MATRIXSYNTH: NAMM: Roland Prelude


Friday, January 16, 2009

NAMM: Roland Prelude

"Portable, Affordable Home Entertainment
Prelude represents Roland’s next generation of home-entertainment keyboards, featuring high-quality sounds and musical styles, built-in amplification, and an affordable price. Prelude is portable, and packed with an impressive library of contemporary sounds and authentic ethnic styles.

Hundreds of essential, contemporary sounds inherited from Roland’s top sound modules

Multi-format song player that allows song data to be played directly from USB Flash memory (MP3, WAV, AIFF, and SMF format)

Stylish, lightweight design

Built-in speakers with impressively powerful sound

Flagship Sounds
Don’t let Prelude’s affordability mislead you ― it sounds like a keyboard costing twice the price. Prelude is equipped with hundreds of top-quality sounds derived from Roland's famous sound modules. It also features 128 polyphonic voices for smooth performance, even with stacks of sounds playing at the same time.

Play-Along Styles
Prelude is packed with a wide variety of contemporary sounds and intelligent backing styles, plus loadable banks of ethnic sounds and styles from around the world. Style Converter and Playlist Editor software is included so you can customize and arrange your songs via PC.

Fun, Friendly Features
Prelude’s USB Memory Player allows direct playback of MP3, WAV, AIFF, and SMF files from a USB key. For karaoke fun, the Center Cancel transforms your favorite pre-recorded songs into “minus one” type sing-along tracks. For dazzling performance effects, wave your hand over Prelude’s invisible D Beam to manipulate your sounds in unique and exciting ways."

No details on whether this is editable but the specs do list:
User Memory Performances: 128

Synths with built in speakers always intrigue me for some reason. The HS60 and Juno-106S for example are full blown Roland Juno-106es with built in speakers.

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