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If you need the best sounds and massive versatility in a compact design, the Roland V-Combo VR-09 Live Performance Keyboard is for you! This incredible digital piano features dedicated piano, organ, and synth sound engines, organized in three intuitive blocks on the front panel, to provide all the essential tones you need. Powerful controls offer maximum expression on stage, with 9 sliders for tone shaping and a large array of knobs and buttons for tweaking the seven simultaneous effects.
The Roland V-Combo VR-09 keyboard also features an onboard looper, a drum section stocked with a library of rhythms for practice and jamming, and more. With its versatile sound selection, inspiring operation, and smart user interface, the V-Combo VR-09 is a dream come true for gigging keyboardists.
Roland V-Combo VR-09 Live Performance Keyboard Features
- Professional keyboard with instant-access operation for performing musicians
- 61-note keyboard has an extremely fast response
- Light and mobile; battery or AC power
- Pro-quality acoustic and electric pianos, including grand piano with 88-note stereo multi-sampling
- SuperNATURAL-powered Virtual Tone Wheel organ with nine harmonic bars, plus newly developed transistor-type ‘60s organ tone
- Wide range of synth tones, from vintage classics to modern essentials
- Seven simultaneous effects with dedicated real-time controls
- Looper and built-in rhythm patterns; WAV/MP3/SMF song playback via optional USB memory
- Free VR-09 Editor app available for iPad
Intuitive Operation for Expressive Stage Performance
The V-Combo VR-09 was designed from the ground up with the needs of live players in mind. An intuitive front-panel layout and clear LCD screen offers quick access to Roland’s top piano, organ, and synth sound engines, along with plenty of real-time controls for expressive tone manipulation.
Seven simultaneous effects include rotary, delay, reverb, tone, overdrive, compressor, and customizable MFX, with dedicated knobs that tweak multiple parameters with a single twist for powerful sound shaping with minimal effort. The smart interface of the keyboard makes it simple to set up splits and layers on the fly, and to save all your keyboard settings in user memory locations for instant recall on stage.
Pro Acoustic and Electric Pianos
The gorgeous acoustic grand piano sounds of the Roland V-Combo VR-09 features 88-note stereo multi-sampling, delivering pro-level tone that rivals Roland’s dedicated stage pianos. Many popular vintage E. Piano sounds are onboard as well, along with complimentary effects such as vintage phaser and tremolo. The compressor, accessible via a dedicated, easy-to-reach knob, transparently boosts the level of the piano sounds, ensuring that your playing always cuts through when performing in loud bands.
World-Class Organs
Roland’s renowned SuperNATURAL technology powers the V-Combo VR-09’s classic tonewheel organs, while 9 harmonic bars provide authentic real-time performance control. A transistor-type organ is also included, offering the unique sound of combo instruments from the 1960s.
The 61-note keyboard has an extremely fast response, perfect for essential organ techniques such as trill, sputter, glissando, and percussive hits. Rotary speaker and amp simulators reproduce the characteristics of vintage organ speaker cabinets and overdriven tube circuits with astounding realism, while a new Twin Rotary option delivers a deep, aggressive effect never before heard.
Vintage and Modern Synth Tones
The Roland V-Combo VR-09 keyboard is packed with a ton of ready-to-play synthesizer sounds, from vintage analog classics like JUNO strings and ‘80s synth brass to textured, modern-era digital tones and beyond. Front-panel controllers allow you to tweak the synth tones intuitively in real time, including convenient ADR and cutoff/resonance adjustment with the harmonic bars in the ORGAN block. Onboard effects like Bit Crash provide the ability to create modern synth voices for current dance music, including dubstep.
VR-09 Editor for iPad
The free VR-09 Editor app for iPad gives you powerful, intuitive control of the organ and synth sound engines via your tablet’s full-color touchscreen interface. Quickly edit organ sounds and customize vintage tonewheel characteristics such as leakage, click noise, and rotary speed, and easily access synth sounds to build custom tones and layers.
After tweaking sounds at home, you can take your iPad to the gig and use the app for extra real-time control on stage. Convenient, cable-free communication between the Roland V-Combo VR-09 and iPad is simple to set up with Roland Wireless Connect. Alternately, you can link up with a USB cable via Apple’s iPad Camera Connection Kit.
