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E-60/E-50
Music Workstation
Features
Roland’s most comprehensive arranger instru-
ment ever
The E-60/E-50 is quite simply a superlative instrument
with the most advanced and best sound generation
technology Roland has to offer. It contains a superb
internal sound source (based on the acclaimed Fan-
tom-X series).
New interface concept
The E-60/E-50 was designed from the ground up to put
its massive array of functions at your fingertips. The
touch-sensitive screen and the large number of front-
panel buttons usually provide direct access to the avail-
able functions, thus doing away with the need to wade
through countless menus.
Parameters that belong together from a musician’s
point of view are usually located on the same or adja-
cent display pages, while setting them has been greatly
simplified with respect to earlier arranger instruments.
Cover functions and Makeup Tools for Standard
MIDI Files and Music Styles
Reorchestrating existing Standard MIDI Files and Music
Styles has become a breeze thanks to high-quality Song
and Style Cover presets and an intuitive, instrument-
based, set of MAKEUP TOOLS parameters that allow you
to “revoice” your songs and Styles without spending
hours editing single events.
The structure of Standard MIDI Files can be changed in
real-time thanks to four programmable MARK & JUMP
memories, which allows you to play extended versions
of prerecorded songs.
Adaptive Chord Voicing technology
The E-60/E-50’s Arranger not only boasts a new struc-
ture (with 4 accompaniment levels, 4 Intros and 4 End-
ing phrases) but also relies on a more musical real-time
conversion of the chords you play into meaningful
accompaniment phrases. Roland’s patent-applied-for
ACV technology can indeed transpose Music Style parts
in such a way as to eliminate unnatural jumps of
strings lines, piano chords, etc.
Guitar mode
The E-60/E-50 features a Guitar mode that allows you
to play super-realistic electric and acoustic guitar parts.
Those parts can be used both alongside the Arranger
(live applications) and recorded using the E-60/E-50’s
16-track Sequencer/Recorder and the Style Composer.
Superfast Recorder and comprehensive 16-track
sequencer
The E-60/E-50 provides two approaches for recording
new song material: a Recorder function with a straight-
forward REC-START-STOP approach and a fully-fea-
tured 16-track sequencer with track-based and detailed
microscope editing functions.
Like many other functions on the E-60/E-50, the
Recorder interacts with other sections: you can link a
song to each User Program, you can cause any Stan-
dard MIDI File to be transposed automatically to a
range that allows you to sing with ease, the chords of
the songs you play back are recognized automatically
and displayed, etc.
Finder functions for songs, Music Styles and User
Programs
Another highlight of the E-60/E-50 is the fact that you
can work with an almost unlimited number of songs,
Music Styles and User Programs (in the internal mem-
ory, on memory card or floppy disk). Though there are
still factory Music Styles, you can also work with “CUS-
TOM” links to accompaniments in the internal memory
or on memory card, and even select such “external”
Styles on the fly. The same high-speed access system is
available for Standard MIDI Files (songs) and User Pro-
grams.
Thanks to the clever Finder databases, the difference
between what’s internal and what resides in an “exter-
nal” memory has become almost imperceptible.
Play List function
With the E-60/E-50’s Play List function, you can pro-
gram set lists for your performances. The advantage of
such song chains is that you won’t have to look for the
desired songs on stage.
Furthermore, you can already prepare the next song
while the current one is still running (NEXT SONG func-
tion).
D Beam controller (E-60)
The E-60 has the acclaimed D Beam Controller* for
intuitive song and Style playback control and additional
DJ-like effects via movements over an invisible beam of
infrared light.
And, of course, the BENDER/MODULATION lever is also
there, as are sockets for optional footswitches and an
expression pedal.
(* D Beam technology licensed from Interactive Light, Inc.)
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