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2 unusual facts about Roland Corporation


Roland Corporation

1987 – Roland MT-32 Sound Module: Also using Linear Arithmetic synthesis, it was supported by many PC games in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a high-quality music option until support shifted to General MIDI sound cards.

Tim Levy

Tim Levy began his career in the field of 3D technology, design and strategy, and in 1996 started his own technological marketing company for clients including Roland DG, Sony, and IBM.


Animal Serenade

Fernando Saunders: electric & acoustic bass, Roland drums, guitar, vocals on "Tell It to Your Heart" & "Reviens Cherie", scat on "Sunday Morning"

Creative Wave Blaster

The Wave Blaster port was adopted by other sound card manufacturers who produced both daughterboards and soundcards with the expansion-header: Yamaha, Ensoniq, Orchid, Oberheim, Guillemot, Diamond, TerraTec, Roland, and Turtle Beach.

Keller Williams

He also uses a wide variety of effects, including an envelope filter expression pedal, wah pedal, a Line 6 tap delay, a Roland GR-55 guitar synth, a Line 6 M13 Stompbox Modeler Guitar Multi Effects Pedal, and a Talk Box.

MicroRhythm

The game was rapidly developed over a two-week period while Simon was a student at the University of Sussex, using samples from the Roland TR-707 drum machine as the audio source.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

The album was created on a very low budget; it was supposedly recorded almost entirely with a Revox tape recorder, a borrowed Roland drum machine belonging to Kit Hain, a small, preset Roland bass synthesizer, and an NED Synclavier, belonging to producer Mike Thorne.


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