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I'm a proud FP-30 owner, love the keyboard, but the selection of sounds (instruments) is limited. Or so I thought ... until I figured out that the piano has lots of sounds built-in (you can hear them, when you play a MIDI song from a flash drive) except they are 'hidden' (i.e. you cannot select them from the dashboard).

So, I dusted off my old programming skills and wrote a computer program which lets me now play all those other instruments - still using the keyboard of the FP-30, plus alter the sounds with various effects. I wrote about this on my website - see my profile.

Happy to share know-how, and the program with others, if interested.

That is a great blog picman. Nice upgrade for our Roland members and a good education for all of us.

Thank you.
It was project I enjoyed, although sometimes frustrating (when things just didn't want to work), and now that it is finished I can re-emerge from the closed and I'm happy to let others know and share.

Nice blog update, thanks for share the info! It's very fun to test new posibilities on our fp30...

Where is the link to the blog?

click on the OP's name and select Website

Or try this https://youtu.be/wwxAnsTAki4 which has relevant links in it/

Thanks

Wow, that’s really impressive. Thank you for sharing.

Hi Picman,
I am super excited to try your program but neither the website nor youtube works for me.
Can I please get access to your website?

Cheers,
Sam

Picman was last seen in the forum on 11/30/2020.
I guess he is on vacation at the ground of a lake, wearing a pair of perfectly fitting concrete shoes.
All generously donated by the Roland Company...
😄😄

Try looking up other web or standalone programs for this, I recall there were several. Thing is, the FP30 has many voices for general midi playback that aren't selectable for piano locally - but it can play them if a program on a midi connected computer just sends played midi notes back wit a different voice code.
However, you shouldn't expect miraculously great sounds. If already midi-connected to a computer, it may be a better idea to look up some good VST instruments to generate audio from the received midi notes.

Related: https://forum.pianoworld.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/2932805/fp30-playground-new-sounds-effects.html