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Average rating:
4.1 out of 5
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Great programmable sound/synth module for making warm/distorded/stable/unstable sounds . Very tweakable. Cool addition for a studio or anything you can imagine (there 's a guy who control this whith a midi-guitar ...). I 'm not interested in discusss -> (Roland = money or Korg is better than alesis etc etc etc) my fork sound great...
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I use to have this synth and its buggy as hell...good job roland.was in a users group on yahoo and everybody complains about the bugs.
IF you can get it for 50 bucks go get it but 500 hmmmm.....don't think so.This isn't a va, just samples with more features and it sounds like George Doblya and maybe he made it.Even the poliophony doesn't help it + all those effects cose lets face it crap will always be crap.
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Update on my review below... I am using version 1.06 of the software, by the way. I will probably sell my SH-32 soon because I discovered an anoying flaw with this synth: it's not fast enough! I wanted to program a synth brass sound modeled on a patch on the MS2000R. I managed to replicate the patch faithfully on the Roland, but when I play more than two notes at a time and play stacato style, the attack on the filter envelope doesn't follow smoothly my playing.
I will definitly buy the MS2000R and sell my Roland SH32. Why? Because the Korg sounds cleaner, less muddy, and it is capable of following my real-time tweeks with accuracy. The only thing going for the Roland for anyone looking to buy one, is the polyphony and the effects, as I said before...
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I own this little box for a few months now, and at first I really liked it, imagine 32 voice polyphony and killer effects! But I recently rented the korg MS2000R for a month to compare the two. First off, the SH32 is NOT an Analog Modeling synth, it uses digital waveforms. Secondly, the filter doesn't sound very good when you tweak the filter cutoff frequency in real-time (the analog-to-digital converters for all the potentiometers is not fast enough). And the unit has to boost the low-end frequencies in order to attempt to sound fat, and it fails.
Compared to the MS2000R, it comes close but not quite there, but the SH32 is less expensive and has better effects (more tweakable)and lots more voices. It's a shame that Korg gave us only 4 voices and a mere 3 effects not very much configurable, but the sound quality is really good since IT IS an Analog Modeling synth!
Finally, I won't sell my SH32 even though it has lost a bit of it's shine from the first days I bought it, but I will probably buy the Korg MS2000R I am renting also to satisfy my need to be able to tweak in real-time with complete and immediate control!
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I have already submited a review for this synth and at the time I realy liked it and i gave it big props but as I was playing with it for two months i started developing a major dislike for this wanna be VA and I think this is not a real VA but just a sampled wave forms couse when you try to do some live slider and filter movemements in real time you start to see that there is no sound flexibility and it jumps all over the place Therefore its very unplayable in my opinion.
And the soundvise I think its not deap at all even with the chord and arpegio features and it has the worst filter i have heard so far.For exeperimental music i think its a comleate sheese and only good stuf is the drum kits and even those are unusable in playing live becouse there is only two user kits.IT reminds me so much of mc 303 sound vize it just has more sounds and features.Efects are cool but useles to me
So what I did was I exchanged it for ea1 electribe and i made a realy good decision by doing that couse the sound is so much more playabe and real compared to sh.
All in all i think I am through with rolands new stuff couse they just wanna sell out and they have become very unoriginal.80's for roland were golden becouse they made stuff that was very experimental like 808,909 or their analog synths wich became famous by accident and thats the only era i respect about roland but now its just them trying to make money and thats it so I dont think they care about us any more.
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