Hey Squeak,

I too am interested in the Prelude. Speakers are a MUST for me. A deal breaker for me in a board is not having lightning fast performance changes for song play (medleys, etc)! I literally string/change songs on a downbeat. The 800 songbook is terrific for that and so is the VA7.

I think the board is out in April?

How's that vacant drug house - cleaning it up???????????

Zuki hurry with that website I still wanna hear those medleys ....or just email me a few I'll host them for you or put em on You Tube..

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This keyboard seems to sound really great. Check out these demos...

Guitars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjmPkpgCq0I

Strings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfNAbYTUnwE

Song: Men in Black http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCegTf9ez18

More Demos (from this User): http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=alpisofr&view=videos&query=e-09

Thanks for your post George and all the other useful information that you post here...

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That guy did some great audio vids for this model. I saw these some time ago. The E-09 sounds really good in many areas. The Warm Strings tone was very nice.., and it was nice to see some tones with the XP patch names

The only down side to these (for me) would be the lack of the most basic voice editing. I wouldn't mind having something like the E-09, but for myself..., I know there will be tones/patches that I would want to adjust the ADSR and filters on. If I bought a budget Roland arranger it would have to be the GW-8. I'd love to have a speaker version of the GW-8 and YES it exists in the Prelude.., but Roland jacked the price of that puppy up to $1,000 and took away patch editing

The E-09 would make a great affordable keyboard for someone needing that "out of box" sound though.

Good to hear from you Squeak, you helped some time ago very kindly with my usual strange questions

Well, coming from a PSR-290, this Roland will at least for me be a great enhancement.
Actually I wanted to buy a Yamaha S500/550 but to my ears the E09 sounds better.

Recently I won an E-09 Ebay-Auction: 290,- Euro for a floor model with 2-year-warranty. At least for Europe it's a great price.

Lookin' forward to get this little black beauty...



[This message has been edited by sunfactor (edited 02-21-2009).]

George, I owned one about 18 months ago, black. I couldn't say anything negative about the sounds, but the arranger section is not what most of the SZers would call acceptable - three variations based on trio, quartet and bigger band? For it's price range, it was IMHO a decent board, but the arranger section was definitely entry level. FWIW

Cassp,
It's not exactly what you explained for the arranger section. There are 3 sizes of bands. Bass and drum, combo and full orchestra. In additional, there is also "original" and "variation". I think the styles sound very good in this model and although there is not the 4 variations we find in most keyboards selling in the higher price range, this keyboard sells in the less than $500 range.

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George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California
818-881-5566
www.kayesmusicscene.com

Plus..., how much can you really expect in the style department in this price range Sure.., 4 variations would be nice, but for the price those styles still are quite nice..., and sure ain't no Casio either For under $500 you get 64 note poly, good sounds, above average styles, 16 trk sequencer, a D-Beamn.., AND MIDI JACKS TOO! Get your hands on some instrument defs for this E-09 along with a half decent software app and you got yourself a decent sequencing keyboard too.

If you're like me though and will probably feel the need to do some basic patch editing..., you may not be too pleased. However, the E-09 still offers a lot in the bang for buck catergory.

Yeah it offers big bang for the buck....but AFAIK there is no D-Beam on it (I think the GW7/8 would have one).

At least I don't see it on the pics http://www.rolandmusik.de/produkte/E-09/images/E-09_3-big.jpg

Whoops..., my bad! There I go assuming things again Thought it had the D-Beam...