Hi,
There is a EXR-5 long demo (13') in KE music page (not in english).

You will see at:
http://www.ke-musik.dk/Upload/HtmlArticles/Article1284/index.htm

Then, push at:

Lyt til de indbyggede demoer (MP3)

It seems a nice demo.

Very impressive......

Now thats a Demo.. GREAT SOUND!!!!!!

I impressed overall from a KB at this price $795.00!!


Nice job Roland!

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Very impressive indeed!
Great sound for the money, I've seen these things in stores for around $599, Especially the Grand Piano sound is excellent.
Way to go Roland!

Greetz ,
Marcel

Yes, it seems a impressive demo.
And I hope EXR-5 may play all Roland styles (as EM-25 do).

It has a 16 track sequencer, but I don't know if this kb let you to modify style parts (change tracks voices, for example).

I remember old E-30, E-50, EM-25, EM-55, don't let you modify them. You may only modify volume of drums, bass, and acc., (and only going into menus, not direct keys). It is all. No editing: no change voices, no effects, etc. for accompaniment parts.

It would be a pity if new EXR-5 play styles in so rigid way as old E series. Yamahas are going far away in it...

Any knowloedge about?

When will the nw XR-7 be out....Summer Namm?

I wonder if it "knows" any old time Rock and Roll, or Country, or Big Band? I didn't hear more than one or two styles that I might personally use much.
DonM

Stunning !!!
considering the price, that is.

Donny,
The Roland EXR-5 is already out in Europe and in Canada. I demoed this unit and reviewed it. here is what I said,"I walked into a music store in Toronto to demo the Casio WK3500, unfortunately it was still in the box, but as I was looking around I saw the Roland EXR-5. They have them in Toronto as well!!!! The salesman said he's had them for 2 weeks. Does Roland consider Canada like Europe? Starkeeper european? No, that's a snowball melting in my pocket.
Here's a quick review - voices only, I didn't try the styles.
The acoustic piano is new, but not better, it has an electronic/electric type of tone to it - unacceptable. The electric pianos are excellent, since they could have used the acc piano as a base. The organs are about the same as the EM series, but with a Leslie sim and only on some tones. Arrr.
The flute is still not useable. The vibes are better then the PSR550, but then they always were, no change here. It's priced at about $800CDN which puts it head-to-head with the Yamaha PSR550 (which I have). I was disappointed again with Roland. I was not impressed at all. Yamaha has nothing to worry about from Roland. Next demo Casio WK3500. The music store I visited had a whole series of Yamaha arranger keyboards, including the PSR1100, PSR2100 and the Tyros. The Roland keyboard series including the EM55 and Casio's."
Starkeeper

I went to a music store locally to check out the Casio WK3500. A friend saw one last week there and said it was pretty neat for the money.
We drove all the way over there and they were sold out. Said they had sold 10 of them in the past couple of weeks.
Seems Casio has found a niche.
DonM

The organs on the WK3500 are very good, and tons of them. The Leslie sim is very good and is available on most of the samples. The Roland EXR-5 had only a few samples that had the DSP Leslie sim.
Too bad about the styles on the Casio.
Starkeeper

Roland has failed once again. When will they learn....

The EXR-5 has 47 effects onboard that can be assigned the sounds. This means you can assign the Leslie sim to ANY of ALL the sounds on the EXR-5. The Modulation lever will switch between fast and slow Leslie. Speeding up and slowing down is done real gradually, as it should be.

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Roland EXR-5 user - http://www.exr5.tk

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