The Joy of the Roland SH-2 (Featuring Hainbach)

[@dionysiaex5538]

Great video again Alex. This Hainbach guy is your most convincing character yet!

[@AlexBallMusic]

😆

[@couchcamperTM]

he got the hair wrong xD

[@kendanger748]

The wig wasn't as convincing as mine.

[@geertvanschlanger8057]

Moscht convinsching.

[@spaceman103]

🤣

[@jimharris6389]

Hainbach:The dub bass you can get from playing the filter! Laptop speakers:

[@AlexBallMusic]

Hainbach bass: 20hz Laptop speaker: choking at 200hz.

[@Bloodstone_DC]

Hainbach: 'The dub bass you can get from playing the filter!' The windows in my room when i play it over my KSD C88: 'I want to break freehee!'

[@tomslowcat]

Well even listening on headphones you could barely make it out. I think KZbin's encoding is to blame here.

[@jimharris6389]

Humans: All the good stuff like the bass you can feel but barely hear! Algorithm: Meh, because bandwidth

[@althejazzman]

I could barely make out this part even with modest hi-fi separates and subwoofer.

[@Willriii]

I can make sense of this numbering quite fast. "Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out!"

[@AlexBallMusic]

Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.

[@Willriii]

@@AlexBallMusic Would this be funny at all had we not read Shakespeare?

[@Willriii]

@@AlexBallMusic lol, lobbest. Was this truly a verb? and snuff it. the latter being a very dire outcome for your foe

[@sedumjp]

The Roland synth naming skit at the beginning is the best KZbin content ever made; I will fight you if you disagree!!

[@cortical1]

I still love how, after all the joking fun at the naming sequence, Hainbachhhhh shows up and repeatedly calls it the SH Oh! 2. Great tunes all around. My favorite non-modular monosynth from the 70s.

[@SuperPedalhead]

It's an honor to see The Sweater King appear on this channel.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Ja.

[@VisionAssoc]

My granny had that exact same jumper in 1974, it is a beautiful jumper 👑👏

[@CoLD.SToRAGE]

Actually LOLLED genuinely out loud at the naming convention. 😆

[@AlexBallMusic]

😉

[@TDRKB]

Gotta love Roland's numbering system! I have an SH-09 which I have had since new in 1979. Such a joy and glad I didn't sell it too! Great duet and great video as usual from 2 great KZbinrs!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Cheers Kevin. How does the 09 compare?

[@TDRKB]

@@AlexBallMusic Good question. I think they are basically the same synth but the SH2 has the extra oscillator and that nice detune effect you demonstrated. Its amazing (as you would know) the variety of sounds you can get with it. I have used it live a lot in the '80's and it is a nice companion to the RS-09 I own. Even better if you route the SH-09 through the chorus of the RS-09.

[@jimharris6389]

@@AlexBallMusic I've both. They have their differences sonically and functionally but they're definitely siblings

[@jimharris6389]

@@TDRKB I've been curious about pairing mine with an RS09

[@TDRKB]

@@jimharris6389 It sounds good through the input and ensemble mode

[@misophoniq]

The SH-numbering sketch was absolutely hilarious! 🤣

[@jimharris6389]

One of my favourite things about the SH2 is its utterly utilitarian, brutalist aesthetic. I think it looks gorgeous.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Yes, it looks bad ass!

[@lumer2b]

Have it as plug-out in my System-1 and love it

[@vintagesynths]

You are not only a very talented musician, you are such a funny comedian. I regret the day I sold my beloved SH-2.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks! Didn't realise you'd had an SH-2. Do you prefer the SH-101 or SH-2?

[@vintagesynths]

@@AlexBallMusic the SH-2 is much better sound wise. The 101 is pure fun though

[@AlexBallMusic]

I agree!

[@mathmanmrt]

when i started college in fall of 1979 i had a double major in math and music. the music was with an emphasis in composition. one of the perks was getting a key to the room that held a roland 100 series modular unit. i spent two years messing around with that unit before i changed majors. it was a lot of fun and gave me a feel for subtractive synthesis. a few years later a friend of mine with a film major dragged me to the film department's audio studio because he knew about my synth background and wanted my help with their synth. it turned out to be a dx7. even though i knew nothing about fm synthesis, i had an almost unknown skill amongst the other folks who had used it called "reading the manual" and so i seemed like a synthesis genius, especially after i followed up the manual with massey's *the complete dx7*. i made it possible for my friend to be the only person in the film department who didn't use the presets but had good sounds.

