Roland Sh 201 Review
The original sh 101 was produced between 1982 and 1986.
Roland sh 201 review. The d beam is a really cool feature and you can set different filters to that also. Simply the sh 201 is a blast to play. When the sh201 editor installs it installs as two versions. The stand alone one activated by manually starting the program from your computer and the vst instrument one a separate dll file.
This synth will give the player lush sounding oberheim pads and strings moog leads jupiter 8 basses and korg sound effects. Look at where these two toys now. It has 8 waveforms to choose from on each oscilator osc it has everything that an analogue synth would need in my opinion. Think michael jackson s thriller album.
As mentioned at the beginning of this review the sh201 is the first roland hardware synth to offer vsti integration. To each his own i guess. Roland has resurrected their sh series of synthesizers with the sh 201 an analog modeling synthesizer that s both fun and easy to use with plenty of features and cool sounds at a great price. As for the toyish sh 201 i love it.
The sh 201 has the look of a classic roland synth. While it s controls and interface are analog style based on these older analog models the 201 is a 10 voice polyphonic as opposed to it s monophonic predecessors. Many would simply describe it as toyish the roland tb 303 and the casio cz 101 were considered as toys back when they were first introduced. Yes the sh 201 is digital but this baby sounds more analog than some analog synths.
In many ways the sh 201 is a hit and miss classic. For synth pros the sh 201 will remind them of why they fell in love with synthesizers in the first place. Some 50 000 of the fellas rolled off roland s conveyor belts in a range of three colours. Overview the roland sh 201 was roland s revamping of their legendary sh series in the form of a 2000 s analog modeling synthesizer.
This roland sh 201 is a 49 key synthesiser with 2 oscilaters. The sh 201 is actually a spinoff of roland s 1999 jp8000 but perhaps in a more affordable form.