"This is a Roland SH-5 Classic Analog Synthesizer in Excellent condition. It plays perfectly, looks hardly played and sounds fantastic. No issues. All knobs & sliders work perfectly, keys are straight & have a nice even feel to them. This is regarded as one of the best Mono-synths ever because of the sound of the early Roland filters & all the routing features."
"A little dub-ish strange jam with most of the chocolates in the box.
Elektron Analog Four is doing drums, piano and acid brassy leads
Roland TB-3 is doing what it does best
Korg Electribe 2 is doing the beep boop ostinato, lead and dub stab
Boomstar 4075 is providing low end theory for the acid brassy lead
Moog Animoog is doing those high delay notes
Genome MIDI is controlling Moog Animoog"
"This converts trigger hits or audio signals into clock pulses. The clock output works with devices that accept a 5V pulse. For example using this with a sequencer results in the sequencer taking one step per hit. This can interface simply with drum machines or DAWs by simply panning a click track out to one side and sending that to the Clock Trigger and panning the rest of your sounds to the other side.
With control over trigger input sensitivity you can tune it to work with various piezo input methods and a pulse length control lets you filter out phantom hits that would otherwise result in multiple unwanted clock pulses.
Turning the pulse length all the way up activates a second mode that lets you use trigger hits to turn on and off a 5V signal. This can be used with the CV input of devices like the Maximal Drone to work as a trigger controlled on/off.
The trigger input is 1/4″ and the clock output is 1/8″. There is an LED to indicate power as well as a 2nd LED that gives a visual representation of the clock output. It is powered by an included internal 9-volt battery or any 9V Center-Negative DC adapter. Connecting a power supply will automatically disconnect and reserve the battery. This was designed and hand-built in Oakland, California.
Shipping to the US is a flat $10, everywhere else is $18 for the first item and $6 for each additional item. All packages will ship by the next day."
"Being largely a collection of some sounds on the ace little Roland Boutique JP08 I programmed in the car on a motorway, demoed through a touch of Valhalla Vintageverb. Thoughts on it below:
I think it's ace. The sliders have a tiny throw - they're 10mm. That's not much, but personally speaking, they're not at all 'unusable' either, as some commenters have pre-judged it to be before it was even in shops. Unusable means the machine is just that, and it just isn't. If you feel like complaining about it, you can go ahead and make your own better version. Sure, it can be tricky to absolutely nail a setting in certain circumstances, and for live performance it might not be ideal, but for a studio (or car) setting I had no problem whatsoever programming it. I suggest you reserve judgement till you've actually tried it in person, if you haven't.
In terms of sound I don't have a Jupiter 8 to compare it to, if you want to know if it's like half of a real Jupiter 8. There's a slight feeling of over-perfection to its sound, pitch stability, in that the original will never really be absolutely in tune, and that absolutely impacts the sound, but all I can assure you is that this is a genuinely impressive sounding thing, and frankly is more than 'close enough'. If there was anything I'd like it'd be a 'stability' setting to make it a bit wonkier. Anyway I think you'd probably struggle to pick it out from the real thing in a double blind, and anyway all that really matters is it's an inspiring sounding voice, very flexible, and to have all that flexibility in a box that's so tiny you literally can shove it in a carry bag and take it on holiday along with your laptop...that's cool. That's really cool.
Roland are to be congratulated for bringing this back in any form frankly, and here's crossing fingers for more ace Jupiter 8 inspired gear to come."
