Your Music Production and Performance Partner!

Perform? Record? Take a look at the Roland SD-50. This feature-packed gadget helps you do both, with awesome quality. It's a 2-in/2-out USB audio/MIDI interface, for one thing. And it's sized to go wherever your Mac or PC laptop goes (battery or AC power!), for another. More than that, the SD-50 is an impressive sound module, with 1,125 total sounds you can access via MIDI. You can even connect a USB flash drive and load up MIDI backing-track files and have the SD-50 play them back for you with its internal GM sounds! Have MP3 or WAV files you want to play back at the show? Load them into the SD-50 and do it. The compact Roland SD-50 really is a "does it all" gadget that any recording and performing musician can use. With just one investment (and one piece of gear to carry with you), you'll be ready to record new ideas, come up with ideas with the built-in sounds, and take charge of your backing tracks during the show. Speaking of backing tracks, you can even change keys, tempos, create loops, and do Center Cancel for a Karaoke-style effect. Plus, there's built-in reverb and chorus effects for getting pro sound quality.

One other thing you should know. The Roland SD-50 includes Cakewalk's SONAR LE software for Windows. It's an unbelievable piece of recording, editing, and production software that will help you turn your ideas into release-ready tracks. Of course, the Roland SD-50 is compatible with just about every piece of recording software for Mac or PC, so if you have other software you're comfortable with, go on and use it.

Whatever you're doing with music, there's a place for the Roland SD-50. It's the compact wonder that's fits in the mobile studio, with features that are perfect for the practice space and the stage.

Roland and Cakewalk SD-50 Mobile Studio Canvas Features at a Glance:

• Compact, portable USB bus-powered audio and MIDI solution, perfect for laptop and mobile use
  
• 128 polyphony, 1,125 GM2/GS/Mobile Studio Canvas Solo Tones and 32 drum sets
  
• Features Mobile Studio Canvas Solo Tones including shakuhachi, trombone, and violin
  
• 2-in/2-out, 24-bit/44.1kHz audio interface with hi-Z instrument and phantom-powered XLR input
  
• 1 x 1 MIDI interface
  
• V-LINK support
  
• Built-in hardware DSP FX for reverb, chorus, and mastering
  
• USB memory drive for quick playback of MP3, WAV, AIFF, and MIDI files
  
• Enhanced Transport Controls for key and tempo changes, A/B loops, center (vocal) cancel and more
  
• Powered by AC adapter, USB bus power, or batteries
  
• Compatible with Windows and Mac computers
  
• Includes SONAR 8.5 LE recording software (Windows only)

Roland SD-50 Sound Canvas Specs: Sound Engine Type(s) ROM Polyphony 128 Notes Number of Presets 1125 Expansion No Expansion Number of Effects 12 Effects Types Reverb, Chorus, Mastering Arpeggiator No Sampling No MIDI Sequencer No MIDI USB MIDI, Audio Interface Number of Audio Inputs 3 Audio Input Types 1 x XLR (Mic), 1 x Hi-Z, 1 x 1/8" (Line) Number of Audio Outputs 3 Audio Output Types 2 x RCA Number of Digital Inputs 0 Digital Input Types No Digital Inputs Number of Digital Outputs 0 Digital Output Types No Digital Outputs MIDI I/O In, Out, and USB Height 2.19" Width 9.88" Depth 6.63" Weight 1.81 lbs. Power Supply Bus Powered, DC 9 V, 6 x AA Batteries