I'm currently finishing up the new rev of theRoland, a place where I can share (and make available for download) music written, recorded, and produced by my one-man iband (which is to say, me...  Roland Paquette).   The name may sound a bit presumtuous, but the intent was to describe the many flavors of music I like to make, has a sort of 'group' feel, not to mention it is relatively short (9 characters - less to type) and it was available...

This site is host to my music. It's available for listening via streaming flash widgets, and download via paypal (The Rest Is Future is also available through Amazon, iTunes, LastFM, Rhapsody and more).

I've been recording since around 1999, when I had the good fortune, and perhaps keen insight, to get set up with Cakewalk ProAudio9, and a Yamaha SW1000XG sound card for my Sony Digital Studio desktop computer. The Yamaha card has the EMU wavetable sound bank and 6 24bit digital stereo channels (that record to hard disk as .wav). I also installed a SoundBlaster digital audio card (primarily for monitor whilst recording) for a total of 8 stereo tracks that could playback concurrently - that let me get the sound pretty clean - if that was the intent, or get that right tone out of my blue strat - accurately.  It proved a potent combination (though I didn't know it at the time - I was very lucky I didn't have issues with latency that so many struggle with) and gave me the tools I needed to learn and grow as a songwriter and musician.  

Speaking of the site itself, it's a mix of MySQL database, Flash automation, mp* audio, and the CakePHP framework, all playing nice...   Best viewed at 1280 x 1024 resolution in FireFox.

and so, on to writing some more songs...   : )( :