[@AlexBallMusic]

You read the manual?! Witchcraft! The DX is hamstrung by its presets. All the best sounds are anything but those. Hats off.

[@rachelar]

@@AlexBallMusic you might want to check out "Cosmic Prophets" DX7 sampling CD by Richard Barbieri and Jan Linton, or "Music for Aliens" . The DX had its presets wiped

[@meowcula]

Hainbach, that's one epic sweater.

[@AlexBallMusic]

The best on the Tube.

[@JimAlfredson]

I think it came with his SH2.

[@captaindapto6463]

Brilliant, couldn't haven't demonstrated the SH paradox better!

[@StofffeGbg]

Dynamic duo! Awesome and inspiring.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Cheers!

[@JulianDoe]

Ball+Hainbach. You made my day!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Cheers!

[@apecityelectronicsoundstudio]

Knocking it out of the park again with that song at the end! Such a juicy sounding synth isn't it? Lovely stuff.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks. Yes, grubby and powerful and beautiful. Very nice little mono.

[@marsmediapro]

some similar sounds I get with my sh3a! Love this- Thanks, Guys!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Still never played the SH3A or SH2000.

[@DaggerThrasher]

Roland's SH numbering is actually insane. What gets me the most is the SH-01 (Gaia) next to the SH-01A; you'd think the A is some minor variation from the 01. Nope - they're *completely* unrelated to each other, and entirely different machines. Literally bonkers. Awesome video, Alex. 😃

[@AlexBallMusic]

Don't look at the TR series then.... ;)

[@DaggerThrasher]

@@AlexBallMusic 😂 I'll do my best to avoid their numeric sorcery

[@AlexBallMusic]

@@DaggerThrasher It starts with 77 and gets less logical from there. 😉

[@DaggerThrasher]

@@AlexBallMusic Why, Roland, WHYYYY

[@klaustelenius]

It's awesome to hear two musicians combining their creativity to create something they probably wouldn't come up with alone creating a unique piece

[@4CloudySky]

Comedy and synths, what's more to ask for? You are the best!

[@AlexBallMusic]

😉

[@fernandopalplus]

I love my SH-2 :) Thanks for another great video Alex and Hainbach

[@AlexBallMusic]

Ah, you could have joined the end jam then!

[@user-qf4zs6qj4c]

Actual tears of laughter at the names bit 😂

[@AlexBallMusic]

Think Microsoft hired the same team to name the editions of Windows.

[@m.f.8650]

Me too, great stuff! Doesnt happen very often...😂

[@mootbooxle]

the SH-3 was my first analogue synth! Big fan of the SH-2!

[@chriswareham]

Possibly the first synth of the Pet Shop Boys as well - check out their early promotional appearances before the breakthrough rerelease of West End Girls.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Still never even seen the SH-3!

[@tiergartenmusic]

The Korg MS-20 was the Pet Shop Boys’ first synth.

[@titovalasques]

Do you mean the 3A?? It was my first one as well.

[@AlexBallMusic]

@@titovalasques No, Matt has the rare 3!

[@angaudlinn]

The 09 was my first step out into the garden (even before seeing the white rabbit and far earlier than falling down the hole). It's still with me and with the permanent "minimoog trick" (6:58) patched in at the back. Playing the filter is wonderful. Very "glassy" in the higher frequencies.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Yeah, playing the filter with some noise mixed in is very crystal like.

[@Mugicha808]

There's zero shortage of amazing synth channels. Great work! Love seeing my man Hainbach here.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks! Yeah, was a pleasure to have him over.

[@budgetguitarist]

Thank you! Love the channel. It's reigniting my old love of synths. I learned electronic music composition in college on a big old Moog many years ago. So much fun! In my college band I played a Fender Rhodes, a Minimoog, and an Arp Pro Soloist. Later, I got a DX27 and a TX81Z, and then later than that I got a Yamaha SY22, which was a neat synth. Now I use a keyboard controller and everything's coming off the laptop, but I miss owning real keyboards.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Glad you're enjoying the trip down memory lane. Was the Moog at college a modular system? ...and talking of the Pro-Soloist, I interviewed its designer in person, Jeremy Hill. It's in my ARP documentary.

