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Roland's first keytar was the AXIS (officially the AXIS-1, leading to its frequently being confused with the AX-1). It was produced between 1985 and 1987, and is notable for being a significantly different design than later Roland keytars.
An AX-7 Herbie Hancock performing with a Roland AX-7 at the XM Sonic Stage at The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. The Roland AX-7 is a keytar that was manufactured by Roland Corporation from 2001 to 2007. This modern instrument contains many more advanced features than early keytars such as its predecessor, the Roland AX-1, and the Yamaha SHS-10.
As of 2013, the Roland AX-Synth, the Roland Lucina, the Alesis Vortex and Rock Band 3 Wireless Pro Keyboard, are the mass-manufactured keytars on the market. Starr Labs manufacturers a variation on the keytar (called a Ztar) that plays to the strengths of guitarists, featuring a neck of piano-styled keys arranged on the fretboard instead of ...
Lights Poxleitner plays a rare Yamaha KX5 keytar. Based on Roland AX series. Vadim Pruzhanov of DragonForce and Henrik Klingenberg of Sonata Arctica both use a custom Roland AX-7 (although nowadays Henrik Klingenberg uses custom Roland AX-1) Christopher Bowes of Alestorm owns a Roland AX-7 which he has customised over the years with various ...
The AX-Synth has full MIDI functionality like the AX-7, but also adds an internal synthesizer with 128 voice polyphony and stereo output. It has both MIDI in and out ports and as is common with more recent synthesizers, it also has a USB port which can also be used to communicate MIDI messages, and edit the sounds via Roland's free patch editor/librarian software for PC and Mac.
Roland Keytars (4 P) R. Roland drum machines (10 P) Pages in category "Roland synthesizers" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total.
Roland Systems Group is a line of professional commercial audio and video products. Amdek was incorporated in 1981 "as a manufacturer of computerized music peripherals and as a distributor of assembled electronic music instrument parts."
The EP-30 by Roland Corporation in 1974 became the first touch-sensitive keyboard. [9] Roland also released early polyphonic string synthesizers, the RS-101 in 1975 and RS-202 in 1976. [10] [11] In 1975, Moog's Polymoog merged a synthesizer with an organ, offering full polyphony through individual circuit boards.