What’s on offer is vast. The TD516 configuration offers an excellent trade-off in terms of keeping the most important elements while saving space and money. Not having to reach for a USB cable feels ...

The stories of Roland and the drum machine are inextricably linked. Roland Corporation is known for many things: the iconic Juno and Jupiter lines, the influential SH-101 and SP-404, and a deep ...

Based in a new studio, Berlin’s favourite sonic troublemakers crash the DJ-Kicks series with a shape-shifting ...

Welcome back to everyone who skips the music. Or who are going to come back to it over the long weekend.

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Reissued and remastered onto brilliantly colored sea blue and highlighter yellow vinyl, Aurora Gory Alice and Wholesale Meats and Fish are finally widely available on vinyl for mass consumption. So ...

What makes an album of the year? Well, a few things, to be honest. It needs to be able to appeal to a wide ran ...

The new guide by musical instruments retailer Sam Ash compares Roland V-Drums and Yamaha DTX electronic kits for beginners, highlighting Roland's quiet dual-ply mesh pads and Yamaha's sound ...

Kirk was born Ronald Theodore Kirk in Columbus, Ohio, but felt compelled by a dream to transpose two letters in his first name to make Roland. In 1970, Kirk added "Rahsaan" to his name. Preferring to ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more ...

This is a set of scripts for ACIDizing and preparing WAV files samples, oneshots and audio loops for Roland MC-909 Groovebox sampler. These scripts solve the following issues : no more need to import ...

emcee is a stable, well tested Python implementation of the affine-invariant ensemble sampler for Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) proposed by Goodman & Weare (2010). The code is open source and has ...