 Hey I'm Brandon from Roland, we're here at CES 2020 and we have a large new presence here and a lot of cool things so let's go have a look. What's happening here? So this is a demonstration of our Roland Cloud so we have as you'll see we have many many virtual instruments so these are a lot of our classic instruments that were influential in a lot of modern music that we know today so the TB-303 which was instrumental in genres like acid house the 808 which we all know the the boom of a lot of modern music that comes from that 909 another influential drum machine Juno 106 so these are basically virtual instruments that you can get in a basically of 1995 a month subscription you get all the new instruments that are coming and you know these are authentic circuit modeled reproductions of our classic instruments. How can you use those? Are you actually using those in construction with your yeah so they can be in a in any digital audio workstation you can run them on a computer laptop desktop and then we have all kinds of controller keyboards and things that you can play from you know things like knobs that are on this 88 Mart 2 which is a brand new MIDI controller we've just announced these knobs will control these these instruments on screen so you can essentially do a whole live performance with a rack you know wall of instruments but these are all in the computer and you can use them in real time absolutely real-time access yeah yeah real time having the original machine so you can hear so that's a 909 303 going you know so that's five or six or so virtual instruments that are all running and they're you know really really detailed models of all of our classic Roland instruments throughout you know 80s 90s 70s this is one of the booths you have around here yeah so we actually do a performance here where we have multiple players so that that person is playing virtual instruments this station here when we'll look on the other side in a second is the the some more live performance instruments we just came out with this is the MC 707 groove box so this is like a standalone production and performance device you have eight tracks of drum machines and synthesizers and you can perform on the pads and using the faders and the knobs so you can write a whole piece of music on this and then this is the Jupiter XM so this is a the compact version of our new Jupiter X line this kind of has all of Roland's history really in one box there's like 40 years of synthesis in this thing so vintage analog style stuff vintage digital stuff and then new sounds you can combine things together basically five synthesizers stacked on top of each other cool thing that's in here is this thing called this I arpeggio which uses kind of machine learning to predict to look at how you're playing and to predict how you're playing and we'll actually adjust the complexity of arpeggios and things based on how based on how you play so that's pretty cool and it's all made of metal and has that vintage Jupiter look so and you have a bigger Jupiter X which if you want to walk right around here it looks really cool yeah so this is this is brand new and so this actually isn't out until probably March or April so this is a full-size version of the Jupiter X nice you know the big kind of vintage 66 61 key brand new keyboard so it's a brand new action that we that we make that's available in 61 and 76 key and yes it's got you know lit up mod wheels a little display over here but a lot of this stuff can be done from the action is not like a real cannon oh it's not a synth action but it's a semi-weight synth synth action so a heavier than your typical fully unweighted and it's a really excellent probably for me one of the best synth action what's happening with all these LEDs so these are these are kind of telling you the status of things so this is this could be used to change sounds but it could also be used to pick a model so if I want to make it a Jupiter or a Juno which is another classic synthesizer JXSH you know these are all sought after synthesizers you can switch the model depending on when you're in this model bank mode it can also load scenes which is a whole configuration with effects and everything and you can be all ready for a live performance or something so I'm hearing some some some drums yeah so things happening sir this is our our dear friend Michael Shaq who is a legendary and on YouTube in drum demonstrations everywhere but he does a lot more than drum he's triggering video and controlling tempo and all kinds of instruments and it's a really intricate intricate thing so I'll set up one minute okay well maybe we'll roll back in a minute or can you give us a little a little flurry a little nice how good other Roland electric drums is the best the best why do you ask how good they are there's no competition no competition they're not here yeah competition and doesn't touch this can't touch this well we have this mesh head technology and the way our symbols work and everything is really gives you the feel of I have a TD4 congratulations it still works correct yeah of course that's that's it you have a drum set you hit on it all the time it keeps on working okay there's only 30 seconds left okay I'm gonna check it out yeah well we'll go 20 seconds of this before it starts yeah yeah so this is a looping device we actually have a guy doing beatboxing and so we got five channels of looping and he can sing in and create drum parts and bass parts and I would