Roland BK-7m

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Price: $999.00    

Product Feature

• Features -
• Portable backing module compatible with MIDI-capable pianos, keyboards, accordions, organs
• 1,000-plus tones, 57 drum kits, 128-voice polyphony
• Over 400 high-quality music styles, each with four one-touch settings
• Over 900 Music Assistants covering every musical genre

Product Description

Playing solo doesn't mean you can't have a complete rock-star experience - here's a perfect way to play with the sound of a full band and still take the stage alone. The Roland BK-7m packs the sound of a full backing band in a box the size of a book. Load up the BK-7m with audio backing tracks, or fire up your own SMF files and let the full-fledged sound module carry your tunes in all its orchestrated glory. What's really cool about the BK-7m is that you can mute parts of your SMFs as they play back and even plug in a MIDI keyboard and play right on top of the playback. Need lyrics to keep you on track? Video output lets the BK-7m project your lyrics on any standard TV. You can even record your entire performance in CD-quality stereo sound. Once you gig out with a Roland BK-7m, you'll wonder how you ever got by before!

Roland BK-7m Review

This is small part of the full review I wrote on the roland-arranger.com homepage.. see there for much more details and further explanations...
The good

Value: The BK-7m arranger module gives you an unbeaten value for the money! Even if you compare to older and less capable modules in the used market.
Visual impression: Elegant and distinguished look
Versatility: can be used as arranger module, karaoke, recording onboard, drum machine, playback, Mp3/WAV player, + Sonar LE
Size/weight: unbeaten size to performance relation
Support: Roland offers support help lines for free! Use them!
Modern interfaces: USB, USB-stick memory (no vulnerable hard disk drive, CD/DVD or floppy disk)
Set up: The wizard makes it almost like "plug&play" for all kinds of Midi instruments
User groups: In the different users groups online you will find a lot of support and inspiration
Accessories: all from foot controller, stand, amplifiers, volume/expression pedals to USB-stick available
Styles, tones (voices), rhythms, OTS (OneTouchSettings) and much more available in the factory set up
Usable factory settings (OTS, MFX,EQ, volumes)
Equalizer (EQ)and multi effects (MFX) on board and selectively adjustable for all tones!

The bad

Interface musician to module v/v: The versatility of the module demands for a clear interface which with the quite small display and relatively few analog buttons cannot be achieved for a spontaneous change of settings
The documentation: The user's manual does not help a greenhorn to midi arranger modules in getting familiar with the performance, a " HowTo" manual is definitely missing (but not only at the BK-7m) Any change to another module (if you do want to change the factory settings and make your own performance library) will cause a lot of rethinking and reprogramming before you get smoothly going.
Price/performance: sad to say the BK-7m module is offered at a too low price! How do I come to this "crazy" statement? The distributors which normally not only do sell Rolands BK-7m arranger module will of course rather sell YOU a much higher priced product at a larger margin than this relatively affordable and low provisioned item! YOU have to check the performance yourself before purchasing. Be aware that mostly all humans tend to like what they did purchase themselves, but YOUR personal preferences can be different to the favor of ANY module in the market.

The conclusion

You get a great performing "box" for the money! The BK-7m is very versatile in many music environments. More than most musicians will ever need! IMHO we have reached a level of sound quality and performance where these are not anymore the limiting parameters. Your choice of equipment in total decides about the sound, and especially HOW you adjust to your personal taste and preferences. To do this the user interface is the major challenge for the producers of such equipment, to open for the creativity and performance of the musician, and not limiting this. The BK-7m at this time (August 2012) will offer you great options and a challenge as soon you will leave the factory settings behind. Now I am waiting for Roland to maybe react to my idea of making a more user friendly manual more minded for the "HowTo" to let musician play music and programmers build modules.

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