[@budgetguitarist]

@@AlexBallMusic Yes, I LOVE that video!! I've watched it several times. I love all the historical info. The Moog was a modular system - we had a wall of patch cables of different lengths and we had a ditto copy of a piece of paper with all the jacks and knobs on it, so you could draw your patch on paper to remember it. I spent a lot of time trying to get it to sound like Simmons drums, which were really big at the time. I got pretty close! We also had a half inch reel to reel 4 track tape machine where you had to shuttle it - in rewind mode, you couldn't just hit stop, you had to hit fast forward first to slow it down. I didn't know that and the first time I used it I hit stop and sent the reel of tape flying across the room. Good times!

[@Synthesizer_attic]

I’ve been playing synthesizers since 1976 and its cool that Arp,moog,korg and roland each have their own distinctive sound.I can tell immediately when a analog roland hits a note.even oberheim has its distinct sound.

[@matiasmoulin2126]

Great video! As always, incredibly funny, entertaining, and very well made!

[@testohtoby]

Fun fact: the SH in SH-2 stands for SCHECSHY HAINBACH

[@AlexBallMusic]

Yesh.

[@geertvanschlanger8057]

Schtonking Hootersch.

[@DavidBoura]

sexual healing?

[@RoboBoddicker]

obviously, it stands for Synt Hesizer

[@graxjpg]

Alex! You and Hainbach really inspire me to record music with my synthesizers. I have some ideas for what I want to do with my KZbin channel, but I will continue to watch and learn as much as I can from you.

[@SyncdAlien]

Entertaining as always, Alex. Lovely collab at the end there!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks very much!

[@dalecharlesphoto]

2 right! Really enjoyed thiSH ~ and that intro sketch lol well done

[@seeyouintheeighties]

this was my favourite synth of all time

[@AlexBallMusic]

It's a goodun!

[@seeyouintheeighties]

@@AlexBallMusic always wondered if the sh-5 and sh-7 were the sh-2 with more controls

[@zenman-music]

Haha, one of your best. Big fun to watch and of course informative and nice sounddemo.

[@titovalasques]

Hilarious video as always!!! 😂 My very first synth ever was the SH-3A in 1980.

[@timswink7505]

Always enjoy your videos and demos. This one was quite entertaining. Love the numbering bit. Rock on!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks Tim!

[@ianwynne764]

Hello Alex: Thank you very much for this. The SH-2 sounds amazing. Also, I really liked the wit you bought to the naming scheme.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Cheers Ian. Thanks for stopping by.

[@AynsleyGreen]

I've used everything as a live bass synth over the years - Minimoog, MS-20, Odyssey, CS5, Micron, MicroKorg, Mopho, Evolver, MicroBrute, Integra, MODX, System 8, Prologue - and I can safely say that the SH2 is King. Every gig I use it on, it turns heads.

[@AlexBallMusic]

That's high praise indeed! Interesting.

[@77advanced]

One of the phattest things ever made. And remember, there is nothing like vintage roland saw with a sub oscillator)

[@AlexBallMusic]

Yeah, square sub and one saw is always a pleasure. :)

[@testohtoby]

The 70s Roland ladder is almost moog-ish so this combo throaty saw+ sub and this filter really shakes the ground !!!

[@Peter_S_]

@@AlexBallMusic Square sub and one saw plus juicy VCF = Pure bliss.

[@GNeuman]

Love Hainbach too... The three synth musketeers, Alex, AudioPilz and Hainbach..

[@geertvanschlanger8057]

I usched the SH-2 on "The Schperminator'.

[@JMPSynth]

Excellent and fun to watch as always ! That's another synth to look out for :)

[@AlexBallMusic]

Yeah, a cool one. No Emu Emulator though. 😉

[@Ndlanding]

Last time I go to an unknown website after a couple of spliffs! The Hun confused me until I saw it was a joke. The wrap-up music was wonderful. and inspiring. I think I'll go get a drink. :)

[@siccavicca]

Love this video , my first synth was an SH09 when it was released back in the day and I recently got another one and I love it .. but I have to say the real standout star of the whole clip was in fact “HAINBACH’S jumper “ .. now I want one of those too .

[@michaelfeiner]

Hahahaha hilarious intro!!!! Yes the SH-2 is a wonderful synth indeed. Love mine!

[@rossidb562]

Hilarious and tantalizing. You guys work well together! It’s the synth used for the iconic sequences on Duran Duran’s “The Chauffeur”.