Roland V-Combo VR-09 Live Performance Keyboard Specifications
- Keyboard: 61 keys (with velocity)
- Keyboard Modes: Whole Dual (volume balance adjustable) Split (split point, volume balance adjustable) 2-manual mode (when using sold separately MIDI keyboard)
- Organ Section: Virtual Tone Wheel method (SuperNATURAL)
- MIDI Format: Conforms to GM2, GS, XG Lite
- Maximum Polyphony: 128 voices
- Parts: Organ (3 parts) Piano (2 parts) Synthesizer (2 parts) Drum (1 part) GM2 (16 parts)
- Sounds: 223 sounds
- Registrations: 100 (4 x 25 banks)
- Effects (7 systems always on / global control): Overdrive Tone Compressor Multi-effects: 20 types Delay: 6 types Reverb: 6 types Rotary: 2 types
- Playable File Format: SMF File: Format 0, 1 Audio File: WAV, AIFF, MP3
- Recording Format: SMF File: Format 0 Audio File: WAV (44.1 kHz, 16-bit linear, stereo)
- Looper Recording Time: 20 seconds (stereo)
- Rhythm Patterns: 52
- Controller: Virtual Tone Wheel organ: Harmonic bar x 10 Synthesizer controller: Slider x 5 D-BEAM controller Pitch bend/Modulation lever Effects knob x 6 (global control)
- Display: Graphic LCD 128 x 64 dots
- External Memory: USB Flash Memory
- Connectors: Output (L/MONO, R) jacks: 1/4-inch phone type PHONES jack: Stereo 1/4-inch phone type EXT INPUT jack: Stereo miniature phone type DAMPER jack: TRS 1/4-inch phone type EXPRESSION PEDAL jack: TRS 1/4-inch phone type MIDI (IN, OUT) connectors PK IN connector: 8-pin DIN type USB COMPUTER port: USB Type B (supports USB MIDI) USB MEMORY port: USB Type A DC IN jack
- Power Supply: AC adaptor Rechargeable Ni-MH battery (AA, HR6) x 8
- Accessories: Owner's Manual AC adaptor Power cord USB memory protector
- Dimensions (WxDxH): 39 11/16 x 11 13/16 x 4 3/16 inches
- Weight: 12lbs 3oz
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| Great concept, but needs some work...... |
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| What is your overall opinion of this product? |
| The VR-09 performance keyboard has fantastic potential, but Roland needs to do some work to make this a exceptional product. |
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| What is your opinion of the quality of this product? How does it work for different genres of music? |
| One of my biggest complaints with the VR-09 is that the keyboard feels like a toy, very much light weight plastic, and to me,definitely not constructed to handle the rigors of gigging, the very basis for the title, "performance keyboard." The onboard sounds, features,editing capabilities, are definitely useful for all types of music. I just don't see this keyboard lasting too many gigs with it's fragile housing. |
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| How user friendly is it? Would it work well for a beginner, intermediate or experienced player? |
| Very much geared to the hands-on keyboardist. All the controls, knobs, sliders are pretty self explanatory. |
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| Are the features on the product what you were expecting? What are your favorite features? |
| The features were what I expected, especially after watching the youtube demos on the VR-09. I especially liked the drawbar sliders, and the ability to adjust the organ tones on the fly. My least favorite feature is the Looper, which I just don't see having much practical purpose in a gigging situation. |
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| How is the sound quality? How does the sound compare to other products you've use? |
| The sounds are the VR-09's best feature. Roland got this part right with high quality piano/electric pianos/organs, which sound great through a keyboard amp, and even better through a PA. Also, good on board synth sounds too,as well as a smattering of other usable tones. Having used Kawai and Kurzweil gear for years, a lot of the the sounds on the VR-09 are, to me, comparable to what you would find on more expensive keyboards. |
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| How is the feel of the keys? Are the controls laid out well? |
| A huge disappointment. I didn't expect semi weighted keys, but hoped for something more substantial. The keys feel, well, cheap, with no spring and quite noisy. Even playing organ style, with glissando's and chopped chords, the keys just aren't comfortable to play. Given that the keyboard lists for just under $1000, I would expect a better quality keybed, not this. If I decide to keep the VR-09, my best option will be to midi this to another keyboard with a better feeling keybed, and just use it for the sounds. |
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| Did you get what you were expecting for the price? How does it compare to similar products in the same price range? |
| Aside from the quality sounds on the VR-09, the keyboards "cheap feeling" keybed and housing, make it seem overpriced to me. If Roland wants to make this a contender in the performance keyboard market, it's got a lot of work to do. |
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