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#502598 - 04/09/21 03:19 PM
JUST A ROLAND E a7
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The Roland Ea7 Keyboard. April, 8,2021
Just bought a Ea7 to add to my Sx900. The instrument sounds are great, the styles are alive, and the weight is just right. After 20minutes I remembered doing the same thing when I had my Kn7000; I added a Roland keyboard, the model just before the “D” beam came out.
The manual and the keyboard are not friendly. I am basing my opinion on owning and performing with a Psr 2100, Tyros 3, Korg 800, 900, Pa 1000 And a Pa4x —- and now A Yamaha Sx900. My best guess, it appeals to the people in the eastern countries. Ho, one more thing, at 89 years old, I keep forgetting 50% of what I just read. Ouch! All that said I feel it is a great keyboard.
And now HELP! 1-Right window— Instruments. I am trying to select instruments and volumes for rt,1,2,3,lower. In the window, top left corner there is U1, How do I change it to rt 2,3, or lower?
John C.
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#502609 - 04/11/21 11:38 PM
Re: JUST A ROLAND E a7
[Re: bruno123]
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Registered: 04/25/05
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Loc: NW Florida
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I find the easiest way to remember stuff from the manual (as I get older myself!) is to concentrate on one thing at a time, but to actually DO whatever it is I’m reading...
Somehow, my mind will absorb it by the old ‘monkey see, monkey do’ process, but if I just read about something and don’t immediately do what I’m reading, it’s gone down the black hole of my mind!
Roland have never really done tutorials... their manuals have rarely been instructional, more reference books. The index is your best friend! But there IS a certain logic to them, as long as you don’t try to grok the whole thing in one go.
Make sure you have ALL the manuals... there is a reference manual and a general one, if I remember rightly. Possibly a MIDI one too (anyone?).
Sadly, the main weakness in the EA7 IMHO, was that its two brand new, long requested features came with ZERO content. After years of waiting we finally got a sampler. With no content! And zero compatibility with any multisample format, including Roland’s own legacy S series format. What a blunder..! Sure, it was a measly 128MB in size (very 90’s!) but even so, there’s a ton of Akai, Roland and Kurzweil sample sets that fit quite nicely into 128MB of RAM. But can the EA7 read any of them? Hell no!
And after waiting YEARS for a multipad system, Roland provide just a tiny few MIDI ones, no audio loops, and no way to import MIDI to the multipads. It all seems to halfhearted. Finally the features their users had begged for for two decades, then basically they said ‘Here you go, make your own content!’ 🙄
I hate to say it, but arranger users are mostly into content being provided. Imagine if a Yamaha came with no multipad content, or nothing for the sampler... 😱
It’s so sad, to finally have what we’d been asking for for decades, and then slapped in the face with how little they did with it....
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An arranger is just a tool. What matters is what you build with it..!
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#502615 - 04/12/21 06:35 AM
Re: JUST A ROLAND E a7
[Re: Diki]
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DiKi, thank you for your impute, it helped me keep my original thought -- I bought the Ea7 to fill in when I was becoming board with my world; you know, something new to do.
I do work as you suggested, one thing at a time, Thanks. I am now working on saving user programs. When I went from the Kn7000 to the Korg pa800, I forced myself not to use the same thinking; I am trying to do the same with the Ea7.
Having most of the Ea7 You Tube tutorials in a foreign language is not much help. I do have all the manuals, thanks to Donny.
I started working on how to a create and save a User Programs, all help appreciated.
But I am enjoying my new challenge, John C.
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#502624 - 04/14/21 02:07 AM
Re: JUST A ROLAND E a7
[Re: Diki]
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Diki, wisdom, wisdom, wisdom, you have so much of it – and I think it is good because I share many of your beliefs. (smile) I am basically a happy guy, I am 89, and soon to be 90 – I have made it, and I am still doing many of the things I did when I was younger, but slower. And I am still open to learning, thanks.
Today I have learned, from my friend Diki, to enjoy playing my new keyboard, play without trying to save and build. Just enjoy having the new keyboard. aaaaaaaaah! And you are right, thanks. John C.
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