Ikutaro Kakhashi RIP

[BlackGnosis]

Roland founder has passed away, Considering its still going around after April fools gets me to possibly believe it's true.

He brought us many fun and innovative devices. His product helped shape music over the span of his lifetime and had even spawned several genres.


February 7, 1930 - April 1, 2017
R.I.P.


Anyone a fan of any of his products?

[Benetton93]

You know - i think 95% of musicians like Roland products.

Only creation of MIDI (along with Sequential Circuits) shaped history of modern music. And Roland did much, much more to it.

Rest in peace.

[cornutt]

Rest in peace to Mr. Kakhashi. He took a company from being a small Japanese manufacturer of drum machines (back when Japanese products still hadn't completely shaken off the 1960s reputation of "cheap") to a worldwide leader in the music industry.

I've got a lot of Roland gear. There are a couple of pieces that I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with, but overall, they have served me well. My observation about Roland has been that they run in cycles. They don't do much for a few years, and then every once in a while you get this explosion of creativity and new products. In the mid-70s it was the System 100 and the modulars. In the early '80s it was the Jupiters, Junos and MIDI. Around 1990 it was the JD-800, 990, and the S-series samplers. In the early 2000s it was the V-Synth and the DJ products. And now it's the JD-Xa, the System-8, the Boutique synths, the System 500, etc.

[elsongs]

I propose, to pay tribute to Mr. Kakehashi and his legacy, that we list all the Roland gear that we own, and used to own. Boss and Edirol gear are included too.

Juno 106
D-50
JV-1010
TR-09
TB-03
TR-707
TR-727
KC-300
Boss SE-50
Boss OC-3
Boss CE-3
Boss TU-80


Formerly Owned:
MKS-7
U-220
M-120

Domo arigato, Ikutaro-san. Gomeifuku wo inorimasu.

[pflosi]

Ok, I'll play.

Drummers:
TR606 (x2)
TR626
TR66
TR707
TR727
TR808
TR909
DR55
DR110
DR220e
DR660

Monos:
SH2
SH101
MC202
TB303

Polys:
JU60
a-JU 2 (w/ PG300)
V-Synth XT

Effects (and utilities):
RE201
CE1
AP5
AP2
SDE2000
RV3
DD7 (x2)
CS2
RX100
SE50
RRV10
RBF10
(TU50)
(DB90) (x2)

Mixers:
KM4
KM6a
BX600
BX8
BX80
BX16

The only thing I don't own anymore is an Acetone GT7 organ.

In other words, a crapton of stuff that Mr. Kakehashi has been directly responsible for. RIP

[CS_TBL]

Currently I own:

JD800 (and I have 2 voice cards)
JD990
XV88
SRV3030 (1u rack reverb)


Briefly used/sampled in the past: *

XP50
JV1000
JW50
SC88
U20
JV1080
ALPHA JUNO 2
G800
JX1

Stuff I played often in our shop *, never sampled though (and lots were essentially the same thing of course):

D5
D10
D50
D70
JV30
JV80
JV35
JV90
JV50

* We used to have a music store ourself, so now and then I got one synth for the weekend, upon which I carefully sampled and looped the wave ROM.

[cornutt]

Juno 106
JD-800
JD-990
S-750
V-Synth
DR-202 drum machine
Boss DD-20 delay

[Tidda]

SRA-804
UA-25
TR-8
TB-3
MX-1

[gcoudert]

Currently own:

Fantom X8
Fantom X7
Three SRX cards
1 pair of headphones

Owned in the past:

Juno 60
JX3P
JX8P
D50
D550
D70
JV1080 x 2 + two SR-JV80 cards
U110 + 2 cards
JV2080
A30 controller
TR505
R8 + 1 card
Boss chorus and flanger pedals
Boss digital delay (half rack)

Played but didn't own:

Jupiter 6
SH-101
TR-707
TR-727
D110
D20
Boss DR-55

Oh, and three handheld mp3 recorders at work, on which we record GCSE speaking exams!

[minime123]

RIP

[Voodoo Ray]

TR-707
TR-606
TR-505
Alpha Juno-2 (+PG-300)
RRV-10

RIP

[sandwich]

Currently own:

Juno-6 (my very first synth at the age of 14)
Jupiter 8
D-50
SH-09