Roland SH-2000 demo

Exploration of the archaic Roland SH-2000 at the Coffeehouse in Middletown, CT. Great studio for anyone in the area looking for a good place to lay down some quality tracks. Will upload a couple more vids I made there soon. Ciao.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Roland
• SH-2000
• keyboard
• synth
• synthesizer
• solo
• demo
• music
• analog
• retro
• wacky
• weird
• frogman

[Danofcanada]

Interesting one, the colors remind me of an old electronic organ i played once with light up inch wide toggle switches. So out of all the cheesy noises it makes can it be used as a proper keyboard? Also what's the weight of the thing? it looks heavy.

[hamsterdunce]

Anything that makes noise can be used musically, be it a banjo, bag of wet mice, or even an SH-2000. True story: my brother played drums on 8-10 large books for a few years before he got his first drumset. So yes, I do believe you could use this keyboard in a band. It would just depend on whether the band wanted to sound archaic and weird. How much does it weigh? Not too much, about the same weight as my Juno-106, probably less.

[SupershadowDOtCom]

only communists and athiests use the roland sh1000

[andest01]

nice running commentary.

"How unpleasant" is the new meme

[sssyntax]

Great video man, your the coolest :)

[PunchandJudyDuo]

We loved this video so much that we found one and now gig with it! Great sounds that we can't live without! Thanks for posting and check out our videos! Peace.

[salvadory]

@JockRonayne you just need to watch some of the better demo- some demos can make the minimoog sound like a casio- 300 would have been a good price- theyre actually pretty cool- used by portishead braodcast moby etc

[salvadory]

@SupershadowDOtCom well im pegged then- count me as one communist godless sh 1000 owner

[BitSnapper]

Oh - and it has a very good working aftertouch! I think it was the first synth with aftertouch.

[BitSnapper]

This was my 1st synth in 1977, i paid 1000$ for it and i was VERY happy about this thing. The filter is extremely wet. I used only 3-4 of the presets on stage and it soundet like it should: Like a synth! The girls loved me and the boys said: Wow, a moog!! Years later i sold it for 200 bucks and today i would like to have it on my side - a´m a romantic. Sure: Most of the presets are awful, but it´s build like a tank and most of them do their job 30 years after introducing. It is not so bad.

[JockRonayne]

Wow, thanks! You just saved me blowing $300 0n one of these. What a hideous sounding turd!

[sephardimm]

Sorry, but this thing is annoying, try the Yamaha SY2 its much more better sounding and it even has aftertouch, plus it got the filter of the yamaha GX1, the yamaha kicks

ARP Solina etc pp in the ass.

[TheMrbrainwash]

that actually hurts