Hi,
today I try giving to you all a first report of my impression working with the Roland G-70. I hope
my knowledge of the English language is sufficient enough to find the right words.
Till now I played a Roland VA76 coupled with the Yamaha Tyros because I love the keyfeel of
the board that much and I have an additional character of sounds and styles for my music.
But now the facts not yet discussed in the forum:
The weight of the board is high (about 20 Kg) but it seems to be in order to a very solid case.
The operating is very, very easy in all applications. Much better than ever Roland Keyboards
have been. The touch sreen works very well. The overview is better as on all other keyboards
I know. But the screen is a little bit small so you possibly need a pair of glasses. Loading
songs or styles from external memory (I use a 256MB CF card) nearly takes no time.Cover and
Makeup Tools are fanfastic in acc on effect. A second splitpoint divide Upper 1/2 with the
Upper 3 Part. It effects the coupled Yamaha Tyros too in the same way (if you choose the
accurate Midi adjustment on both instruments). Very usefull are the 2 left parts.In my opinion a
highligth is the Music Assistant. Not concerning the precondition but in case of users effect.
Base are the complete User Programs. The assistant builds the finder by Name, Artist and
Genre. After select the complete User Program you can use the One touch settings to select
four complet sound and variation settings. All that takes only a second of time! Additional
there are finders for songs, styles and user programms without music assistant help. After
deleting the Roland presets (I don't need them) the internal memory shows 40MB freespace.
Thats' really a lot. (Tyros=3.3MB) Chaining of songs works without a pause, if you wish it.
The sliders are assignable for organ, tone volume, panpot, reverb chorus and mute
(for keyboard parts, songs and styles) Tone edit comprise modulation, envelope and filter (TVF).
The results of all tone updates have to save in user programs. The G-70 has no tone savearea.
But that is no problem. The Dbeam provides a lot of show effects. Octav setting can realtime
taken on the screen. (-4 to +4 to get guitar noice or some what) Tranpose is provided on the
panel. Some functions I didn't test because I need my user programs first. Don't ask me about
the overall Sound. I not finaly sure about that. It is a hard work to set the Equalizer, the
Compressor, the sound effects for a particular voice. At the afternoon I find my settings very
good, the next morning crap. But I think it is a normal feeling in acc on electronic instruments.
Most of the styles of all Pop categories sound good to me. Other classes are often filled with
old VA styles. They are more dynamic, but old is old. The function 'Style creater' that has been
announced in the first pictures of the 16-track sequencer is not yet implemented. May be with
the next update. Regards Hanspeter