SH-201 - Reviews - Music Tech Magazine

Roland reinvents a modern classic and arms it with a host of new features, but can it live up to the company’s high reputation? Hollin Jones gets intimate with the SH-201...

Price: £499.00
Manufacturer: Roland
Website: http://www.roland.co.uk/synth_room_catdet.asp?id=SH201

It’s always rather exciting when a big-name manufacturer announces that it’s going to update one of its own classic instruments. Hopefully, the result will retain at least some of the feel of the original, while adding a few of the technological tricks and toys that we’ve come to expect from modern music kit. In the music world, of course, names don’t get much bigger than Roland, and its latest synthesizer is the SH-201, successor to the much-loved SH-101. Originally released in 1982, the compact, monophonic synth had no MIDI functionality, but it made a fearsome sound, and featured on records by artists as big as The Prodigy, Orbitaland Primal Scream.

Score: 10

This review first appeared in Music Tech Magazine issue 42
Filed under Hardware, Synths

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