W-30 Music Workstation

Musical Instrument (Electronic) published 37 years ago:

W-30 - Music Workstation (c) 1988 Roland

The Roland W-30 is a 61 key (velocity and aftertouch sensitive), 16 voice (8 part multitimbral), 16 bit, sampler, featuring a digital resonant low-pass filter, dedicated filter and amp 8 stage envelopes, LFO (sine or peak-hold waveforms with delay, polarity and sync), 3.5in. DSDD Disk drive, mic and line inputs, 8 individual outputs, 16 track phrase sequencer (15k events, 20 songs), and MIDI. Up to 32 samples can be recorded at 15|30kHz (512kW memory) and (along with 32 preset samples) combined into 16 presets. Sample editing includes auto-loop (forward/reverse), combine, mix, truncate, and resonant low|high pass filter.

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Notable users:
Eric Sermon (EPMD)
Liam Howlett (The Prodigy)
Steve Hillier (Dubstar)
Andrés Bobe (La Ley)
DJ Paul (Three 6 Mafia)

Also, Heroiuki Iwatsugi Used the W-30 to write the music for the SNES game Wild Guns.

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