Ok it's offical. Roland have no shame at all. That was bad, extremly bad.

Whoever works in marketing should be fired.

I'm curious... Where is the usual official Roland header and end credits? Is this something that Roland are using, or is it something that he did for another client (a store chain, for instance?) or a concept for Roland?

Sure, the acting is hammy, but for starters, anyone notice how good the keyboard sounds (for a $900 unit)? Secondly, how good the styles and playing were?

It may be cheesy, but it runs circles around any of the MS videos, just for sound quality and practicality of performance, not to mention acting and presentation!

In fact, even compared to Roland's own official GW-8 NAMM presentations, this is MUCH better (admittedly, almost anyone here could have done better than THOSE ).

And the Oscar goes to.... Neither of these guys!

The keyboard is awesome. The acting was painful and all I could do to make it to the end - ugh!

And THAT my friends, is why anyone under 30 avoids buying an Arranger keyboard.....

Thank goodness for YAMAHA !

Diki,
Nice to see at least you can see the tree from the woods and give credit where credit due
I have a Prelude, and now with OS2 belive me, its not one of the best arrangers in its price range, it is the Best.I do not use the Prelude as a main board but as slave to a PA50.The styles are very good in the main OTB,but with little effort can be made to sound bad or excellent according to ones own taste.In the main the voices are great and realistc,however the editing feture allows a great deal of tweaking and again with a little effort you will arrive at the sound your looking for.
Roland has not done a great deal of promotion on the Prelude which is more exspensive than the GW8 which has reveived a great deal more publisity and many have said its the same board minus speakers,however the Prelude also has lyric display NTA and good MFX controls on both style and voice.You can create a new style from scratch,it has usb computer connection and usb programme load,I say try it before you knock it.I must add I am only a humble home player but over 50 years have owned most Technics,Yamaha,Roland and Korg and know a good buy from a Bad one.
Gilbert.
The Oscar goes to Prelude.

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I totally agree with Diki ... bad acting but that is obviously intentional ... but the Prelude itself appears to be good value for the price.

But the marketing strategy sure is very questionable.

Thanks to Scott. Nice to see you posting again. Here are some others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvAh4aqrVGs&feature=related

The Prelude sure sounds excellent, in spite of the odd presentation....it has a nice warm, rich sound, reminiscent of the old E-series, but better.