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Apr 2, 2017 · Ikutaro Kakehashi, founder of Roland Corporation and driving personality behind many of the instruments, technical developments and devices that helped shape the modern electronic music ecosystem ...
Ikutaro Kakehashi. Ikutaro Kakehashi (梯 郁太郎, Kakehashi Ikutarō, 7 February 1930 – 1 April 2017), also known by the nickname Taro, [1] was a Japanese engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. He founded the musical instrument manufacturers Ace Tone, Roland Corporation, and Boss Corporation, and the audiovisual electronics company ATV ...
Apr 5, 2017 · The first two instruments featuring MIDI were the Prophet 600 produced by Smith’s own Sequential Circuits in late 1982 and Roland’s Jupiter 6 in early 1983. Compromised MIDI implementation would appear on the Yamaha DX7 later in 1983.
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Jul 28, 2015 · When Ikutaro Kakehashi, founder of Roland, started his first venture into musical instruments, it was indebted to his love for time. In 1932, at the age of two, Ikutaro lost both of his parents to tuberculosis. As a young boy he had to make a living fixing Kairyu submarines in Hitachi-run Japanese military shipyards.
Mar 14, 2017 · Ikutaro Kakehashi is a dreamer, who has been making products for musicians for 57 years. He founded Roland Corporation in 1972. The number of products and technological innovations from Roland during his watch is absolutely mind boggling. He has touched just about every category of music product, from keyboards, to guitar synthesizers, to drums ...
Jun 23, 2017 · As someone with no formal musical training, Kakehashi was intent on making musical instruments for those like himself. He built his first machine at the age of 28, a small monophonic organ that any non-musician could use. This principle of accessibility later became instrumental to the sprawling success of Roland.
Jun 26, 2017 · Kakehashi developed a precursor to MIDI for some of Roland’s instruments. He was the first to propose a universal communications protocol for electronic music, which was not in the mainstream until MIDI launched in 1982.
