JD-800 is a Roland’s digital synthesizer launched in 1991. The instrument provides 24 voices when one tone is used and reduces the polyphony to 6 notes when 4 tones are active (a patch can include up to 4 tones). The synthesis is based on proprietory...
JD-XA released in 2015 became the first synthesizer made by Roland, which featured the latest technology of combined sound synthesis. The creators named their brainchild "crossover synth", which is poetically equivalent to the "crossroads of the two...
Roland JD-Xi is a hybrid synthesizer, developed as a crossover-concept devicet which includes an analog and digital synthesizer in one housing. The 3-octave instrument is characterized by 4-part multitimbrality. Its analog section consists of a mono DCO...
JP-08 is a sound module of the Roland Boutique series based on the ACB (Advanced Circuit Behavior) analog simulation technology. It recreates the sounds of the legendary synthesizer Roland Jupiter-8.
At the moment it’s clear that this first analogue modeling synthesizer by Roland has had a firm grip on its place among the cult instruments produced by the Japanese corporation. The ability to reproduce the sounds of analog synthesizers of the past...