Roland has finally put “Mr. K” out to pasture with several executive moves in an effort to right the lilting ship that is now Roland. Mr. Ikutaro Kakehashi is resigning from his current roles as Chairman and Director of Roland Corporation U.S. and will be succeeded by Dennis Houlihan, formally the President and CEO, who has been with the company...

It appears that the Monotron and Electribe Part Deux initiatives are part of some rogue, drug-cartel-funded, black ops unit operating inside of Korg that has somehow put the whammy on the company’s upper management in order to push through these boneheaded products, since the Japanese concern has also debuted the MicroStation. While we are not applauding...

Updated: Additional picture of back of unit Allen & Heath has announced two new products, a new club installation product, the Xone:PB patchbay, and the XD-40 monitoring headphones. The Xone:PB patchbay is a 1U rack size, passive interface box, designed to simplify the task of connecting encoded vinyl replay systems to installed mixers without the need to...

We were hoping that the Electribe refresh was just a momentary excursion for the Japanese company into horrors of Crack addiction, but then we saw the Monotron. Looking more like it should be included in a cereal box instead of on the MusikMesse floor, The Monotron is a matchbook synthesizer that will make a great gift for your music-inclined hamster. Powered...