather than just having your standard piano, electric piano
strings, harpsichord which you have on most of these pianos
which you used to have on the previous model which is the F-120 you've got
305 sounds so you've got drum kits you've got bases, guitars, a whole bunch of
stuff in there
So I'll run you through a few of the little sounds, then I'll show you some other stuff
that you can do with it so you heard the piano sound so
I'm actually going to select some different sounds I've actually got the iPad hooked up at the moment
I will run you through that quickly afterwards but I'll just pick some
different sounds
so for instance let's pick a piano and a pad
Piano and choir
I can also do piano and strings
now I won't run you through all the sounds 'cause as I said there's 305 of them
we'll just got through
a few different ones so you can have a listen
you've got really cool electric pianos, now I'm actually selecting all these sounds from
the iPad here
which I've actually got wirelessly connected to the piano with the optional
WNA1100 Wireless adapter which is it's not expensive, it's $59
lets you actually control the piano with the iPad
I can pick the sound, so if I here pick marimba
electric piano
It's all wireless
It's all talking to the iPad the app is free, you download it from the Apple Store free of
charge from Roland
this is the iPad app its called piano partner
I'll run you through a few other things, but I'll just run some other sounds through for you
so let's see, an electric piano
church organ
jazz organ
there's just so many sounds in here, lot's of choirs
Roland's very famous jazz scat voices
A little bit of fun
again there's so many sounds, you've got drum kits as well
All sorts of different kits,
electric kits, jazz kits,
you can do whatever you want with it you can connect it to softer on your PC or your
Mac
there's just a lot in here, again though, this is the Roland F-130R
You can get it in black and white just reminding you which piano it is
just the piano sound you can
forget about all this other stuff if you want to and just play piano and it's just
It's just the real deal piano sound
again coming back to the app, I was showing you that I was
picking all the sounds from the piano here and there's 305 sounds in 'other'
you can go through all the different sounds
and you can control it all from here what this piano also has is it has
sort of a backing keyboard in it, so if you want to have a little bit of fun
and you don't want to play just piano, you want to have some nice grooves going on, you've got the rhythm section
again just reminding you, you don't have to use the iPad to do what I'm doing you can do
it all straight from the piano
but if you do have an iPad and you connect it up, it's very cool.
so I'm just going to go into here and pick
a bit of a rhythm
it's based on jamiroquai, but it's called jamiro dance
so I'm gonna
control it all from here and away we go
could have done an ending, you can do intro's you can do endings, you can stop and start
it'll start when you play
that's one of the features we can control on the piano here as well
you've also got flash cards where you can do musical games for the kids and
actually learn your theory
again this is all free from the Apple Store
you've got digi-score lite where it'll actually give you pieces and you can play
along
and it'll teach you how to play them left hand right hand
again this is all free and it can connect with a cable or it can
connect wirelessly
so in a nut shell you've got a piano
you've got a whole bunch of sounds, about 305 sounds
72 rhythms you've got the iPad
connectivity with the wireless connector which is optional
you've also got USB device port, so you can put a memory stick in you can record WAV file
you can get it in white or black, you can do all these things with it
it's just at the moment probably one of the hottest products on the market
sounds great does everything you'd want it to definitely come and check it out
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