Roland System 700

A Roland System 700, blocks 1 and 3, in a store

The Roland System 700 was a professional modular synthesizer for electronic music manufactured by the Roland Corporation and released in 1976 and was followed by the Roland System-100M in 1978.

Modules

The System 700 range included the following modules:

• 701A – Keyboard controller
• 702A – VCO-1
• 702B – VCO-2
• 702C – VCO-3
• 703A – VCF-1
• 703B – VCF-2
• 704A – VCA-1
• 704B – VCA-2
• 705A – Dual envelope generator
• 706A – LFO-1
• 706B – LFO-2
• 707A – Amplifier / envelope follower / integrator
• 708A – Noise generator
• 709A – Sample and hold
• 710A – Multiple jacks
• 711A – Reverberator / panning / standard oscillator / phase shifter
• 712A – Monitor / external keyboard controller / voltage processor / keyboard CV output / gate output
• 714A – Interface
• 716A – Mixer
• 717A – Analog sequencer

Blocks

The following blocks were offered, as suggested combinations of modules:

• Block 1: The main console – 702A, 702B, 702C, 708A, 703A, 703B, 704A, 704B, 711A; 712A, 705A, 706B, 709A, 707A, 705A, 716A, 710A, 718A
• Block 2: Keyboard controller – 701A
• Block 3: Analog sequencer – 717A
• Block 4: VCO bank – 3x 702D, 3x 702E; 716A, 710A, 706B, 709B, 705A
• Block 5: VCF / VCA bank – 2x 703C, 3x 704C; 713A, 2x 705A, 710A
• Block 6: Interface / mixer – 714A, 704C, 715A
• Block 7: Phase shifter / audio delay – 710B, 723A, 720B, 721A

Documentation

• 101 – Synthesizer instruction manual
• 101 – Synthesizer patch book
• 102 – Expander unit instruction manual
• 102 – Expander unit patch book
• 103 – Audio mixer instruction manual
• 104 – Sequencer instruction manual