demonstrate but I am I am no beatboxer beatbox but that's really amazing and those guys actually play together so up here is all of these are synced together so they play a performance together and do a bunch of you get probably millions and millions of views on people filming these demos at CES yep yep it's gonna be huge yep it's been next few months people are pretty incredible and you know mixing beatboxing with drumming with synthesis and you know groove boxes is pretty cool so come this way yeah this is the same machine like before this is the so we have the the bigger one the RC505 and then over here there is a smaller one the RC202 which is like a two channel basically tabletop looping real simple to use volume here can record and play and you can just overdub as many times you want so that plus some talent it's boss that's right that's boss which is also part of Roland and then this is an interesting thing so this is called the go livecast so if you're a person who in this case this scenarios is a person doing a makeup youtuber but it could be could be a performer instrumentalist you can plug your mic or your your mixer into here and then basically you just plug this into a tablet or phone over Wi-Fi you can use another camera so you can have a two camera system just with this little box no computer necessary and then you can do things like applause you can put titles overlays you can play video content so it's a video mixer essentially exactly so any content that the phone has access to you can you can overlay so one person can do a multi-camera angle high production value broadcast to you know Facebook and also flip it like normal video exactly yeah this is like weird yeah yeah this would be all portrait mode but yeah right switch everything the lens or you can do a combination of landscape and portrait if you want to so how many channels you say to so two to video channels and you can you can of course determine where they go or turn them off to video channels and then any amount of audio or video content based upon just what you have on the on the phone so it makes a super easy computerless you know setup for for broadcasting high quality and you know the XLR jack here allows you to really plug in a nice you know really nice microphone or or a feed from let's say a mixer can't use a USB microphone yeah you can I don't think no you can't use a USB microphone I think you can use one of the microphones on one of the tablets I believe one microphone so you have a here we just got an XLR connection that's really sure it works but there's two inputs here as for headphones so one of these connects to one of these will connect to power so you need some five volt power one of them connects to the first device and the second one is remote so this could be a handheld you know could be walking around with it but as long as it has Wi-Fi connection it's good okay here in a second but just quickly this is called Zen beats and this is a cross-platform so Mac PC Android and iOS music production system so you can you know write drum patterns and keyboard patterns and things anywhere you are on a phone or tablet or you can also hook it up to something like the System 8 here which is a Roland synthesizer that can also mimic a lot of our classic so this is a new launch for the CES yes that's right so this was a used to be something called stage light which is now Roland Zen beats and then we released 1.1 here at the show which gives us direct integration with the 88 mark 2 controller we looked at at the beginning so we can come back here quickly but I wanted to talk about the piano so this is a really interesting this is a concept piano called the facet piano and this was essentially a design competition Roland wanted to kind of challenge the design world to say well what could the piano be and let's break out of the traditional mold of pianos and so this was a this was a design winner from South Korea and it was built by our team in Hamamatsu and uses all the latest technologies so that is a car yeah so it has multiple speakers down here in here up there there's even speaker and projection built in so the sound will project from this so it's designed to project like an acoustic piano but also it can have actual visual projection as well and it has a tablet built in here to the where the music stand would be so the user can call up songs it also has voice control through Alexa and yeah uses all of our state-of-the-art technologies I'm afraid to touch but it's that one in the world yeah it's only one but it is fully playable in fact so there's no price on it no price no and no plan to actually have this piano particularly as it stands available however you know this will kind of inform similar to how concept cars work some of this stuff may trickle into production price sell it yeah yeah people want it we've actually a lot of people ask about it so yeah and hopefully it'll be cheaper than what you call those Lamborghini or yeah yeah it's yeah unknown at this time but we hope that some of this stuff will become Steinway yeah yeah yes yeah maybe maybe maybe they're becoming but you know more practical is it practical I don't know but it certainly looks great you know so so maybe we can get back to that guy yeah let's go back over and we'll talk with Matthew he's busy all the time there right we'll break him away yeah gonna jump in here maybe and this is just as we're waiting this is a go piano kind of for you know people starting or they want a