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Inspire The Music: 50 Years of Roland History

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50 Years of Roland History

  • 60+ feature articles covering 50 years of music tech history
  • 90+ interviews and stories with artists and engineers
  • Hundreds of instruments with detailed insights

Since its beginnings in 1972, Roland has become one of the most influential music brands in modern history. In 400 photo-packed pages, this book tells the story of how they got there, and how they brought the music world along for the ride.

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DJTT FAST AND FAIR RETURNS POLICY

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Most brand new products are returnable within 30 days of the original shipment (view product exceptions here) without any additional fees, unless:

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Insights

Few music companies have had Roland’s sheer technological impact. INSPIRE THE MUSIC details the creation of new instruments doing undreamed-of things: rhythm boxes that played what you told them to, guitars that could make any sound imaginable, grand pianos that didn’t need strings, drum kits you could carry in one hand... seen from within the music world in which they were born, and within the musical universe they helped create.

Instruments

Roland’s music machines have inspired stories, legends, and outright myths. Through research and interviews with Roland’s designers, we’ll tell the amazing true stories behind gear like the JUPITER-8 and other iconic synthesizers, the Space Echo and its role in the roots of Jamaican dub culture, the Octapad’s conquest of Indian music, the Loop Stations’ reinvention of composition and performance, the inspiration and promise of MIDI, how sampling married synthesis, beatboxes and stompboxes and grooveboxes – including the genre-defining TR-808, TR-909, TB-303 – and much more!

Innovators

INSPIRE THE MUSIC also celebrates the community that Roland built, bringing you 90+ interviews and stories covering the work of world-famous recording artists, session and touring musicians, beatmakers and producers, award-winning recording engineers, educators, songwriters, and soundtrack composers – and those who designed and built these machines, and the creative impulses that drove them.

Chapters

  • Insights/Instruments/Innovators/Fifty years of favorites, fashions, frontiers and the occasional flop/Groove/Drums/Guitar/Keys/Synth/Studio

Size & Weight

  • Dimensions: 9.8 x 9.8 x 1 In / 22.86 x 22.86 x 2.54 cm
  • Weight: 4.0 lb / 1.814 kg

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