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Roland Corporation (ローランド株式会社, Rōrando Kabushiki Kaisha) is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment, and software. It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on 18 April 1972.
It is a division of the Roland Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer that specializes in musical equipment and accessories. For many years Boss has manufactured a wide range of products related to effects processing for guitars, including "compact" and "twin" effects pedals, multi-effect pedals, electronic tuners and pedal boards .
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The Boss DS-1 is a distortion pedal for guitar, manufactured by the Roland Corporation under the brand name Boss since 1978. The first distortion effects unit made by Boss, [1] it has become a classic effect, used by many notable guitar players. [2] Boss released a successor, the DS-2. [3]
The Boss DR-220 Dr. Rhythm is a series of two budget-priced digital drum machines developed and manufactured by Boss Corporation (a subsidiary of Roland Corporation) beginning in 1985. Origin [ edit ]
In 1974, Roland Corporation released the EP-30, the first touch-sensitive keyboard. [13] Roland also released early polyphonic string synthesizers, the RS-101 in 1975 and the RS-202 in 1976. [14] [15] In 1975, the turn towards building a synthesizer of sorts over an organ came to fruition in Moog's Polymoog. Many patents exist from this keyboard.
The Roland CompuRhythm CR-78 is a drum machine manufactured by Roland Corporation that was released in 1978. [1] Although primitive by later standards, the CR-78 represented an important advance in drum machine technology at the time, in particular by allowing users to program and store their own drum patterns.
The Roland DDR-30 Digital Drum module is designed to pair with PD-10 and PD-20 pads to form the Alpha Drum System, or via MIDI controller (e.g. Roland Pad 8). [3] The DDR-30 and Alpha Drums was the first-generation of Roland electronic drum sets.