Roland XP10: The big step forward in the 90's
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- The 90's was such an exciting time for musicians. The cost of tech took a big dive and suddenly some amazing synths became available. "Pro Audio" became just plain "Good" audio for small-time music makers and hobbyists. The XP-10 is a particularly memorable example of such massive power becoming widely available. I think the year was '93...
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Loved my xp10. Gave it away to my godson in the early 2000s. Was great paired with an alesis mmt8 sequencer.
Hope he's still enjoying it 20 years on!
I have one Roland XP 10 not in so great condition but I like how it sounds so much !!!
I still got this keyboard and it still sounds great!!!
Way ahead of its time eh! :) #gearfacts
Thanks for the video about my beloved FIRST Synshisizer. The ROLAND XP 10 , was my most memorable synth,i was just 20 yrs old(in 1996) ,and i allready had PC 386 DX 40Mhz WITH Sound Blaster 16,that came with MIDI KIT(that included midi cables to plug it in soung blaster 16 game/midi port,so when i bought this ROLAND i IMMIDIATELY connected it to my pc and ,hey presto-i instantly got a pro sequencer,so i composed many tunes and arrangement's ,and ,jingles for a radio that i worked at a time,...saidly..i composed a song to my ever lasting first REAL "I Wanna marry her"Girlfriend,and when she left me,i was devestated and i sold my roland xp,for a half a price,and it allways remeber's me on my lost love,and my very first "proffesional"synth.
Aw that's a sad story bro - thanks for sharing it with us and I hope a new synth (and girl) eventually came along!
Sorry for your lost... I'm talking about the Roland. 😜
I bought a second hand Roland XP10 for the fourth fraction of his value in perhaps 1997? It result to bring home to my children an entry level professional keyboards here in Argentina. So they grow up playing the xp10 though they really both play great the piano. We are from Argentina. Many years ago I bought them (they are in their twenties by then) a Yamaha P35. And I said... now the Yamaha yours the xp10 is mine.
So now I am trying to learn piano in the xp10 myself. I am an amateur guitarrista and dad. Greetings from Argentina Republic.
Greetings from Australia. This is a great synth. My daughter plays piano better than me :(
This is the video I was waiting for!!! I've been looking for this Keyboard for years. These are what my school district had. I took Midi classes in 7th, 9th and 12th grade. I grew to love these little guys and I have fond memories of playing them. I could never find it because I always thought it was a Yamaha. I was looking just last week online at every Yamaha model LOL.
Should have known it was a Roland.
But the pitch bend, volume/control sliders, buttons etc are so well made. Plus this is the look I prefer. All black, sleek, basic and very neat looking. No childish colors and rubber buttons. Just pure functionality.
I was obsessed with playing the drums on these. They were pretty responsive too! Great vid man
I agree with every single one of those comments, KR. Yeah I think the early/mid 90's was a real golden era for Roland and it's really etched into my memories :) GF
Did you go to school in San Diego? Encinitas here
@@HollerAtcherBoi actually i was all the way over in Connecticut on the East Coast. Youre school had them too? Glad to see someone who remembers them fondly. The built in midi sound collection is burned into my brain. Elec Piano 1, Elec Piano 2, Jazz organ, the Jazz drum set sounds with brushes, it was all there
@@kevinr.3542 haha yeah man! I’m 31 years old, and in 4th grade someone donated 12 of these bad boys to our school. They literally created a new midi music class and had the xp10s hooked up to different computers, headphones and all. “Logic Audio Platinum” was the DAW. I was instantly hooked! Bought my own xp10 in 7th grade. Still have it! I always loved the 808 and 909 kits, as well as the electric pianos, pizzicato and strings. Now I own and run a recording studio
Super demo, Glynn! I think this model just made it into my shopping list. Cheers!
Truly one of the classics, from the beginning of a great age for synths too :)
My first synth. Still have it and in almost mint condition (always take good care of all my things). Will try to buy a used DX7 to use among side it.
Nice kit :) #gearfacts
@@gearfacts thx! But absolutely highest on my wish list is a fully functional 230v Farfisa VIP 233-b in at least decent condition...
You know, in Australia I have literally never seen a single Farfisa...
Now I own two Farfisa VIP 233-b organs...!!
my first synthesizer. sold the piano my mother played while running a choir and i played when in musical school. sold the piano for 50 Lats (around 75eur) to buy XP-10 (now 260+ Euros on Reverb). fond memories. hated most of its sounds, now they would make a great record, i think. one day i'll get all the synths i ever owned back, you just wait.
Someone here said it was useless on stage. This was actually used on stage quite a lot. The thing is extremely lightweight and 100% plastic everything, minus the components. I remember seeing on Good Morning America the Backstreet Boys playing this on stage. While basic, its Extremely versatile for midi use. It’s also useful for composing, then transferring your finished midi files to actual synthesizers.
Yeah I think it's a go-anywhere instrument, no problems.
