Roland RD-2000 In Depth Review
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- Опубліковано 26 лис 2019
- This is an in-depth review of the Roland RD-2000, which is packed with so many sounds and features I couldn't possibly talk about each and every one, but I mentioned as many of them as possible! Hope you enjoy this video!
Excellent level of detail. Thank you
I always judge a keyboard by its electric piano sound. For me it’s always about that Rhodes or Wurlitzer emulation. I used to think that my Korg sv1 sounded just like a Rhodes, until I actually got a Rhodes. Then I played them both side by side. OUCH!
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Thanks for your good review! I'm a professional pianist, very difficult to be pleased by any digital keyboard. I've always been fan of Yamaha, and have had almost all their stage pianos (CP-4 my last one). My last Roland was the RD-600 which made me promise myself I'd never buy Roland again (sound was good in its time, but key system was weak and chap, breaking in every performance!). All I look for when buying a keyboard is a great and NATURAL piano sound that responds EXACTLY to what I picture in my mind in terms of sound color and intensity. I've owned the RD-2000 for one year. Though in the store I wasn't crazy about the sound I fell in love with the most FABULOUS ACTION ever found in a digital stage piano. I decided to buy it not just for this, but because after a thorough exploration of the manual in the store, I realized it was posible to PERSONALIZE every single V-Piano Technology sound (the best ones in the instrument), not just in terms of EQ, effects, hammer noise, string resonance, damper noise, cabinet resonance, lid, etc., but specially in terms of individual VOICING of each of the 88 keys! You can change in every key, separately, the timbre OR CHARACTER of the sound, from dark and mellow to bright and crispy, the individual VOLUME and even the individual TUNNING of each note you play. This is just fantastic and never before found in any other keyboard. I've spent hundreds of hours doing this during the last year in just my 6 favorite acoustic pianos. The results are just AMAZING!! IT FEELS AND SOUNDS just like a REAL GRAND PIANO (actually like 6 different real grand pianos!), exactly designed to my personal taste, but ONLY AFTER ALL THIS WORK. I'm really happy now with this instrument. I can make MUSIC with it and be able to communicate my feelings and emotions almost as exactly as I do with a real quality grand. Obviously you can save all these personalized sounds in an external USB. My only question/complain is... Why Roland musicians and designers didn't do this in the Factory and released an instrument with gorgeous factory sounds??? I'm sure a lot of sales are lost because of this. A real shame! Most employees at music stores don't even now how configurable the RD-2000 sounds are! And most musicians don't have the patience or time to do it.
ALBERTO MACEDO I agree I still have mine Yamaha CP4 because the keybed is simply amazing and the pianos in it is super great without doing a lot of editing. I noticed with Roland products concerning the pianos you have to edit them. Roland is the best as far as synths, Bass, brass etc..... not pianos. Yamaha pianos out of the box pianos is better.
Hello, have you uploaded your settings somewhere? Or is there a website where one can find quality settings?
I think the rd2000 default piano sound is not a 'supernatural' piano but the roland V-piano. That is why it is so editable. The supernatural sounds are generally not very editable.
It is very very interesting, ALBERTO! Could you please share your tuning parameters/settings for at least a few pianos (or if it's not so difficult, then for ALL 6 grand pianos)? This would be very important for many pianists who own the RD 2000! Thank you!
@@silverlight2004db You are completely right. The 6 pianos I refer to are the called V-Pianos and start with an "S". These are the ones I configured exactly to my test and ear. They are the ones you can make a "voicing" work. I'll correct my text now. Thank you! The supernatural pianos are not so editable en fact.
I'm just waiting for you to review the Dexibell VIVO S9.
Great reviews you're doing, keep doing it.
Thank you.
yes.. i'd love to see a Dexibell review as well.. Made in Italy.. i played a used one and man it felt nice
Thank you for this video. Very helpful from a consumer stand point.
Love the honesty in your reviews...you always try to find potential negatives. You often feel other pro level reviewers are salesmen on commission.
I agree!
I bought this 3 years ago because it has a lot of features and I thought I could have fun with it. Wasn't too knowledgeable about piano sounds and all those details yet so I thought the pianos sounded realistic at first. Now I use it with Pianoteq. Pretty overkill for its purpose now but I still have those extras just in case I need them. At least the key action is great, that's what matters most now to me. It does look like a spaceship too
hello,
awesome review of RD-2000.
are you going to review the new Roland Fantom 8 soon?
thank you.
Great job, always learn from your videos... please do a review of the Kurzweil Forte!!!!!
I feel that this one has the best action out of all the high end stage pianos. Almost as good as the first generation motif or S90
One point of correction: Prior to the advent of electricity ALL pipe organs AND reed organs were touch-sensitive. These (known as tracker organs) are mechanically connected from key through to pipe - as acoustic pianos are mechanical.
