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"This is a system 100 model 101. A monophonic synth that can be used on its own or interfaced with a system 102. The sound and construction is from Roland's 'golden age' when they build synths with the highest quality components. The knobs and sliders have that silky smooth resistance where they feel like they should last 100 years. Subjective opinions: The sound quality could be described as 'pure' and 'powerful' its warm and clear at the same time, the osc sound is very rich and combined with its super fast envelope and wide range vca, proof that you don't need lots of osc to make a big sound. Percussion sounds are possible as well, if you set the env to 0 you can hear an audible click. great zaps and kick drums. The synth is pretty straight forward as a stand alone mono synth, but it still has a few tricks up its sleeve. for example you can patch the vco out into the filter and add a bit of filter fm, or alot to get ring-modulated type sounds with 1 osc. The filter apparently shares some of the design of tb-303, im not sure about this. I can say that it is quite squelchy but still 'vintage sounding' maybe similar to an ems synth for example, in other words, great! There are some high quality audio examples here"
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