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Roland FP-80-BK

Description

Rolands Premier Technologies for an Authentic Piano Experience at Home
The stylish and sophisticated FP-80 is the ideal choice for piano enjoyment in modern living spaces, offering tone, touch, and expressiveness to satisfy even the most demanding players. Rolands acclaimed SuperNATURAL Piano technology powers the onboard grand piano sounds, delivering world-class performance with seamless velocity response, natural tone decay, and authentic key-range behavior. The Ivory Feel-S Keyboard with Escapement provides true grand piano feel and expressiveness, with keys that replicate the unique appearance, texture, and moisture-absorbing properties of real ivory. Incorporating four discrete speakers, the innovative Acoustic Projection sound system recreates the natural, organic sound field of an acoustic grand, filling your home with rich, beautiful tones. Youll also love the intuitive Piano Designer feature, which makes it easy to personalize the FP-80s tone and response to suit your taste.

Pro-Level Sounds and Rhythm Features Bring Versatility for Live Playing
If you play on stage as a solo performer or with a band, the mobile FP-80 is a ready companion, providing authentic piano expression everywhere you go. In addition to acoustic pianos, its filled with a large selection of premium sounds for the stage, including SuperNATURAL-based classic EPs, essential organ tones, strings, modern synths, and more. The Acoustic Projection sound system is useful for personal monitoring on large stages, and is suitable for primary amplification in intimate venues. When you play solo, the rhythm function makes your piano performances shine with beautiful and sophisticated backing. Intelligent full-keyboard chord recognition gives you complete control of your personal band, with automatic accompaniment that dutifully follows whatever you play. The convenient rear-panel jack lets you connect an external mic and sing along with your performance, and you can even add real-time harmony effects to your voice based on the chords you play.

Unique Digital Advantages Enhance Music Practice and Composition
The FP-80s digital technology offers many great benefits that enhance your piano practice sessions. You can turn off the built-in speakers and play privately using headphones, allowing you to practice day or night without disturbing family members or neighbors. The Rhythm accompaniments help you develop your sense of timing and groove as you play along with various music styles, and the Chord Pattern function lets you play along with automatic chord sequences for practicing improvisation in different keys. Via optional USB memory, you can play along with WAV audio files using various playback options such as key transposition, tempo adjustment, and Center Cancel, and record your performances as audio data for composing or self-evaluation. SMF songs can be played from USB memory as well.

Harmony Effect and Air Recorder for More Musical Fun
The FP-80 offers a variety of ways to extend and enhance your piano enjoyment. While entertaining at home, connect a mic and encourage friends and family to sing along, and add in the harmony effect for automatic vocal harmonies that are sure to impress. Plug in a USB memory stick to record the piano and vocal performances as audio data, and then transfer the audio to a computer to share memories of the occasion with everyone involved. Using the optional Roland WNA1100-RL Wireless USB Adapter, the FP-80 can also communicate with Apples popular iOS devices via Roland Wireless Connect. With the free Air Recorder app, you can play along with your favorite songs stored in your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and record your performance into the app at the same time.

SPECIFICATIONS:

KEYBOARD
Keyboard: 88 keys (Ivory Feel-S Keyboard with Escapement)
Touch Sensitivity:
- Key Touch: 100 levels, Fixed Touch
- Hammer Response: Off, 1 to 10
Keyboard Modes:
- Whole
- Dual (volume balance adjustable)
- Split (split point, volume balance adjustable)

SOUND GENERATOR
Piano Sound: SuperNATURAL Piano Sound
MIDI Format: Conforms to GM2, GS, XGlite
Max. Polyphony: 128 voices
Tones:
- Grand Piano: 14 tones
- E.Piano: 25 tones
- Strings: 19 tones
- Other: 296 tones (including 8 drum sets, 1 SFX set)
Temperaments: 8 types, selectable temperament key
Stretched Tuning (only for piano tones):
- On
- Off
Stretched Tuning (Only for piano tones):
- Preset
- User (adjustable in individual notes: -50.0 to +50.0 cent)
- Off
Master Tuning: 415.3 to 466.2 Hz (adjustable in increments of 0.1 Hz)
Transpose:
- Key Transpose: -6 to +5 (in semitones)
- Playback Transpose: -6 to +5 (in semitones)
Effects:
- Ambience (Off, 1 to 10)
- Equalizer (4-band digital equalizer)

