The System-8 synthesizer is a kind of a virtual analog synthesizer that manages user-loaded audio libraries (PLUG-OUT), in addition to those already pre-installed initially. There are 3 instruments based on this technology - System-1 mini synthesizer,...
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...
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...
After the release of Minimoog it became clear that the synthesizer is not a huge cabinet you should drag to rehearsals but rather a small and elegant device. And ARP (and at that time the synthesizer market was reined over only by Moog and ARP) had to...
Roland didn’t try to make Jupiter 8 out of Jupiter-80, but we can’t deny that the instrument failed to keep the famous name at the proper level. The 100% digital sound engine of the new Jupiter is based on Supernatural technology, sampling every note of...
