Roland RD800 digital piano

Roland RD800

With each redesign and reissue, the new version of Roland’s RD stage piano series is a widely anticipated release event. Professional piano players have been queuing up to have a look at the new RD piano since the release of the first RD pianos in the 1980s. The Roland RD-800 is a significant update. Having enjoyed the endorsement of high-profile popular music piano players for several decades, and more importantly the overwhelming endorsement of journeymen and hobbyist musicians across the world, a redesigned RD is under tremendous pressure to perform like never before. The RD-800 does not disappoint.
There are several primary areas of concern for the modern player seeking an 88-key weighted action stage piano, the first of which is sound. Whether in a solo piano context, a jazz trio or an electric rock or R&B band, the piano has to be thrilling. Roland’s sound archives have been in development for decades, and the best samples with the latest signal processing have been selected for inclusion in the RD-800’s library. Of course paramount among all of the sounds is the RD-800’s SuperNATURAL Piano engine, which delivers an acoustic piano sound of unprecedented quality and expression. A new Concert Grand derived from the V-Piano Grand is included that painstakingly recreates the subtlest piano attributes. It shines in the harsh light of solo piano contexts, cuts like a knife in rock and R&B band mixes, and excels in all environments in between. It additionally features electric piano, organ, strings, brass and woodwind, mallet and many other timbres (1100 sounds in all), each of which excel.
Another critical aspect of a stage piano is its feel and action. The RD-800 features Roland’s PHA-4 Concert Keyboard with Escapement and Ebony/Ivory Feel. The Ebony/Ivory feel is a matte key with an almost eggshell feel to it that provides a rich and satisfying tactile experience when playing. The weight of the keyboard is graded, just like an acoustic piano so the left side of the keyboard plays gradually heavier than the right side. It is equipped with Roland’s latest touch-detection technology.

Specifications:

• Keyboard: 88 keys
• Maximum Polyphony: 128 voices
• Number of parties: 16 (4 batches for use in a live set)
• Sound Generator:
- SuperNATURAL Piano
- SuperNATURAL (E.Piano, Clav)
- Virtual Tone Wheel Organ
- PCM Sound Generator
• Piano Designer (Only for sounds SuperNATURAL Piano)
• Built-in effects:
- Modulation FX: 4 systems, 56 types
- Tremolo / Amp Simulator: 4 systems, 5 types
- Reverb: 6 types
- Delay: 5 types
- Sympathetic Resonance (only for SuperNATURAL Piano)
- 3-band Compressor
- 5-band Digital Equalizer
• The player Audio Files
- File Format: WAV format, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit linear
• Section Registrar
- File Format: WAV format, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit linear
• Number of Waveform rhythm (Rhythm Pattern): 200
• Control
- LAYER LEVEL slider x 4
- EQUALIZER / DELAY / ASSIGNABLE knob x 4 (with backlight)
- REVERB knob (with backlight)
- COLOR TONE knob (with backlight)
- MODULATION FX DEPTH knob (with backlight)
- MODULATION FX RATE knob (with backlight)
- TREMOLO DEPTH knob (with backlight)
- TREMOLO RATE knob (with backlight)
- AMP SIMULATOR DRIVE knob (with backlight)
- Pitch Bend / Modulation lever
- S1 / S2 buttons (assignable)
• Display: Graphic Color LCD 320 x 240 pixels
• Connectors
- OUTPUT (L / MONO, R) jacks: 1/4-inch phone type
- OUTPUT (L, R) jacks: XLR
- INPUT jack: Stereo miniature phone type
- Pedal (DAMPER, FC1, FC2, EXT) jacks: TRS phone type
- MIDI (IN, OUT1, THRU / OUT2)
- USB (COMPUTER) Port: USB type B
- USB (MEMORY / Wireless LAN Adaptor) Port: USB Type A
- PHONES jack: Stereo 1/4 inch phone type
- AC In jack
• Size: 1,400x 367x 138 mm
• Weight: 21.7 kg