Roland R8 (Years unknown)

Surviving information on the Roland R8 is effectively nothing right now. The archive's fact sheet for the model came back empty - no identity details, no specifications, no production years, no original price, no design or history notes. The catalog listing files it under "synth," and that is the only firm statement the page can make. Guesses would only pad it out.

The one useful item in the period material is a caution for anyone searching. The "R8" hits in the Sound on Sound classifieds are not this instrument. They are the Fostex R8, a Fostex machine, not a Roland one (Sound on Sound, April 1996, p.208, listed at £1,000 with loom and manuals; January 1995, p.186, at £950 with remote extension cable). No editorial review of the Roland R8 appears in the corpus at all.

If you own an R8, have its manual, or remember a magazine review, the feedback link is the way to get this page filled in. Until then, this is a placeholder.