Presented in 1980 by the Japanese manufacturer Roland TR-808 rhythm machine actually seemed to be, doomed to failure at the very beginning of its journey. It was the main competitor to the so much superior LM-1 Drum Computer on the market. Compared to...
The Roland JV-90 is a synthesizer keyboard released in 1993 by Roland Corporation. It is a part of the JV series of synthesizers and is based on the Roland JV-880. It is a 28 or 56-voice polyphonic synthesizer with multitimbral capability. It features a...
AX-7 is a Roland’s 45-note velocity sensitive keytar launched in 2001 and features more functions than its predecessor AX-1. Later it would be discontinued to give way to Roland’s AX-Synth. The device still functions as a MIDI controller sending MIDI...
The System-8 synthesizer is a kind of a virtual analog synthesizer that manages user-loaded audio libraries (PLUG-OUT), in addition to those already pre-installed initially. There are 3 instruments based on this technology - System-1 mini synthesizer,...
Jupiter-6 was introduced in 1983. The analog instrument has a 6-voice polyphony and is bitimbral. The structure provides each voice with 2 VCOs giving 12 oscillators allowing the keyboard to split into two zones one featuring 4 voices and another 2 and...
