Roland HPi-7

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Introducing Roland's New Educational Piano

Roland's HPi-7 Digital Piano takes the fun and enjoyment of making music at home to new levels. With a new, wider color LCD display, Digiscore notation and new "Visual Lesson" feature, the HPi-7 makes learning music at home fun and rewarding for all ages.

- Extra wide, easy to read color LCD display enhances Roland's unique DigiScore notation.
- New "Visual Lesson" feature with three programs for interactive practice acts as a patient, always available, music tutor.
- Adds "Flash Card" and other educational games to Roland's acclaimed "Wonderland" for fun and interactivity in the learning environment.
- Incorporates Roland's critically acclaimed "Progressive Hammer-Action Keyboard with Escapement" for authentic acoustic grand piano feel and faithful response.
- 128-voice polyphony and new Key-off Resonance piano tones produce authentic acoustic characteristics such as subtle changes in tone as the keys are released.

Advanced sound and touch features

The HPi-7 incorporates Roland's latest stereo-sampled piano sounds, for superb piano playing realism. Its Damper Resonance reproduces the rich, "free-vibration" resonance sound of the strings obtained when playing an acoustic piano with the damper pedal pressed. The HPi-7 also produces other realistic acoustic piano nuances, including Lid, String Resonance*, and Hammer Response**. In addition, its new velocity-sensitive Key-off Resonance piano tones re-create the subtle sound nuance of the damper touching the strings upon key release. The touch settings let you adjust the key touch to suit your finger strength.
* String Resonance accurately reproduces the subtle and varied sympathetic string vibration caused on an acoustic piano when a key is pressed while other keys are already being held down.
** Hammer Response delivers the slightly slower hammer movement and sound characteristic of a grand piano when played softly.

DigiScore notation displayed on the music rest

The DigiScore LCD screen is built right into the music rest for easy viewing. It displays the notation of all internal songs, of commercially available Standard MIDI Files, of music files you download off the internet, or of your own recorded performances. A "Bouncing ball" on the staff helps keep time visually as you play, while the DigiScore "turns the pages" for you. It's perfect for lessons. The HPi-7's wider display lets you split the screen, to set the metronome while looking at the notation as it plays back, or to show the notation and the lyrics at the same time.

Visual Lesson: your own personal tutor

The Visual Lesson feature acts as your personal interactive music tutor. It has three courses. Each of these includes independent exercises, 10 songs with variable levels, and Practice, Check, and Review screens. Visual Lesson also works with all internal songs, as well as Standard MIDI Files ―so there's literally no limit to the number of songs you can use.

Visual Lesson -Three Visual Lesson Courses

Beginner's Course for practicing with right hand only
Repertoir Course for mastering your favorite songs
Challenge Course for checking your playing skills

Visual Lesson -Practice Screen

The Notes you play appear instantly on the onscreen notation.

Visual Lesson -Check Screen

When you finish playing, the HPi-7 grades the accuracy of your pitch and rhythm, and provides simple onscreen advise

Visual Lesson -Review Screen

Areas of your performance that need extra attention are "marked" right onscreen. Incorrect pitch is marked in red. Incorrect rhythm is marked blue. Extra notes are marked in green. It's truly interactive!

The ideal instrument for creating teaching materials

The HPi-7's Edit function lets you add optional finger numbering right into the notation, change the length of the song, or edit any note in the music files. And it's easy, because you can do it all while looking at the music. Also, your music file notation can be saved as a bitmap file, which you can print out using your PC.

Pianist Feature for more piano lesson enjoyment

The Pianist feature creates automatic accompaniment in 35 music styles, from classical to jazz to bossa nova. It makes lessons more fun, and helps develop a sense of rhythm. And it's great for making music files.

Even more educational Wonderland fun for kids

Roland's popular Wonderland section, now with a Flash Card on the HPi-7LE, offers 8 educational games designed to help children have fun while learning about music. Kids can choose from 8 entertaining metronome sounds to help encourage them in their lessons. These include: electronic sound, pendulum metronome, human voice, dog, and cat.

Easy connectivity and more

The HPi-7's connectors are conveniently located at the front of the instrument for easy access. It has two headphone jacks, and MIDI and USB ports. The Mic Input with Echo is great for Karaoke. There's also a handy hook for the headphones.

