Roland Central Europe

New products

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:48:43 +0200

On the occasion of the London International Music Show, Roland introduces four brand new products. First, we have the Juno-DI, a portable (battery-powered) synthesizer boasting all the best sounds from the Juno family. Guitarists, rejoyce! The FRV-1 is here! This COSM-driven effect pedal faithfully recreates the sound of the legendary '63 Fender Reverb. The new asset in our Roland Classic range is the C-330 digital classic organ. Finally, Music Creator 5, our new entry-level recording software, is a real must-have for your home studio.

Report on V-Accordion Festival 2008

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:44:07 +0200

The V-Accordion Festival 2008 was held on September 27th in the Gustave Eiffel Room on level one of the Eiffel Tower.

In general, all the candidates were very skillful, which didn't make the jury's task any easier. The jury was composed of: Ludovic Beier (President), assisted by Marc Berthoumieux, Bernard Marly, Marco Cinaglia (Roland Europe) and Jeroen Ravesloot (Roland Central Europe).

All contestants have really surpassed themselves and succeeded in quickly getting familiar with the V-Accordion and using its potential to the very best. Most of them only discovered these instruments during this competition.

Each contestant played for 5 minutes, all in very different repertoires, which clearly illustrates the versatility of these instruments.

4 contestants competed in the Juniors Final:

The results:
1st place : Eric Allard-Jacquin (wins an FR-3 SB)
2nd place : Alexis Lambert (wins a CD-2e)
3rd place : Ren�e Verleg (wins an R-09H)

7 contestants competed in the Seniors Semi-Final:

The results:
1st place: Jean Fran�ois Prin (wins an FR-7B and) qualifies for the Final in Rome on November 7th and 8th.
2nd place: F�licien Brut (wins a CD-2e)
3rd place: Estelle Sauvain (wins an R-09HR)

HD-1 V-Drums Lite reaches finals at the IDEA awards

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:59:18 +0200

Roland's compact digital drumset, the HD-1 V-Drums Lite, was recently among the finalists at the IDEA awards. IDEA stands for International Design Excellence Awards. This title is awarded to products for their outstanding design quality. Since 1980, prominent industry leaders in design judge the products and give awards in over 80 product categories. The HD-1 reached the finals combined with the PM-01�Personal Drum Monitor in the "Entertainment" category.

V-Accordion Festival 2008

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:16:15 +0200

Roland presents the 2nd V-Accordion Festival (edition 2008), an international contest open to all accordionists. A great opportunity for all those that are tempted to embark on a unique adventure : to play on stage before an audience and to compete with other musicians from different countries.

It is not only about judging the virtuosity of the musicians, but also about the way in which they use the incredible possibilities offered by the V-Accordions, plus artistic performance and originality. These criteria make this contest accessible to virtually all accordionists. To enter the contest (qualifying round), a video or audio performance must be sent to Roland Central Europe. All types of accordions (acoustic of electronic/digital) of any brand and all musical styles are allowed.

The competition involves two age categories and is divided in two linguistic zones: The Juniors (under 18 years of age) and the Seniors (over 18 years of age), and French-speaking (France, Luxemburg, Wallonia) or Dutch-speaking (Netherlands, Flanders). The Juniors' final and the Seniors' semifinal are organized by Roland Central Europe and will be held on Saturday the 27th of September in Paris, on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower.

The contestants can win fabulous prizes, such as V-Accordions and other Roland products. The winner of the international final, taking place in Rome (Italy) on the 7th and 8th of November 2008, will take home 5000 euros in cash!

To participate, simply send an audio or video recording of your accordion performance to Roland Central Europe ecording performance with a registration form avalaible in the network of Roland dealers or on the site: http://www.rolandce.com/v-accordionfestival/

Trends Gazellen 2008

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:00:00 +0200

This year's "Trends Gazellen 2008" event took place on 19 March at MUHKA in Antwerp. It is a unique platform set up by Trends magazine, which lists fast-growing companies. The magazine looks for so-called "gazelles", i.e. companies that symbolize competitive entrepreneurship. To qualify, a company need to increase its region's competitive assets and stimulate entrepreneurship.

As in the 6 preceding years, Trends' editorial staff started from the "Trends Top 100.000" to find the enterprises with the highest growth figures in each Province. The key factors were turnover, staff and cash flow. Only privately held companies that are at least five years old and have created more than twenty jobs since their inception are considered.

Based on a number of criteria, this produces a list of 200 fast growing companies, which are thought to contribute significantly to their province's economic dynamics (Antwerp for our company), and as a result, to create jobs, innovate, and exhibit creative entrepreneurship.

There are three categories: small, medium-sized businesses and "big companies" with an annual turnover in excess of 10 million euros. Roland CE belongs to the third category. It is with pride that we learned that Roland CE landed in a highly respectable 46th place! Considering that last year, we made 72nd place, it is safe to say that we are getting better at a dazzling pace! This award will receive a place of honor alongside the awards of previous years in our Oevel conference room.

New products, fresh from the Frankfurt Musikmesse

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:00:00 +0200

In the light of the Frankfurt Musikmesse, Roland Central Europe launches some new products. As of today they will be available on this website. The new products are:

To view all our new products, please click here.

Roland presents Roland Classic

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:00:00 +0200

Roland Central Europe launches Roland Classic, a website dedicated to the more classical Roland products. This website not only provides you with in-depth information on instruments such as the Roland C-30, the Rodgers 538, the Roland C-190 and the MX-200, but it also contains a substantial amount of video footage and pictures.

Be sure to take a look!

Roland to acquire major share of Cakewalk

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:00:00 +0200

Roland and Cakewalk Expand Business Cooperation in Music Production Products

Roland Corporation (Roland) is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement to acquire a major share of Twelve Tone Systems, Inc. (Cakewalk) - the world's leading developer of powerful and easy-to-use products for music creation and recording under the brand-name of "Cakewalk".

Roland and Cakewalk have been partners since 1995, and have cooperated closely on numerous business projects and complimentary product lines.

In 2003, Roland augmented its strategic partnership with Cakewalk by becoming a minor shareholder in the corporation. As a part of that unique relationship, Roland gained exclusive worldwide sales distribution rights (with the exception of Cakewalk's USA home territory) for Cakewalk products.

Roland expanded its commitment to the Cakewalk product line even further when it began bundling Cakewalk software such as Sonar LE with a wide range of Roland/BOSS/EDIROL products. In recent years, the two companies co-developed and released innovative recording solutions, including the popular SONAR Power Studio.

Recently, Cakewalk adopted Roland's REAC technology(Roland Ethernet Audio Communication) to develop the SONAR REAC Recording System - which is capable of recording up to 40 channels of high quality audio directly input to a PC via an Ethernet port.

By the good combination of Roland's hardware technology and Cakewalk's software, Roland expects to speed up the development time, and to offer new value-added products in its development area of commercial-use audio and visual equipment, and computer music equipment. Accordingly, Roland has decided to increase its investment in Cakewalk by becoming its major shareholder.

New products for musician and professional audio products will be branded as "Cakewalk by Roland."