MATRIXSYNTH: Roland SH-1000


Monday, May 19, 2008

Roland SH-1000

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"The SH-1000 was Roland's first instrument, and probably one of the first Japanese compact affordable keyboard synthesizers. It has been used by Vangelis, Human League and Jethro Tull. it's also a classic piece of Roland's history Roland's first synthesizer was Japan's first synthesizer, predating the Korg 700 by a handful of weeks. It was a strange instrument, offering 10 preset tones to which you could add vibrato, growl and portamento. Alternatively, you could select any combination of eight waveform/footage options ranging from a 32' sawtooth to a 2' square wave, plus noise, and shape sounds using the envelope generator, some preset envelope shapes, a self-oscillating resonant filter, and modulation. yet it produced decent bass and lead sounds that many professional musicians sought after. Although it has limited capabilities, with 10 simple preset voices, the SH-1000 can be manually tweaked around to create new interesting sounds."

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