Digital, arriving in the mainstream in the mid 1980s was a huge sea-change which I will never regret. I'm very happy that people are enjoying the voices of the devices whose limitations led directly to the miraculous instruments of the present and future of electronic music. Having been constrained and frustrated by those limitations, I am not inclined towards nostalgia but you have made something beautiful here and that is the most important thing of all to keep in mind.
I think they're just very different types of instruments. For me there's really no need to pick one type over the other. Without any nostalgia involved I just think when it comes to analogue mono synths this one has a lot to offer.
The high-pitched sound that you are hearing on the 32’ sawtooth wave is the sound of 5 squarewaves being mixed together to create that waveform. The sh-1000 uses a binary digital counter chip to make 5 octaves worth of square waves. Those are then mixed together for sawtooth waves, compared against each other for the pulse waves, or just taken straight from the counter outputs for the different octaves of square waves.
no. that's not what's in it at all. the sh1000 topology is top-octave divide down using a normal VCO which lives in a shielding can, & then wave-shaping, which is either done by the switches on the front or by the preset matrix. you may be thinking of the sh2000 which uses a 555 timer IC as its main oscillator.
I forgot to mention the normal vco that drives the frequency divider, I’ve never seen the sh-2000 vco schematic, but I’ll have to check it out now that you mentioned it. Thanks for sharing your interesting knowledge.
my band got started with a borrowed sh1000 in 1979, & now we have one each & a couple of spares. the great under-rated monosynth of the 70s. japan's first proper synth. roland's first product. history. respect is due. etcetera. some mods on our first one- cut the wire inside that prevents the preset waveforms going through the filter & vca, so that you can process them further. (it's literally one wire behind the tabs). external audio input. cv/gate input.....
That final jam makes me feel like im lighting up a cigarette in a 70s japanese bar 👏
love that image!
Digital, arriving in the mainstream in the mid 1980s was a huge sea-change which I will never regret.
I'm very happy that people are enjoying the voices of the devices whose limitations led directly to the miraculous instruments of the present and future of electronic music. Having been constrained and frustrated by those limitations, I am not inclined towards nostalgia but you have made something beautiful here and that is the most important thing of all to keep in mind.
I think they're just very different types of instruments. For me there's really no need to pick one type over the other. Without any nostalgia involved I just think when it comes to analogue mono synths this one has a lot to offer.
The high-pitched sound that you are hearing on the 32’ sawtooth wave is the sound of 5 squarewaves being mixed together to create that waveform. The sh-1000 uses a binary digital counter chip to make 5 octaves worth of square waves. Those are then mixed together for sawtooth waves, compared against each other for the pulse waves, or just taken straight from the counter outputs for the different octaves of square waves.
no. that's not what's in it at all.
the sh1000 topology is top-octave divide down using a normal VCO which lives in a shielding can, & then wave-shaping, which is either done by the switches on the front or by the preset matrix.
you may be thinking of the sh2000 which uses a 555 timer IC as its main oscillator.
I forgot to mention the normal vco that drives the frequency divider, I’ve never seen the sh-2000 vco schematic, but I’ll have to check it out now that you mentioned it. Thanks for sharing your interesting knowledge.
Thanks for the insight. I was wondering at some point how the wave shape generation works.
my band got started with a borrowed sh1000 in 1979, & now we have one each & a couple of spares. the great under-rated monosynth of the 70s. japan's first proper synth. roland's first product.
history. respect is due. etcetera.
some mods on our first one- cut the wire inside that prevents the preset waveforms going through the filter & vca, so that you can process them further. (it's literally one wire behind the tabs). external audio input. cv/gate input.....
"one vco?"
"yeah."
"& TWO LFOs?"
"yeah. you'll see.... "
Mine has the same high pitch noise with the 32’ saw