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Mar 25, 2023June 7, 2024

Roland AIRA Bitrazer 🧻

The AIRA period came and went in a dramatic black and green explosion. One moment a fantasia of new ideas, next a violent purge full of guillotines and dour retreat.…

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Mar 21, 2023April 3, 2023

Roland AIRA SP404 Mk2. 🧻🧻🧻🧻

The Eternal Quest: Floating somewhere in the realm of Platonic Ideals is the ultimate sampling tool to realise the sounds I hear in my head. I’ve invested in a whole…

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Jun 25, 2022September 11, 2024

Roland AIRA MC-707 🧻🧻💩

Updated 11 Sept 2024 with new information about a third party editor. This is the fourth version of this article, and I have become more critical. I recently decided to…

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Aug 13, 2021April 14, 2025

Roland AIRA TR-8 🧻🧻🧻

Here’s your damn cowbell There’s a cafe up from my place called “Cowbell 808” run by beards that are too young to have seen a cow let alone an 808.…

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Aug 13, 2021March 25, 2023

Roland AIRA System 1m 🧻🧻🧻

Everything’s Gone Green Roland, roland, roland. It grieves me, it really does. Let’s make this short. You put the power switch on the back of a rack. Perhaps you had…

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Aug 13, 2021March 25, 2023

Roland AIRA System-8 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻

It’s most gratifying to see Roland Corporation take note of my comments regarding the System-1m – surely so, as each has been addressed exactly to my specification. There is now…

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