Whois & Analysis for roland.com

The is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software.

It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on April 18, 1972, with ¥33 million in capital.

In 2005, Roland's headquarters relocated to Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture.

Today it has factories in Italy, Taiwan, Japan, and the USA.

As of March 31, 2010, it employed 2,699 employees.

It has existed in different forms since 1960, making it relatively old among still-operating manufacturers of musical electronics.

Known for hundreds of popular synthesizers, drum machines, and other instruments, Roland has been one of the top names in professional music equipment since the late 1970s.

In digital recording, audio signals picked up by a microphone or other transducer or video signals picked up by a camera or similar device are converted into a stream of discrete numbers, representing the changes over time in air pressure for audio, and chroma and luminance values for video, then recorded to a storage device.

To play back a digital sound recording, the numbers are retrieved and converted back into their original analog waveforms so that they can be heard through a loudspeaker.

To play back a digital video recording, the numbers are retrieved and converted back into their original analog waveforms so that they can be viewed on a video monitor, television or other display.

A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument.

Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave.

Depressing a key on the keyboard causes the instrument to produce sounds, either by mechanically striking a string or tine (piano, electric piano, clavichord);

An electronic musical instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronics.

Such an instrument sounds by outputting an electrical audio signal that ultimately drives a loudspeaker.

An electronic drum, also known as digital drums or digital percussion, is a modern electronic musical instrument, a special type of synthesizer or sampler primarily designed to serve as an alternative to an acoustic drum kit or other percussion instruments.

An electronic drum consists of an electronic or digital sound module which produces the synthesized or sampled percussion sounds and one or more electric sensors to trigger the sounds.

Like regular drums, the sensors are struck by drum sticks or by the hands (depending on the type of drum pad) and they are played in a similar manner as an acoustic drum kit.