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Roland System 100

The Roland System 100 was an analog semi-modular synthesizer manufactured by Japan's Roland Corporation, released in 1975 and manufactured until 1979. It consisted of the following products:

Notable users
The system was notably used by Mute Records label head Daniel Miller, who helped produce Depeche Mode's A Broken Frame; and by The Human League (MK1 incarnation). Specifically, the albums Reproduction and Travelogue used a large System 100 (1 x 101, 2 x 102, 2 x 104, 1 x 103) multitracked to provide nearly all the arrangements, including drums and percussion. The K2 Plan (Shekhar Raj Dhain) used it extensively in a similar vein, multitracked and with the sequencer providing odd syncopations and effects. Joy Electric's The White Songbook album (2001) was created by using a System 100 exclusively. Another notable user was Martyn Ware, a founding member of The Human League and Heaven 17. In his 2020 interview with Vince Clarke for the podcast "Electronically Yours with Martyn Ware", Ware revealed that Clarke had sent Ware a complete System 100 as a gift, to replace the system Ware had previously owned in the 1980s but had subsequently sold. ==Notes==
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