I used to own one plus a xp50 ,great synths.
I had a wonderful memories with ths keyboard... miss thm so much...
Just a passing by for some nostalgia. This was my first "serious" keyboard after selling my Yamaha PSR500. I remember using my Amiga 500 as a sequencer, I had lot of fun with it, it was a very good keyboard considering its affordable price.
I would love to have tried that kit out! Love commodore :)
Like a previous commenter, I also found mine leaning against a dumpster! Excellent condition except for one broken key which was a pretty easy fix and a few sticky keys which for now I consider bonus drone effects!
I’ve gotta start checking dumpsters
I had a JX-3P and one of these. And now have a JD-Xi, and plan to get a Go:Keys, maybe an FP 30/60/90 later.
I believe the top keyboard for this series was the XP80.
Yes I really want to find an old XP80. The JDxi is great too, a really fun synth. GF
@@gearfacts I also want 3 of the 4 Yamaha Reface series keyboards, the CP YC, and DX. Lots of the older Roland keyboards if in good condition still sound incredible, but lots of the landmark vintage gear is available in their compact series modules now.
Btw. Have you heard of Yohan Kim on UA-cam? He has a JD-Xi, Go:Keys, FP 90, RD2000 , and FA 61? Workstation. Plus he plays an acoustic grand, too. His improvisations, cover arrangements, compositions and performance is incredible. He is only 16, but plays at the level of the late, great George Duke, Joe Sample, and others. Snd he can play electric guitar, too.
Update. I got the Go:Keys after Thanksgiving. Awesome, but hardly have time to play with it. The new Yamaha DGX 670 is awesome for $800 US, but when I get to that point, I might just get a Roland RD 88 and maybe the Spectrasonics Keyscapes software. There is no better.
The XP-30 has a midi-thru port and that was 1999 if I recall correctly.
This sure takes me back. I used to be in a synthpop band and this was all we had plus a bulky sampler, might have been an Akai? It served us well for years. There's a really cheesy demo song on it called Mangolay which became a beloved injoke.
Perhaps not the best synth out there but it actually was a viable one, believe it or not!
I think it's a bit of highlight in the Roland repertoire. Still usable today for sure :) GF
i started making my first 'professional' sounding music on this way back when it came out
Wow 90's bite, yum
So 90's. Yet somehow I still find it surprising and adaptable :) #Gearfacts
The genaology is like U20 - JX1 - JV30 - XP10 - RS50 - XP30 and their corresponding modules (kinda)
If I'm correct, the XP10, XP50 and XP80 were released at the same time. Then came an XP60. And the latest an XP30
Yep that's the way I remember it.
Gearfacts to the rescue again! I found one of these in a dumpster, believe it or not, and it still worked though some of the keys were "sticky." Going to attempt to repair it sometime soon, but even with bad keys it still makes lovely noises. I LOVE the arpeggiator.
In a DUMPSTER?! What heathen would do such a thing!
@@gearfacts LOL I liked it so much I bought another that ... also had sticky keys. If you know anything about this problem let me know. I'm going to disassemble one of them and hopefully it's an easy fix.
@@afreezaphorogiancossack2194 you mean physically sticky? Or sticky as in sustaining forever when played?
@@gearfacts Some of the keys don't come back up when you press them down, or are reluctant to. There's also a little feeling of catching against something, I assume the other keys. Both boards the same.
@@afreezaphorogiancossack2194 Hmm, probably just full of crud from it's surroundings ...not least the dumpster!
my first "real" synth!
Still rocks in 2020 :) #Gearfacts
El mejor..
Sí, realmente lo encontré más agradable que todos los demás sintetizadores XP, a pesar de que el XP10 es el más bajo de esa serie.
Hi. A friend of mine, great musician, has just announced on Facebook that he is selling his XP-10 that´s in great shape and fully functional. My question is, is it worth buying? A 25-year old keyboard would be better than new ones? I play many songs with piano sound but your video does not show any piano timbre. Are they good in the XP-10?
Yes, it's the standard Roland GS sound, very nice imho :)
XP 100? I never have seen one! I did own the XP80. Great keybed!
yeah, I realised as I was uploading this that it was the XP80, not 100 ...knew there was one model higher than the 50. Only 3 to go and I will have reviewed the whole set :/ GF
Almost did Twin Peaks at 2:00🤣
That display tho !!! It's even smaller than the Korg X5D display? Can it be any smaller pls? LOL !! :D Great Roland sound anyway of course! :)
Yeah it's the old two-line display that they used to use on Boss multi effects processors etc
@@gearfacts Yes right, Boss is a division of Roland!
@@RaptureMusicOfficial Yup. Many parts and design concepts shared.
@@gearfacts Exactly!
@@RaptureMusicOfficial I bet with some fishin around and some patience you could find and install a bigger display.It might have the same 2 lines of info forever but at least they would readable at a glance... I know if i had the right part i could make it work,but i got a lil XP-erience.. ooo was that good or what?
