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Anyone used this baby (Roland SH-201)
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ultraviolence
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Posted : Jan 24, 2008 23:43
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Suloo
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Posted : Jan 24, 2008 23:59
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On 2008-01-24 23:43, ultraviolence wrote:
http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.aspx?ObjectId=769&ParentId=83
i have someone offering to sell me theirs, never tried using it, was wondering if any of you guys have any experience with it? Good, bad things about it?
I want it to make dark twisted stuff, so lots of twisted sounds is what i'm looking for  e.g. Acid Goblins, Psykovsky, Noise Gust etc
Thank you
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i think its very nice..i know somebody who got one..it has a plugin as well..for additional tweaking..and something like this air fx where you are able to mangle the sound with your hand moving over it..very nice for live i think..and sounds good to me..
would go for it if i had the money..
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ultraviolence
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Posted : Jan 25, 2008 02:35
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Sounds good thanks for the reply, anyone else? |
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psyaudionamics
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Posted : Jan 25, 2008 02:59
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get the sh101 call me retro or watnot but i just think the
101 was more of an synth... id get it even if it doesnt have midi u can get a midi to cv converter look into it
my 2 centavos...
i have it and havent looked back hmm hmmm analog heaven gotts ta love it |
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Posted : Jan 25, 2008 04:47
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I don't like it at all. It is kind of junk for people who want 'the analog sound'. Actually, so was the SH-101
You will be disappointed in the end because after about 6 months, one day you will be playing and you realize 'everything sounds the same...like Roland'. Actually this is a problem with every synth (sorry), but it always seems to happen me faster with Roland than other brands.
The D-beam things looks so fantastic until you get one...later you realize it does not really give you much control. It would be better if you could calibrate it to just work over a certain range, but you can get the same effect by drinking too much coffee and turning the knobs I had a Roland unit with it before but I got frustrated with it as a performance tool. It's actually more interesting for very slow abstract music where you can move very gently, but I think we know that this kind of music is usually for art snobs who hate dancing. For psy-trance you can't get any sort of useful control at 140 BPM.
If you like the Roland sounds, maybe you are better to look for a used Juno-G keyboard. It is not so analog-feeling as the SH (eg no FM) but you can get many interesting sounds and also sample with it, which opens up many possibilities. It has the d-beam to (zzzzz) BUT it also has a large screen...and this means you have the chance to program the arpeggiator. And it's a good arpeggiator, can be polyphonic rather than monophonic. Many of those patterns are on the SH but I don't think you can program them on that machine. Lucky for us, Roland put a lot of Goa-style arpeggiator patterns on there and with the Juno-G you can see the notes and study them.
Also you'll get a bigger keyboard, a MIDI sequencer, and 4 tracks of audio racording inside the keyboard. It's basically a Fantom without the drum pads and weighted keys. Even though I am not a big fan of the Roland Sound or workstations in general, I think it's a very good keyboard and I would not mind owning one.
For the same money as the new SH-101, maybe you can find a used Waldorf XT or XTK - this synth is a real monster, and easy to use with lots of knobs. Or you could try a used Korg MS2000 - also a digital copy of an analog synth, but I think a more interesting one than the SH-201. And it has a step sequencer, always nice. |
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Posted : Jan 25, 2008 12:10
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