Electronic organs generally are not touch-sensitive. Pipe organs with electric, electro-pneumatic, or electromechanical actions are not touch sensitive.
I just realized my reed organ is touch sensitive, I never thought of that lol
Hey buddy, could you please review the Nord Grand piano? I watched your Nord vs cp88 review and it was really professional and unbiased.
I appreciate the time and knowledge you put in such videos. Makes things much easier to comprehend and the overall process of justifying a decision that much easier. I truly am a big fan of your lavish work. Now, I need your professional opinion. I'm debating between the fp 90 and the rd 2000. The budget is not a problem. I'm just wondering if that significant price difference, relevant to sound, key quality and features are actually worth that price jump. Thank you for your time and effort.
There were times when it sounded like you were scoring a movie! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!!!
So refreshing to get honest reviews from someone who doesn't come across as scared of offending the manufacturer of the product. Influencer marketing has been slowly sapping objectivity from many UA-cam gear review channels. If you had to choose one for studio and occasional performance, would you opt for the RD-2000 or the CP88? Key action, acoustic piano sounds, and electric piano sounds being the top priorities, but all factors considered. Or do you have a different top choice in that product tier?
Did you ever get feedback on your question either here or elsewhere? I am looking at these two exact options - I know they have different end-use functions but ours won't be taken out of the studio too much. All the best-
I know it’s a late question, but can you use the Rotary/Leslie switch with only the first 10 tonewheel organs? Or can you use it with all of the organs? Just wondering, thanks! Awesome review James!
I played this keyboard at my local guitar center to see if I could tweak the piano sound like I did with my RD-700 but in the end I was still disappointed in the artificial aspects of all of the piano variations. Another thing I noticed with the piano sounds is that the high ranges and low ranges sounded really good with crisp bass on the low end and chirpy highs that weren't tinny. That being said, the mid-range (where most of the playing occurs) is where the RD-2000 fell short and sounded the most artificial. Unfortunately my local store didn't have any Kawai keyboards to try out. I'd really like to try out the MP11SE for myself.
Reminds me alot of the jupiter 80 I've been using as my main board for awhile.
I’m so grateful for your thorough review and for playing Satie - it convinced me that this isn’t for me (despite your lovely performance).
You played The Lick, awesome playing. Leslie simulation is always lacking in a workstation, stage keyboard, or synth. I go with the Jimmy Smith sound (3 drawbars). They need to put a Neo Ventilator 2 or similar inside, but they want you to buy their organ to get the real sound. Most gigging musicians will have a workstation, and an organ with a Leslie pedal.
Great review. I still love this one it’s a pity you didn’t got time to look at the different piano sounds but as you said there are just to many. One thing I want to ask you is which keyboard would you recommend as a home keyboard for practice? And please not a very expensive one. Of course it depends on which sounds you prefer but in general. Any thoughts?
It would really depend on what you would think was expensive. I just reviewed a Kawai ES8 that I thought was a good buy for the money and had very nice built in speakers. I will be uploading it in a few days (maybe Saturday). I think they run about $1,500.00 and that is not cheap, but I thought it was very nice for the money and would cost about $1,000.00 less than this one and you could add a amp later if you wanted or not.
Thank you for the quick answer. I look forward to your review (as Always) but this time also to see if it is a keyboard for practice. I hope it got a good (decent) piano sound and harpsichord. Thank again for the respons.
Hi James, will you be doing an indepth review of the Roland RD-88?
I really dislike electronic damper noise and pedal noise, yikes...it's the first thing I toggle off.
Yes, every new keyboard seems to have it, with Kronos there is no global toggle, every patch has to be toggled!
A nice reverb is much nicer.
Thank you for your review of the RD 2000. Have you played the Kurzweil Forte SE? I’m ready for a new keyboard and have narrowed it down between these two (I think). I’ve not played the Forte SE, and would love a comparison. Thanks!
The forte se is definitely worth it for the current price it’s $1600 compared to the $2600. There both awesome it just comes down to feature. The se is older and uses a sample engine vs modeling, the vast technology is awesome for organs but nearly impossible to edit. It’s very deep but not user friendly at all. The forte se is grate for the price and competes well.
Great review. All your reviews seem to address the issues that actually matter to us as keyboard players that don't really get talked about, including any faults, etc. Will you ever be looking at the Yamaha YC61? It seems to sound more 'alive' than other keyboards but I would love to know what you think, especially in terms of on stage usability, ease of sound transitions and layering, etc.
