Roland 'electronic' cajon

Subject: Roland 'electronic' cajon
From: bubblyrat
Date: 08 Mar 16 - 08:46 PM

I heard about these today, and had a look at some very attractive lady playing one on the Roland website ,and was fairly impressed, but I wondered if any of you out there had seen,heard,or played one ??(the cajon, that is !! ) ??

Subject: RE: Roland 'electronic' cajon
From: GUEST,Stim
Date: 08 Mar 16 - 09:03 PM

It looks pretty cool--and it would be great to have all those other percussion sounds available , but the sound, at least as it is rendered in those recordings, doesn't have the resonance and complexity of a regular cajon-If I said that it sounds "boxy" or "wooden", you might think I was trying to be funny...but it kind of does.

Subject: RE: Roland 'electronic' cajon
From: GUEST,Stim
Date: 08 Mar 16 - 09:14 PM

Here's the link Roland Electronic Cajon. And here is
Fernando's Kitchen with Heidi Joubert perform "Sabor a Mi"

Subject: RE: Roland 'electronic' cajon
From: matt milton
Date: 09 Mar 16 - 06:45 AM

Nice idea.

It's hard to judge the sound of any acoustic instrument on a video - you don't know what the room was like, you don't know what mics were used etc. I've certainly heard plenty of cheap cajons that have sounded pretty rubbish - a lot worse than that one.