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The ultimate music workstation
Roland is renowned for producing revolutionary keyboards and now reaches another historic milestone with the introduction of the G-70 Music Workstation. The G-70 incorporates concepts and technologies from across the entire Roland product range, resulting in an instrument epitomising the very best of Roland.
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192 MB WAVE ROM
76 keys Pro-Action Keyboard
The best piano […]

 
Roland Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software. It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on April 18, 1972 with 33 million yen in capital. In 2005 Roland headquarter relocated to Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture. Today has factories in Japan, the United States, Italy, and Taiwan. As of […]

It may seem strange for a Japanese company to have a Western name, but Roland was founded with export in mind. Ikutaro Kakehashi heard that the name of his previous company, Ace Electronic Industries Inc., was often mangled in pronunciation, sometimes unpleasantly; so he looked for a good-sounding name which would be pronounced roughly the […]

 
The Fantom-X (X6/X7/X8) is a music production workstation produced by Roland Corporation. It was introduced in 2004 as an upgrade from the Fantom S series. The Fantom-X competes with the Korg Triton, the Yamaha Motif and the Alesis Fusion.
Features
Featuring an 128-voice PCM-based synthesizer/sampler, MRC-Pro sequencer, 6 effects processors, dynamic pads and infrared D-Beam. It has […]

* 1973 - Roland SH-1000: Claimed by Roland to be Japan’s first commercial keyboard synthesizer.
* 1973 - Roland RE-201: The renowned ‘Space Echo’ machine, one of the most popular tape delay-based echo machines ever produced.
* 1973 - Roland SH-3A: Monophonic synthesizer.
* 1975 - Roland System-100: Roland’s first attempt at a modular synthesizer.
* 1975 - Roland […]

Roland XP-80 and its smaller variant the XP-60 are music workstations with 64-note polyphony, now discontinued. The XP-80 has a 76-key semi-weighted keyboard. The XP-60 has 61 keys.
Both models were sold with full GM instrument sets, plus a good range of additional instruments to give 512 instruments (”presets” in Roland parlance) in total. Additional user […]

 
The SRX are a series of expansion boards produced by Roland Corporation. They are small boards of electronic circuitry with 64MB ROMs containing patches (timbres) and rhythm sets (drum kits). They are used to expand Roland’s synthesizers and workstations (keyboards or sound modules).
List of SRX expansion boards
* SRX-01 Dynamic Drum Kits
* SRX-02 Concert Piano
* SRX-03 […]

Today, fewer and fewer people actually create their own sounds, and simply play presets or sounds created by programmers.
However, the original purpose of the synthesizer was to “create sound”. It’s easy to simply select a preset you like, but that sound will always be “someone else’s sound”. We at Roland asked, “Why don’t we return […]

One of the earliest uses of the TR-808 for a live performance was by Yellow Magic Orchestra in December 1980 in the song “1000 Knives,” composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto in 1978. The “Hand Clap” sound was later publicized by YMO’s innovative album BGM released in March 1981 in Japan, used again on “1000 Knives,” as […]