GS was introduced with the Roland Sound Canvas line, which was also Roland's first General MIDI synth module.

) It is fully compatible with General MIDI, General MIDI Level 2, and Roland's own GS MIDI implementation.

) It is fully compatible with General MIDI, General MIDI Level 2, and Roland's own GS MIDI implementation.

It is similar in purpose to Roland's GS Standard.

Other systems, such as Roland's MIDI pickups, are included with or can be retrofitted to a standard instrument.

According to a supplemental prose story by Robin Furth included in The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born ( issues # 7 & # 2, respectively ), Roland's ancestry traces back to Arthur Eld and Emmanuelle Deschain, the daughter of his seneschal, Kay Deschain, while the Crimson King's ancestry traces back to an affair between Arthur and the Crimson Queen.

Roland's previous ka-tet included himself, Cuthbert Allgood, Jamie De Curry, and Alain Johns.

Over the years, Roland's co-presenters included Bill McCreary, Cora-Ann Mihalik and Rosanna Scotto.

Koshiro said the most important element in recreating club music sounds for the games was to emulate the timbre and percussion sounds of Roland's rhythm machines ( the most famous models being the TR-606, TR-707, TR-808, and TR-909 ), stating that " it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that that sound defined the genre.

Buttons, sliders, and knobs are the most common controllers provided, but rotary encoders, transport controls, joysticks, ribbon controllers, vector touchpads in the style of Korg's Kaoss pad, and optical controllers such as Roland's D-Beam may also be present.

Because no interaction between the oscillators was provided ( unlike Roland's ' structures ,' for example ), dual-oscillator patches essentially ran the two oscillators in parallel.

Can be coupled with any of Roland's MIDI pedal keyboards to make it a complete organ.

The Wizard of Oz parallels continue inside, where the Wizard is revealed to be Marten Broadcloak, also known as Randall Flagg, who flees when Roland attempts to kill him with Jake's Ruger and narrowly misses ( Flagg has bewitched Roland's own guns, saying, " Only misfires against me, Roland, old fellow ").

Gilbert Roland's Gaucho may almost be seen as self-parody, as he had recently starred in a series of Cisco Kid pictures, though the character's name, Ribera, would seem to give a nod also to famed Hollywood seducer Porfirio Rubirosa.

His last full-length opera was an 1849 fairy-tale satire of the Prussian military state called Rolands Knappen ( Roland's Squire ), featuring the repeated line " And this is supposed to be a world order?

Roland's silent desperation for the Tower is the driving rhythm of the series ; it can be felt most powerfully in " The Gunslinger ", wherein Roland's sole desire is the Tower and nothing below it.

Roland's quest is to find the Dark Tower, a fabled building said to be the nexus of all universes.

Roland's world is said to have " moved on ", and it appears to be coming apart at the seams.

In Castle Kriegspire they obtain the third crystal, along with Roland's journal, which explains that Sir Ragnar died from his wounds while the Kreegans transported Roland and Tanir elsewhere to be ransomed or tortured, as confirmed in Heroes of Might and Magic III.

Brian King can be heard weekday mornings and Roland's Swamp Pop Cafe can be heard at noon every weekday.

* 1994 – Roland JV-1080: Roland's 64-voice Super JV synthesizer module, it used the JV sample set with the JD series filters and a fast RISC processor for very smooth envelopes.

In this tradition, the epic hero Roland's sword Durendal was the very sword used by Hector, and Roland wins the sword by defeating a Saracen knight ( almonte, the son of Agolant ) who had defeated Ruggiero II.

In 1972 P. M. Holt used Roland's words to begin an essay about Henry Stubbe: " Paien ont tort e crestiien ont dreit " — " Pagans are wrong and Christians are right.

One of the " patches " that Pat used often is on Roland's JV-80 " Vintage Synth " expansion card titled " Pat's GR-300 ".

The AX-60 borrowed many ideas from the Roland Juno series, but used voltage controlled analog oscillators ( VCO ) as a sound source as opposed to Roland's more common digitally controlled analog oscillators ( DCO ), and also allowed the performer to " split " the keyboard ( using different timbres for different ranges of keys ).

