Starting Out; Main Features - Roland HP 535 Owner's Manual

Starting Out

Main Features

Authentic Piano Performances
With the Roland HP 535/335, you can enjoy realistic piano performances with high-
quality concert grand piano tone and authentic hammer action keyboard.
Over 200 Different Instrument Sounds Built In
While of course providing great piano sounds, the HP 335 also gives you over 200
other instrument sounds, so you can get just the right sound for songs in a wide vari-
ety of musical genres. (p.16)
Equipped with useful functions for piano practice
Numerous useful built-in functions for piano practiceÑrecording functions that you
can operate like a tape recorder (p.33), 25 songs that feature rich piano sounds, play-
back of one hand at a time, and moreÑlet you practice piano as is possible only with
an electronic piano (p.31). Additionally, a bouncing ball (HP 535) bounces in time with
the music in the display, allows you to grasp the tempo spatially, rather than the nor-
mal way of trying to comprehend rhythm as a series of dots.
Built-In Automatic Accompaniment Function
The HP 535/335 comes with the ÒPianist Function,Ó automatic piano accompaniment
for easy fingering in a wide variety of musical genres (p.20).
About the HP 535/335 Sound Generator
The HP 535/335 come equipped with GM/GS sound generators.
General GM System
The General MIDI system is a set of recommendations which seeks to provide a way
to go beyond the limitations of proprietary designs, and standardize the MIDI capabil-
ities of sound generating devices. Sound generating devices and music data that meets
the General MIDI standard bears the General MIDI logo (
General MIDI logo can be played back using any General MIDI sound generating unit
to produce essentially the same musical performance.
GS format
The GS Format is Roland's set of specifications for standardizing the performance of
sound generating devices. In addition to including support for everything defined by
the General MIDI System, the highly-compatible GS Format additionally offers an
expanded number of sounds, provides for the editing of sounds, and spells out many
details for a wide range of extra features, including effects such as reverb and chorus.
Designed with the future in mind, the GS Format can readily include new sounds and
support new hardware features when they arrive.
Since it is upwardly compatible with the General MIDI System, Roland's GS Format is
capable of reliably playing back GM Scores equally as well as it performs GS Music
Data (music data that has been created with the GS Format in mind).
This product supports both the General MIDI system and the GS format, and can be
used to play back music data carrying either of these logos.
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