Roland Keyboards

by Keyboards Lover on May 10, 2011

Roland Keyboards

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Casio CTK-2100 61-key keyboard with Personal Voice Pad New Feature

  • Easy-to-play keyboard 61-key portable keyboard with wide range of tones, rhythms and learning capabilities
  • 400 high-quality tones, 150 rhythms and auto accompaniments for Latin music
  • Voice Pad allows you to play sampled sounds; connect CD or MP3 player for practicing along with favorite songs
  • USB port and General MIDI support allows connection with a computer or another GM-compatible device
  • Powered by 6 AA batteries or AC adapter

A great choice for both piano beginners and intermediates, the portable Casio CTK-2100 personal keyboard offers 61 piano-style touch keys and step-by-step lessons that help just about anyone learn to play. Offering a wide range of features and functions, the CTK-2100 keyboard includes 400 tones and 150 rhythms, sampling function, an audio-in jack that lets you play along with your favorite songs, USB port for connecting to a PC, and AHL audio technology for reproducing amazingly real grand piano and acoustic musical instrument sounds. It's powered by 6 AA batteries and also comes with an AC adapter.

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A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave.

Roland Corporation was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on April 18, 1972, with ¥33 million in capital. Today it has factories in Japan, the United States, Italy, and Taiwan. It has existed in different forms since 1960, making it one of the oldest still-operating manufacturers of musical electronics, and has survived changes in technology to become one of the most noteworthy and widely-used brands in electronic music and production today.

Roland involves in the development, manufacture and sale of electronic musical instruments including keyboards and synthesizers, guitar products, electronic percussion kits, digital recording equipment, amplifiers and audio processing devices.

Roland offers a full range of keyboards and synthesizers that lead the industry in performance, features, and ease of use. From the beginner to the professional, Roland keyboards and synths are among the most popular in the world.

Include:

Synths & Samplers: Professional keyboards, synthesizers and music workstations.

Arrangers: A wide range of arranger-style keyboards for playing or composing with ease.

Controllers: MIDI controller keyboards and pedalboards.

Sound Modules: Professional tabletop and rackmount synthesizer modules.

Accordions: Roland is pleased to introduce a revolutionary new family of instruments — the V-Accordions.

VIMA: Video Interactive keyboard products for Recreational Music Making.

Amplifiers: The ultimate compliment to any performance or studio keyboard.

MIDI Interfaces: Devices for connecting your MIDI instrument(s) to a computer.

Timeline of noteworthy products

1973 - Roland SH-1000: Claimed by Roland to be Japan's first commercial keyboard synthesizer.

1988 - Roland E-20: Roland's first entry into the auto-accompaniment keyboard market, going head to head with Yamaha and Casio. The E-20's descendants include the E-70, E-86, G-800, G-1000, G-70 and the current E-80.

1989 - Roland W-30: A sampling workstation keyboard

1992 - Roland DJ-70: A DJ sampling music workstation and synthesizer keyboard that featured the first scratch wheel pad.

1996 - Roland DJ-70mkII: Successor to the DJ-70, with more powerful features, including a DJ sampling music workstation, which featured a scratch wheel pad. It is essentially an S-760 sampler with a keyboard.

The author loves music playing and recording, and now working for Gigasonic as a copywriter. You can learn moreRoland Keyborads at Gigasonic.com, and Roland authorized dealer.

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