U-110

TheRoland U-110is aROMplersynthesizer module that was produced byRoland Corporationin 1988. The predecessor of the more successfulU-20keyboard and U-220 module, the U-110 was Roland's first dedicated sample playback synth. It usedROMto store sounds rather than loading them from disks intoRAM, hence it was not a truesampleras it could not sample sounds.

Overview

The Roland U-110, released in 1988, was Roland's first PCM sound module. This 1U rackmount unit offered 31 voices of polyphony with ROM-based sounds. The U-110 established Roland's PCM sound module line that would dominate the 1990s.