Roland A-01

A controller is a central part of a music production setup, but choosing the right controller unit is often not easy. Do you need a device that can control both MIDI instruments and analog devices with CV/GATE connectors? You need a connection to the multitude of music apps for tablets and smartphones? And you would like to work on your projects on the road?

The Roland A-01 fulfils all the above-mentioned requirements - be it for warming up in the backstage area before a concert, for controlling all the devices of an extensive home studio setup, or for spontaneous composing and producing on the go.

Features Roland A-01

• General MIDI controller
• Compact size for mobile use
• Velocity sensitive keyboard
• High-grade feel with metalcase
• Assignable controller (R-knob and Ribbon sensor)
• Wireless MIDI using Bluetooth LE
• CV/GATE Output for external analog synthesizer
• Simple CV/Gate/MIDI sequencer
• Step sequencer: last step, shuffle, step order (normal, evenodd, odd, even, O -> E, E -> O, random) Gate, (note length) cutoff per step, resonance per step
• Selectable MIDI channels for CV/Gate conversion
• C1 ribbon: scale play (chromatic, major, natural minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor, bluenote, bluenote1, dorian, mixolydian, wholetone, diminished, altered, hungarian minor, insenpo, ryukyu, persian)
• Waveform display: waveform displayed in real time and can be zoomed to large size
• Monophonic synthesizer powered by 8bit CPU
• Battery operation (AA x 4)
• Mini speaker (0.5W x 1)
• Cool 192x40 Graphic LCD including waveform display
• Dimensions: 308 x 209 x 44 mm
• Weight: 700 g