lot of capability and a small affordable instrument there's that and as you're seeing here again is is Zen beats and kind of a keyboard view but you know also on Android devices and iOS devices you can share the same the song and move from one to the other which is pretty amazing to be able to work on a phone but then also move over to computers yeah I'm going to pass you over to my yeah on the mic right there look back to your beard to my beard perfect right there you got audio we good so it has been the CES CES has been fantastic it's amazing getting to show people that there is a sleeping musician in everyone and anyone can make a beat regardless of your previous music history or no musical history do you yourself make music sir yeah so I try to use there's Cubase there's there's a bunch but they're a bit difficult to use well they are and they're all fantastic applications but they're aimed at full on professional use their colleges that teach you how to use these apps even able to live able to live another fantastic gap but once again aimed at professionals I want to show you guys how anyone can make music with just their index finger let's get into it so this is Zenbeats it's as I think Brian may have mentioned it is cross-platform and it's free to download on any device whatever device you've got in your pocket chances are you can go get it from the Google Play Store or the App Store let's get into how it works now if you're brand new to music and you want to just dive right in we've got in-app lessons that cover all the basics from you know making music using the loop browser building a beat from scratch the lessons will walk you through the process since I'm here let's just go ahead and dive right in let's start a brand-new song I'm gonna hit a new song button from the home screen that's gonna give me my drum grid and my on-screen instruments these are as many tracks as you want we how many what and you're kind of unlimited all up it's I'll show you so when you start a new song you've got a drum machine we've got a touch device you can record and tap out of it let's say you're not even there yet you haven't practiced it's not your thing just hit the play button and you can go to all your sounds and you can easily enable a kick drum you can also swipe and make music with gestures got the basis of a beat going let's add some stuff to spice it up cool now I've got this beat going and this is in our app mode called loop builder loop builder is all about being free and creating ideas this drum loop is going to play forever and let's say explicitly press stop let's move on and add some more stuff so you can add unlimited tracks and ten beats we have audio tracks instrument tracks drum tracks like we're on now and some mixing tracks like sends track templates and song parts if you want to grow your song out let's start with audio tracks with audio tracks and ten beats you can record your own audio from a microphone being so or plug in your guitar or bass I don't have a guitar bass and you don't want to hear me sing so we're gonna go with the next thing you can do which is import audio touch here you'll get your loop browser your loop browser has access to thousands of loops organized by type 808 bass drums let's just layer another drum beat here I can browse audition and if I like it just drag and drop it boom the next type of track we have our instruments Zen beats comes with eight keyboard based instruments including a very versatile synth and sampler now if you're on Mac PC or iOS you also have access to external plugins thank VST 2 3 and audio units let's mix this stuff with some internals and beat sounds I'm gonna pick my favorite instrument sample verse sample verse is a synth and a sampler combined without going too heavy on him you can touch the record button here and you can actually multi-sample any instrument guitar bass or violin and play it on your keys I've got a basic synth loaded here now obviously I'm playing a nice keyboard you don't need one you can bring one up here and play on screen this could be a new Android phone right now it says on it just can't be on your Android phone right now now when playing on a phone it can be difficult to hit the keys on a touchscreen or if you're like me I play guitar I don't play keys we have a nice feature called key lock you can pick your key pick your mode no mistakes another cool thing about this is MPE that's a very geeky term but let me show you what it means that means multi-polyphonic expression you're used to doing pitch bending like this on a keyboard with MPE it's per finger pitch and other effects like filtering let's record something done recording loop it and go so what I've done here is I've just created the first part of the song these are loops these are song parts you can think of song parts like an intro a verse a chorus a bridge you name it you can have unlimited tracks and Zen beats and unlimited song parts so you can put as many ideas you have together and then trigger and play them on the fly you can play individually or entire columns like so if I want to start adding a new song part I can just start dragging and dropping or recording like so easy as that now in addition to making music with loops we also have a linear mode what happens if you make an entire song in loop mode but you change your mind you want to maybe get it in linear mode let me show you I'm going to open up a basic template here it's got some song parts on already I'm going to touch