No new products, but Roland celebrates #808day with free gear updates

Roland now routinely enjoy the fact that August 8 is “808” day. But we aren’t seeing new product announcements today as in some past years. What you get instead is a bunch of updates for existing gear. Here they are in one place so you can see what’s relevant to you.

Inside Skinnerbox’s live sets, including a song they play backwards

“xobrenniks era ew olleh.” Skinnerbox, the duo of Olaf Hilgenfeld and Iftah Gabbai, are now so comfortable in their roles of playing live that they’re playing backwards to spice things up. (It seems there was some effort involved here – like, learning a song backwards in order that they had composed it the way they […]

Peter Kirn - May 10, 2017

Roland just made us happy with CCs on the Boutique Series

Roland’s Boutique Series is … dangerous, frankly. These little sound modules (based on the Jupiter-8, Juno-106, and JX-3P) really do sound terrific and are totally adorable in person. They’re one of the things you can easily dismiss when you first see them … then fall in love with in person. The 1.10 update fixes one […]

Peter Kirn - August 10, 2016

What to know about Roland’s mini, dockable “boutique” synths

Peter Kirn - October 2, 2015

These photos of Roland Jupiter, Juno, JX just leaked, show optional keyboard

Peter Kirn - September 21, 2015

Roland teases ’boutique’ with three mystery mini keyboard synths

Peter Kirn - September 15, 2015

King Britt, in the Studio: Fhloston Paradigm and Making Music Like It’s 1983 [Video]

Peter Kirn - March 27, 2012

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