![]() ![]() The old letterbox LCD from the G-1000/G-800 and the annoying five rotary data entry knobs and myriad of function buttons has given way to a large touch screen, alpha wheel and a few cursor keys. There are three main new showcase features in the G-70, namely a virtual drawbar organ, a built in vocal harmonist section and an all new user interface.īeginning with the latter, the overall structure of the machine is similar to the G-1000, but now with the added benefit that there is a substantial 3D GUI display. ![]() With the G-70 coming from G-800/G-1000 lineage, it's therefore easy to take the 256 new music styles, 128-voices 32 multi-timbral capability as a given, and concentrate on the new features. The initial omens are good however, as Roland Europe has scrapped a lot of the thinking behind the VA-series of auto-arranger keyboards and gone for a back-to-basics approach which is thoroughly rooted in the E- and G- series school of thought. Kevin Steele ( has taken a long time for Roland to come up with a credible successor to the G-1000, and after the disappointing VA-7/VA-76 (which weren't really direct replacements for it, despite what Roland might have you believe), there was a lot riding on the G-70.
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