Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about technology, business, the internet and real life. It was one of the most successful failures in tech history.

In the late seventies, Roland took the sonic palette available to keyboard players and opened it up to guitarists, with the introduction on the GR-500. It was quite simply a marvel, but is positively ...

NAMM 2015: It broke cover in a fuzzy sneak peek earlier this month and now - as everyone expected - the Roland JD-Xi is real and appearing live at the NAMM show. Borrowing some styling from Roland's ...