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Roland
DM-800
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Roland
Founded in 1972 in Osaka by Ikutaro Kakehashi, Roland is a pillar of electronic instruments and audio processing. In the 1990s the company entered the digital studio with workstations such as the DM-800, foreshadowing the modern DAW.
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