Hello everyone:

I guess I got lucky (I found one in a box, with easy payments and a very, very low price, I could not pass it on), and this Friday I will be receiving a Roland E80 in addition to my T3 and Korg PA.
So, any tips, styles you want to share , please, here is my email: manuelphx1@aol.com
I appreciate it very much.

Manuel

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mdorantes

You'll love it my friend. You'll probably want to download Session Manager from the Roland Arranger forum. It allows you to perform multiple tasks and editing not available on the kb itself.
DonM

Does anybody has the instrument definitions ( I am a Sonar/Cakewalk user), for the E80, and or if the G 70 instrument definitions would work on the E 80?
Thank you.

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mdorantes

Thank you Donny, that style collection will keep me busy for some time.
I have not seen you here...did I miss something?.
Thanks anyway.

Manuel



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mdorantes

Not sure, but he may have gotten a spanking from Nigel.

Just a temporary "Nigelectomy"...he'll grow back....so will the other fella.

Uppsss.....

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mdorantes

Got it !!!.

So far, I really like it, Great sounds, the few on board styles I have check so far like 7 out of 10, it is heavy.

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mdorantes

When you get a chance, go through the Music Finder and call up some styles that way. They have set up some really good ones. They sometimes use a style that you wouldn't think of using, change volumes, speeds, etc.
DonM

An AWFUL lot of what you can mine from the web or members here will be legacy Roland styles. Sure, they WILL work in an E80, but they will likely sound nowhere NEAR their best.

If I were you, one of the areas of the OS that I would spend the MOST time learning is the style Makeup Tools. This is where you can alter sounds, effects, dynamics and a lot of other things globally for the style, including selecting the best new E80 tones for the style, the best new drum kits (this is the main thing, for me...) and easily edit the drum kit. Change sounds in the kit, change velocity and volume (VERY important for hitting those vel-switched drum sounds right), change reverb sends, then the icing on the cake... Change the EQ for each drum individually, if it needs it.

It can rapidly (or slowly, depends on how you work!) change a pile of poo into a polished diamond you would be proud to use live...

It is my #1 most used piece of the arranger, and is still one of the primary reasons I stick with Roland. If they make tweaking styles easy, you are more likely to do it..! And that will make for a better comparison sonically between E80 ROM styles, and whatever you pick up out there in styleland, and hence make you HAPPY to use them. And, IMHO, variety of styles is the one thing that keeps you coming back to an arranger year after year after year...

Give the Makeup Tools as much time as you can. It WILL pay off for you...

I took my E 80 and my T3 to the gig for my Saturday evening dance, I can say that I did the job at least 90% on the E80, with some counter sounds from my T3 (mainly those S.A.2 sounds) I like it.
I miss the octave buttons physicaly, they are much faster than going into a menu, I am talking real time.
I did program 9 pages of user programs=registrations (9X8), I did use in did the Make up tools for the styles, is very handy, similar to the Console mixer only with more control.
It has lots of presence.
My very good friend Tapas Das was with me when the UPS guy delivered Friday evening(very late, almost 8PM), and he also went with me to this gig, he helped me to carry the E80 since I do not have (yet) a case or bag to carry it.
Well, time to go and fine tune those registration....upsss...User Programs.


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mdorantes

Congratulations on a good purchase Manuel.
Further proof, if any were needed that Roland
still has a place among top of range keyboards, even though the E80 faces newer updated rivals in this range. There is very little wrong with the E80 ( the weight is still the biggest drawback & octave buttons are an essential) so there is little to put right. Let's have a lighter & less bulky board with some new sounds & space for 4 sound cards rather than 2. I can't wait to purchase if the E80 Mark2 comes to market.
Tony

A new Roland will probably use the same sound engine as in the new Atelier range, (The G and E series use the same sound engine as the old Atelier range) and so sound wise will really be something special, (I can’t see many holding onto there old boards when they here the leap in sound quality of the new ones) and easily stamp its mark on the rest of the market. (The future looks rosy for Roland aficionados) IMO

Bill

[This message has been edited by abacus (edited 11-15-2009).]

If Roland came up with a clever followup to i.e. G-70 now, I think they would have a good chanche
to success.
Yamaha gave the world the Tyros3 with just minor updates from T2, Korg don't do any move, and as
we can see, so far Ketron don't really do any big success with Audya.

Cheers
GJ

Manual, you don't have to go into the menu to change ocataves. There's touch arrows near the bottom of the screen.
Also, to answer a couple of questions in your email:
First, you can set Hold parameters for the User Programs so that the Transpose doesn't change. Press and hold the HOLD button and the screen appears.
Also, you can assign the volume pedal to do what you want. Press Menu and Controllers for that screen. You can save your choices to User Program.
As top the chord issues, the fingering mode is saved in not only the User Program, but also in EACH of the OTS memories. You can easily change it though.
Best way to globally change things is with Session Manager.
DonM