The Perfect Way to Get Jupiter Sound Onstage!

If you were as blown away as the rest of us were by the flexibility and power of Roland's Jupiter-80 keyboard, but need a more travel-friendly synth you can gig with, then here's the perfect keyboard for you: the Roland Jupiter-50! In most ways, the Jupiter-50 is a Jupiter-80 that's been redesigned to give you a Juno series keyboard's lightweight and compact portability. The Jupiter-50 comes loaded with all 70+ SuperNATURAL acoustic tones found in its big brother, including Roland's Behavior Modeling, which provides realistic expression and playing nuances for many sounds. Add to that over 1,500 SuperNATURAL synth tones, and the Jupiter-50 and Jupiter-80 are so similar that you can even transfer Live Sets and tones between them. What's a Live Set? Good question. The Jupiter-50 keyboard's sound presets or "Live Sets" are actually combinations of up to four individual tones. That make creating original sounds as easy as layering the right tones together. Of course, you can dive deep into your Jupiter-50's individual tones. Thanks to an intuitive layout including color-coded front-panel control, fast-access buttons, and tactile sliders, creating complex sounds in the Jupiter-50 keyboard's user-friendly environment is incredibly simple.

Once you've tweaked and layered your Live Set's tones, it's time to add effects. With five amazingly musical reverbs and a huge list of killer special effects to chose from, there's no limit to the cool sounds you can come up with when you dive into the Jupiter-50's effects engine. What's more, the Jupiter-50 keyboard's effects engine features extremely flexible routing, giving you even more tonal possibilities to play with.

Speaking of things to play with, here's another cool thing about the Jupiter-50's USB port - you can use it to play backing tracks. In fact, adding backing tracks to your live performances is as easy as loading up a USB thumb drive with the AIFF, WAV, or MP3 files you want to play back. You can even record direct to that same USB thumb drive as you play! There's another USB port on the back of the Jupiter-50, which lets you send MIDI and audio to and from your DAW software. Combined with both a copy of Cakewalk SONAR LE and a Control Surface plug-in for SONAR, it's easy to turn your portable Jupiter-50 synthesizer keyboard into the central hub of your personal studio.

Roland Jupiter-50 Synthesizer Keyboard Features at a Glance:

• The perfect keyboard for anyone who wants to gig out with top-quality instrument and synthesizer sounds
  
• The sound, power, and flexibility of of a Jupiter-80 plus the portability of a Juno series keyboard
  
• Easily import JUPITER-80 Live Sets and Synth Tones into your JUPITER-50 via USB memory key
  
• Includes the identical analog components as the Jupiter-80, including its studio-quality D/A converter
  
• 76-note, weighted keybed provides you with the perfect balance of response and resistance
  
• Packed with over 1,500 SuperNATURAL synthesizer tones
  
• Comes with all 70+ SuperNATURAL acoustic instruments from the original Jupiter-80
  
• Live Sets let you choose, stack, and edit any combination of four tones
  
• Store and recall up to 2,560 Live Sets at a time
  
• SuperNATURAL acoustic instruments include Roland's famous SuperNATURAL piano and electric pianos, as well as organs derived from Roland's VK organ sound engine
  
• Synth sounds include analog favorites such as Roland SH and JUPITER brass, as well as digital sounds from the D-50, JD-800, and Fantom workstations
  
• Behavior Modeling technology provides natural realism expression and recreates playing nuances of a wide range of instruments, adding realism to sounds such as flamenco guitar, oboe, timpani, erhu, sitar, many others
  
• Intuitive color-coded buttons and sliders give you a fast and friendly user interface that makes creating your own sounds easy
  
• Registration function lets you instantly save and select sounds from 128 user slots
  
• Advanced effects engine gives you access to five pro-grade reverb effects and dozens of special effects, as well as flexible effects-routing options
  
• Expressive performance controllers include Roland's D-Beam sensor, a combined pitch wheel and mod lever, and additional control input jacks
  
• Connect a USB thumb drive to play WAV, AIF, or MP3 backing tracks
  
• Record directly to a plugged-in USB thumb drive
  
• Connect to your DAW software via USB for MIDI sequencing and audio recording
  
• Included Jupiter-50 Control Surface plug-in provides advanced integration with Cakerwalk's SONAR DAW software
  
• Comes bundled with Cakewalk SONAR LE software

Roland Jupiter-50 Specs: Sound Engine Type(s) SuperNATURAL Number of Keys 76 Type of Keys Semi-weighted Other Controllers D-beam, Pitchbend/Modulation lever, 2 x assignable buttons, 4 x Part level sliders4 x assignable knobs Polyphony 128 Wave Memory TBD Number of Presets Up to 2,560 Expansion USB flash drive (sold separately) Number of Effects 76 Effects Types Complete multi-effects Arpeggiator Yes Sampling No Audio Playback From USB flash drive MIDI Sequencer TBD USB 1 x USB (Audio playback, USB-MIDI) Number of Audio Inputs 1 Audio Input Types 1 x 1/8" Number of Audio Outputs 4 Audio Output Types 4 x TRS Number of Digital Inputs No digital inputs Digital Input Types No digital inputs Number of Digital Outputs No digital outputs Digital Output Types No digital outputs MIDI I/O In/Out, USB-MIDI Pedal Inputs 3 x 1/4" Height 4-5/8" Width 49-15/16" Depth 14-1/4" Weight 24.3 lbs. Power Supply 120V Int