Hi.

This monday me and my wife was at a Roland G70 demo in Malmö, Sweden. The demo was arranged by 5 different musicstores in the south of Sweden together with Roland and Ralph Schink.
I used to own a Tyros (that i loved) and after what i have read in this forum, i didn't think to much of the G70.
But.....I must say that it was the best demonstration i have ever seen.

The "Ralph Schink show" started with a clean Grand Piano sound and, WOW, what a sound. I now really understand why Robert Wells (http://www.wellsmusic.se) plays Roland!

Some sounds and effects where demonstrated, all excellent.

After that Ralph played up a 'scene' from a wedding. He started in the church with choir, churchorgan and then 2 guitars + a saxophone. With the many splits he really got the best out of the KB. He also played the type megavoice sounds for the guitars and this was just so good, all from hitting the guitarbody to slides and strumming sounds. No tricks, he just played it.

For every song he played, he explained the functions, effects and how the style och arrangement was working together with the righthand sound.

The "wedding" went on with some dinnermusic, bridewalz and slowdance. After that the tempo went up and some rock'n roll sounded. He described the drawbars and played several organsounds. Disco was no problem, the synthsounds where very cool.

The D-beam really is a cool thing; for use as sfx or changing the sound from a trombone.

Bigband, jazzband, latin or worldmusic. All sounded very good. He also demonstrated some sounds from the SRX-card World music, a Didgeroo from Australia and some other sounds. Impressive.

He demonstrated the Vocal Harmonizer and it sounded much better than the Tyros. The Auto-pitch function was very cool for those (like me) who does not sing very well!

Before he ended he 'just had to play' TicoTico and did he play!? The tempo was at 140bpm when he started and he increased it to incredible 212bpm!! It was almost not possible to see his fingers through the videosystem that was showing his playingtechnique or the display.

The demonstration ended with that Ralph played a nice song with only the Grand piano.


Both my wife and i where stunned by the sound from the KB and of course the perfomance from Ralph Schink.

After listening to G70 for an hour and half, played by such a great KB-player, my conclusion must be as follows......

The Roland G70 runs in eights around Tyros, not just by it's more professional look but also with better sound, better effects and better keys!

Best: *76 keys
*"real" splitpoints
*scatvoices
*the most used functions as real buttons
*easy controlled touch screen
*sounds
*D-beam
*vocal harmonizer
*playable "megavoices"

Worst: I don't have the money to buy it!

This is all in my (and also my wifes) personal opinion. Maybe there are other ways of seeing things, this is just one way.
I hope that this little "review" is appreciated.

Best regards

/Mats