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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 […]

 
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 […]

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 […]