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This Groovebox was designed entirely around Roland's D-Field Controller technology. The touch-sensitive pad in the center allows the user to program and modify patterns, sounds and effects. The D-Field controller offers 3 modes – Sounds, XY and Spin, which makes it an interesting device for real-time based performance.
Roland GS, or just GS, sometimes expanded as General Standard [1] [2] or General Sound, [1] is a MIDI specification. It requires that all GS-compatible equipment must meet a certain set of features and it documents interpretations of some MIDI commands and bytes sequences, thus defining instrument tones, controllers for sound effects, etc.
Custom minimoog keyboard used by Gary Wright and Steve Porcaro around 1976. Cruder, [citation needed] Jan Hammer's early custom keyboard with block shaped controller. [24] Plexi minimoog keyboard used by George Duke; Based on Yamaha KX series. Jean Michel Jarre's custom KX5, two versions: Houston and Docklands Concerts.
A Roland keytar, keyboard MIDI controller designed to be worn with a shoulder strap during performance.The keytar does not produce any musical sounds by itself. As a MIDI controller, it only sends data about which keys or buttons are pressed to a MIDI-compatible sound module or synthesizer, which then produces the sounds.
The Roland MC-505 is a groovebox conceived in 1998 as a combination of a MIDI controller, a music sequencer, a drum machine, and a desktop synthesizer with many synthesis features: arpeggiator, oscillators, and voltage-controlled filter, control of attack, decay, sustain and release, different envelopes and 2 Lfo.
The TR-909 succeeded the previous Roland drum machine, the TR-808. [1] It was designed by Tadao Kikumoto, who also designed the Roland TB-303 synthesizer. [2] The chief Roland engineer, Makoto Muroi, credited the software design to Atsushi Hoshiai and the analog and pulse-code modulation voice circuits to "Mr Ou".
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The Roland W-30 is a sampling workstation keyboard, released in 1989. It features an on-board 12-bit sampler, sample-based synthesizer, 16-track sequencer and 61-note keyboard. It features an on-board 12-bit sampler, sample-based synthesizer, 16-track sequencer and 61-note keyboard.