Roland FP-E50 Modern Portable Piano
Modern and powerful
The FP-E50 digital piano is packed with Roland's best technology, is portable and therefore a creative hub for learning, composing and performing! 88 weighted keys and the SuperNATURAL piano engine deliver an authentic piano experience. With the pioneering ZEN‑Core sound technology you gain access to orchestral sounds, synthesizers and many other sonic ideas. Use the interactive accompaniments and become the leader of a whole band. The FP-E50 features a microphone input and internal vocal effects to create harmonies in real time, for example. Performances can be recorded directly on the instrument and exported.
Efficient workflow
Fast access to comprehensive functions. In the standard display view the FP-E50 shows the current sound, tempo and other important information. Roland put a lot of emphasis on a tidy user interface in the design, allowing direct access to sounds, favourites, pitch shift and other settings. Some buttons have useful dual functions that can be accessed via a long press. Without diving deep into menus, you can save changes and edit parameters.
Performance without limits
Whether at home or on stage, the FP-E50 combines Roland's modern keyboard and vocal technologies with expressive FP piano sounds!
High-quality piano experience
Roland's SuperNATURAL piano sound engine conveys the lively response and authentic feel of an acoustic grand. With 88 full-size keys, hammer action, escapement and the Ivory Feel touch, this digital piano comes astonishingly close to an acoustic instrument.
The ZEN‑Core universe
The pioneering and expandable ZEN‑Core sound engine is not only used in Roland's professional synthesizers like JUPITER‑X and FANTOM. The FP-E50 also benefits from this sound‑generation technology. The legendary Roland synthesiser sounds, orchestral and brass tones, drums, basses, guitars and world‑music sounds are only a few tweaks away and can be combined and split.
Backing-Band
With the Roland FP-E50 the band is always within reach. The intelligent auto-accompaniment tools help and are great fun. The nearly 200 built-in music styles were created by professional composers. This allows a complete arrangement to be controlled conveniently with the left hand — from single-note parts for beginners to chord-change detection for more advanced players. In interactive mode the dynamics and volume of the backings adapt in real time to a player's individual style. The chord sequencer function helps when improvising and developing melodies over chord‑progression presets.
Vocal effects
With the convenient microphone input you can sing directly while playing and practising. Studio-quality vocal effects are also available for processing. For example, harmonies can be generated in real time or the voice can be further altered using the voice transformer or the vocoder.
New possibilities
With suitable expansions from Roland Cloud, the integrated recording function, the backing band, Bluetooth audio/MIDI and USB connectivity for data transfer, the FP-E50 meets the needs of modern singer-songwriters and is simply a lot of fun.
Endless inspiration
A visit to Roland Cloud lets you download new accompaniments, SDZ Sound Packs and EXZ Wave Expansions from a growing selection of content, thereby expanding the ZEN-Core sound engine on the FP-E50 with legendary Roland tones.
Wireless with Bluetooth
Connect mobile devices via Bluetooth to the FP-E50 and stream songs wirelessly from your music library through the stereo sound system! You can practise directly on the digital piano. Via Bluetooth MIDI, music can be produced more extensively using apps like Roland's Zenbeats.
The right connections
Music production made easy. Record chord changes and melodies on the FP-E50. With the flexible audio recorder, vocals are saved directly on the instrument or optionally to a USB flash drive. Data can then be transferred via USB Audio/MIDI to a PC and a DAW. With the line output, the FP-E50 can be connected directly to an audio interface, a mixing console or an external PA.
Product information "Roland FP-E50 Modern Portable Piano"
The FP-E50 is a modern portable piano with powerful entertainment functions. In addition to the popular SuperNATURAL piano engine and the weighted 88-key keyboard, the new member of the FP series offers a whole host of other functions. One highlight is the new automatic accompaniment. Anyone who wants to accompany themselves while playing the piano now has direct access to various styles. But people who come from a keyboard background and would like to play the piano will also find the FP-E50 an interesting combination of piano and entertainment keyboard. In addition, the FP-E50 now also features Roland's ZEN-Core sound engine, which is already familiar from Roland's flagship Fantom. With over 1000 sounds, there is already a lot on offer here. These can be expanded in the future via the Roland Cloud. In the Roland Cloud you will find a constantly growing selection of content for the FP-E50. There is also a microphone input with access to interesting vocal effects. Thanks to Bluetooth audio/MIDI and the integrated audio/MIDI interface, nothing stands in the way of connecting to computers, tablets and smartphones.
