Roland ZENOLOGY Pro brings the legendary ZEN-Core Synthesis System directly to your digital audio workstation, offering a massive sonic playground for modern music production. This advanced software synthesizer bridges the gap between hardware and software, allowing you to create complex, evolving tones that integrate perfectly with Roland's flagship instruments. Whether you are crafting vintage textures or futuristic soundscapes, ZENOLOGY provides an authentic and expansive palette that defines the sound of electronic music.
Key Features
- ZEN-Core Synthesis Engine: Harnesses the same powerful engine found in FANTOM and JUPITER-X hardware, giving you access to thousands of classic and modern tones with deep editing capabilities.
- Comprehensive Oscillator Section: Features four oscillators per tone with nine virtual analog waveforms, Supersaw, noise, and PCM sync, plus over 1840 PCM waveforms expandable to more than 7000.
- Advanced Modulation Matrix: Offers extensive sound shaping with 10 distinct filter types, including iconic JUPITER models, and 11 LFO shapes that include tempo-synced step LFOs with 37 curves per step.
- Model Expansions: Transforms the plugin into entirely different vintage instruments like the JUNO-106, JUPITER-8, SH-101, and JD-800, complete with their original sonic character and interface.
- Hardware Integration: Enables seamless import and export of sounds between the plugin and compatible ZEN-Core hardware, ensuring your studio patches are ready for the stage without reprogramming.
- Massive Effects Library: Includes over 90 premium effects ranging from pristine reverbs and delays to the legendary JUNO-106 chorus and SDD-320 Dimension D.
Use Cases
Electronic music producers and professional sound designers will find ZENOLOGY Pro indispensable for building track-ready sounds that cut through a mix. It is particularly effective for hybrid workflow users who want to design patches in a studio environment on Windows 10 or Windows 11 and transfer them directly to hardware synthesizers for live performance.
With its unrivaled library of genre-defining sounds and the ability to morph between vintage analog modeling and modern PCM synthesis, ZENOLOGY stands out as a definitive tool for serious creators.
Version Latest — 2025
- New Feature: Added the ability to set the Wave Generator LFO depth specifically to "octave" within the JD-800 model expansion.
- Improvement: Expanded the switch modes for Envelope 1 time keyfollow on the JUPITER-8 model for more precise sound design control.
- Performance: Optimized performance on Apple Silicon Macs to eliminate CPU spiking that occurred in certain usage scenarios.
- Fix: Resolved a crash that occurred when saving a project if a referenced ZENOLOGY Wave Expansion was missing.
- Fix: Corrected an issue where VST3 MIDI polyphonic aftertouch messages were being ignored by the plugin.
- Fix: Fixed a bug in Studio One where the plugin window could not be reopened after being closed.
- Fix: Addressed a visual glitch where the retrigger button polarity was displayed in reverse on the main window.
- Fix: Resolved various UI inconsistencies, including ADSR envelope indicators on JUPITER-8/JUNO-106/JX-8P/SH-101 models.
