Hi it's Rudi from Better Music, I'm here with the just released, Roland FP-30 Digital Piano,
this is a really good little product, it's come in at a price point that normally you
wouldn't get a Roland in, and now you can. It's very light weight, it's compact, It's
got a very, very powerful speaker system on board, you can't really hear it because we
are recording out of the output, but if you're here in the store, although it's only a small
piano, the speaker system is very powerful. It's got 12cm speakers, it actually gets up
to about 102db sound pressure level, which is pretty impressive for a little piano like
this. You've got an optional stand and pedalboard that you can get with it as well. What I'm
going to do today for you is just run you through it, talk a little bit about it, and
show you what it does. So you heard the main piano sound on there. It's very clear...
Using Roland's acclaimed SuperNatural technology, it's very, very rich and very, very accurate.
But they've put a whole bunch of things on here, I mean you've got an 88 note, fully
weighted PHA-4 action, you're using Roland's SuperNatural technology as I mentioned before,
you've got about, I think it's almost 35 sounds on board, including pianos, electric pianos,
strings, you can do dual voice, you can do split. So let's just run through a few of
the things. You've heard the piano sound, there's a bunch of different piano sounds
on there, so here's another one.
So that's a very bright one. There's about 6 piano sounds,
and we can go now into electric pianos, there's a bunch of those as well.
And a few different ones. Let's go to this one.
And you've got sort of your clavinet.
Now you've got strings, you've got synth pads, you've got, there's a whole bunch of different
sounds in here, the strings are really nice. There's a pad there, not a string.
Very easy to layer, I can layer that with a piano sound.
So piano and strings, we've got dual voice, we can also split the keyboard, I can have a...
I can change the sound that's being played in the split, so you've got a whole bunch
of different selections, you can change it to strings, bass, acoustic bass, there's a
lot of variation. So again, this is the new Roland FP-30, it's just been released, a few
other functions that you've got, you've got a headphone out, you've got a mini jack and
a large jack on the front, so if you're always losing that little headphone adaptor for your
headphones you don't have to worry, you can plug either side in. You've got a USB device
port, so you can actually plug a memory stick in, a USB drive, it'll play back MIDI files,
it'll also play back WAV files which is really, really handy and it's also got another USB
port for direct connection to Mac or PC or iPad, but of course the really cool thing
with this is you don't actually have to really physically connect an iPad, because Roland
have put bluetooth on the thing, so like on their more expensive F-140 and HP series,
you now have a bluetooth MIDI connection on this keyboard, which in this price category
is pretty amazing, and you can do things like, there's a whole bunch of apps you can connect
to. PiaScore, Sheet Music Direct, and you can have your score online on an iPad, you
can turn the pages with the pedal via bluetooth, you can even connect to GarageBand wirelessly
via bluetooth and play GarageBand from this instrument, as well other apps which are starting
to come online with bluetooth technology, so again for the FP-30 to have all of these
functions and quality sounds at the sort of price that it is is a pretty big milestone.
So we've gone through some of the sounds, of course you've got your metronome, you've
got a recording feature, you can do all that kind of thing, you can play along with your
WAV files as we said before, you can split the keyboard, it's available with the optional
triple pedals and timber stand, or you can get it just as a portable piano, it's very
lightweight. Fantastic piano. All I can say is get in the store, try it out and come and
enjoy what Roland have put out today, it's really a very good piano. See you later.