Roland A-01K synthesizer/controller with keyboard

General

The Roland A-01K synthesizer/controller with keyboard is essentially the A-01 controller combined with the K-25m keyboard from the Boutique series. CV, gate-out, MIDI (in/out), USB MicroB (MIDI) and Bluetooth LE connectors expand your range of possibilities. CV/gate in particular is handy for operating modular systems. The A-01 is more than just a controller, however. It can also be used to generate sounds. While today's equipment uses plenty of memory and processing power, the A-01 keeps things simple. Its synth engine has an 8-bit CPU and just 8 kb of memory!

Possibilities

There's an oscillator, a filter, an envelope generator, an amplifer and an LFO at your disposal for making sounds. The oscillator has sawtooth, block, pulse and noise waveforms, while the LFO offers sine, triangle, sawtooth and random waveforms. For such a compact machine, the display is a good size that clearly shows the parameters that can be changed using the large rotary knobs below. The Eurorack series by Roland (the System 500) is ideal for use with the A-01K, as are other CV based products. Its compact dimensions make the A-01K perfect for mobile producers.