Thank you all for participating in the JUPITER Synth Legends contest. Congrats to Mitch Bacigalupi on winning a fully loaded JUPITER-50 synth, Merry Christmas! Please stand by for future contests and giveaways, we have plenty more in the works for 2013. Related links and articles: Synth Legends: TB-303 Synth Legends Synth Legends – Howard Jones | JUPITER-80
News from our Roland brothers around the world Top UK drummers battle it out for a chance to represent the UK in the V-Drums World Championship 2013 Last year’s V-Drums World Championship competition attracted hundreds of talented drummers from every corner of the globe. These were narrowed down to 16 finalists who traveled to the [...]
Roland and BOSS are proud co-sponsors of the 2012 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Hurry and get your entries in! Session II closes December 16, 2012, at midnight PST. The John Lennon Songwriting Contest is an international songwriting contest that began in 1997. The Contest is open to amateur and professional songwriters who submit entries in [...]
UPDATE: The entry period has ended. Thanks to all who participated. The winner will be announced on or about December 21, 2012. Enter for a chance to win a JUPITER-50 fully pre-loaded with all the sounds from the JUPITER Synth Legends Volume 1 collection. With the JUPITER Synth Legends sound collection, Roland is proud to [...]
On Wednesday, November 28, Roland will be releasing the highly anticipated Jupiter Synth Legends patch collection. The release will be available for the Jupiter-50 and Jupiter-80.
The results are in but if you were following the conversation on Twitter (#vdrumscontest) you probably already know that this year’s V-Drums U.S. National Champion is Pat Kennedy from Manor, TX. The Runner-up is Phillip “PJ” Hill from Milwaukee, WI. Patrick will represent the U.S. at the V-Drums World Championship 2 contest in Frankfurt, Germany in April, 2013. [...]
The Roland V-Drums World Championship U.S. Finals is only two days away. Meet this year’s finalists and watch the videos that got them here. Tell us what you think about their drumming chops and share with us your contest predictions. Think you can do better? We encourage you to start working on your video for next [...]
Check out the video from the Loop Station event last weekend (it starts about 35 seconds in). Have a great weekend everyone!
U.S. National Finals Live Performances by Thomas Lang an Johnny Rabb Wednesday, October 31, 2012 Pasic – Austin Convention Center – Exhibit Hall 5 – Austin, TX Doors at 6pm Event at 7pm Free and open to the public All ages welcome Enter for a chance to win a free V-Drums kit an other prizes, [...]
Lisa Harriton Lisa Harriton became the touring keyboardist and back-up vocalist for the Grammy-award winning alternative rock band, The Smashing Pumpkins, in 2007. Harriton appears in the videos for “Tarantula” and “That’s the Way (My Love Is)”. Since her work with the Pumpkins, she has toured/performed with Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) Adam Lambert, Ke$ha and Natalia Kills, opening for [...]
