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This is a native android Drum Sequencer built to sound like the historic Roland TR-909 with a modern composing interface.

Someone in my area sold me an old Roland RD-500 in excellent condition, two amps, and a stand for $500.

All this gear is getting expensive these days, but maybe Roland will follow Korg's lead with the MS20 and rebuild TRs.

The bottom item is an imitation of a Roland TR-909 drum machine (a drum synthesizer).

Yeah, Robin Whittle probably knows more about the 303 than anyone outside of Roland Japan, and he's very generous with his knowledge too.

The proximity sensor is indeed an IR based sensor similar in design to the D-Beam that Roland employs in some of their keyboards.

I just did some googling, and it seems Roland is out front on making a reasonably high quality modeling combo amp (GA112).

They have people like Jonas Bonér, Viktor Klang, Roland Kuhn, Mathias Doenitz, etc.

Quick tutorial for anyone who isn't familiar with the music gear being emulated: The top two items are two instances of an imitation of a Roland TB-303 bassline synth.

You're about to disrupt Roland business.

I had a similar experience calling into Sierra's 800 number and listening to their hold music, which was music from their games played on a Roland MT-32.

If you've done the first Odersky course in coursera, the one he does with Roland Kuhn and Erik Meier is a very natural progression that will be far more practical than the original.

The only truly, unequivocally successful emulation project ever is the x0xb0x, which "emulated" the Roland TB-303 by taking it apart.

Roland has been marketing the "D-beam" for at least a decade now and it's about as much of a gimmick as ever.

Roland knows how to make a high quality solid state amp, and they were on the front line of amp modeling.

Roland has some nice desktop CNC mills, but they're much more expensive than this thing.

Roland has some nice machines starting around $5000, and those are real, shipping products.