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Using Roland's PHA ALPHA 11 (progressive hammer action), the F110 creates a thoroughly realistic piano experience with excellent piano sounds and wonderful touch. The technology used in the PHA ALPHA 11 means the keys react to your touch like an acoustic piano. This means the lower notes react differently to the higher notes just as they would on an acoustic. Having 5 levels of touch sensitivity allows the player to set the touch to their desired level. If you like to play the piano hard but don't nessesarily want this to reflect in the sound level adjust as required. 

 

The piano has some really nice effects too, with he piano sound having 10 levels of string resonance, 10 levels of damper resonance and 10 levels of key of resonance. This adds to the realism of the piano making it similar to an acoustic. The reverb has 10 levels which can be used on any of the 128 polyphony voices.

 

The piano has 3 pedals, Damper (half-pedal recognition), Soft (half-pedal recognition, function assignable), Sostenuto (function assignable). Function assignable means that you can adjust the level, touch and purpose of the pedal. Half pedal recognition means that as you press the pedal down half way this reacts in a different way than if you were to fully press the pedal down.

 

The piano has a standard transpose feature (-6 to +5) which allows you to adjust the octave that your playing in. This is especially useful if your singing along to a tune you know on the piano but wish to lower or higher the pitch that your singing at but don't know how to naturally transpose.

 

24 watts of speaker output may not be the highest but it is adequate for the F110, which produces a clear, crisp sound. The control panel is very user friendly allowing the player to quickly and easily find functions for quick changes. using the keyboard split you can play bass on the bottom notes and another instrument on the higher notes, choosing where the split occurs for complete customization. 

 

The recording function are decent with 99 songs, 3 tracks, tempo 10 to 500bpm. This is perfect for someone who wants to record what they play very basically and not get involved with complex recording processes. 

 

The F110 comes also with all the usual functions a sub £1000 digital piano comes with in this day and age including connectors - Output Jacks (L/Mono,R), Headphone Jack x 2 (Stereo), MIDI Connectors (IN, OUT), DC Inlet, Pedal Connector.

 

The main competition to the Roland F110 is the Yamaha CLP320 Clavinova. From playing both it appears the touch of the F110 is more realistic and the cabinet is more modern, with the satin black colour costing significantly less than the Yamaha Polished Ebony equivalent. Yamaha's higher end Clavinovas are still superior to Roland's alternatives but they are definitely catching up on the lower end of the market, creating pianos that are technology savvy, nice looking and more importantly realistic sounding.