Roland FP-50 User Manual

FP-50
Digital Piano
Authentic Piano Performance to Go
Travel-friendly and a󱐯ordable, the FP-50 brings you top-class piano performance along with many other great features to enhance your playing enjoyment. At your ngers is the authentic tone and touch of an acoustic grand, plus a large selection of versatile sounds for performing in a variety of situations. The intelligent rhythm feature makes it simple to create incredible music, providing dynamic, sophisticated accompaniments that automatically follow your performances in real time. And with its compact, stylish design and built-in speaker system, the FP-50 is always ready to go wherever you want to play.
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Roland’s acclaimed SuperNATURAL Piano sound engine
Ivory Feel-G Keyboard with Escapement
Built-in speaker system
Intelligent rhythm feature with full-keyboard chord recognition
90 rhythm types, with two variations for each style
Available in black (FP-50-BK) and white (FP-50-WH) nishes
Compatible with DP-10 Damper Pedal (included) or RPU-3 Triple Pedal (optional)
Optional matching stands: KSC-44 (for home use) and KS-18Z (for stage use)
Optional CB-88RL carrying bag
FP-50
Digital Piano
A New Level of Piano Performance at Home
The FP-50’s authentic piano sound and touch provides top­level performance for playing all musical genres, from classical and jazz to rock and pop. Roland’s SuperNATURAL Piano sound engine faithfully replicates the unmatched tone color and expressiveness of the nest acoustic grand pianos, delivering seamless velocity response, natural tone decay, and authentic key-range behavior. Supreme playability comes from the Ivory Feel-G Keyboard with Escapement, which inherits the
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functions, appearance, and texture of keyboards found in our agship pianos. At an a󱐯ordable price, the stylish FP-50 o󱐯ers sound, touch, and expressiveness rivaling that of high-end instruments.
Versatile Features and Easy Mobility for Live Players
Streamlined and compact, the FP-50 is easy to transport anywhere. In addition to premium acoustic pianos, it’s lled with a large selection of stage-ready sounds, including SuperNATURAL-based classic EPs, essential organ tones, strings, modern synths, and more. Stereo outputs let you connect to an external amplication system, while the built-in speakers help you monitor your performance while on stage. The intelligent rhythm feature gives you control of an entire onboard backing band for solo performing, with automatic accompaniment that follows whatever you play on the keyboard.
Digital Advantages for Developing Piano Skills
The FP-50’s digital technology o󱐯ers many great benets that enhance your piano practice sessions. You can turn o󱐯 the built-in speakers and play privately using headphones, allowing you to practice day or night without disturbing family members or neighbors. Rhythm accompaniments assist you in developing timing and groove, and the wide selection of music styles help expand your versatility. Via optional USB memory, you can play along with WAV audio les using various playback options such as key transposition, tempo adjustment, and Center Cancel, and record your performances as audio data for composing or self-evaluation. SMF songs can be played from USB memory as well.
FP-50
Digital Piano
Fun Air Performer App for iOS Devices
Extend your piano enjoyment with Roland Wireless Connect and the free Air Performer app, which lets you play along with your favorite songs in your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch through the FP-50’s sound system. Roland Wireless Connect is simple to set up and use, providing convenient, cable-free communication with Apple iOS devices via Roland’s optional WNA1100-RL Wireless USB Adapter.
