Roland Archive
interviews
At ANR we have a weak spot for those companies which ooze character and whose story makes for an interesting narrative. Erica Synths is a relatively young (yet
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tutorial
The original TR-808 drum machine ceased production in 1983 and will set you back upwards of £3,000 on eBay or similar, although digitised samples have been available for decades.
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news
Puremagnetik has released Bluejay – a simple yet powerful supersaw synth inspired by the famous Roland JP8000. It includes not only a supersaw function but also a super-square
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news
K-Teck is a developer of Max for Live devices and Reaktor ensembles. The first release was Adlais: Additive Performance Sequencer, a live performance-oriented device with interesting features. Now they
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iOS
Syntronik is a sample based synth/rompler now available for iPad/iPhone. IK Multimedia have sampled the oscillator waveforms from 37 synths including classics from Moog, Oberheim, Roland, Yamaha and
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featured
We are big fans of Goldbaby’s ‘old’ tape drum machine libraries and we’re happy to see Hugo is back with a revised, comprehensive package featuring tons of cool sounds. For
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news
There’s definitely no shortage of vintage synth emulations but this upcoming IK Multimedia product might deserve your attention. Syntronik™, is a new cutting-edge virtual synthesizer for Mac/PC, which
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news
The Roland RE 201 Space Echo, the iconic tape echo machine introduced in 1974, is one of the most sought-after sound tools of all times (don’t just take
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news
At ANR we love companies that make using our gear easier. myVolts, an Irish company, is one of them, as you’ll probably remember from our Volca FM special
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news
The Raspberry Pi is known for being a fun, affordable micro-computer for a wide range of applications, including synthesizers. The latest example comes from R-MONO Lab (apparently the
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iOS
Someone said Acid? Oh boy… Don’t we have already too many TB-303 clones around? Well, the thing is Troublemaker, the new iOS app by Bram Bros (the developer
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news
The first units of the Behringer DeepMind 12, probably the most talked-about poly synth of this year, have been delivered in the past few days. As you probably
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software reviews
For those producers in the know, bespoke, British sample tailers Wave Alchemy are considered to be amongst the very best. They have been dabbling for some time with
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events
It’s 909 Day, and Roland is celebrating the TR-909 anniversary with The Future Redefined, a 24-hour event taking place in eight cities and more than 30 new products
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music
Unless you’ve been on Mars this summer, you’ve probably already binge-watched ‘Stranger Things’, the new original series from Netflix created and directed by the Duffer Brothers. Set in
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