SH101s are cool :)

[3o3]

We have answered your question Gopal; Let me quote you.

Thoughts, opinions welcome

Sure some post is off-topic yet we did post whatever we think about the SH101.

But hey, wait -> you maybe want an spec. on the SH101?

It's available in three different colors; Grey, Blue and Red.

VCO: 1 - independent levels for saw, square/pulse/pwm and sub-oscillator
LFO: triangle, square, random and noise waveform
Filter: resonant, self-oscillating LPF, mod by EG, lfo and kbd tracking
VCA: ADSR, mod by EG or gate
Seq: Digital sequencer up to 100 steps record/playback
Arp: Patterns contains up, down, up/down
32 keys
Since it's only CV/Gate, you'll need a midi to cv-converter or if you can build midi-into it. Which i am unsure of if it's available.

Since it's an analogue its sure is nice to tweak it since everything is right infront of you instead of many of the VA that hiddes alot of functions in sub-menu's.

[DIGITAL SCREAMS]

The most important thing about the SH101....is not its features or portability.....its the sound. As far as 1 osc mono's go.....this kills. Its fundementally better sounding than the TB303.....

You really need to play with one for 30 mins to see what I mean...

DS

[XLR8A]

For those who have SH101.
How to make a 303 sound with it ?

Easy.

Like this:
LFO/CLK - 5
WAVE FORM - SQUARE OR TRI

[MODULATION]
MOD - 0
VCO RANGE - 16
PULSE WIDTH - 10 (MAIN)

[SOURCE MIXER]
PULSE - 0
TRI - 10
SUB OSC - 0
NOISE - 0

[VCF]
FREQ - 3.5 TO 4.5
RES - 5.5 TO 6.5
ENV - 6
MOD - 0
KYBD - 8 OR 10

VCA>GATE
ENV>GATE+TRIG

[ENV]
A - 0
D - 1
S - 0
R - 0

That's it, you have a TB sound in your SH, they both use almost same
circuit board in terms of oscillators, envelopes and very similar filters.
Now, if you want to get the TB "slide" effect also - just program a sequence
with the "hold" button on the notes that you want to slide and set "portamento"
to around 3.6, tweak to taste when playing your sequence.

There is a cool trick, try setting SUB OSC between 1 to 8 and VCO RANGE 8.
He he, another one, use VCF MOD slider when tweaking cutoff and resonance...

[XLR8A]

Shit, man !
Here i found another paper with my old 101 settings,
it's called "BadAssBass", i remember taking this paper with me
to a gig, and i was playing this shit live with a dj set. Junglists love
this sound, it makes all the dancefloor go crazy and the bitches go horny!

Here:
LFO/CLK - 10
WAVE FORM - RANDOM

[MODULATION]
MOD - 0
VCO RANGE - 16
PULSE WIDTH - 0 (MAIN)

[SOURCE MIXER]
PULSE - 0
TRI - 10
SUB OSC - 0 (2OCT DOWN)
NOISE - 0

[VCF]
FREQ - 3.5
RES - 5
ENV - 5
MOD - 0
KYBD - 8

VCA>GATE
ENV>GATE

[ENV]
A - 6
D - 6
S - 0
R - 5

(TRANSPOSE>L)

[Gopal]

Hey all, sorry to anyone who was offended

Thanks for that new info too DS and Xlr8 I didn't realise that they were that closely related to a TB303. I have spent lots of time with 303s and absolutely loved them, but I'm not prepared to pay the kind of money they are going for now, because, quite simply, I don't use that sound enough in the kind of music I write.

I've been doing alot of thinking about what to add to my set up next and I think 1 old school analog mono like the SH101 would be a very clever move.

Still can't find a blue one though :P

Its hard to find this sort of thing in this part of the world, and it seems the best examples come from Japan now, especially since no one of ebay uk is willing to ship internationally for some bizzarre reason.

[3o3]

I'd say that the blue SH101's is the most difficult to find acctually.

I've seen tons of grey/red go here in sweden but not a single blue one yet. - may just be the fact that those SH101 that where sold in sweden was mostly grey/red.

[Gopal]

Thats interesting, I think I read somewhere that there was a very limited run of white ones made as well.

Are TB303s easier to find in your part of the world?

[XLR8A]

One of my friends sold a white 101 for a good money 3 years ago,
$600 just because it's a rare color and was manufactured in Japan only.
Technically they all the same, and you can paint it in any color you wish

[3o3]

Gopal: Unfortnatly tb303 is quite tricky to find aswell - I'd say the best place to look for 303's in the U.S - or if you could make any sense out of german try the german ebay (and in germany you could always find quite cheap analogue gear aswell).

I can read some german, but some just becomes nonsense to me, but just some things that you could have in mind.

http://instrumente.ebay.de/
Versand nach = Sends to (or whatever you want to call it)
Deutchland = Germany, Weltweit = World-wide.

Be aware of sellers with low feedback thou, you don't wanna get ripped off!

XLR8A: Nice i didn't know that.

[Gopal]

Yeah, I've learnt my ebay lesson the hard way. I thought $500 USD was a good price to pay for a virus C a few months ago (long before anyone had any wind of the TI) and did a deal on ebay with a guy from Poland that went by the name of Andrei Krivtsikov. I lost $900 NZ dollars because of that f**kwit.

I don't really want a 303 that bad, well, I do but I know its just the GAS talking and I probably wouldn't use it much :P