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“The Future. Redefined.” online-festival brought to us interesting new products made by Roland Corporation, as we expected. Roland System-8 for sure seems the most attractive one to keyboardists – it’s a synthesizer with uploadable libraries and based on the same architecture as that System-1 featured though it offers a full-sized keyboard, much more control elements on the front panel surface and the main peculiarity – it’s already equipped with Roland Jupiter-8 and Roland Juno-106 models emulation.

The legends are back. The cult TR-909 turned into Roland Boutique TR-09 and the most popular bass synth of all times – TB-303 – is now called TB-03. Both instruments follow each feature of their famous predecessors copying not only circuitry logic but looks and interface as well. You’ll definitely recognize those knobs and buttons on the front panel and will be happy to use the same functions.

Serato and Roland started their cooperation with the release of an unprecedented product – DJ controller which not only triggers and controls but also allows creating on the spot. DJs will make a built-in sequencer the part of their live performance.

Daito Manabe of Rhizomatiks together with Red Bull Music Academy and Korg decided to make an extraordinary installation in Tokyo: The Human Sized Synthesizer…

Synthstrom Audible company is ready to release an incredible synthesizer, sequencer and sampler in one housing! The instrument will be presented on 1st of October 2016 during A-Synth Fest (held in Switzerland). So what exactly we’ll be introduced to and which features will try to make musicians happy?