Roland HPi-5 manual Roland’s HPi-Series makes piano lessons easy-and so much fun

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Roland’s HPi-Series makes piano lessons easy—and so much fun!

Advanced sound and touch features Even more educational Wonderland fun for kids

DigiScore notation displayed on the music rest

The HPi-Series incorporates Roland’s latest stereo-sampled piano sounds, for superb piano playing realism. Its Damper Resonance reproduces the rich, “free-vibration” resonance sound of the strings obtained when playing an acoustic piano with the damper pedal pressed. The HPi-7 also produces other realistic acoustic piano nuances, including Lid, String Resonance*, and Hammer Response**. In addition, its new velocity-sensitive Key-off Resonance piano tones re-create the subtle sound nuance of the damper touching the strings upon key release. On both models, the Touch settings let you adjust the key touch to suit your finger strength.

*String Resonance accurately reproduces the subtle and varied sympathetic string vibration caused

on an acoustic piano when a key is pressed while other keys are already being held down. (HPi-7) HPi-7’s Lid function simulates

Roland’s popular Wonderland section, now with a Flash Card on the HPi-7, offers 8 educational games (5 games on HPi-5) designed to help children have fun while learning about music. Kids can choose from 8 entertaining

metronome sounds (7 sounds onHPi-5HPi-5) to help encourage them in

their lessons. These include: electronic sound, pendulum metronome, human voice, dog,

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**Hammer Response delivers the slightly slower hammer movement and sound characteristic of a

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The DigiScore LCD screen is built right into the music rest for easy viewing. It displays the notation of all internal songs, of commercially available Standard MIDI Files, of music files you download off the Internet, or of your own recorded

performances. A “Bouncing ball” on the staff helps keep time visually as you play, while the DigiScore “turns the pages” for you. It’s perfect for lessons.

The HPi-7’s wider display lets you split the screen, to set the metronome while looking at the notation as it plays back, or to show the notation and the lyrics at the same time.

occur as you open or close

grand piano when played softly. (HPi-7)

the lid of a grand piano.

Flash Card game (HPi-7): Interactive Flash Card games are an effective way to learn to read music.

Pianist feature for

more piano lesson enjoyment

The Pianist feature creates automatic accompaniment in 35 music styles (30 on HPi-5), from classical to jazz to bossa nova. It makes lessons more fun, and helps devel- op a sense of rhythm. And it’s great for making music files.

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Visual Lesson: your own personal tutor	HPi-7
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The new Visual Lesson feature (HPi-7 only) acts as your personal interactive music tutor. It has three courses. Each of these includes independent exercis- es, 10 songs with variable levels, and Practice, Check, and Review screens.

Visual Lesson also works with all internal songs, as well as Standard MIDI Files—so there’s literally no limit to the number of songs you can use.

3 Visual Lesson Courses: Practice Screen

Review Screen of Visual Lesson (HPi-7):

Areas of your performance that need extra attention are “marked” right onscreen. Incorrect pitch is marked in red. Incorrect rhythm is marked in blue. Extra notes are marked in green. It's truly interactive!

Check Screen

The ideal instrument for creating teaching materials

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The HPi-7’s connectors are conveniently located at the front of the instrument for easy

access. It has two headphone jacks, and MIDI and USB ports. The Mic Input with Echo is great for karaoke. There’s also a handy hook for the headphones.

Beginner’s Course—for practicing with right hand only	The notes you play appear
Repertoire Course—for mastering your favorite songs
	instantly on the onscreen notation.
Challenge Course—for checking your playing skills

When you finish playing, the HPi-7 grades

the accuracy of your pitch and rhythm, and provides simple onscreen advice.

The HPi-7’s Edit function lets you add optional finger numbering right into the notation, change the length of the song, or edit any note in the music files. And it’s easy, because you can do it all while looking at the music. Also, your music file notation can be saved as a bitmap file, which you can print out using your PC.

You can select vertical or horizontal sheet music formats.

You can display

your favorite photo

on the DigiScore screen.