Roland released the first velocity sensitive electric piano in 1974, the EP-30. It was built in a sturdy road case with 4 preset sounds and a bass sound that could be blended with the others in the lowest octave. It had a vibrato with speed control that affected the volume, and a tone control. You could create some variation to the sound by pressing more than one preset button at a time. Today it’s quite rare to find.

If we where to describe the sound, “Pac Man piano” could be appropriate. EP-30 does not sound like a real piano, it sounds very Lo-Fi and cheesy, in a cool, retro way. We have sampled the instrument in full, every key and preset. The natural range of the Roland EP-30 is F0-F5, and F0-B1 for the Bass.
We have extended the range of the instrument from C0-C6 except the Bass which has been extended down only, to C0.

EP-30 contains:

263 24-bit mono WAV files
12 programs for Kontakt 3+ with scripted interface
5 programs for Kontakt 1+
5 programs for EXS24
5 programs for HALion
5 programs in SoundFont format