DJ 70

The Roland DJ-70 is a 16-bit linear A/D Conversion & 20-bit linear D/A Conversion sampling workstation and was released in 1992 by Roland Italy. The Roland DJ-70MKII was released in 1996 by Roland Italy. It had 37 keys, 8 Play Pads (Pitchbender Joystick and featured the first ever for DJ's a Special Scratch Dial/Scratch Pad), 24 Voice Note Polyphony, 8 Track music sequencer, with RPS/BPM Function and featured a 3.5" in. floppy disk drive (2DD/2HD), "Load-While-Play" feature, SCSI port only on Roland DJ-70MKII. It also had a large backlit LCD screen. The Roland DJ-70MKII with its more powerful features then the Roland DJ-70, was essentially a Roland S-760 rack mount sampler with a keyboard.