The ReBirth software studio by Propellerhead was huge when it came out in 1997. It was a super cheap PC program that faithfully recreated a Roland TR-808, a Roland TR-909 and two Roland TB-303 …

The picture below is a scan from an old Roland ad from 1982. It depicts Oscar Peterson on the Roland PianoPlus!, with a Roland TR-606 and TB-303.

It’s pretty ironic how Roland saw the 303 …

This is the first part in a multi-part series on vintage synthesizer advertisements that appear in (usually old) magazines. I used to drool over some of these synthesizers and drum machines, as the closest …

The Acid Symphony Orchestra is the brainchild of Jori Hulkkonen. Imagine 10 Roland TB-303′s one Roland TR-707 drum machine, and one Roland TR-808 drum machine. All wonderfully in sync, all tweaked by members …