Roland - News and Rumours
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How to Sound Like: Robert Smith of The Cure
27 Mar · Today we take a look at the guitars and gear you need to sound like Robert Smith, the iconic frontman and guitarist of gloomy goth-pop icons The Cure.
Roland Cloud models the iconic JD-800 cyber-synth, free trial during March
03 Mar · Roland releases the JD-800 Model Expansion for Zenology and Jupiter-X/Xm. You can try it out until the end of the month absolutely free.
Roland refreshes their digital portable piano range with the FP-X
12 Jan · FP-X brings a fresh generation of portable pianos to your home or studio with something for everyone.
VERSELAB MV-1: Has Roland finally cracked the All-In-One Song Production Box?
11 Jan · Cool, compact and clever: VERSELAB MV-1's new approach to music production has it all: patterns, sounds, effects and vocal recording. A new standard?
The Best Software Synthesizers of 2020: Top 10 VSTi classics, innovations and weirdness
29 Dec 2020 · 2020 saw wonderful software by Korg, Roland, Softube, Audiomodern, Cherry Audio GranuRise, Klevgränd, Matt Tytel, Mike Moreno DSP and Newfangled Audio.
Moog, Korg and Behringer: What is your synth worth?
31 Oct 2020 · As cheaper clones of fantastic - and fantastically expensive - gear proliferate, where does value reside in the world of synthesizers in the 2020s? Time to tackle some thorny issues.
808303.studio: A free online TR-808 and TB-303 machine? That’s the rest of your day gone.
08 Oct 2020 · 808303.studio is a web-based music creation platform built on the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer and TB-303 Bassline developed by Yuri Suzuki and Roland. It's an 808 and a 303 - now go and play!
Roland goes all-in on its 606 legacy with the TR-6S, TR-06 and software TR-606
01 Oct 2020 · Roland delights us with a bit of historical wallowing as they pull out their old TR-606 and gives us two updated hardware versions and an authentic software recreation.
ZENOLOGY Pro opens the hood on Roland’s legacy synths and beyond
28 Sep 2020 · Roland has slowly filled their ZENOLOGY virtual instrument with vintage sounds well now you can blow the lid off and get down into every parameter with ZENOLOGY Pro.
Roland FANTOM V2.0 update brings multisampling, new effects and more
21 Sep 2020 · Roland introduced the FANTOM in 2019 as an all-in-one music production environment. Version 2 overhauls the sampling engine, introduces effects to the master section and brings automation editing to the touch ...
Your Ideal Polysnth: How (not) to choose the polyphonic synth of your dreams
05 Sep 2020 · You're going to finally realise your dream and buy your dream polysynth, now you're standing in a showroom surrounded by magical music machines: How do you choose your first polyphonic synthesizer?
Roland Zenology takes on the King of polysynths: JUPITER-8
03 Sep 2020 · Roland's Zenology, the software version of their ZEN-Core technology, hits the much-anticipated milestone which is the arrival of the legendary JUPITER-8 polyphonic synthesizer.
Roland releases JX-8P Model Expansion for Zenology
01 Jul 2020 · Roland's Zenology virtual instrument gets its first Model Expansion in the shape of the classic 1985 JX-8P polyphonic synthesizer and includes the editing functions of the PG-800 programmer.
Roland ZENOLOGY: Software version of ZEN-Core arrives to take everything forward
12 May 2020 · Now they've done it. Roland has broken free of the confines of their history and takes everything forward into the world of ZENOLOGY and it could be tragic or terribly exciting!