Roland Mother System

Roland's innovative MIDI set-up; Mother Keyboard, Planet-P piano voice module, Planet-S synth module, and the impressive Super Jupiter... an in-depth test.

Roland SC88 Sound Canvas

Most powerful Canvas yet

Roland P55 Piano Module

Close your eyes and you could be tickling those ivories...

RD1000 (Keyboard Version) & MKS20 (Racked Module Version)

Roland's piano power — RD1000 & MKS20 on test

mother keyboard and baby modules

Plus MIDI MKS-30 and MKS-10

midi sound module

A new prestige keyboard line-up that fuses traditional modular synthesis concepts with the latest interface technology. The complete system surveyed by Dan Goldstein.

piano module

A piano for every occasion - and a few more besides

Sound Module

128 new General MIDI sounds for the price of a return flight to New York - just plug in and go with the unit that kills all known GMs. Ian Waugh goes a bundle.

The Roland Sound Canvas is far more than a successor to the MT32— it's the first of a whole new generation of MIDI instruments, conforming to the General MIDI standard. Special Agent Paul D. Lehrman investigates.

Get creative with Brush and Canvas.

Roland RD1000 Piano

How does Roland's new SAS resynthesis system go about imitating a grand piano? Dan Goldstein digs deep inside the RD1000 and its modular counterpart, the MKS20, and submits a glowing report.

Roland MKS-7 Super Quartet

A look at the role of the MKS-7

New lines launched at Frankfurt

Ivory-free piano and the digital grand...