[@amillionorangedolphins9663]

Welcoming and warm episode :) And synth ...

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks

[@samjhylton]

Loved your German pronunciation, Alex!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Danke schön.

[@samjhylton]

@@AlexBallMusic büdde büdde

[@philmarsh5593]

Intro once again has me in stitches. Everything I ever thought about that numbering. The jokes (and the knowing look cueing up the bad joke) crack me up every time. I have a reconditioned SH2 from Ko (Modeless Factory) in Japan. He offered to add oscillator sync to it via an extra red push button but in truth I rarely use that (I had it on a Rogue but the Roland is rather more polite sounding). Lovely machine, nonetheless.

[@AlexBallMusic]

The joke was begging to be made. 😉 Interesting to hear about the sync. Is there an envelope to modulate the synched oscillator? Without that there won't be much to hear. The sync on my System 100m is fantastic, although my Odyssey is probably the best.

[@philmarsh5593]

@@AlexBallMusic The sync is on osc 2 - I guess he added it to avoid the "detune" sound really, not to scream and wail. To get it to scream a bit just switch off the bender lever from osc 1, play and use the lever, which then just affects osc 2. Or twiddle the osc 2 tune knob - but the level has a more profound effect. It's not Ody or even Rogue territory but it works. The SH2 is quite a chilled sounding synth but I guess there's a place for that. Ironically it doesn't get used so much now I have the Roland Cloud version...

[@recycology5468]

I have the SH3 and 3A. My SH3 might have been a one off or prototype because it has an input. I bought both in Japan. My top 5 pride and joy in my synth arsenal. Thank you for a great video!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Very interesting. An external audio input?

[@recycology5468]

@@AlexBallMusic yes and it doesn't do anything.

[@elekktrikk_home_video]

7:48 Sounds so much like Cyril ("Fuchs") in Archer - Danger Island! So great :)

[@AlexBallMusic]

Will have to check that out.

[@Ampher03]

4:00 what chords are being played on the guitar? I can’t figure them out but I love them

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks. The guitar is controlling the SH-2 filter via the envelope follower and external in, so the two blend together. From memory the chords are just using the old open B and E string trick. So play E, D, G, F#, A and B major chords with the top two strings open at all times.

[@flickeringvideo]

No mention of the ill-fated SH-1T?

[@AlexBallMusic]

😆

[@bandungbusdriver5256]

watching your video like taking me back to 70's watching 'sesame street and hear the carpenter album.... very the retro spirit

[@AlexBallMusic]

A magical time no doubt.

[@philoffhistree]

wow this was well put together, acting editing filming and the music, subbed will be playing catch up now.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks. Welcome aboard.

[@erikt211]

The SH-2 sounds like Boards of Canada in a box, excellent sound!

[@DestroyER82]

Amazing vid and collab! And that machine sounds freakin awesome (I like the sound really much more than most famous SH-101).

[@AlexBallMusic]

The 101 has some advantages (clockable LFO / sequencer / arpeggiator / better bender) but the SH-2 sounds better, I agree.

[@NickHchaos]

@@AlexBallMusic sounds better, but the 101 fits better in the mix with most things. It took me awhile to appreciate this fact about the 101. Now I have the best euro clone IMO: g storm electro cem vco/mixer and VCF. Part of the reason the minimoog is as revered as ever, I think, is that it sounds great on its own AND fits great in a mix of basically everything. I think the sh-2’s lack of an ability to do this quite as well has something to do with its “muddier” sounding filter.

[@graxjpg]

An SH-42 would really be the end all synth wouldn’t it? It would be the key to life, the universe, everything...

[@wingflanagan]

Be careful using it though. The improbability driver can cause unexpected effects. Just keep your towel handy, and - most important - don’t panic.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Mark King's favourite synth.

[@Magnus_Loov]

But you would still have to build another one to know the question.......

[@graxjpg]

@@Magnus_Loov I think the ultimate question was asked by the EMS synths like the VCS3 and the Synthi AKS haha!

[@BertGrink]

I bet Stevie Wonder would have loved to have an SH-42 on his album "Songs in the Key of Life" 😅

[@jorgeegrojjorge]

Great stuff funny sketch and the music was great!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Cheers Jorge.

[@bartdecrem4092]

ah this is so great! I have the sh-2, this is inspiring to dive into it again!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Yeah, fire it up!

[@muddymike10]

Lovely 2-ette... thank you!