my record button and I'm going to go to record a timeline this allows you to remix all your loops on the fly and multi-track them in the background we'll start with just this little hi-hat here bring in some bass now let's drop in the hit let's bring this whole column everything is being multi-tracked in the background and switch the timeline and there's your multi-track sequence all this can run on the phone yes all of it all of it so everything I essentially showed you is on it's the same software on the iPhone Android iPad Chromebook now let's say okay we've got something we want to save it when you save in Zenbeats you can save on your device you can save to Google Drive or OneDrive two of the most popular connected clouds accounts after you save it maybe you know maybe this is something I made on my phone and maybe now I now want to transfer it to my PC or my Mac we also have built-in transfer functions so if your devices are online you can wirelessly send anything you've done on your phone to your tablet or your PC the Wi-Fi here is very slow so it took a little time but yeah I can see my iOS device there I hit select transfer and it sends all your content over to your other devices so you can start a beat on your phone finish it out on your PC or maybe you started really good idea on your PC but you got to go send it to your phone and work on it while you're on the road that is Zenbeats you can get it today on the iOS app store Google Play or the Mac available at Roland dot com how much thank you for the mobile version start at $14.99 the desktop versions are $49.99 and we also have an in-app store you can buy individual loot packs based on every genre and subgenre you can hope for real Roland sounds like the classic 808 TR707 TR909 and more all these are individually sold for $4 a pack now if you're the type of cat that wants to get everything all-in-one also offer the ultimate unlock which will give you a Zenbeats unlock on Mac Windows Android iOS even Chromebooks that support Android apps and also give you all of our content in the in-app store today and you can input any keyboard that's MIDI or yes so as far as hardware we support any hardware your device supports so if you have a USB sound card you want to use hook it up choose it in the settings and go as you see here I'm using a Roland System 8 as my audio device from my PC right now it's just like a MIDI controller yep or you go to your mini and set a MIDI controller or any audio device we work we work with everything what can you output to a MIDI also I'm sorry can you output to me you can you can output MIDI you can export patterns as MIDI and also let's say you're want to collaborate with someone who's using a full professional DAW like Pro Tools or logic the share button will also allow you to create stems of anything you're doing in one touch you can do full uncompressed wave a lossless flak or AUG it'll render every track as its own way so you drag and drop it into any full fledged TW of your choice all the sounds from Roland all available tons of sounds from Roland if you're on them the Mac or Windows version as I mentioned we also support VST plugins which I highly recommend everyone to check out Roland Cloud all of their entire legacy is right here down to XV5080 down to the Jupiters the Juno 106 is the D50s all the best recreations of these instruments and software forms you have to subscribe to those separately those are the separate subscriptions Zenbeats is its own thing that pricing is for a one-time license fee for Zenbeats once again 1499 on iOS or Android 4999 on Windows or back so here's an iPad Pro yeah so there's something that I heard about the iOS devices having less lag than Android is a true note but it obviously depends on the device but overall iOS they they definitely they can't have better audio than some Android devices we're using a Google Pixel here that has very good touch latency it's the same like an iPhone I'd have to abm side-by-side to see I use n beats on a Samsung myself and it works fantastic too and you say chrome so that means every Chromebook because the Android every Chromebook that supports Android apps there are still some older legacy Chromebooks that don't have Android app support and that we can't work on but anything that does have the Google Play store on you can download it and same thing all right is there any chance there might be a keyboard coming out with the like an Android touch screen in the middle there and supporting this directly the keyboard I don't know anything about it just the beginning right we're just we're just at the start I'm the product manager for the software that is what I focus on and we just dropped version point one this is brand new we have lots of exciting things in store please stay tuned and an iOS there's a bunch of music apps more than an Android but you are you the best this is the best system out there and I swear the best absolutely the coolest easiest to use I mean as a product manager I potentially bias but yes I think it is easy easiest app to use today and it's the only app that you can get real rolling sounds in thanks a lot all right thanks oh sorry I can get the mic she's gonna check her out over there to finish the video oh yeah yeah hold on to that it's kind of stuck it back up thanks a lot all right awesome thanks I'll give you the car just in one minute I'm just gonna go right over here sorry sorry sorry so a lot of innovation that Roland it's probably the coolest