[sdiy] Roll Up & Go Piano - Impressions...

[Tim Heffield]

Hi Thomas,

I forgot to mention that all of the keys work fine on mine, and it does have
record and play back.  So it may work for your "lunch time inspirations"!

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of Tim Heffield
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 9:08 AM
To: Synth-Diy
Subject: RE: [sdiy] Roll Up & Go Piano - Impressions...


Hi Thomas,

My impression of the "Roll Up & Go Piano" is, that it is a toy, and it feels
like a toy when you play it.  The keypad is a rubber mat about 3/16" thick.
There is no velocity and you have to make a conscious effort to press a key.
The sound is pretty good and I suspect it is because they use some type of
standard Midi tone generation.  I personally don't plan to use it for
"playing" like a regular keyboard.  I have visions of using it for a
sequencer  or arpeggio controller.  I will probably use a PIC
microcontroller for key scanning unless I can find that it has an unused
Midi ouput on the PCB.  I have not played it very much and the PIC key
scanning is a future rainy day project.  I was not looking for it at Target,
I just happened to see it and thought it might be useful for the price.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of Thomas Hudson
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 10:06 PM
To: Tim Heffield
Cc: Synth-Diy
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Roll Up & Go Piano - Just to clarify


Can anyone give us a review of these things? The reviews on Amazon
suggest they are useless, however, users reviews are always suspect
to the reviewers expectation.

I don't expect piano action, but one review said some of the keys
didn't even work.

I have also seen versions (more expensive) that already have MIDI-out.

My interest is having something in my backpack that I could take to
work and when inspiration hits, I could enter that next hit melody :-)

Tomy

On Jan 14, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Tim Heffield wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I found mine at the Super Target here in Fort Lauderdale.  Maybe
> the pricing
> is store specific, I thought they all did pretty much the same
> thing...guess
> not.
>
> Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bill bigrig [mailto:billbigrig at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 7:37 PM
> To: Tim Heffield
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] Roll Up & Go Piano - Just to clarify
>
>
> Howdy,
>
>  i checked at Target and they don't have any in stock.
> On Target.com,they are still listed at $69. Where did
> you find yours?
> Rig
> --- Tim Heffield <heff_tw at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm not trying to sell this, I just thought others
>> may want to hunt one down
>> for themselves...
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Not sure if anyone is interested but I picked up a
>> Roll Up & Go Piano from
>> Target for clearance price of $12.50.  This is a
>> full size 49 Key rubber
>> membrane  keyboard.  The regular price was $49.00.
>> This could make an
>> interesting SDIY controller.  It looks like this:
>>
> http://www.amazon.com/Jobar-Internationa-Roll%252dUp-Electric-Piano/
> dp/B000A
>> 7OP72 It might make a nice sequencer entry
>> controller or who knows for
>> $12.50!
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
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