Roland says that realism is at the very heart of its new Jupiter-80 performance synth. The company claims that the kind of expressive acoustic instrument authenticity delivered by its analog sound ...

Roland has announced the Juno-X programmable polyphonic synthesizer, which combines the power of the company's Zen-Core synth engine with authentic recreations of the legacy Juno-60 and Juno-106 ...

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I have had two consistent complaints about most Roland gear: a lack of hands-on controls and an unnecessary amount of diving through incomprehensible menus. But, earlier this year the company shipped ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. To help you access the instruments’ finer details, Roland has now rolled-out a free software ...

Roland’s synth lineup seems a little odd at times. It doesn’t really offer much in the midrange. Its only two pure synthesizers in the $500 to $800 space are the 13-year-old Gaia SH-01 and the ...

It was one of the most successful failures in tech history. Released in 1982 and written off as a disaster just two years later, the Roland TB-303 synthesizer looked set to be little more than a minor ...

If a bug is found in a product that was released several decades ago, most of the time the product cannot be repaired by the manufacturer and falls into disrepair. However, regarding the bug that ...

Roland fans are in for a double treat as the company's officially unveiled a set of new products ahead of NAMM. One of them is the SYSTEM-500 set-up, a Eurorack modular synth system, that we reported ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So, when Roland announced the Gaia 2 — a long overdue update to its 13-year-old virtual analog synth — I was cautiously optimistic ...