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Roland Aira – analog Synth coming up – Reon in a Roland case?

MusikMesse 2015: Here’s a pic taken by someone at GS – on the right you see REON Synths (Driftboxes I guess – btw very high quality sounding synth!). on the left is a „normal“ eurorack modular system and in between – there is a Aira-Styled something that does not seem to have patch jacks but may be some sort of: -UPDATE: no – driftbox, they got a new modular system for us called the System 500 and digital modules series! 1) System 1 tech modeling which is obviously very good and could…

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Roland – Promars for System 1

beside the JD-Xa and JD-Xi and the very interesting Aira MX Automator/Mix there is also something new for the System 1 platform – the Promars, MRS2 subtractive,analog synth – I recently sold mine. so there’s only some SHs and System 100 / 100m missing and the System 1 going polyphonic for emulation – maybe the new JD synths might do their part of that job. I assume this is not only a Plug-out but a Plug-in as well as SH101 and SH2 were..   img: synthbug.com – also did audio demos of…

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Roland SBX1 Sync Box (USB, MIDI, DIN, CV, Gate)

SBX-1: SYNC BOXis coming- they had one under the table at the Musikmesse but here is the final Aira-Addition to System 1, TR8, VT and TB3… it has 3 MIDI Ports for the obvious tasks and another 3 for DIN Sync and you can assign those 2 DIN Out Ports to clock with 24 or 48 clicks so you can use Korg and Roland DIN machines in nice sync and there is CV and Gate for analog connection as well. – so this is the first real „analog“ interfacing device…

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Roland Aira Updates… more control / added details

AIRA | Roland updates all 4 Aira devices – there are – double memory VT3 (6 instead of 3) all pitches can be MIDI controlled via MIDI in VT3 – same of other Airas since they all weren’t responsive to MIDI recording (they could only be played via MIDI). quality and sensitivity optimization for VT3 recognition / processing and responds to MIDI CCs – Audio Level via USB controllable _ TB3 gets library function for dumping via USB and back assign sound to pattern – not just pattern OR sound. easier…

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Roland System 1 Synth: SH-101 PLUG-OUT SYNTH in Camden Town, 26 Jun 2014 7:00 PM HMF

just a short message on the non-buyable Roland Aira System 1 (so far) – to hit the press for their second synth the SH101 emulation tomorrow: World Premiere – SH-101 PLUG-OUT SYNTH in Camden Town, HMF – 26 Jun 2014 7:00  More Information streaming : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPDUhDSlMtc SH-101 Plug-out Information SSR London here is how it looks like and how the layout is done:   UPDATE: Video: Dieses Video auf YouTube ansehen   what they say – it has 2 envs and comes with the System1.. Two envelope sections allow different settings for…

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Roland Aira in a black suit

Ulrich Bielefeld (the man behind Oscillation-Rhythm) sent these pics my way – just for those who’d like to know – how do they look like when you paint those green framing black – So sieht es aus, wenn man die grünen Rahmen schwarz einfärbt. Danke an Ulrich für die Bilder und den Selbstversuch. Diskutiert wurde dies und mehr  auf über 136 Seiten im Forum: Roland Aira TR-8 und Roland AIRA – TR8 – TB3 – System 1 Original look: (my shots from the Musikmesse 2014) __ Added to SynthDB / UPDATE: Dave Smith…

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Roland VT3 Niedlicher Roboter

Little Cute German Robot using a Roland VT3. <– click für Audio Demo Roboter Vocoder Stimme aus dem Roland VT3. Hatte ihn für einige Zeit hier. Es gab updates und heute gibt es den VT4, den Nachfolger. Der ist auch weniger grün. Die Maschinen können per MIDI getuned werden, was beim VT3 etwas später als Update dazu kam. Es gibt Vocoder, Pitch-Shifter, Harmonizer a la Imogen Heap, Hall, 8 Speicher, USB, MIDI im VT4, im 3er gibt es Scatter also Grain-Stotter und Pitch-Korrektur – das ist etwas einfacher aber es…

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