Yea my friend used a SY85 heavily in the 90s for a bunch of his hit tunes. Think he used a lot of the basses pads and choir sounds on it, but sold it way back when.

SH-101 got here today yay :)

Keith...the JP8 is probably my all time favourite synth Ive ever used. It has wow factor in terms of sound and looks. To me....its the ultimate in poly synths.

Heres a slighty gay looking video using one of the first ever JP8's (at time of this gig...no more than 2 months old)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmW4ROSvEic

DS

Thankyou for your A6 response. Very interesting reading....thx for the time

DS

Missed this first time around...

So what are the initial impressions?

SH-101 is a nice little monosynth, really easy to program since theres not much too it, the filter is good. I currently need an official PS-120 power supply as the one I was temporarily using doesnt match up quite so well and throws it off tune badly. The attack envelope on the SH-101 is fantastic. Really punchy, you can make the best synthed analog bass drum sounds and the filter will squeal with the best of them. Very 303-ish without the accent and slide, but more versatile than the 303 IMO.

Running it through the mic preamp models (Neve, Avalon, Requisite, models etc.) via the Line inputs on the Line6 Toneport UX2 for my Stratocaster makes it sound really nice and not so plain. :) Just need to keep it in tune and get a CV->MIDI box. Same with the Juno-60 just DCB->MIDI on that.

A side note, I ran the Fender into the Andromeda since it can process external signals in two different modes. This is neat as you can run a mono signal in to voices 1-16 and trigger the external input polyphonically (this will work better once I get an EBow for long sustaining drone sounds while running a MIDI sequence on the Andy.) In this mode you get the oscillators and the external input in place of the Noise circuit, and the external signal goes through the filters and all that jazz.

In the second mode, you run a stereo (or dupe mono) through just voices 15 and 16, the rest of the voices and oscillators are knocked out and you just get the external signal processed by the envelopes/filters etc. in a 2 voice pseudo-monophonic mode or maybe more of a left&right monophonic unison mode which is really fun.

Came up with some really mind bending sounds that way by doing some funky thing weaving a pick through 3 strings and plucking at the pick. Made the strings vibrate in a really odd manner through the pick and got some strange V-Synthy sounds (for lack of a better word.) Too much fun but really makes you wish you didn't have only 2 hands :)

My SH101 arrives tomorow :lol:

Original Roland carry bag, manual and mod grip included

WOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

How much did you end up paying if you don't mind me asking.

If the FX on the A6 are crap - stick it through a TC fireworx - can sometimes pick them up cheap s/h.

I got real lucky a few times recently and managed to get a D-Two, M-One XL and a Triple C v.cheap as well - so all fource of them are now on separate sends as well as digitally interlinked as a monster modular fx box :)

Got it for $480 NZ plus postage. This unit is in excellent condition, all knobs and sliders intact and working perfectly, not even a crackle to be found :shock:

Sound wise, its more of a beast than I expected, really phat sounds and huge basses or piercing squeels. Within moments of turning it on I had the Azziza da bass sound happening :lol: So simple to get what you want out of it too.

That's a good price considering it has the mod grip and everything there Gopal. Nice buy mate!