- Color/ Finish: Black
- Connections: Input (stereo mini jack), Out (L/ Mono,R) 1/4 inch jack, microphone in: 1/4 inch jack, USB type B (USB midi/AUDIO), USB type A, 2x headphones (stereo mini jack, stereo 1/4 inch jack), pedal 1 (damper), pedal 2 (damper, sostenuto, soft)
- Dimensions (WxHxD): 1300x322x174mm
- Display: LCD (160 x 160 pixel)
- Effects: Ambience (10 types: Studio, Lounge, Concert Hall, Cathedral), 3-Band Digital EQ, Rotary (only for organ sounds), Mic FX (Harmony, Voice Transformer, Vocoder, Compressor, Noise Suppressor)
- Hammer Action: no
- Includes: Instruction manual, power supply, music stand, sustain pedal DP-2
- Integrated loudspeakers: Yes
- Keyboard: PHA-4 with pressure point simulation und Ivory Feel
- Keys: 88
- Loudspeaker: 2x 12 cm
- MP3/WAV Player/Recorder: 3 songs, recording time 390 min (maximum 200 min per song)
- Memory: USB Flash drive
- Metronome: yes
- Modes: Transpose, Favorite Tone, Dual, Split, Twin Piano, Demo Song, Center Cancel, Auto Off, One Touch Piano
- Optional accesories: Stand KSFE50-BK, pedal strip KPD-70
- Piano Effects: Lid, string resonance, damper resonance, key-off resonance, cabinet resonance, single note: tuning, volume, character
- Polyphony: 256 Voices
- Power (watts rms): 2x 11 W
- Sound generation: ZEN-Core, SuperNatural Piano, SuperNatural E. Piano
- Sounds / Tones: 38 Piano, 34 E.Piano, 36 Strings, 184 Organ/ pad, 729 Synth/Other (including 74 Drum Sets)
- USB / MIDI: USB to Host (MIDI), USB to Device
- Weight: 17,1 kg
- Wood Keyboard: no
- Bluetooth Audio/MIDI
- 107 styles
- Chord sequencer
Roland was founded as a manufacturer of various musical instruments and studio equipment on 18 April 1972 in Osaka, Japan. Among the earliest products to reach the market were the first rhythm machines of the TR series, whose successors TR-808, TB-303 and TR-909 had a decisive influence on the techno, electro and hip-hop scenes. In the mid-1970s the JC-120 Jazz Chorus guitar amplifier was developed, whose ultra-clear sound together with the built-in chorus effect won over both Andy Summers of The Police and Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield of Metallica. Since then and to this day Roland have continuously expanded their catalogue across a wide range of fields such as digital pianos, grooveboxes, e-drums and synthesizers with high-quality and interesting products.
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Das Angebot an Keyboards ist groß. Meine Entscheidung fiel vor allem deshalb auf das von Roland, weil in vielen glaubwürdigen Tests die Haptik und der Anschlag der gewichteten Klaviatur* lobend hervorgehoben wird - und beides kann ich nur bestätigen: Das Roland spielt sich hervorragend und klingt hervorragend! ( * Hinweis: Der Anschlag ist allerdings nicht ganz leicht, was es kindlichen Anfänger:innen vielleicht etwas schwerer machen könnte. Die über die Pianos hinausgehende Vielfalt der verfügbaren Instrumente und die weiteren Entertainfunktionen nutze ich allerdings nur eingeschränkt. Ein paar Styles der Begleitautomatik habe ich aber doch herausgesucht, da ich gerne - um Ideen für meine Musikvideoproduktionen zu entwickeln - vor mich hin jamme. Wer das Instrument tatsächlich "alleinunterhaltend" nutzen will, wird viele Möglichkeiten finden, die aber nur etwas mühsam, weil die tastengesteuerte Nutzerführung über das SW-Display nicht ganz einfach ist (und leider gibt es noch keine App, die beim Programmieren helfen könnte). Alles in allem aber ist das FP-E50 ein wirklich absolut überzeugendes Teil, das mir - und, wenn ich den Kopfhörer herausziehe, meinen gelegentlichen Zuhörer:innen - viel Freude bereitet.
