The Roland GO:KEYS 3 Minion is arriving this month. The keyboard is a bright yellow take on Roland’s entry-level GO:KEYS 3, and it costs $449.99. Roland first announced it in July and said it would ship in September 2026.
Roland built the keyboard with Universal Products & Experiences. It targets young players who are just starting out, although Roland also pitches it as a collectible for diehard Minions fans.
Playable Minions voices
The headline feature is the sound set. Dedicated buttons call up 32 voice variations of Bob, Kevin, and Stuart. You can then play those voices as pitched notes across all 61 keys. In other words, you can make the Minions sing a melody.
Roland’s own demo shows how that sounds. Here, the Minions take on Strauss’ Blue Danube:
As expected, the look matches the theme, too. The body is Minions yellow with blue trim, and Illumination created new illustrations for the front and rear panels.
A real GO:KEYS 3 underneath
Beyond the branding, however, this is a standard GO:KEYS 3. It runs Roland’s ZEN-Core engine with 1,186 tones, including the 32 Minions sounds. It also has touch-sensitive keys, over 200 accompaniment styles, and a chord sequencer. Kids can also add sounds and styles from Roland Cloud, and an optional Roland Cloud Connect adapter lets them download that content wirelessly.
Bluetooth lets kids stream songs from a phone and play along. Meanwhile, a center cancel function lowers the lead vocal so they can sing over it. The keyboard runs on AA batteries and has built-in stereo speakers, a metronome, and a recorder. In addition, it supports USB audio and MIDI for music apps. If yellow is too much, the standard GO:KEYS 3 offers the same core features in Turquoise, Dark Red, and Midnight Blue.
Roland has a long history in music gear, from the drum machine at the center of 808: The Movie to today’s beginner keyboards. For kids who want something even more portable, pocket devices like Teenage Engineering’s KO Sidekick offer another way in. Still, few starter keyboards come with a yellow chorus built in.
