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Subject
Nice but no aftertouch
Taz - Christian praise band from St. Louis, Mo., USA
Quality
Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable?
well made solid
Features
What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could?
USB, SRX expansion slots, portability
Ease of Use
How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be?
easy
Sound
How is its Tone?
good
Action
How was the action out of the box?
good
Value
Was this item an overall good value?
for under 1000 a steal
Subject
GREAT BANG FOR THE BUCK
Dashirt5 from Lake City, SC
Quality
Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable?
Just got my Juno Stage about a month ago. GREAT SO FAR.
Features
What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could?
Not a great deal of features. It's built for ease on use on the stage.
Ease of Use
How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be?
Finally, someone made the split and layer functions easy as pie. It could not be any easier change combonations in real time.
Sound
How is its Tone?
I was playing in a church and another musician heard my "JD-800 piano" tone. He borrowed my Juno Stage to play at another church that afternoon and used his Yamaha Motif ES to run bass and used the juno for the piano.
Action
How was the action out of the box?
I sold my Luno G, big improvement.
Value
Was this item an overall good value?
Price dropped to $999.00. I was planning on gtting it at $1399.00 Great value!!!
Subject
Great for a band
Count Blacula from Charlotte/North Carolina/United States of America
Quality
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lol its great i don't want to drop it but im sure if it feel it would not break
Features
What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could?
for me i never had a legit keyboard so i don`t know what i would add to it but i will say i wish the keys was heavy like a piano but overall its great
Ease of Use
How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be?
the keyboard is very simple and easy to understand. it works as a midi im yet to try it out but if it work like its working now then i am happy. its sooo fun to find or make a new sound its like endless with what you can do with this
Sound
How is its Tone?
i looove the saound but some of them are to soft even when your hitting the keys hard. but still great sound i love the cathedral organ
Action
How was the action out of the box?
lol like chrismas for me. i pluged it up and hooked up my speakers and she sound great throught a PA, amp, and headphone the sound dont change
Value
Was this item an overall good value?
Great for the price. i got my money worth
Subject
Almost All you Need
Henry J from Lawrenceville Georgia
Quality
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Only had in month but all ready dropped it once with no effect! Seems at least as sturdy as my old RS-9.
Features
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Many great features for a working keyboard player. I love the ease of saving settings to patch or performance. The screen is wonderful. The layout is simply and direct. That's the good. The bad is I've uncovered some software glitches such as lag between when you change settings and taking effect. Plus some weird transitions between tones. For example, if I change the upper keyboard tone in split mode, the lower tone can change its sound slightly. This is puzzling.
Most needed feature? Real or semi weighted action!!
Ease of Use
How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be?
The manual is fairly reasonable with good explanations. I sure would like more examples! So far, I've been able to follow every question I've had to a successful conclusion.
Sound
How is its Tone?
Many tones are great such as synths and orchestral. A little disappointing are the elec guitars and basses. The biggest disappointment is the stock pianos. They sound ok in headphones, but on stage, much to thin. No punch. I'll have to mess with the wave shaping.
Action
How was the action out of the box?
Well for a keyboard the action is pure sythn which still gets me nervous. I'm not as confident as when I'm hammering on my Yamaha with its full piano action. The keys are large though, so this helps. Warning- there is no after touch.
Value
Was this item an overall good value?
I think so. It has so many good things about it.
Subject
It would be perfect if it was 88 keyz!
jonknee from aurora,colorado, usa
Quality
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Roland makes a great keyboard! Not like korg who still has bad connectors on the keyboards! Korg has been having this problem for many years now. i had one problem with one roland in my life time. some azzclown drop it and the lcd screen on a gw-7 wouldn't work right, but it still played. This keyboard looks tuff and feel soild but not heavy.
Features
What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could?
look at vaule. If your a musician who does one shows, need backing tracks, a mic you can control, got a drummer who can't keep time or is gig'in' with a new drummer and you want him to now the tempo, ect, ect, ect. This is for you. It has all the stuff i put in value plus: click output for drummer or other musicians, easy usb hook-up to sonor and other recording programs, mini 1/8 input for i-pod or other audio players. It even comes with a juno-stage and sonar disc!! I know you Korg people are getting mad, but let face it korg is still 3 years behind roland, kurzweil, and yamaha.
Ease of Use
How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be?
I bought this for 2 girls at are church who are ready to start playing on their own. My daughter who is 14 and the other girl is 12. My daughter in 2 days has figure out everything, but to record and connect to the computer usb. I can do all that already and i don't play. It's mostly 1 button pushing for split and layer. The only people who will have problems are those complex korg user, cause they are so use to push alot of buttons and loop tracks like on the over rated triton. Hey korg triton uses it's 2009, way do all that button pushing when you can upgrade and use a real keyboard you don't have to loop or one where you want lose your main gran piano when you layer it!!!
Sound
How is its Tone?
The grand piano is better or as good as the kurzweil. And that was coming from a kurzweil user. You can edit you the height of the lid on your grand. You can even edit what kind of speaker cab and twick your electric pianos all of them. I heard alot of keyboard since I buy them, my dad been playing for 50 plus years, and all the churches i've been to, this roland is up their. I heard fender rhondes, korg m1, korg dss1, dx7, classic junos, tritons, phantom, kurzweils, nord, yamahas, i heard a lot of them. This juno-stage is up their! the sound are endless. For you synth guys you can even change the sound pattern from saw,square,etc. The horns sound almost as good as the samples that are used on a kurzweil ( i'm talking orcst. rom ). What shock me is how good the sample basses sounded on this keyboard. And if what to twick them you got real time knobs, but with in 2 buttons your in changing them around. Now the human voices are no take 6 voices, but they sound better good too. I
Action
How was the action out of the box?
My dad been playing for over 50 years, he hates plastic keys, because of the action they have on most keyboard. But he said this keyboard has great action. He was really impressed and he loves kurzwiel's.
Value
Was this item an overall good value?
Let me see you get: phantom processor, 128 mbs of real great sounds, roland phantom grand piano, adjust the heck out of your sounds, 26 drum patterns with 6 changes each, over a 1000 sounds, mic input and voocorder, usb input with playback, you can write and record, midi controller funcations, etc! Best keyboard for the money!!