[@neoblut]

You are like Ying and Yang, different yet perfectly harmonising. Thank you for this video!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks.

[@jhowe5571]

Man, that bit you did with the guitar through the SH-2 was awesome! Would love to hear that made into a song!😁👍

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks. Do enjoy a bit of envelope following!

[@fleebschlehm2467]

... yeah and this thing Looks so incredible cool. Black & Silver & Big Knobs & Sliders. That's how it goes!

[@superserge]

Alex!! Rolands has a unique timbre, I fell in love with this sound a long time ago. Thank you for video🍧

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thank you, I agree! 🙂

[@erazeTHEborders]

Oh my god, the naming intro is pure comedy gold 🤣

[@justinb9387]

ive had an sh2 for a couple years now - its a good synth.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Nice!

[@Laborejo]

Dear Mr. Ball, It delights me that you use the correct, formal form of addressing in your thank-you speech to Mr. Hainbach.

[@AlexBallMusic]

😀

[@gnudarve]

I always gaze at my instruments after watching one of your videos Alex.

[@AlexBallMusic]

What's in your collection?

[@gnudarve]

@@AlexBallMusic Well for synths it's just a Roland JP-8080 rack model that I use with CuBase, mostly for fleshing out ideas. I'm a Bass player so I have a lot of those sitting around waiting for some creative attention. I used to be in a space rock band called Farflung, we toured with Hawkwind a few times back in the 90s. Love your videos. Your energy reminds me of Nik Turner, charming, witty and extremely talented. Keep up the good work!

[@minimism]

SH-2 was my first 'proper' synth; bought for very cheap back in '91… nothing else I have sounds like it (but it could probably do with a service)

[@mixmastermonte]

fyi- in think the specific lead he's playing at 6:35 got muted in his mix. You can only hear the accompanying track. Unless the level is just low and out of sync. with the video.

[@AlexBallMusic]

It's there, it's just _so_ subby that most speakers can't reproduce it and/or ears can't hear it.

[@ArcAudios77]

Excellent Alex :) Well done.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thank you!

[@NickHchaos]

FYI AJH Synth VCOs sound almost identical to SH-2 VCOs. When I had an SH-2, I put a couple of them into the external audio of the SH-2 to create a sort of 4 voice minimoog and they blended perfectly. The SH-2 is great sounding, but very very simple-I didn’t feel bad about selling it at all to keep my Waldorf AJH minimoog with equal sound and more capabilities. Also, something people in demos seem to never convey, the true beauty and power of both synths and VCOs is not in those grindy percussive bass patches everyone seems to play, but in creamy organic sounding leads which only a handful of other discrete built vintage sounding synths can match.

[@MetaFunction]

SH5 is by far the best mono synth Roland ever made. It’s almost two SH2’s. The SH7 released in late 70s was their flagship of the range but the SH5 knocks spots off it.

[@AlexBallMusic]

The SH-5 is probably the best, yes. The envelopes are a bit slow and the 1, 2, 7, and 09 are snappier but it's got the best sound. I often wonder why band pass filters or filters in parallel or series (like the SH-5) weren't more common. They open out the possibilities so much more.

[@BertGrink]

@@AlexBallMusic The SH-5 was also very intuitive with the visual layout clearly showing the routing of the different signals.

[@xandervideo1]

I loved my SH-2. WISH that I still had it.

[@chriswareham]

I think Hainbach's dub bass was so low pitched my laptop speakers couldn't reproduce it! I'm now going to have to see if my Jupiter 4 has the ability to feed its sound back in to itself as that sounded great on the SH2. (By the way, the Jupiter 4 is essentially a polyphonic member of the SH series, with little if anything in common with the later Jupiters).

[@AlexBallMusic]

Yeah, crazy subby. The external in is a great idea, especially as it has an envelope follower! You can make it follow itself. Was fun to control the filter from the guitar too. Strange that feature never caught on.

[@chriswareham]

@@AlexBallMusic On checking, my JP4 doesn't have an external input and consequently no envelope follower :-( Mine has been MIDI retrofitted, but before that the only thing I'd connected to it was the clock output from my Boss DR-55 to synchronise the arpeggiator. Let me know if you'd like to do a video on the JP4, it's quite a distinctive synth and I'd be happy to lend you mine. For me, the stand out recordings that use it are the first three Human League albums, pre-stadium rock era Simple Minds and (don't laugh) Duran Duran.

