Roland has announced the Juno-X programmable polyphonic synthesizer, which combines the power of the company's Zen-Core synth engine with authentic recreations of the legacy Juno-60 and Juno-106 ...

In the late seventies, Roland took the sonic palette available to keyboard players and opened it up to guitarists, with the introduction on the GR-500. It was quite simply a marvel, but is positively ...

I have had two consistent complaints about most Roland gear: a lack of hands-on controls and an unnecessary amount of diving through incomprehensible menus. But, earlier this year the company shipped ...

Is there really any need to fork out for a hardware synth these days? We place a trio of hardware classics up against some ...

[Roland’s first guitar-synth, the GR-500, which was used on David Bowie’s “Ashes To Ashes.” Read more at VintageSynth.com.] Are you a guitar synthesist? (Do you even know what that is? Go here.) If ...

Top-tier Roland keyboard tech in more portable and affordable packages When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Roland has released the ...

You can now recreate vintage Roland synth sounds with a new Roland plug-in, which was announced by the music technology company last week. The newly released standalone DAW plug-in, called JUNO-60 ...

As Roland's product-packed 909 day comes to a close, one of the more impressive announcements is the new System-8 synthesizer. Taking a design cue from the Aira line, the new keyboard is packed full ...

The AX-Synth is great fun to use, it looks fantastic and the onboard sounds are a welcome addition. We want one! Expensive. More hardware control would have been nice. Neck a little thick under the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So, when Roland announced the Gaia 2 — a long overdue update to its 13-year-old virtual analog synth — I was cautiously optimistic ...