Rodgers digital technology -
a musician's perspective
Acclaimed organist Wayne Marshall explains why Rodgers digital technology leads the world. Click the links below for Wayne's video introduction to Rodgers' digital technology.
An introduction to Rodgers digital technology
 
Capturing and recreating the authentic pipe sound
 
Inconsistency - the essence of natural sound
 
 
digital technology
     
  Rodgers innovative organ building began with our introduction of the world's first all-transistor church organ in 1958. Among Rodgers' hundreds of major organ building firsts are the first transistorised organ amplifiers, first microprocessor church organs, first MIDI church organs, the first Digital Signal Processing (DSP) in church organs and the only stereo sampling used in church organs.

Since 1988, Rodgers has been part of the Roland Group headed by Roland Corporation, the world's expert in digital music technologies. Roland provides Rodgers with financial and technological resources far beyond other organ builders.

Even with all our technological innovation, Rodgers has never let technology become an end in itself. The goal of all Rodgers innovative technology first and foremost is to create music. While some competitors work hard to get customers' attention away from an organ's musical qualities and focused instead on details and features that actually provide little musical benefit, Rodgers emphasises music.

At Rodgers, we believe that for an organ technology to be truly cutting-edge, it must serve to make the instrument more musical. Rodgers is the only major organ builder producing true stereo sound. But what does this mean to you, the musician?
• each note of each stop has a unique place in the stereo sound image, helping recreate the warmth and clarity of real pipes
• reduced distortion, providing greater clarity regardless of the instrument's environment
• unique randomness with every key depression, the essence of natural pipe sound
• the true physical and audio recreation of the wealth of natural materials that contribute to the sound, richness and idiosyncrasies of a pipe organ
Rodgers harnesses technology to deliver the complete pipe organ experience.