From an important technician I heard that on
the next Frankfurter Messe Roland will come
with an automatic singing head.
This head will be programmable an can be pla-
on the keyboard. On the backsite is room for
a smartdisk. The face will be very flexible
and will follow the song completely.
The singing head has 20 male and 20 female
voices and has a polyphony of 2.
There a 50.000 words in the head to choose
from and there be 50.000 new words on a smart
disk too. This is the result of the vari-
phrasetechnique.

.. no doubt its biggest request will be "I ain't got nobody" .....
t.
(I couldn't resist.. should have, but couldn't )

I see a place for 2 or 3 of them in Scott Yee's setup

What a wonderfull idea from Roland this sing-
ing head. If it did not came from you Bevan I
could hardly believe it.What a progression
Roland made with the variphrase. Will the sin
ging head have speakers ? When there is no
room on the keyboard ,can it be placed on a
stand? Is this head transposable like most
of the arrangerkeyboards today?

So I guess the band, "Talking Heads" has a lawsuit on it's hands?

Al

Hi deb, glad you are still on the net.Are you
still a VA player? I hope so because the auto
matic singing head gives the best results
when used by a Roland arrangerkeyboard.
Yes the singing head has three little speak-
ers, one in the mouth and two in the ears.
When played in a large room you will get the
best result by putting a microphone in front
of the head.
Yes again for your next question there is a
stand for the singing head and when you
transpose on the keyboard the head will
follow and transpose too because they are
connected by Midi.At the delivery two wigs
are included, spectacles and sunglasses,
all for the singing head too. You can change
the colour of the head as you wish.

is there gonna be changeable faceplate? If I want the great Ray Charles face in the stage with me, is it possible?

The singing head can change the face just as
you like. This is a part of the programmabili
ty. The head comes with 500 presetfaces but
with a smartdisk you can expand this with
several sets of new faces from the most impor
tant singers from today and from the past.

Nothing like a little 'tete a tete'

- Scott
http://scottyee.com

O
M
G

Does this mean that you will buy one Uncle
Dave?

Nope....this means Roland pushes us another step further from live music in the clubs and at the private affairs. I wish they'd make a competitive new arranger that we could actually play instead of this nonsense.
Sheeesh!

Ya mean you can't see yourself doing "What'd I Say" with 3 Raylette bobble-heads doing back-up vocals?!

....See the girl with the red dress on?
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I want HER singing with me !

If these "technological advances" keep going, the only place we'll be singing is IN the head!!!!!
t.

Don't worry,Uncle Dave the future will bring
enough new and better arrangers for you and
all the other keyboardplayers here on this
site!

The first try outs of the singing head will
be in Belgium. It is not shure if it ever
will come to America. The US is a too small
music market for such a technical advantage.

I wonder if Roland will incorporate D Beam idea in the eyes.

We have too many big heads here already. Maybe a mechanical head will be an improvement over the likes of some of these "would-be" pop stars.

I am sure Uncle Dave that this will be true.
A D beam through the eyes seems a good idea
to me, I hope Roland reads this.
After the introduction of the automatic sin-
ging head the world will be changed forever.

Hmmmmm! It seems that Roland is a-head of Technics in this aspect!

Technics could reply with "dancing legs",
also connected with a keyboard.

.... aren't they that already?????
t.

The singing head,,,I can recall that reference to one of my former vocalists...Dave do you remember which one? I don't remember..