Roland has outed its latest synth, though you won't find a keyboard attached. The Roland GR-55 is a guitar synthesizer, coupling PCM synthesis with digital instrument modeling to allow guitarists ...

It features two independent synthesizer sound engines, each loaded with over 900 of Roland's latest sounds, including pianos, organs, strings, vintage and modern synths, percussion, and many more. A ...

Videos by American Songwriter [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 ...

The word "overwhelming" comes to mind when reading through the list of specifications and options available on Roland's new GR-55 guitar synthesizer. To start the ball rolling, there are no less ...

Roland has introduced Model Expansions, the latest additions to Roland Cloud and the ZEN-Core Synthesis System. Each Model Expansion transforms the ZENOLOGY Software Synthesizer into an entirely ...

Be aware though that this is not possible if you intend to use the patch cables or other loadable synth models. The filter. The System-1m filter - another defining element in a synth's character - ...

Unlike most of Roland's newer fare though, the SH-4d has plenty of hands-on controls. There's a full two octave keyboard, 16-step sequencer buttons, four faders and 32 knobs.

Ikutaro Kakehashi, an influential figure in the 1980s pop music scene and founder of electronic instrument makers Roland Corp. and ATV Corp., has died at the age of 87, an ATV spokeswoman told The ...

Roland Orzabal reveals how a chance guitar line on his detuned Fender Strat led to Tears for Fears' monster hit “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” "I tuned the E string down to D and came up ...

That superb desktop synth/drum machine has now received a significant update. The new free V2.0 firmware update expands the unit’s original capabilities in a number of key ways.

Behringer has been taking a divisive tact lately, reverse-engineering classic synths like the Roland TR-808, Minimoog Model D and ARP Odyssey, and releasing them as clones with minor changes and ...

Ryo Kawasaki, the Japanese guitarist, composer, band leader and inventor of the guitar synthesizer, has died at the age of 73.. Born in Tokyo in 1947 to a diplomat father and a multi-lingual ...