Product Description
Roland XP-50 Expandable Music Workstation
About This Keyboard
This XP-50 is in very good condition with everything that we know how to test working exactly as it should. The screen is bright and clear, the keys all play well and you have to look very pretty hard to find any scratches on it. We don't get many in that are this nice so grab it up while you can. There are no expansion cards installed.
Technical Specs.
The XP-50 is not just another synthesizer workstation, it's basically a JV-1080with a built-in keyboard and a 16-track sequencer! It is a digital synthesizer using sampled ROM waveforms. Superb sound quality capable of emulating most any instrument imaginable plus totally fat analog synth type sounds and loads of percussion! It has 64 voices of polyphony and is 16-part multitimbral. The XP-50 makes a great beginner's or pro-quality workstation. It has 8MB of sounds and it also offers a lot of expandability with 4 expansion slots and 2 data card memory slots. You can get up to 42MB of sounds by adding any of the popular SR-JV80 expansion cards suited for Techno, World Instruments, Orchestral or Synthesizers. There's also plenty of multi-effects, reverbs, choruses and filters for creative flexibility, motion control and extensive MIDI implementation. Some of the features the XP-50 brings (to the JV-1080) are a standard 61-note keyboard with velocity and aftertouch. The MRC-PRO 16-track sequencer which features 60,000 note capacity and can hold 100 patterns and 1 song. Several recording features (loop, step, realtime), quantization and editing features are available too. A built-in 3.5 inch disk drive facilitates storage of your sequences and MIDI data. With a 'bang for your buck' value the XP-50 still makes a great keyboard alternative to the JV-1080. That means you get some of Roland's best sounds in a performance workstation that is as affordable as 'pro-quality' can get (beyond which come the XP-60andXP-80mega-synths). It has been used by The Cure .
- Polyphony- 64 Voices
- Oscillators- 32 bit custom RISC chips for Digital Acoustic simulation; 512 on-board waveforms (plus up to four 8MB SRJV80 series expansion boards)
- LFO- Up to 8 MIDI syncable LFOs
- Filter- TVF (lowpass, bandpass, high pass, peak) with cutoff, resonance, key follow and velocity sensitivity
- Effects- 40 multi-effects, reverb, chorus
- Memory- 640 Patches, 128 performances
- Keyboard- 61 keys (responds to velocity and aftertouch)
- Control- MIDI (16-parts)
- Date Produced- 1995
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It is important to remember that when buying a used keyboard it may not operate or look exactly like a new one. Used keyboards develop wear over time that can cause such items as function buttons, knobs, sliders etc. to fail to operate as smoothly or easily as when they were new. Our technician does check these items and if they are deemed unusable they are replaced but some function buttons may require more pressure or manipulation to make the appropriate changes. Cosmetically your used keyboard may have scuffs, scratches, cracks to plastic pieces, discolored keys or other visual impairments that might not show up in the photos. We try to mention any obvious visual imperfections but may not consider them serious enough to post in the listing.