Stan: "Yeah, all right, I'll grant you that the Jupiter 8 and the Space Echo are two things the Rolands have done."Īctivist 3: "And programmable rhythm units." remember what echo units used to be like?" they did give us that, that's true."Īctivist 1: "Oh yeah, the Space Echo. The Judean Peoples' Front (or was it the Peoples' Front of Judea?) might well have replied as follows. I think that it was one of the staff who wrote for Roland's in-house magazine in the 1980s who first posed the question, "What have the Rolands ever done for us?", with apologies to John Cleese. As founder Ikutaro Kakehashi approaches his 75th birthday, we begin a journey through the company's extraordinary history. The Roland name is almost synonymous with music technology - there can't be an SOS reader who hasn't made use of their instruments at some time. Ikutaro Kakehashi, founder of Roland, at the 1964 NAMM show with the Ace Electronics R1 and Canary.
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