PRELUDE
Portable Keyboard
PRELUDE: Portable Keyboard
Portable, Affordable Home Entertainment
Features
Prelude™ represents Roland’s next generation of home-entertainment keyboards, featuring high-quality sounds and musical styles, built-in amplification, and an affordable price. Prelude is portable, and packed with an impressive library of contemporary sounds and authentic ethnic styles.
- Hundreds of essential, contemporary sounds inherited from Roland’s top sound modules
- Multi-format song player that allows song data to be played directly from USB Flash memory (MP3, .WAV, AIFF, and SMF format)
- Stylish, lightweight design
- Built-in speakers with impressively powerful sound
Flagship Sounds
Don’t let Prelude’s affordability mislead you — it sounds like a keyboard costing twice the price. Prelude is equipped with hundreds of top-quality sounds derived from Roland’s famous sound modules. It also features 128 polyphonic voices for smooth performance, even with stacks of sounds playing at the same time.
Play-Along Styles
Prelude is packed with a wide variety of contemporary sounds and intelligent backing styles, plus loadable banks of ethnic sounds and styles from around the world. Style Converter and Playlist Editor software is included so you can customize and arrange your songs via PC.
Fun, Friendly Features
Prelude’s USB Memory Player allows direct playback of MP3, .WAV, AIFF, and SMF files from a USB key. For karaoke fun, the Center Cancel transforms your favorite pre-recorded songs into “minus one” type sing-along tracks. For dazzling performance effects, wave your hand over Prelude’s invisible D Beam to manipulate your sounds in unique and exciting ways.
Specs
- Keyboard
- 61 Keys (with velocity)
- Sound Generator
- Maximum Polyphony
- 128 voices
- Preset Memory
- Tones: 896+256 (GM2)+World, Rhythm Sets: 32 + 9 (GM2) + World, Performance: 128
- User Memory
- Performances: 128
- Effects
- MFX: 78 types, Reverb: 5 types, Chorus: 3 types
- Backing Track
- SMF Song
- Yes
- Audio Files
- MP3, WAV, AIFF
- Style
- 4 Intro, 4 Main, 4 Ending, 6 Fill In
- USB Memory Player
- Yes
- Preset Memory
- Styles: 130 + World
- User Memory
- Styles: 100, Songs: 200
- Others
- Rated Power Output
- 11W + 11W
- Controllers
- D BEAM, Pitch Bend/Modulation
- Display
- 240 x 64 dots graphic LCD
- Connectors
- Output Jacks (L/MONO, R), Ext Input, 2 Headphones, MIDI connectors (IN, OUT), Hold Pedal, Control Pedal, USB Connectors: COMPUTER (supports USB MIDI), USB Memory (supports USB 2.0 Hi-Speed Flash Memory)
- Accessories
- Owner's Manual, Tone
- Size and Weight
- Width
- 1,044 mm
- 41-1/8 inches
- Depth
- 317 mm
- 12-1/2 inches
- Height
- 121 mm
- 4-13/16 inches
- Weight
- 7.8 kg
- 17 lbs. 4 oz.
- *The specifications are subject to change without notice.
Accessories
Downloads
Brochures & Catalogs
Updates & Drivers
- PRELUDE Update Version 2.00
- This system program updates the PRELUDE system program to the latest version.
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.