I had originally planned on getting a YC61 early in 2020, but then I decided to focus more on digital pianos, beginning at the entry level and working up from there. In the future, I would love to do a video series about "clonewheel" organs, or organs that emulate the sound of a vintage tonewheel Hammond organ. The YC61 will most likely be featured in this series, if I ever get the time to do it! :D I heard the YC61 being played quite frequently when I was at the NAMM show, and it does sound pretty interesting. It appears to have a very similar layout to the CP73/88, which had a very simple, intuitive user interface, and from the limited time I spent with the YC61 it seemed equally as simple to use as the CP88.
Thanks, I'll have a good look at your review of the CP88. I know the action will be different and a few other things but I can get a good idea and I'll keep an eye open for any reviews on the YC61.
Do a review/Comparison with the Nord stage 2 EX & the Nord stage 3
Also if you get expansion five, the sounds are much better and so is the Leslie effect because they put that in to the new organ tones that you get
You're the only reviewer that pointed out the lack of a music rest on this keyboard. Could Roland have just plain forgot about this in the design plans ? I really like everything else about this Roland though. Loads of features I'd probably never use, but they're on it and ready to go at the touch of a button or scroll wheel.
Is it wise to use studio monitor speaker e.g Yamaha HS5, on RD-2000? Or stage piano must use Amp? Thanks
I loved the the Yamaha CP88 when I played it, how high in your list is it?
I'm planning on buying one.
It depends on the type of music you wish to play. I did review it and also I believe I did some comparisons with other keyboards with the CP88 as well.
Fantastic Video, dear James. .Best wishes to you and family..sunflower
Thank you, Sunflower.
I love the Roland key action and RD2000 layout. But I'm not loving the acoustic pianos on the RD2000. Do you know of a library that rivals the nord or yamaha grand piano sounds that i could use on the RD2000?
I hate this Roland sounds ... honestly the previous models sounded better... I’ve owned it for a year now and I’m gonna trade it in for something else ... hate the sounds
@@wellness123 is it the mtallic digital aspect of it that annoys you?
Could you do an in depth review of the yamaha modx
What's the name of the song he's playing that starts at around 8:10? I love that mysterious vibe it has
Gnossienne no. 1 by Eric Satie
What would be the best recording studio piano?
I didn´t hear you talk about the ACTION, mechanism. Is it like a grand acoustic piano really ? What´s the feeling, is it light, or sluggish ? How does it compare with Kawaii MP-11 ?
Yes, Please talk about the action compared with other high end Hammer action beds.
@@HammyGirl999 Both keyboard keybed action are wonderful. It almost has quiet mechanics due to strong build. I believe the Roland 2000 and Kawai 11 use Fatar. The new Kawai 11SE is replicate Kawai Grand Piano Shigeru with balance action. It will be heavier but you can still do faster thrill.
Good luck.
@@dulistanheman Roland and Kawai using Fatar actions for their flagship / high end units?? Roland and Kawai make their own actions. Fatar actions are not anywhere near as good as the Roland and Kawai actions (and specifically in this case the PAH50 and the GF actions). Even Casio actions blow Fatar ones out of the water. Before misinforming people you should inform yourself a little bit on this subject.
Which is the best piano model to use when playing reggae music?
Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans and a belated one to our Canadian Neighbors.
I have an RD-2000, through headphones it sounds great, through Yamaha HS-7's speakers it sounds muddy & weak, any advice please.
Any plans on doing the Yamaha montage8?
Finally 😁😁😁😁
What do you think of the new RD-88? I'd love to get a review of that instrument. It's light and portable, has decent action, and looks pretty sleek. It seems like a really good jack-of-all-trades sort of keyboard.
I have never played one, but plan on doing a review soon.
What is the name of that Satie piece?
Please review the Kurzweil Forte!
It would be cool if you did a review of a modern or vintage synth, like maybe a moog, prophet 5 or maybe a Yamaha montage or a behringer synth
Hi,it's a very impressive video but can you tell me the name of the composition at the point 8:15 please? It's wonderful😀
Erik Satie: Gnossienne No. 1
@@ThePianoforever Thank you so much. 👍👌
Which is the best keyboard for music production studio in your opinion?
I use my MP11se for most of my work here where a piano is not used, but I also have others like the SV1-88. I am scheduled to receive a new SV2S-88 in the next couple of days.
What about the action? It's good?
I had an RD700 but sold it (foolishly). How does it compare in action to the FP-90 which you compare elsewhere on your channel which is a bit more affordable right now (especially RIGHT now as a musician!) No way I can afford an RD 2000 right now. Just care about an action comparison (as a classical pianist about all I care about). Thanks!
Hi... Please play with Dexibell Vivo S9... Thanks a lot...
