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Nov 10, 2008

Roland Now Shipping Juno-stage Performance Synthesizer

Roland Juno-stage

Roland® Corporation is pleased to announce the new JUNO-Stage synthesizer is now shipping. As the latest addition to the benchmark JUNO Series, JUNO-Stage is uniquely created for live performance applications.

This professional-grade 76-key synthesizer ships with an essential high-quality sound set, including an 88-key stereo multi-sampled piano derived from the Fantom-X workstation series. Two slots for SRX expansion boards add even more options to a player’s sonic palette. A redesigned weighted synth-action keyboard ensures the JUNO-Stage feels as good as it sounds…

Nov 6, 2008

Roland Now Shipping RMP-12 Marching Percussion Instrument

Roland is pleased to announce that the new RMP-12 marching percussion instrument is now available in stores. This latest addition to the Rhythm Coach® line of products offers enhanced playability, expressiveness, and versatility for practice and performance applications…

Nov 5, 2008

Edirol Gives Away R-09HR Digital Recorders

Roland R-09HR

EDIROL by Roland is giving everyone a chance to win a free R-09HR portable digital recorder by visiting the R-09HR Giveaway contest page.

The flagship R-09HR is the newest of EDIROL’s award-winning handheld digital recorders, providing crystal-clear 24bit/96kHz fidelity that travels light and performs like a heavyweight. The R-09HR is perfect for recording live music events, recitals, and rehearsals. It’s also handy as a songwriter’s sketchpad, ensuring that no moment of inspiration is lost…

Oct 20, 2008

Roland Presents New Mv-series Drum Kit Download

Roland MV-8000

Continuing its commitment to worldwide customer support, Roland is pleased to announce a new installment in its series of exclusive Drum Kit downloads for the MV-Series Production Studios: MA Dirt & Grime. This new drum kit is available for existing MV-8000 and MV-8800 owners and spans a range of musical styles from urban, R&B and electro house. The kit has a slightly gritty sound and a wider-than-normal range of sensitivity, so you can experiment with changes in swing and volume…

Oct 17, 2008

Roland Launches New V-synth Gt Patch Download

Roland TB-303

Continuing its commitment to worldwide customer support, Roland is pleased to announce a new patch download for the highly-acclaimed V-Synth GT elastic audio synthesizer.

This new download adds a treasure trove of new sounds to the V-Synth GT, with over 450 recreations of classic analog synthesizers from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, including vintage Juno, Jupiter, SH, TB-303 and D-50 sounds. In addition, its new filter bank patches are specifically designed to allow processing of external audio sources…

Oct 2, 2008

Roland U.s. Holds First Ever V-accordion Festival

Roland FR-7

In conjunction with the second International Roland V-Accordion Festival, Roland Corporation U.S. held the first ever U.S. V-Accordion Festival in Los Angeles on September 20, 2008. Contestants hailed from all over the country, and played in styles ranging from Jazz to Celtic. Each contestant was given an FR-7 V-Accordion to play during their five-minute performance.

A panel of five judges including Frank Marocco, Joan Cochran Sommers and Eddie Monteiro awarded top honors to finalist Joseph Natoli…

Aug 14, 2008

Roland Launches New Promotion For Fantom-g

Roland -G7

Roland is pleased to announce a new limited-time promotion through the Roland U.S. website. Customers who purchase a Fantom-G6, -G7, or -G8 between August 1st and October 31st are eligible for a free starter kit directly from Roland. Consisting of a two-button optical scroll wheel mouse and 1GB USB Flash Memory Key, these accessories will help customers bring the most out of this new breed of workstation keyboard…

Jun 21, 2008

Roland Releases System Upgrade For Fantom G-series

Roland is pleased to announce the release of v1.10 system upgrade for the Fantom-G series workstations, adding powerful multi-sampling capability, a new “Favorite Play” screen, a BPM calculator function for samples, and new enhancements to Single, Live and Song modes…

Jun 20, 2008

Roland Reveals TDW-20 Expansion Board

Roland TDW-20

Roland® Corporation is pleased to announce the TDW-20 Expansion Board for the world-renowned V-Drums TD-20 Percussion Sound Module. This newest accessory enables drummers to extend the power of their V-Drums with wider dynamics, new sounds, new ambience effects, enhanced V-Editing, and improved functionality.

The TDW-20 Expansion Board can be user-installed easily, instantly adding hundreds of new drum and percussion instruments. The TDW-20 also features improved expressiveness and dynamics, additional ambience effects to create customizable drum sounds, advanced COSM® editing features and a new and improved operating system…

Jun 20, 2008

Roland Unveils Juno-stage Performance Synthesizer

Roland Fantom-G.

Roland® Corporation is pleased to announce the new JUNO-Stage synthesizer. As the latest addition to the benchmark JUNO Series, JUNO-Stage is uniquely created for live performance applications.

This professional-grade 76-key synthesizer ships with an essential high-quality sound set, including an 88-key stereo multisampled piano derived from the Fantom-G. Two slots for SRX expansion boards add even more options to a player’s sonic palette. A redesigned keyboard ensures the JUNO-Stage feels as good as it sounds…