Can anyone post up a review of the roland bk7m in live use please . I am unfamiliar with roland arrangers but after listening to the audya live drum and midi drum comparisons I was nicely surprised by the roland. I am a choir musician and do all the arrangements for our choirs so can someone help in the following respects :

1 how easy is it to use live with for example my korg pa1x in terms of changing styles , activating drum fills live on the fly ?
2 how easy is it to customise styles and sounds ?
3 does it have an inboard sequencer ? Cheers

Spalding,
Do a search here for BK-7M there were several reviews of it about a year ago.
Deane

I reviewed it last year. It's easy to control with a dedicated controller, like my Edirol. Haven't tried controlling it with an arranger.
It does sound really great!
DonM

Which Edirol controller do you use Don?

Spalding,

I made some recordings with mine before I sold it and used it on several gigs. At the time I did not know how to properly setup my controller to control it so I had to always reach for it to make changes. That did not work for live gigs as you can imagine. Also, at the time it did not allow you to make changes to the Lead voices assigned to the styles. I did not like that either. That being said, the darn thing really sounded great and I have considered buying another one.

Here is a link to my samples if your interested:

https://www.box.com/s/81w0ghhr0gvcccvtejgf

Deane

Edirol PCR 800. I think the new version is branded Roland though.
DonM

Thanks for all the help guys and thanks hammer for your music examples . It's been a real help.

Here's one I did on BK7m. First time I played it, live, unedited, mistakes and all.
http://www.donmasonmusic.com/BabydollBK7m/DonsBabyDoll.mp3
DonM

Thanks for that Don. Very nice guitar work as usual and your singing voice suits the style very well