Keyboard

Keyboard: 88 keys (Progressive Hammer-Action Keyboard with Escapment)
Touch Sensitivity: Light, Medium, Heavy, Fixed
Keyboard Mode: Whole, Split (Split Point adjustable),
Dual (Volume Balance adjustable),
Pianist,
Manual Drums/SFX

Sound

Sound Source: Conforms to GM2/GS/XG Lite
Max. Polyphony: 128 Voices
Tones: 600 sounds in 6 groups (including 15 drum sets, 1 SFX set)
Temperament: 8 types, tonic selectable
Stretched Tuning: 2 types
Master Tuning: 415.3 Hz - 466.2 Hz (adjustable in increments of 0.1 Hz)
Transpose: Key Transpose (-6 to +5 in semitones)
Playback Transpose (-24 to +24 in semitones)
Effects: Reverb (10 levels)
Chorus (10 levels)
Damper Resonance (for Piano only, 10 levels)
String Resonance (for Piano only, 10 levels)
Key Off Resonance
Lid (for Piano only, 6 levels)
Hammer Responce (for Piano only, 10 levels)

Arranger

Music Styles: 35 Pianist Styles
Control: Start/Stop
Intro/Ending

Composer

Metronome: Beat: 2/2, 0/4, 2/4, 3/4. 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 3/8, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8
Volume: 10 levels
Pattern: 11 patterns
Sound: 8 types
Tracks: 5 tracks / 16 tracks
Song: 1 song
Note Storage: Approx. 30,000 notes
Tempo: Quarter note = 10 - 500
Resolution: 120 ticks per quarter note
Edit: Copy, Quantize, Delete, Insert, Erase, Transpose, Part Exchange, Note Edit, PC Edit
Control: Reset, Play/Stop, Rec, Bwd, Fwd, Track Select, All Song Play, Random Play, Count-in, Countdown, Marker Set, Repeat, Tempo Mute

Disk Drive/Disk Storage

Disk Drive: 3.5 inch Micro Floppy Disk Drive
Disk Format: 720 K bytes (2DD), 1.44 M bytes (2HD)
Songs: Max. 99 songs
Note Storage: Approx. 120,000 notes (2DD)
Approx. 240,000 notes (2HD)
Playable Song Format: Standard MIDI Files (Format 0/1), Roland Original Format (i-format)
Save: Standard MIDI Files (Format 0), Roland Original Format (i-format)

Other

Internal Songs: Over 170 songs
User Memory: Max. 200 songs on Favorites, 1 User image
Rated Power Output: 40 W x 2
Speakers: 20 cm x 2
Display: 640 x 240 dots graphic color LCD (with backlit)
Language: English/Japanese/German/French/Spanish
Notation: Grand staff / G clef staff / F clef staff, with note name / lyrics / chords / fingering
Lyric: Yes (Built-in Display)
Control: Volume, Brilliance, LCD contrast, Mic volume
Pedals: Damper (half-pedal recognition), Soft (half-pedal recognition, function assignable), Sostenuto (function assignable)
Other Functions: Panel Lock, Replay, Wonderland/Game, Auto Demo, Visual Lesson, BMP Export, Mic Echo, User image display, V-LINK
Connectors: Output jacks (L/Mono, R), Input jacks (L/Mono, R), Headphone jack (Stereo) x 2, Mic Input jack, MIDI In connector, MIDI Out connector, Pedal connector (8 pin DIN type), LCD connector (20 pin), USB (MIDI) connector
Power Consumption: 105 W (115 V/117 V/220 V/230 V/240 V)
Cabinet Finish: Simulated Mahogany
Accessories: Owner's manual, Roland 60 Classical Piano Masterpieces, Installation guide, CD-ROM (Roland Digital Piano USB Driver), Power Cord, Headphone Hook, Music Rest (with installation screws)

System requirements for USB

Windows:

Operating System: Microsoft Windows® XP Home/XP Professional/2000 Professional/Me/98/98SE
Computer: Windows-compatible personal computer equipped with a USB port
CPU/Clock: Pentium® processor 200 MHz or higher(Pentium® processor 400 MHz or higher on Windows® XP)
Memory (RAM): 64 M bytes or more (128 M bytes or more on Windows(R) XP/2000)
Incompatible Chipset: VIA Apollo BX, VIA Apollo MVP3, VIA Apollo MVP4

Macintosh:

Operating System: Mac OS 9.0.4 or later, Mac OS X v10.2 or later
Computer: USB ready Apple® Macintosh®
CPU/Clock: PowerPC G3 233 MHz or higher
Memory (RAM): 64 M bytes or more (128 M bytes or more on Mac OS X)

Size and Weight （Including piano stand and music rest）

Width (W): 1,421 mm56 inches
Depth (D): 526 mm20-3/4 inches
Height (H): 1,101 mm43-3/8 inches
Weight: 69 kg152 lbs. 2 oz.

Size and Weight （Including piano stand）

Width (W): 1421 mm56 inches
Depth (D): 526 mm20-3/4 inches
Height (H): 894 mm35-1/4 inches
Weight: 69 kg152 lbs. 2 oz.

* Mac OS 9: Requires OMS 2.3.5 or later, or FreeMIDI 1.35 or later.

* Mac OS X: The digital piano will not operate in the Mac OS X Classic environment, and will be unusable while the Classic environment is running.

All specifications and appearances are subject to change.