Preamps are the Ears of Your DAW When choosing an audio interface, preamps are often overlooked despite the significant role they play in determining what a recording actually sounds like. A well-spec’d audio interface with bad preamps will result in a bad recording. Why? Because preamps are the ears of…
Musician or IT professional? By Brandon Ryan (Cakewalk) It seems today’s musicians must be part artist and part IT professional. It’s a difficult dance that requires knowledge, time, and patience in order to achieve a level of success. The intention of this series of blog posts is to help with…
Roland is proud to introduce Integra Synth Legends, a free sound library for the Integra-7 sound module. The collection uses the Integra’s powerful and flexible SuperNATURAL sound engine to capture the essence of a number of historical synths, layering and processing the classic sound emulations to create a library of…
Buy any Roland interface, controller keyboard or synth and get Cakewalk’s SONAR X2 Studio for £59 (RRP £195) SONAR X2 Studio is a fully-featured DAW that includes all the tools, instruments and FX needed to create professional-sounding music. It’s the perfect partner to your new Roland hardware, especially when you…
As the Belgian drum and bass producer GOES GLOBAL, he tells us about the challenges of playing drum and bass with a full band and how Roland helps make it work. Boris Daenen, better known as Netsky, is taking on a new challenge. Having toured the world as a DJ…
Hypothetically, let’s say you’re a planet-straddling, snakeskin-booted, Ray-Banned rock god who wants it all and wants it now. Choosing your Roland V-Drums kit is a no-brainer. It’s got to be a gleaming Roland V-Pro Series TD-30: the holy grail of electronic kits, delivering infinite tone, playing like a dream and…
Recording guitar used to be such a simple affair – either use a 4-track at home or head to your local studio to crank up some amps. Fast forward 30 years and you have the power to record a pro-sounding album in your shed! There’s just one problem though –…
Enter before 30th May for a chance to win an ST-2 Power Stack! Recently we’ve been thrilled to spend time with Gallows’ guitarist and principle songwriter, Lags. Apart from filming some great videos with him, we also got Lags to kindly sign one of his favourite Boss pedals, a new…
Perfect distortion across your guitar’s entire range What is it? The Boss DA-2 Adaptive Distortion compact pedal gives you consistent, punchy distortion right across your guitar’s range. It does this with a new technology called MDP (or Multi-Dimensional Processing). How does it work? The MDP technology in the DA-2 works…
The affordable digital piano for home and live use Buying a digital piano usually involves compromises: pick a more affordable piano, and the sound isn’t up to scratch or key features are absent. Choose a more sophisticated model, and it can be heavy and difficult to transport, as well as…
Free application helps children learn to play the drums Most parents would love their child to play a musical instrument. But unless you’re a player yourself, it can be hard to keep them motivated, and they often lose interest as practice becomes a chore rather than a fun activity they…
Where tradition and technology combine During the past decade, accordion players have embraced the benefits of digital technology with Roland’s V-Accordion range, proving that tradition and technology can, and do, work together. In one sense, a Roland V-Accordion is just an accordion; familiar construction and feel, and available in piano…