Roland has outed its latest synth, though you won't find a keyboard attached. The Roland GR-55 is a guitar synthesizer, coupling PCM synthesis with digital instrument modeling to allow guitarists to ...

In the late seventies, Roland took the sonic palette available to keyboard players and opened it up to guitarists, with the introduction on the GR-500. It was quite simply a marvel, but is positively ...

Roland has unveiled two new effects pedals designed to be used with GK technology, the GR-D V-Guitar Distortion and the GR-S V-Guitar Space. The pair of pedals feature a 13 pin input that allows ...

[Roland’s first guitar-synth, the GR-500, which was used on David Bowie’s “Ashes To Ashes.” Read more at VintageSynth.com.] Are you a guitar synthesist? (Do you even know what that is? Go here.) If ...

NAMM 2025: It's been 50 years since the Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus guitar amp was released and won an army of fans thanks to its legendary clean tone. So what better time for Roland to unleash a ...

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