[@osirismaximus2787]

The names in the beginning was pure comedy gold 🤣🤣🤣

[@robertsyrett1992]

Great opening sketch!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Had to be done.

[@DonSolaris]

I own every analogue Roland mono and poly you can think of and I have to admit SH-2 is one of those synths that will make your neighbors hate you! It is armor piercing and insanely phatt... at times too phatt! :D

[@AlexBallMusic]

Yes, sometimes you have to take out the sub or one of the VCOs. Gets pretty beefy!

[@danarves7452]

Love the patch names!

[@danarves7452]

The track at the end is beautiful too

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thank you!

[@tz64nk41]

6:30 All of the sliders on the AUDIO MIXER section are down. Is that filter entirely self-oscillating to make that dub bass sound?

[@AlexBallMusic]

Yes, that's what he meant by "playing the filter". It's sine wave sub bass. To be honest, it's very hard to hear unless you're on the right speakers, it's so low frequency.

[@markusfuller]

Great 2ette Alex and Hainbach

[@Doctormix]

hahahahha!!!! AWSOME!!!

[@budgetguitarist]

Hey, I just subscribed to your channel. Great stuff!

[@licaric5549]

Whoa, Doc himself in da house!

[@Juanelromano]

Ahah doctor mix here

[@F-Andre]

dr in da house😅

[@greg143]

With Alex on his SH-2 and Hainbach on his SH-02!

[@AlexBallMusic]

The German equivalent. ;)

[@MrAndyshanahan]

First synth. I still remember how good it was. :)

[@xmlthegreat]

I wonder if it's possible to DIY a version of this from the available circuit diagrams. This seems like a reasonable analogue synth for someone who is starting out but also to keep in their stable.

[@Peter_S_]

Absolutely. You can find the schematic by googling for "Roland SH-2 service manual" and it looks like there is nothing difficult about building one. The BA662 OTAs are of course not available anymore but several people have duplicated their function using LM13700 and even with discrete transistors. You can always substitute a VCF made from the new SSI2140 or SSI2144 from Sound Semiconductor for a new VCF with just a much, if not more class.

[@xmlthegreat]

@@Peter_S_ that is great, thank you.

[@Peter_S_]

@@xmlthegreat You're welcome. It's a synthesizer I wish I owned and I hope you build one! The design is simple enough that you could even build 4 of the voice/filter circuits and add the Roland D8048C-011 key assigner chip you find the Jupiter-4 to build a 4 voice poly synth. People sell copies of the chip (sometimes called 8048-011 or 8048C-011) at a number of synth parts sites. The sound in unison mode would be amazingly FAT!

[@xmlthegreat]

@@Peter_S_ still a beginner so a lot of that went over my head, but rest assured, I am taking notes!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Very interesting read!

[@althejazzman]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who imagines board meetings where confusing and ridiculous decisions were made.

[@thechrisricci]

Just scored one of these days ago. Killer!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Ace!

[@YMO-t4q]

You are a truly talented person! I laughed very much.👍

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thank you.

[@Pablo668]

Very cool vid/review, and may I say, probably the least weird one I've ever seen from you.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Ha, good to know. Must have had the weird level turned down slightly, I'll crank it back up.

[@personmcperson4440]

HAINBACH: the Venn diagram between Reaganomics, Heavy Sweaters, electrocution, and eating crayons. * I'm just jealous that I lack your budget, talent, experience, and audience. You win.

[@i_never_asked_for_an_alias]

Dat sneaky Microfreak under the desk.. me likes it a lot.

[@mrr2816]

Just brilliant

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks!

[@PWMaarten]

Gotta love those Dr. 110’s hi hats!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Yes indeed. 🙂

[@MelonadeM]

THAT INTRO SEGMENT HAD ME IN TEARS

[@AlexBallMusic]

😉

[@fredmanteghian5913]

The bit with Hans Gruber was great!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Lol!

[@rdoetjes]

Bloody hilarious skit!!! Even more hilarious as the SH numbering... the question does remain.., Why?? Roland! Why???

[@AlexBallMusic]

Then there's the TR machines: TR-77, TR-55, TR-33, 700, 330, 66, 68 etc. Like they used a random number generator.

[@synthsandstuff]

Now that is a hilarious SH-timeline, LOL! And we will never know why... Nevertheless most of the SH's sound great. Well done Alex, hats of again mate!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Cheers JP. 🙂