E-50

Music Workstation

E-50: Music Workstation

Great Sounds, Performance, and Price

Features

A new generation of keyboards has arrived! The E-50(61 keys) offers advanced features, excellent music styles and high quality sounds, perfect for beginners and advanced musicians alike.

  • Incredible sound
  • Fresh musical content
  • Attractive and lightweight design
  • Powerful built-in Audio system
  • Intuitive user interface

The Best Sound
With their 64-voice polyphony sound engines, the E-60 and E-50 deliver impressive, first-class sound quality. With 512MB WAVE ROM onboard each, they boast the best sounds from the Roland library. Many new studio sampled guitars, accordions, and much more provide an ultra-realistic experience.

Fresh Musical Content
E-60/50 provide more than 100 fresh styles created by a professional team of international programmers who captured their local musical preferences. All these styles sound incredibly “live,” and expertly mixed and mastered.

Attractive, Lightweight Design
Prepare to be impressed by the new look of the E-60/50 keyboards, created a top Italian design team.

Powerful Built-in Audio System
Thanks to their powerful 4-speaker, bi-amped sound systems, complete with a Bass Reflex System and a Digital Bass Enhancers, the E-50 and E-60 both deliver incredible, high-impact sound.

Intuitive User Interface
Both the E-60 and E-50 incorporate a large 16 gray-scale display with a touchscreen for quick and simple operations. Moreover a multitude of buttons has been included on the control panels for ease of use. The acclaimed Guitar Mode is now available together with dedicated Guitar Mode button.

Style Converter
The Style Converter is an easy and intuitive tool for creating custom Music Styles based on one of your own songs or a pre-made Standard MIDI File.

16-Track Sequencer / Style Composer
The 16-Track Sequencer and internal Style Composer data can be edited in precise detail using the Microscope functions.

DigiScore®
Both the E-60/E-50 feature a high quality 4-stave score display for chords and lyrics.

D Beam
The light-sensing D Beam controller can be used for real-time changes to a wide range of parameters. (E-60 Only)

Audio & Video

Audio

Specs

Keyboard
61 keys with velocity sensitive
Sound Source
Max polyphony
64
Tones
over 1000 Panel Tones, 34 Drum Sets
Multi timbre parts
32
Effect Processors
8 Reverb, 8 Chorus, 41 Multi-FX
Compatibility
GM2 / GS / XG Lite
Styles
Preset styles
136 styles
Styles variations
4 Main / 4 Intro / 4 Ending / 6 Fill In
Sync Start / Sync Stop
Yes
User Style Composer
8 Tracks with Micro editing / Piano Roll editing / Guitar Mode programming
Direct Media Link
Yes
One Touch Setting
4 for each Style with customization
Cover
For Songs and Styles, 26 ALL, 16 Drum, 24 Bass
Makeup Tools
For Songs and Styles, Makeup Tools Freeze Data function
Panel Controls
Rotary Encoder with push switch
Yes
Pitch Bender and Modulation
Yes
Keyboard / Accomp Balance
Dedicated knob
Keyboard Part / Part Assign Switches
Upper1, Upper2, Lower, Manual Bass
Display
16 gray-scale graphic LCD with touchscreen
Player / Recorder
Mark / Jump
Yes, 4 locations for each Song
Sequencer
16-Track Sequencer, with Micro Event List / Piano Roll editing, Guitar Mode programming, SMF to Style Converter
DigiScore
Yes
Lyrics Display
Yes, with automatic Chord Extractor
Text Import / Export
Yes
User Programs
144
Music Assistant
more than 300 presets, programmable
Data Storage
FDD
3.5” 2HD / 2DD
Internal SSD (Solid State Disk)
15,5 MB (approx. 14,1 MB as preloaded factory data)
PCMCIA Slot
1 PCMCIA slot for: Microdrive (1.0-inch hard disk drive)*,Compact Flash*,Memory Stick*,Smartmedia*, *using Card adaptor *the E-50 system manages up to 4 GBytes of the above storage media
Type of files managed
Style, Song(SMF), User Program, MIDI Set, Play List, File.txt
Other functions
Guitar Mode
Yes, for Acoustic and Electric Guitars, with Stereo doubling function
Finder
Song, Style, User Program
Easy Setting
Arranger, Organ, Guitar, Piano
Chord Alteration System
Adaptive Chord Voicing
Melody Intelligent
Yes, 18 types, Melody Intelligent 2nd Tone customization
Tap Tempo
Yes
Transpose
Yes, -6 ~ +5
Song Chord Extractor
Yes
V-LINK
Yes
Updating system
Yes, on Flash
Connectors
MIDI
IN, OUT
USB
for data trasfer and MIDI
Audio Output
Main (L / mono, R)
Jacks
Hold, Foot Switch / Expression
Phones
2
Internal Amplification
Speakers
2 x 10 cm (woofer), 2 x 3 cm (tweeter)
Rated Power Output
2 x 8 W + 2 x 2 W (with Bass Reflex system)
Others
Supplied accessories
Owner’s Manual, External AC Adaptor, Music Rest, bundled CD-ROM (it contains E-50 backup data, USB-MIDI driver (for Mac/PC), DATABASE MANAGER software)
Size and Weight
Width
1,020 mm
40-3/16 inches
Depth
356 mm
14 inches
Height
327 mm
12-7/8 inches
Weight
8.8 kg
19 lbs. 7 oz.
Height includes Music Rest
*The specifications are subject to change without notice.

Accessories

Downloads

Brochures & Catalogs

E-50/E-60 Brochure

Updates & Drivers

E-50 Factory Data
This download contains all of the original factory data for the E-50. Please refer to the "E-50 Contents ReadMe.pdf" document for further information.

Note: This file is compressed and will need to be uncompressed after downloading. Windows users can use WinZip to uncompress the file. Macintosh users can us Stuffit Expander to uncompress the file.

You can get WinZip here.

You can get Stuffit Expander here.
E-50/-60 USB Driver (PC)

Support

If you have questions about operating your Roland, BOSS or Cakewalk product, please check our Knowledge Base for answers to the most common questions.

You can also contact our Product Support department by phone or email.

In addition, we have a library of Owner’s Manuals and Support Documents that you can download and reference. If Support Documents are available for this product, they will be listed below.

Product Manuals