Roland cries out all their names — both his first and second Ka-Tet's — when he reaches the door of the Dark Tower, along with other characters whom he cared for in some way or another: Susan Delgado, Roland's first ( and only true ) love, who was killed while he was in Mejis ; Father Callahan, who was also a member of Roland's second Ka-Tet, albeit for a much shorter time ; Hax the cook, whom Roland betrayed to the gunslingers because he was a traitor, something that deeply affected Roland ; his teachers Cort and Vannay ; his parents ' names ; the name of David the Hawk, whom Roland used in the trial for his revolvers ; and the name of Aunt Talitha of River Crossing, whose cross he lays at the base of the tower.

The PG-200 programmer was also used with Roland's GR-700 Guitar Synthesizer.

Its synthesis engine, in more or less updated forms was used in Roland's JV and XP series synths, among others.

However, its first released incarnation in 1984 ( revision 3 and 4 ) used hardware identical to its predecessor, the Jupiter-6 ( which had a combination of Curtis VCO and VCA chips combined with Roland's own proprietary filters ).

Although it lacked the soon-to-be standard of MIDI control, later model Jupiter-8s did include Roland's proprietary DCB interface, and all of them sported advanced features such as " Four on Four " and the ability to split the keyboard into two zones, with a separate patch active on each zone.

Roland's solution was driven by MIDI sequencing using advanced LA synthesizers.

* 1987 – Roland D-50: One of the popular digital synthesizers in late 1980s ; Roland's first all-digital synthesizer implementing its Linear Arithmetic synthesis ( a form of sample-based synthesis combined with subtractive synthesis ).

* 1994 – Roland AT-70: The first Roland's home organ, " Music Atelier " and its little brother AT-50.

He attached himself to the Girondists, whose vague deism, sentimental humanitarianism and ardent republicanism he fully shared, and from March to November 1792 he published, at Jean Marie Roland's expense, a bi-weekly journal-affiche, of which the title, La Sentinelle, proclaimed its mission to open all of Europe to the Enlightenment at a time when, after the Habsburg declaration of war on France and the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, a schism between the king and his subjects had become obvious.

In addition to its own Rodgers organs, Rodgers produces Atelier home organs and digital pianos for Roland Corporation as Roland's North American manufacturing facility.

Along with its compatible modules, it established an early de-facto standard in computer music and was the first product in Roland's ミュージくん ( myūjikun ) line of Desktop Music System ( DTM ) packages in Japan.

The tale features Roland of Gilead, whose quest for the Dark Tower is in its infancy ; its events precede those of the body of the Dark Tower cycle, but occur after Roland's experiences in Mejis as chronicled in The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass.

Picking up where Clouds of Xeen left off, the adventurers take King Burlock's advice and follow Prince Roland's trail to the other side of the world, where they find the rogue Guardian of Terra has already conquered its inhabitants, under the pseudonym of " Alamar " ( the name of the king he impersonated on VARN in Might and Magic I ).

Melian, damaged by Roland's usurper brother, Archibald Ironfist, during the Succession Wars, instructs the heroes to recover its memory crystals.

Some legends claim that it was forged to contain the Lance of Longinus within its pommel ; others state it was smithed from the same materials as Roland's Durendal and Ogier's Curtana.

These new features were groundbreaking at the time, and are still utilized in Roland's electronic percussion today.

Despite Roland's efforts, their new " 303 clone " was an entirely new product that had almost nothing to do with the original TB-303, with the exception of a few bass samples and the familiar interface design.

In the morning, Roland's new ka-tet comes to a suspiciously familiar Emerald City.

The seven-book series is about Roland's acquisition of a new ka-tet and the completion of his quest.

On 26 February 2009 Jones was at the UK premiere of Roland's new V-Piano in Bristol and performed " Hide and Seek ".

Susannah throws away Roland's gun ( which does not function on this side of the door ), rejecting the life of a gunslinger, and starts a new life with alternate versions of Eddie and Jake, who in this world are brothers with the surname Toren.

In 2005 Access Music released their new TI-line of synthesizers which feature an oscillator typed called Hypersaw, which has similar functionality to Roland's Supersaw oscillator.