Roland has announced the Juno-X programmable polyphonic synthesizer, which combines the power of the company's Zen-Core synth engine with authentic recreations of the legacy Juno-60 and Juno-106 ...

Fiddlier than Roland’s original modules, and they don’t come cheap, but functionally, Roland and Malekko get it right. High build quality, close to the intent of the original 100m modules. They sound ...

Roland has been reissuing classic synths for a while now with its "Boutique" line based on earlier Roland keyboards like the Jupiter 8, Juno 106 and JX-3P. The company has also re-imagined the ...

In the late seventies, Roland took the sonic palette available to keyboard players and opened it up to guitarists, with the introduction on the GR-500. It was quite simply a marvel, but is positively ...

Is there really any need to fork out for a hardware synth these days? We place a trio of hardware classics up against some immaculate software doppelgängers ...

Roland's synth lineup seems a little odd at times. It doesn't really offer much in the midrange. Its only two pure synthesizers in the $500 to $800 space are the 13-year-old Gaia SH-01 and the ...

Already emulated in Boutique form as the JX-03, Roland has now added a plugin version of its JX-3P synth to its Cloud service. Released in 1983, the JX-3P was a preset-orientated, 6-voice analogue ...

French audio tech company Arturia have recreated the classic Roland TB-303 for the first time as a software emulation, priced at just €99 (£85). Acid V is the first softsynth emulation of the ...