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🛒 Get the Roland FP-E50 HERE ▸ 🛒 See More Roland Digital Pianos HERE ▸ 💕 Subscribe to Merriam Pianos HERE ▸ 🔔 Click the 🔔 bell to be notified of all videos! ▸ #RolandFP-E50 #DigitalPiano #RolandCloud 0:00 - Video Introduction on the Roland FP-E50 0:22 - Opening Playing Demo on the Roland FP-E50 0:42 - Release date and Price of the Roland FP-E50 1:26 - Roland Cloud App and the Roland FP-E50 2:07 - Piano Sound Review on the Roland FP-E50 3:46 - Piano Sound Demo on the Roland FP-E50 5:27 - Additional Tones on the Roland FP-E50 9:13 - Sound Review Conclusions 9:39 - Speaker Review on the Roland FP-E50 11:11 - Piano Sound Spec Slide 11:21 - Piano Action Review on the Roland FP-E50 13:42 - Piano Action Spec Slide 13:50 - Piano Accompaniment Review on the Roland FP-E50 23:31 - Other Features on the Roland FP-E50 25:14 - Connectivity Review on the Roland FP-E50 26:43 - User Interface Review on the Roland FP-E50 27:15 - Final Thoughts on the Roland FP-E50 Welcome! We’re very excited to be unboxing and checking out the brand-new Roland FPE50 portable digital piano - an instrument that’s already generating a ton of buzz. Please like, subscribe and hit that notification bell! Overview The FPE50 was released in February 2023 to much fanfare, and it sits in that prosumer range, meaning it’s a quality product available at an accessible price. Roland has been marketing it as a “fun” instrument and we absolutely couldn’t agree more based on our first impressions. We were quite surprised to see that it’s compatible with the Roland Cloud, meaning you can download over 100 sound packs from the Cloud and greatly expand the onboard sound bank. Considering what else is available at the price point, it’s clear that the E50 has a ton to offer. Piano Sound The FPE50 is equipped with two sound engines - the SuperNATURAL sound engine and ZEN-Core engine. This is great because it allows you to rely on the SuperNATURAL engine for your acoustic piano sounds while being able to pivot over to the ZEN-Core engine for your many e-piano, organ and strings, synth and pad options. There are tactile pitch bend and mod wheels on the left-hand side of the keyboard, so you’re able to get quite expressive. Polyphony is very powerful at 256 notes. Speakers The FPE50 has a dual speaker system, and while the output power is rated at 22 watts, we found it to be very room-filling and seemingly more powerful than expected for 22 watts. Given how light the instrument is, this speaker setup is very impressive. Action The FPE50 is equipped with Roland’s PHA4 action, and anyone familiar with our YouTube channel will know we’re big fans of the PHA4. It’s one of the top plastic key actions available and is equipped with a triple sensor, escapement, and the keytops have a nice subtle texture to help with glide. The PHA4 is a bit on the heavier side, especially out of the box, but after a couple of hours of playing it does loosen up while still being slightly heavier than average. Auto-Accompaniment The accompaniment is the heart of the instrument. There are a ton of different styles to choose from, all grouped by categories, and there are a bunch of preloaded chord sequences you can add in as well. You can also feed in your chord sequences via a basic CSV form, so this is very cool too. There are different accompaniment modes available as well, so there’s a ton of variety. The quality of the beats is top notch too. So, you could truly spend hours just getting lost with this feature. Other Features The E50 also has a mic input with quite a few mic effects including auto harmony, vocal transformer, voice designer, a compressor and a noise suppressor. It also has convenient features like Tap Tempo, Scenes (allows you to save all of your settings as presets), Piano Designer, Recorder and all the usual suspects like Transpose and Metronome. Connectivity The E50 has Bluetooth Audio, but no Bluetooth MIDI which is definitely odd. Otherwise, sustain pedal input, triple pedal input, stereo mini line-in, ¼” line outputs, the mic input, USB Type A and B and dual headphone ports. User Interface The UI is really easy to use with an onboard mixer, a solid display, and the pitch bend plus mod wheel. Final Thoughts This is an instrument that feels like it should be priced higher for what it’s delivering with a great action, very solid speaker system, two tone engines and an excellent auto-accompaniment feature. Well done Roland! Connect with Merriam Music: ● Website ▸ ● Contact Us ▸ ● Instagram ▸ ● Facebook ▸ ● Twitter ▸
