Welcome to Roland Cloud Academy, an online learning platform providing free training courses for registered owners of Roland DJ controllers, TR-8S Rhythm Performer, and MC-101 + MC-707 GROOVEBOXES. In a series of live group video sessions, Roland’s top product specialists will guide you step-by-step through various product features and provide tips for studio creation, stage performance, and event production. With the benefit of Cloud Academy’s interactive online platform, instructors provide real-time responses to your questions submitted via live chat, voice, or webcam.

Before signing up for Cloud Academy sessions, you will first need to register a qualifying product.

Register Your Product

Once completed, you can sign up for any course offerings for your registered products. Roland Cloud Academy currently offers 11 separate courses coded with the acronym “CASA” (Cloud Academy – Synth & AIRA), with sessions scheduled across a variety of time zones. Currently, these are taught in English with additional TR-8S, MC-101, and MC-707 sessions offered in Spanish or German. Our course offerings are as follows:



[CASA1] DJ-202 – Introductory Course

[CASA2] DJ-505/DJ-808 – Introductory Course

[CASA3] DJ-505/DJ-808 – Intermediate Course

[CASA4] DJ-808 – Advanced Course

[CASA5] DJ-707M – Introductory Course

[CASA6] DJ-707M – Advanced Course

[CASA7] TR-8S – Introductory Course

[CASA8] TR-8S – Advanced Course

[CASA9] MC-101 – Introductory Course

[CASA10] MC-707 – Introductory Course

[CASA11] MC-707 – Advanced Course

[CASA12] FANTOM – Introductory Course

[CASA13] FANTOM – Intermediate Course Course

[CASA14] FANTOM – Advanced Course

You can RSVP to one or more Cloud Academy training sessions on the schedule below. Please be advised, sessions are provided on a first-come, first-served basis and may be unavailable for sign up if they have reached capacity.

DJ-202 [CASA1] DJ-202 – Introductory Course

Duration: 120 Minutes Topics covered:

Serato DJ Lite vs. Serato DJ Pro, Analyzing Tracks / Setting Beatgrids, Cue Points, Looping, FX, TR Drum Machine, Sampler, Sequencer, Sync, Loop Roll, Beat Jump, Slicer, Pitch ‘N Time, MIDI Output, Recording. Next sessions: No trainings currently posted.

DJ-808 [CASA4] DJ-808 – Advanced Course

Duration: 90 Minutes Topics covered:

Pitch ‘N Time (Advanced), Vocal Transformer (VT), MIDI Mapping, AIRA Link, Sampler (Advanced), 4 Deck Mixing, Advanced Production / Performance Techniques (Ableton Link), Advanced System Settings and Modifications. Next sessions: No trainings currently posted.

MC-101 [CASA9] MC-101 – Introductory Course

Duration: 120 Minutes Topics covered:

Hardware and Sound Library Overview, Creating Projects / Tracks, Track Types, Tempo Adjustment, Importing Samples, Sequencing Notes, Sequencing Drums, Clips, Scenes, Control Knobs, Motion Recording, Last Step, Editing Tones and Drums, Effects, Sampling / Resampling, Scatter Effects, Saving Projects, System Settings. Next sessions: CASA9 EN MC-101 – Introductory Course (English) Roland MC-101 – Introductory Course, Duration: 120 Minutes



Topics covered:

Hardware and Sound Library Overview, Creating Projects / Tracks, Track Types, Tempo Adjustment, Importing Samples, Sequencing Notes, Sequencing Drums, Clips, Scenes, Contr...

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