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[QUOTE][B]The music world is mourning the loss of Roland founder and electronic instrument pioneer Ikutaro Kakehashi, who has died aged 87.[/B]
The Japanese engineer created many popular drum machines, including the iconic TR-808.
Its sound is a staple of hip-hop and electronic music, used by everyone from Kanye West to Marvin Gaye.
Kakehashi received a technical Grammy in 2013 for contributions to electronic music technology.
Dave Smith - Kakehashi's co-winner - told the BBC he "was just an amazing man, a good friend, a very good competitor of course and just innovative continually all that time".
Before leading Roland for 40 years, Mr Kakehashi founded Ace Tone in the 1960s.
The firm made amplifiers and primitive drum machines, laying the groundwork for the engineer's future success.
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An incredibly big loss for the music industry. Had it not been for Kakehashi, a huge piece of hip-hop and electronica history wouldn't have existed. He also worked with a lot of other companies to create MIDI.
RIP. His legacy will certainly live on.
[QUOTE]In June 1981, Roland's Ikutaro Kakehashi approached Oberheim with the idea of standardizing a communication protocol between electronic music instruments. Oberheim discussed the idea with Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits, and in November, Smith formally presented the idea to the Audio Engineering Society. Smith finalized the MIDI specification and together, Kakehashi, Oberheim, and Smith successfully coordinated the support of all major manufacturers to widely adopt the new MIDI standard.[/QUOTE]
Yo these guys are legends. Not only did they make Midi their original instruments are awesome and people still buy them. I own an Oberheim synth and I've been using it and some other old Roland synths a lot lately.
dang, big fan of the boss effects. i use a roland boss recorder and have used their effects in the past. great quality, affordable gear.
A black day indeed.
True legend of modern electronic music. Roland synths was always known as one of most state-of-the-art and finest products in music industry. Milestone products like System-100, VP-330 Vocoder, Jupiter-8, TR-808 and 909 drum machines, TB-303 (fart/acid bass synth), Juno-60, JD-880, JV series, Fantom series... used by millions of musicians.
Also Roland gave us term "Groovebox" with their quite popular MC303 back in a days.
And don't forget well-known Roland guitar synthesizers.
Rest in peace.
I love all of the Roland gear I've owned and I love you Kakehashi-San. RIP
[QUOTE=Pat.Lithium;52051806]dang, big fan of the boss effects. i use a roland boss recorder and have used their effects in the past. great quality, affordable gear.[/QUOTE]
infact the boss stomp boxes just turned 40. thats amazing that they've been so popular and are still in production.
Yet Kanye and all these other people that use autotune and samples more often than not will continue their lives and never even care to know about the guy that birthed their entire genre
Even Roland software is good.
I use Roland R-mix for frequency isolation.
It's a hundred times for effective than chaining a shit load of eq's
RIP Ikutaro.
[QUOTE=Kylel999;52053758]Yet Kanye and all these other people that use autotune and samples more often than not will continue their lives and never even care to know about the guy that birthed their entire genre[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure Kanye knows who this guy is, I mean he has an album called 808's and Heartbreak.
[QUOTE=Kylel999;52053758]Yet Kanye and all these other people that use autotune and samples more often than not will continue their lives and never even care to know about the guy that birthed their entire genre[/QUOTE]
every serious rap producer ever knows what a tr 808 is dude
actually anyone remotely into production knows what a tr 808 is
[QUOTE=Kylel999;52053758]Yet Kanye and all these other people that use autotune and samples more often than not will continue their lives and never even care to know about the guy that birthed their entire genre[/QUOTE]
Uhh, 808's & Heartbreak? The TR-808 is a huge part of the album, and it pioneered modern trap music. Autotune and samples are tools, not something that should be looked down upon in every instance.
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[QUOTE=Systema;52054458]every serious rap producer ever knows what a tr 808 is dude
actually anyone remotely into production knows what a tr 808 is[/QUOTE]
Technically just because someone knows what an 808 is, doesn't mean they know how it originated.
An 808 is simply a specific timbre of sound with a harsh attack transient, a type of kick drum. While it may have originated from Roland, you can synthesize 808s on lots of different gear. So to know what an 808 is, doesn't mean you know where it came from.
Lots of producers out there don't know much history about the tools they use and sounds they mangle.
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