Only for piano tones (Piano Designer):
- Soundboard Behavior (Off, 1 to 10)
- Cabinet Resonance (Off, 1 to 10)
- Hammer Noise (-2 to +2)
- Damper Noise (Off, 1 to 10)
- Duplex Scale (Off, 1 to 10)
- Damper Resonance (Off, 1 to 10)
- String Resonance (Off, 1 to 10)
- Key Off Resonance (Off, 1 to 10)

Only for organ tones:
- Rotary (Slow/Fast)

Only for some tones:
- Modulation Speed (1 to 127)

Only for MIC INPUT:
- Harmony (Off, 2 types)
- Ambience (Off, 1 to 10)

METRONOME
Tempo: Quarter note = 10 to 500 (When rhythm function turns on: Quarter note = 20 to 250)
Beat: 2/2, 0/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 3/8, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8
Volume: 11 levels

SMF RECORDER
Parts: 2 parts (Keyboard, Accompaniment)
Song Save Format: Standard MIDI Files (Format 0)
Songs: 1 song
Note Storage: Approx. 30,000 notes
Controls:
- Song Select
- Play/Stop
- Rec
- Rewinding
- Fast-forwarding
- Beginning of song/Previous song
- Next song
- Tempo
- All songs play
- Count-in
Tempo: Quarter note = 10 to 500 (When rhythm function turns on: Quarter note = 20 to 250)
Resolution: 120 ticks per quarter note

RHYTHM
Rhythms: 90 types x 2 variations
Controls:
- Start/Stop
- Sync Start
- Intro/Ending
- Fill In
- Variation
- Chord Hold
- Leading Bass
- Rhythm Part
- Chord Pattern (90 types, 2 variations in some rhythms)

AUDIO
Playable Format: Audio files (WAV format, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit linear)
Recording (when using sold separately USB Flash Memory):
- Keyboard
- SMF data
- Song
- Rhythm
- Audio from MIC INPUT and INPUT jacks
Recording Format (when using sold separately USB Flash Memory): Audio files (WAV format, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit linear)
Transpose: Playback Transpose: -6 to +5 (in semitones)
Tempo: Audio Playback Speed: 75 to 125 %
Controls:
- Song Select
- Play/Stop
- Rec
- Rewinding
- Fast-forwarding
- Beginning of song/Previous song
- Next song
- Tempo
- All songs play
- Center Cancel (with audio from INPUT jack)

INTERNAL MEMORY
Save Format:
- Standard MIDI Files (Format 0)
- Registration Set Files (Roland original format)

EXTERNAL MEMORY
External Storage: USB Flash Memory
Playable Song Format:
- Standard MIDI Files (Format 0, 1)
- Roland original format (i-Format)
- Audio files (WAV format, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit linear)
Save Format:
- Standard MIDI Files (Format 0)
- Audio files (WAV format, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit linear)
- Registration set files (Roland original format)

OTHER
Internal Songs: 30 songs
Registrations: 25 Registrations (capable of pedal shift)
Rated Power Output:
- 7 W x 2
- 6 W x 2
Volume Level (SPL): 101 dB
Speakers:
- (8 (3-3/16 inches) x 12 cm (4-3/4 inches)) x 2 (with speaker box)
- (5 (2 inches) x 12 cm (4-3/4 inches)) x 2
Display: Graphic LCD 128 x 64 dots
Control:
- Volume (slider)
- MIC VOLUME
- [SPEAKER] switch
Other Functions:
- Panel Lock
- V-LINK
- MIDI Visual Control
- Tone Demo
- Edit Tone Wheel
- Roland Wireless Connect (wireless LAN function *1)
- *1: Wireless USB Adapter sold by Roland is required.
Connectors:
- DC IN jack
- PEDAL (DAMPER/R, SOFT/L *, SOSTENUTO/C *) jacks : 1/4-inch phone type (* assignable)
- INPUT jack: Stereo miniature phone type
- OUTPUT (L/Mono, R) jacks: 1/4-inch phone type
- MIC INPUT jack: 1/4-inch phone type
- USB COMPUTER port: USB Type B
- USB MEMORY port: USB Type A
- MIDI (IN, OUT) connectors
- PHONES jack: Stereo 1/4-inch phone type
Power Supply: AC Adaptor
Power Consumption:
- 10 W (7 to 33 W)
- 10 W: Average power consumption while piano is played with volume at center position
- 7 W: Power consumption immediately after power-up; nothing being played
- 33 W: Rated power consumption
Accessories (included):
- Owner's Manual
- AC Adaptor
- Power Cord
- Music Rest
- Damper Pedal (capable of continuous detection)