I HAVE THIS KEYBOARD TOO, but i was going to ask you, what presets did you use?
I just made random choices from the factory preset list
Sounds pretty damn nice even for todays standards, think its an underated machine in a world full of vsts and a rare one, i remember playing one on the local representative 20 years back and the one i have is the only 2 xp 10s that i have seen this 2 decades, why eg this is inferior to a yamaha dx 7 which also own ? cause what you actually buy with gear is the records that it was used and the famous musicians that used these cause there was nothing else available at the time eg during the 80s
I owned an XP10. I loved it. Very simple to use, though lacks sound and polyphony. But i personally love to X-dual of Piano + Heaven
Yeah I think the polyphony was only 32. Those were the days :)
@@gearfacts yes it only has 32 voices of polyphony. Not much if you play it with Dual or X-Dual(layer)
It had the TB-303 sound, 808 and 909 drum sounds.
+ it had a few basic inbuilt effects.
I had one back in the day. Saw one recently for $200. Don’t know if I’d buy another one. It’s a good starter synth though.
In fact, it was my first synth.
Yeah I can see why it still has its aficionados :)
Do you know if this can send arpeggiator patterns as MIDI to play the corresponding arpeggio notes and pattern on an MIDI-connected rack synth that does not have its own internal arpeggiator? And if so, can the filter, vibrato etc realtime controls on the XP10 directly affect the same parameters on the connected rack synth? Thanks.
Arpeggios = yes, realtime controls = some. You have to look at the midi chart of both devices to see what they have in common, then set up the right values for each control to synchronize them. And yep, it IS as hard as it sounds!
@@gearfacts thanks. I should have got this instead of the arp-less JV30, but might get an XP if I can find one cheap enough.
@@80ssynthfan48 mines available 😉
Can i use it as a MIDI keyboard too?
I am looking one right now for about 150$.
Yes it has midi sockets. Can connect to PC using an adapter that costs about $10.
I own a brand new never used mint condition Roland XP 10 which I bought back in 1996. I would like to sell it on eBay but don’t know how much it’s worth today? Do you where I could find out its current value. I would really appreciate it.
Yep, you do an ebay search for your item as if you wanted one for yourself, then down in the left column you'll see the option to search through completed auctions. Scroll through those results and you'll wee what people have been getting for their XP10's. Then add 10% and definitely OFFER POSTAGE so you can access the entire market :) #gearfacts
Gearfacts, I appreciate your advice I will start the searching on eBay. Thank you 🙏
Sir I want purchase xp-10
Can you please sale me
You can contact me
07985186470 please reply sir
I'm wondering weather to get this or a Roland jv-50 with the expansion board. Any suggestions.
Personally I had a lot more fun with the XP10. GF
Good morning Respected sir 🙏
Sir , can you tell me plz !
How do transpose a tone complete in XP 10 keyboard ?
Because when I change the tone transpose is too change ...🙏🙏🙏
After such politeness I wish I could help you sir! But I sold my XP10 several years ago. All I can suggest is getting the manual by Googling "Roland XP10 PDF" :) #gearfacts
Thank you very much sir 🙏 🙏
I want purchase xp -10
Any body help me?
If any one want to sale
He can contact me
07985186470
How to scale edit.. please information to me
Anyone know if this would work for Logic Pro midi
basically an advanced, keyboard version of SC-88
Yeah I guess so. They appeared around the same time, and it's all very "Roland GS" sounding.
I would almost give anything to own one of these again. Soft Pad on any other Roland synth just doesn’t sound the same.
Yeah they're getting rare. I think people tend to hang onto them once they have them :) Gearfacts
I have one sitting behind me now, it was a lot of money for me when I bought it...
Xp 10 ki tone de dijiye
Kya price hai
Mac or PC datacable can you give me sir?
Haven't got one sorry
The Roland XP10 is useless on stage, since its SoundCanvas sounds are so thin and flimsy, they can't be heard when other musicians play along. It's not a real XP, but just an updated JV-30, which wasn't a real JV...
Oh I don't know. I felt no connection with the JV at all, but had a whole lot of fun on the XP. Though I used neither live, so you may well have a point there :) GF
maybe adding some midi sounds to it, and having a better amp, might help? but yes it has those sounds missing, the classic fatty ones
That is so not true
???
classic? nah, its basically a rompler, xp-30 came expanded and more expandable, this was weak and very entry level
These can do more than 80% of the synth and keyboards demonstrated in this channel. It's all about how you use it. As an entry point into midi, you don't need anything more complicated than this.
True, but it’s a classic in the sense that teenagers working in supermarkets could conceivably save up and get one, and that was special at the time.
Yep, I think that’s the way most people see it. Shoulda seen the lineup of people wanting to buy this after filming was completed...
You're wrong grumpy old man, this keyboard was the shit!!!!
Sir if you have good condition
Xp-30 so I want purchase from you. You can contact me
07985186470 I'm from India Please reply sir