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    The Roland MC-303 is the first of a series of musical instruments known as a groovebox. It combines a simple sound module with a sequencer to record and...
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    the Roland MC-303 and is a compact version of the Roland JX-305 Groovesynth without the full set of 61 keys. It is also the predecessor to the Roland D2...
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    The Roland MC-202 (MicroComposer) is a monophonic analog synthesizer and music sequencer released by Roland in 1983. It was the first groovebox. Its synth...
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    The MC-808 is a groovebox introduced by Roland in 2006. It is the successor to the late Roland MC-303, Roland MC-307, Roland MC-505 and Roland MC-909...
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    The Roland TB-303 Bass Line (also known as the 303) is a bass synthesizer released by Roland Corporation in 1981. Designed to simulate bass guitars, it...
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    Roland MC-303 groovebox. The Roland Groovebox began again resurgence in the year 2019 with a two new modern & redesign Roland MC-707 GROOVEBOX/Roland MC-101...
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    improvisation. The term "Groovebox" was originally used by Roland Corporation to refer to its MC-303, released in 1996. The term has since entered general...
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  • other Roland grooveboxes. It can be used as a sequencer to drive external synthesizer units. It is the successor to the Roland MC-303 and Roland MC-505...
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    redesigned in 2005, and released as the SP-404, by Roland Corporation. While the Dr. Sample SP-303 may lack some of the features seen on other hip hop...
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    The Roland MC-09 "PhraseLab" is a Roland synthesizer, described as a Roland TB-303 emulator featuring an effects processor and a 4-part phrase sampler...
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    The Roland MC-8 MicroComposer by the Roland Corporation was introduced in early 1977 at a list price of US$4,795 (¥1,200,000 JPY). It was one of the earliest...
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    Pacific Partners. Roland has manufactured numerous instruments that have had lasting impacts on music, such as the Juno-106 synthesizer, TB-303 bass synthesizer...
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  • Hendrix as some of his biggest musical influences. Dixon makes use of a Roland MC-303 groovebox. Dixon started producing acid in the early ‘90s. He debuted...
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  • Bass John Williams – Roland MC-303 Pete Z. – Mellotron, Hammond Organ, Piano, Roland MC-303, Synthesizer Smithy – Synthesizer, 303, piano, guitar, backing...
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    Control Bus, was Roland's pre-MIDI interface that allowed the JP-8 to talk to other DCB enabled hardware, such as the Roland MC-4 and MC-8 microcomposers...
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  • in an Alesis HR-16, while synth lines were produced by Fukuda with a Roland MC-303. It features a song written by vocalist Wayne Static and drummer Ken...
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  • nice name for a band." The group's sound was initially dominated by a Roland MC-303 Groovebox, which Zeid Hamdan had acquired to replace musicians after...
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    The Roland MC-4 MicroComposer was an early microprocessor-based music sequencer released by Roland Corporation. It could be programmed using the ten key...
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    previous Roland drum machine, the TR-808. It was designed by Tadao Kikumoto, who also designed the Roland TB-303 synthesizer. The chief Roland engineer...
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    The Roland SP-606 is a music sampler manufactured by Roland Corporation. It is part of the SP family, which includes Roland’s popular SP-303 and SP-404...
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  • The 555 is part of the SP family, which includes Boss’s popular SP-303 and Roland's SP-404 installments. The sampler was released in 2008. SP Lineage The...
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    instruments such as the Roland MC-8 Microcomposer, and Kakehashi realized they could be used to program drum machines. In 1978, Roland released the CompuRhythm...
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    Boss SP-202 (1998) Roland SP-808 GrooveSampler (1998) Roland SP-808EX E-Mix Studio (2000) Boss SP-303 (2001) Boss SP-505 (2002) Roland SP-606 Sampling Workstation...
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  • Kikumoto (菊本忠男, Kikumoto Tadao) is Roland's senior managing director and head of its R&D center. He designed the TB-303 bass synthesizer and the TR-909 drum...
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    sequenced to create songs. The TR-606 was designed to be used with the Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer, and can be synchronized using DIN sync. The TR-606...
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  • later coined by Roland Corporation in reference to its successor, the Roland MC-303, released in 1996. Wind synths From the mid-1980s, Akai developed a...
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    dance music market, especially for trance music. Just like what the Roland TB-303 had done for acid house and acid techno, the JP-8000's Supersaw leads...
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    The Roland Juno-60 is an analog synthesizer manufactured by the Roland Corporation between 1982 and 1984. It followed the Juno-6, an almost identical synthesizer...
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  • (1998) Roland SP-808 GrooveSampler (1998) Roland SP-808EX E-Mix Studio (2000) Boss SP-303 (2001) Boss SP-505 (2002) Roland SP-606 (2004) Roland SP-404...
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  • Korg Electribe / Electribe 2 series Roland Corporation MC series: MC-09 / MC-303 / MC-307 / MC-505 / MC-808 / MC-909 Yamaha RM1x Yamaha RS7000—Music Production...
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