As we’ve frequently been reminded over the past 12 months, Roland has just celebrated its 50th anniversary, and the company has made a lot of synths and drum machines in that time. Many of these ...

Synths don’t need to be complex things. Classic instruments such as Roland’s Juno-6 or SH-101, or even the Minimoog Model D, are all fairly straightforward instruments, comprised of a simple ...

Roland’s Alpha Juno 2 is an analog, polyphonic synth made in the mid-80s. While it isn’t as capable as the massive synths made around that time, it was very influential synth for the techno ...

Which brings us nicely to 1990, when MIDI music-making was established enough to warrant an appearance on BBC 2 - at the time ...

Over the last few decades, audio synthesizers have been less and less real hardware and more and more emulations in software. Now that we have tiny powerful computers that merely sip down the ...

It was the ’80s and Andy Summers was living the dream as guitar culture grew, and his side-project with King Crimson's ...

Now Roland Corp. has opened its first directly managed store in Japan in the trendsetting Harajuku district of Tokyo. The three-story building stocks the latest in synthesizers, electronic ...

Expressive E has engineered a unique-sounding synth plugin to create absorbing sounds and textures. The enhanced MPE control is very much worth exploring. Enormously versatile and capable synth plugin ...

While softsynths and plugins have certainly given the classics (both old and new) a run for their money, some producers will ...

DNA synthesizers are machines used to custom-build DNA molecules to contain a particular sequence of nucleotides. DNA synthesizers can create specific DNA molecules for use in the treatment of a ...

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Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal, now 63, talk about their ‘official’ live album and concert film, and not being a synth band.