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The Roland DJ-70 is a 16-bit linear A/D Conversion & 20-bit linear D/A Conversion[1] sampling[2] workstation and was released in 1992 by Roland Italy.

Roland DJ-70MKII

The Roland DJ-70MKII was released in 1996 by Roland Italy. It had 37 keys,[3] 8 Play Pads (Pitchbender Joystick and featured the first ever for DJ's a Special Scratch Dial/Scratch Pad), 24 Voice Note Polyphony,[4] 8 Track music sequencer, with RPS/BPM Function and featured a 3.5"in. floppy disk drive (2DD/2HD),[5] "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.

Sample Rate

Up to 32 samples can be recorded. The Sampling Frequency Rates can be used are 16-bit 22.05 kHz or 44.1 kHz.[6] Roland DJ-70 & Roland DJ-70MKII both can read on 3.5" floppy disk drive (2DD/2HD) file from Roland S-50 Sampling Keyboard, Roland W-30 Sampling Keyboard, Roland S330/S550/SP-700/S770/S750/S760 rack mount sampler (Using CONVERT LOAD feature). AKAI S1000/1100 sounds via 'SCSI port (Roland DJ-70MKII only)'.

Roland DJ-70:

• Memory 2MB [Sample Time: 22.5 sec.(44.1 kHz) Stereo. 45 sec.(22.05 kHz) Mono.]

• Memory 4MB [Sample Time: 45.3 sec.(44.1 kHz) Stereo. 90 sec.(22.05 kHz) Mono.]

Roland DJ-70MKII:

• Memory 2MB [Sample Time: 22.5 sec.(44.1 kHz) Stereo. 45 sec.(22.05 kHz) Mono.]

• Memory 32MB [Sample Time: 6 min.(44.1 kHz) Stereo. 12 min.(22.05 kHz) Mono.]

Both Roland DJ-70 & Roland DJ-70MKII use RAM Memory type, there are two slot available. Type used are (30-pin for MKI) 72-pin SIMMs Memories.

Display

Main panel features a 64 x 240 pixels backlit display[7] LCD screen.

Notable users

References

  1. ^ "Roland DJ-70". www.polynominal.com. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  2. ^ "Roland DJ-70 MkII". Audiofanzine (in French). Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  3. ^ SynthArk, Designed by www.1234.info / Modified. "DJ-70MKII". www.synthark.org. Retrieved 2018-09-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ SynthArk, Designed by www.1234.info / Modified. "DJ-70". www.synthark.org. Retrieved 2018-06-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Roland DJ-70 Technical Specifications - SweetCare". SweetCare. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  6. ^ "Roland DJ-70". www.polynominal.com. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
  7. ^ "Roland DJ-70". www.polynominal.com. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
  8. ^ "ROLAND DJ-70". www.jarrography.free.fr. Retrieved 2018-06-06.

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