“Four decades, one sound.” The legendary Roland TR-808 celebrates it’s 40th birthday with free plugins and never-before-seen content that explores the legacy and continued influence…
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“Four decades, one sound.” The legendary Roland TR-808 celebrates it’s 40th birthday with free plugins and never-before-seen content that explores the legacy and continued influence…
Iconic Japanese music equipment manufacturer Roland has launched an ambitious new online platform dubbed Roland Articles. Its purpose is to use “inspiring stories and…
Roland has released the full version of Zenbeats, their cross-platform music-making app, for free on iOS and Android for a limited time.
The app itself…
“I’m a very nostalgic person, but not in a sad way – it’s a happy nostalgia.”
With the 2011 release of Hurry Up,…
At NAMM 2020 the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) have voted unanimously to adopt the full suite of MIDI 2.0 specifications.
The specs for MIDI 1.0…
In the 1970s and early 1980s, manufacturers of synthesizers were engaged in a battle. Not necessarily in price, though that definitely came into it. They…
Chances are that if you’ve listened to any form of music in the last 40 years (especially from the 1980’s) then you’re familiar with the…
Despite quickly shooting to world fame in the late ’90s after releasing their iconic debut album Homework, Daft Punk have spent their careers shrouded in mystery….
Despite its ability to transport sounds into distant galaxies, the lineage of the Roland Space Echo stretches back into the primitive beginnings of recording. Why?…
If the 1970s was the decade that began the revolution of electronic music, the 1980s was the decade that improved it. The 80s also added…
Roland’s Space Echo is one of the most loved of all delays, but we haven’t yet seen a compact version of the effect. Meet the…
Before Roland released the TR-808 and changed the game forever, the CR-78 was one of the go-to boxes in the primordial era of rhythm machines….
Thousands of dollars? Millions? It’s anyone’s guess as to how much this original Roland TR-909 will go for, given that it was the very machine…
