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 ...

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 ...

Roland has rolled out an upgraded version of its cross-platform digital audio workstation app, and it comes with several feature and workflow enhancements. The biggest addition to Zenbeats 2.0, though ...

The AX-Synth is great fun to use, it looks fantastic and the onboard sounds are a welcome addition. We want one! Expensive. More hardware control would have been nice. Neck a little thick under the ...

[Roland’s first guitar-synth, the GR-500, which was used on David Bowie’s “Ashes To Ashes.” Read more at VintageSynth.com.] Are you a guitar synthesist? (Do you even know what that is? Go here.) If ...

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 ...

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 ...

Top-tier Roland keyboard tech in more portable and affordable packages When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Roland has released the ...

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 ...