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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Roland History

Title link takes you to Roland's development history page that lists out products they consider to be firsts. The GR-500, released in 1977, is listed as the first guitar synth in the world. The ARP Avatar also came out in 1977. The SH-1000, released in 1973 was the first synthesizer manufactured in Japan.



Update via Kaden in the comments:
"heh? Walter Sears was producing boutique guitar synths in about 1973 (as I recall, Steve Howe from Yes had one with an elbow controller), which led to the 360 Systems guitar synth in (I think) 1976. There was a band called Symphonic Slam that made a *huge* deal out of having one. Sounded kinda Arpish, with appalling pitch tracking."
Posted by matrix at 1/11/2006 10:45:00 AM
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous1/11/06, 12:11 PM

    You have to love the way Roland hate talking about the 303. They just sort of ignore it.

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  2. Anonymous1/11/06, 3:19 PM

    I notice even Roland admit that they haven't done anything remotely good or innovative for 6 years now...

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  3. Anonymous1/11/06, 7:20 PM

    heh? Walter Sears was producing boutique guitar synths in about 1973 (as I recall, Steve Howe from Yes had one with an elbow controller), which led to the 360 Systems guitar synth in (I think) 1976. There was a band called Symphonic Slam that made a *huge* deal out of having one. Sounded kinda Arpish, with appalling pitch tracking.

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