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Roland SH-101

Analog Synth from Roland

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«  Easy to use, great sound »

Published on 07/08/11 at 05:07
It's a mono synth, fully analog, without memory, where each parameter is directly accessible on the front panel. There is no simple and convenient.

Features:
A single oscillator at first, but you can mix the waveforms, and it has a sub oscillator and a noise generator. There is a detachable and adjustable portamento.
A resonant low pass filter, which can easily grow in self-oscillation.
One envelope, which can act on the VCF and VCA.
An LFO can act on the VCO, the VCF and the VCA. You can also use the noise generator as a modulation source, giving very good results.

There is also an arpeggiator and a small built-in sequencer.

UTILIZATION

Editing sounds is straightforward, simple and enjoyable. The calibration parameters are perfect. Everything reacts exactly as expected.

The keyboard is small: 2 octaves 1 / 2, luckily the little switch octave leap is convenient and well placed. It is controllable CV / Gate, and then access to five octaves, it is easy to control via MIDI converter.

The bender meets great, we arrive at a game very expressive, especially since the keyboard is nervous and reacts to a quarter of the hair.

SOUNDS

The sound of the SH101 is alive, not fat, I love it. Nothing to get rid of the oscillators are fine, the filter is great, the dynamic envelope is super!

One can only regret the absence of possibly a second oscillator for added versatility. At the same time, we would lose a little simpler and it's also what makes it to the point with this synth.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for more than 10 years, I never get tired.
The three things I love about this synth:
- Sound
- Expressiveness
- Simplicity

It is very difficult to talk price with machines that are 30 years old, so I did not venture :-)