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Roland | SH-101

Description

The SH-101 is very cool, especially for techno, drum&bass and ACID! It's a monophonic bass synthesizer. Its sound lies somewhere between the TB-303 and a Juno bass sound. It has a lot of simple but cool features. You can control the VCF, pitch, LFO or all from the pitch bender. It has a white noise generator, arpeggiator with up, down and up/down patterns and a simple real-time sequencer. The LFO offers random, sine, square or noise waveforms. And normal or auto portamento effects give you that elastic bass sound. There are external clock inputs for the sequencer and arpeggiator, CV/GATE inputs and outputs and a CV hold pedal.

Unfortunately there is no patch memory storage and although it has no MIDI there are upgrades available for it from many analog service companies that will allow you to incorporate it into any MIDI studio environment. It can also be controlled by MIDI using a CV/MIDI converter. It's great for bass sounds or bubbly analog effects. They come in three different flavors - gray, blue or red (there was a rumor about 2 rare white version, but that was a grey one and customized by Jeff Toman of custom synth in the UK.)! It can also be strapped on like a guitar for live performance using the optional Hand Grip.

 

BrandRoland
ModelSH-101
DeviceSynth
TypeKeys
Engine TypeAnalog
EngineVCO
Voices (max)1
Sub1
LFOtriangle, square, random and noise waveforms
NoiseY
Engine Detailed1 VCO (independent levels for saw, square/pulse/pwm and sub-oscillator)
Filter (VCF)resonant, self-oscillating LPF, mod by EG, lfo and kybd tracking
Envelope (VCA)ADSR, mod by EG or gate
SequencerDigital sequencer up to 100 steps record/playback
Arpeggiatorup, down, up/down
Keys32
Key typeKeys
VelocityN
AftertouchN
CV-gateCV/Gate
Extra infoOptional grip to make it a Keytar
Produced:1983 - 1983
Legend: Obvious Y: Yes, N: No, N/A: Not Applicable
VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator DCO Digital Controlled Oscillator
LFO Low Frequency Oscillator Sub Sub Oscillator
VCF Voltage Controlled Filter VCA Voltage Controlled Amplifier
Velocity As with a piano, the harder you hit a key, the louder the sound, unlike most organs which always produce the same loudness no matter how hard you hit a key. Aftertouch Pressing a key after you activated it. Channel Aftertouch, no matter which key, it will send a Channel message. Poly Aftertouch, sends the pressure per key instead of the whole channel.
Values for OSC, LFO, Filter, Envelope are per voice unless stated otherwise.

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