Roland FA-08 88 weighted Key Music Workstation

Roland FA-08 88 weighted Key Music Workstation

The Roland FA-08 with an 88-note, is a music workstation, weighted-action keyboard comes along with a large sound collection that is passed down from the studio-quality effects, INTEGRA-7, real-time controls, plus onboard sampling for playback from sixteen backlit pads. The sequencer is offering non-stop loop and simple operation recording, that's let the user to instantly capture ideas and songs and export them as ulti-track data to use with your DAW. All of the XV-5080 PCM tones and INTEGRA-7's SuperNATURAL synthesizer are onboard, plus a collection of SuperNATURAL acoustic tones including the strings, pianos, bass, organs, drums, and more. And with the FA-series wave sound expansion collections, it's possible to expand the onboard sound set.

The Roland FA-08, in addition to standalone use as a composing workstation and performance instrument, it is equally suited to computer-based music production. The user only need to press the dedicated DAW Control button to instantly set up the instrument to communicate with your computer by the use of USB, letting the user to use the knobs and keyboards to send MIDI data to your DAW for playing software synthesizers, controlling plug-in effects, etc. There are also control maps included use for popular DAWs, this provides an popular DAWs for controlling transport functions in the software. The Roland FA-08 is also can be used as a USB audio interface for recording audio directly into your DAW from a microphone, guitar, or stereo line-level device connected to the rear-panel input jacks.

The built-in sampler is based on the company's SP-404SX sampler and features saving and playback via SDHC cards. You can trigger audio samples directly from sixteen pads, making it easy to expand your productions with loops, backing tracks, one-shots, vocal phrases, sound FX, and more. The samples load instantly, and you can use the four pad banks and clipboard function to rearrange your samples as needed. It's possible to sample the internal sounds or external sources via the audio inputs, and you can play back WAV, AIFF, or MP3 files. A variety of editing features allow for tweaking the samples, and the pads can be used for other functions such as muting parts, entering numeric values, and more.