Roland ARX-01 SuperNATURAL Drums Expansion Board

Description of the Roland ARX-01 SuperNATURAL Drums Expansion Board

The ARX series Expansion Board is powered by Roland’s proprietary SuperNATURAL sound technology for organic, emotional expression. Optimized effects and custom graphic interfaces are exclusive to the ARX series. The ARX allows you to create unique instruments with the highest-quality sounds and organic control.

The ARX-01 Drums Expansion Board is a music-production dream. Thanks to its SuperNATURAL voice engine, you have complete control of the elements of each drum, such as shell depth and muffling. Once each drum is crafted the way you want, you can further refine it with the built-in compressor/EQ, reverb, powerful multieffects, and an onboard mixer for adjusting the volume and pan position.

Key Features of the Roland ARX-01 SuperNATURAL Drums Expansion Board

More than just new sounds, you can create dream kits from the ground up. With 24-channel mixing for complete control

• ARX-01 lets you tune each of the elements of the kit, and specify shell depth and cymbal size, and muffling amount. And, just as if you were recording, you can change the mic position. The graphic icons make editing fast and easy.
• Just like being in a recording studio, the built-in 24-channel mixer provides detailed control over volume, panning, EQ, and pro-quality effects, including compression and reverb.
• In addition to a full range of acoustic drum sounds, ARX01 offers a complete set of percussion sounds. There are even legendary electronic drum sounds onboard derived from the TR-808 and 909, plus other electronic percussion instruments of yesteryear.

Extended Description of the Roland ARX-01 SuperNATURAL Drums Expansion Board

Build realistic instruments using the graphical customization screen

Every element of the drum kit can be customized with the graphic-editing screen. It's as if you're actually tuning each drum. For example, if you can change the shell depth, the form of the drum displayed on the screen also changes, as does the sound.

Full preset installation

A complete range of preset drum kits is included. After selecting a kit that matches the type of song you're composing, you can perform detailed edits to the kit, if desired, and transform it into something truly original.

Pro-studio mixing

Get the same pro-studio sound and control as with multi-mic drum recording. The built-in 24-channel mixer capability lets you assign an element to each channel. As well as independently adjusting volume and pan, you can separately apply compression and equalization to each channel. Multi-effects and reverb you apply can also be mixed and manipulated.