Roland’s new D-05 Linear Synthesizer perfectly recreates the legendary D-50 synth 30 years later. Released in 1987, the D-50 Linear Synthesizer was Roland’s first completely digital synthesizer, and easily one of the most influential keyboards ever made. The D-50 helped define the sound of the late ‘80s with its instantly recognizable mix of sampled attacks and synthesized sustaining waveforms, enhanced with built-in chorus, reverb, and EQ. It’s the basis of classic tracks in a wide range of gen

Remembering the Legendary D-50 Synthesizer… Making its debut in 1987, the D-50 was the first fully digital synthesizer from Roland. Its Linear Arithmetic (LA) synthesis approach, which combines traditional subtractive synthesis with harmonically complex sampled (PCM) waveforms, proved to be a sonic breakthrough. And as the first performance synthesizer to integrate DSP effects, the Roland D-50 delivered instant studio-quality sounds to keyboard players around the world. Well ahead of its time, t