Roland kinda got the RD2000 wrong in terms of fitting it to the expectations of many stage piano users. The default patches/programs it comes with don't sound good to a fair number of users who are used to sample based stage pianos. Roland thought everyone would know to dig into the menus and tweak away for hours until they got the sound they were happy or content with. And of course plenty of people either haven't tried or had a bit of a go and didn't get what they wanted easily so gave up.
The other side is the use of it. Roland know that most audiences listening to stage pianos (e.g. a rock gig) don't know or don't care how artificial they sound. The people playing them might care, but the audience don't. Studio wise, it is clearly set up pretty well for playing PC/Mac stuff so you are never stuck with the internal sounds.
It's a very good board for those who have the patience and skill to make full use of the Starship Enterprise controls on it and don't mind the lack of a music rest.
Have you ever used an RD 1000? From the RD 1000 to the RD 2000, they have sure been able to make big improvements. But that was also like 30 years, and I think the RD 2000 is from 2016, because I seem to remember something about the 30th year of the RD 1000.
By the way, if you want to hear some more reused Roland sounds, here are a few to look for that I know are as old as me which are from 1994. Look for one called West Coast and another called Midied Grande. A worship group that I was playing keys for one time a couple of years back had this keyboard, and I was using all of these older sounds that I knew from my 1080. And I was getting all kinds of comments from, this sounds so 1991, which by the way the 1080 W. from 94, two. That sounds like a bad 1990s lifetime movie.
I received a newsletter about the brand new RD-2000 on the 18 january 2017.
James: Are you playing through the built-in speakers or through external speakers?
there is no built in speakers
RD-2000 does not have built in speakers
What is a good amp for the rd2000 for under $200 for a home?
My money would be on a used Roland KC series amp. The smaller ones are O.K., but if you can add a few dollars and find a KC350 you will have a tough bullet proof amp that have been used by touring artists for decades. I just checked on ebay and there are several starting at $199.00 and up. I would think honestly that I would expect to pay 300-400 range for a good deal in very good condition.
@@ThePianoforever Would this be a good option. I’ve been using peavey for awhile but never for amps, what do you think about this. www.amazon.com/Peavey-KB-20W-Keyboard-Amp/dp/B004LRP56W/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Keyboard+amp&qid=1574949068&sr=8-1
@@nikverghese The Roland would be my first choice between the two for sure. Peavey has not impressed me and is just not is the same category.
I'm going to have to try this on my rd2000. I haven’t explored this yet but I'm good at programing synths and my Roland v accordion which incidentally, the sounds from the factory are just awful. How ever they give you amazing tools and samples to make them way better.
Review the Nord Piano 4 😉
I love that song you played in the beginning.. it's beautiful.. what song is it?
Eric Saties Gnosienne nr 1
Can't wait until they released a white version and cslled it rd2d
As far as looks concerned, the best looking Roland piano, to me, is RD-800.
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Please compare ROLAND RD 200 VS ROLAND RD 600.. THANKS
ROLAND 2000 VS ROLAND RD 600.. I JUST WANNA KNOW THE DIFFERENT OF THE VINTAGE..
do fantom roland
Try listening to the sympathetic resonance on the supernatural piano sounds.
6 hours was enough to completely psychoanalyze and diagnose the RD 2000, laughing.
I would still be getting it out of the box. and playing with the bubble wrap.
Great share. I am off the Kawai MP11SE because it doesn't have the B3 voices. Would love the MP11SE wooden keys, but off that keyboard because of that. I know, I know, with such a great feel it is supposed to be a piano keyboard, not an organ keyboard.
Let me preface this by saying I'm a fan of Roland products generally but the RD2000 really fell short of my expectations. As an FP-60 owner, the mediocre piano sound is exactly why I chose not to buy it. The Rhodes sound is also pretty mediocre and don't even get me started on the organs, which sound muffled and lifeless (I have a Viscount clonewheel, for comparison). And yes, the Leslie simulation is terrible. But yes, as a general purpose keyboard, the versatility is undeniable but the quality of the samples are just underwhelming on the whole.
I'd cover that logo so fast, yikes...hate that!
The stage piano (Roland RD-2000) doesn't sound very well but you play up to highest standards! So 99% for your skill and 60% for the instrument ...
WANTED Is Anyone in U.K Selling a used RD2000 I am willing to pay up to £1000 for one as long as its in great condition I can't afford a brand new one at the moment.
You probably won't be able to get one that cheap. Sometimes, the RD-2000 Facebook group has one for sale cheap, but cheap in this case means like 1500£
The sounds are terrible. Reminds me of a Roland sound canvas module from 25 years ago.
what was the Satie piece called ?
Erik Satie - Gnossienne No1