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FP-50
Digital Piano
FP-50 Specications
[Keyboard]
- Keyboard
88 keys (Ivory Feel-G Keyboard with Escapement)
- Touch Sensitivity
Key Touch: 5 levels, Fixed Touch
- Keyboard Modes
Whole Dual (volume balance adjustable) Split (split point, volume balance adjustable)
[Sound Generator]
- Piano Sound
SuperNATURAL Piano Sound
- MIDI Format
Conforms to GM2, GS, XGlite
- Max. Polyphony
128 voices
[Metronome]
- Tempo
Quarter note = 10 to 500 (When rhythm function turns on: Quarter note = 20 to 250)
- Beat
2/2, 0/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 3/8, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8
- Volume
11 levels
[SMF Recorder]
- Parts
2 parts (Keyboard, Accompaniment)
- Song Save Format
Standard MIDI Files (Format 0)
- Songs
Max. 99 Songs (depend on number of note)
- Tones
Grand Piano: 14 tones E.Piano: 25 tones Strings: 18 tones Other: 315 tones (including 8 drum sets, 1 SFX set)
- Temperaments
8 types, selectable temperament key
- Stretched Tuning (only for piano tones)
On O󱐯
- Master Tuning
415.3 to 466.2 Hz (adjustable in increments of 0.1 Hz)
- Transpose
Key Transpose: -6 to +5 (in semitones) Playback Transpose: -6 to +5 (in semitones)
- E󱐯ects
Ambience (O󱐯, 1 to 10) Equalizer (4-band digital equalizer)
Only for piano tones: Soundboard Behavior (O󱐯, 1 to 10) Cabinet Resonance (O󱐯, 1 to 10) Damper Resonance (O󱐯, 1 to 10) String Resonance (O󱐯, 1 to 10) Key O󱐯 Resonance (O󱐯, 1 to 10)
Only for organ tones: Rotary (Slow/Fast)
Only for some tones: Modulation Speed (1 to 127)
- Note Storage
Approx. 30,000 notes
- Controls
Song Select Play/Stop Rec Rewinding Fast-forwarding Beginning of song/Previous song Next song Tempo All songs play Count-in
- Tempo
Quarter note = 10 to 500 (When rhythm function turns on: Quarter note = 20 to 250)
- Resolution
120 ticks per quarter note
[Rhythm]
- Rhythms
90 types x 2 variations
- Controls
Start/Stop Sync Start Intro/Ending Fill In Variation Chord Hold Leading Bass Rhythm Part
FP-50
Digital Piano
FP-50 Specications
[Audio]
- Playable Format
Audio les (WAV format, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit linear)
- Recording (when using sold separately USB Flash Memory)
Keyboard SMF data Song Rhythm
- Recording Format (when using sold separately USB Flash Memory)
Audio les (WAV format, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit linear)
- Transpose
Playback Transpose: -6 to +5 (in semitones)
- Tempo
Audio Playback Speed: 75 to 125%
- Controls
Song Select Play/Stop Rec Rewinding Fast-forwarding Beginning of song/Previous song Next song Tempo All songs play Center Cancel
[Internal Memory]
- Save Format
Standard MIDI Files (Format 0) Registration set les (Roland original format)
[External Memory]
- External Storage
USB Flash Memory
- Registrations
20 Registrations (capable of pedal shift)
- Rated Power Output
12 W x 2
- Volume Level (SPL)
98 dB * This gure was measured according to the method that
is based on Roland's technical standard.
- Speakers
8 x 12 cm (3-3/16 x 4-3/4 inches) x 2
- Display
Custom LCD
- Control
Volume (slider)
- Other Functions
Panel Lock V-LINK MIDI Visual Control Tone Demo Roland Wireless Connect (wireless LAN function *1) *1: Wireless USB Adapter sold by Roland is required.
- Connectors
DC IN jack PEDAL (DAMPER/R, SOFT/L *2, SOSTENUTO/C *2) jacks:
TRS 1/4-inch phone type INPUT jack: Stereo miniature phone type OUTPUT (L/MONO, R) jacks: 1/4-inch phone type USB MEMORY port: USB Type A MIDI (IN, OUT) connectors PHONES jack: Stereo 1/4-inch phone type *2: Assignable
- Power Supply
AC adaptor
- Playable Song Format
Standard MIDI Files (Format 0, 1) Roland original format (i-Format) Audio les (WAV format, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit linear)
- Save Format
Standard MIDI Files (Format 0) Audio les (WAV format, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit linear) Registration set les (Roland original format)
[Other]
- Internal Songs
30 songs
- Power Consumption
9 W (6 to 31 W) 9 W: Average power consumption while piano is played
with volume at center position 6 W: Power consumption immediately after power-up;
nothing being played 31 W: Rated power consumption
- Dimensions
1,343 (W) x 313 (D) x 125 (H) mm 52-7/8 (W) x 12-3/8 (D) x 4-15/16 (H) inches
1,343 (W) x 405 (D) x 927 (H) mm 52-7/8 (W) x 16 (D) x 36-1/2 (H) inches (FP-50 with dedicated stand KSC-44 and music rest)
FP-50
Digital Piano
FP-50 Specications
- Weight (including piano stand)
16.5 kg 36 lbs 5 oz
28.9 kg 63 lbs 12 oz (FP-50 with dedicated stand KSC-44 and music rest)
- Accessories
Owner's manual AC adaptor Power cord Music rest Damper pedal (capable of continuous detection)
- Options (sold separately)
Dedicated stand: KSC-44 Keyboard stand: KS-18Z, KS-G8, KS-12 Carrying Bag: CB-88RL Pedal unit: RPU-3 Damper pedal: DP-10 Pedal switch: DP-2 Expression pedal: EV-5, EV-7 USB ash memory *3 Wireless USB adapter: WNA1100-RL *3 *3: Use USB ash memory and Wireless USB Adapter
sold by Roland. We cannot guarantee operation if other products are used.
All specications and appearances are subject to change.
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