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Posted (Van Santos) in Music Production on May-5-2009

Here is another piece of audio history, a Roland SH-2.

The Roland SH-2 is roughly 30 years old – production took place between 1978 and 1979 – and sounds a lot like the Roland SH-101.  The SH-2, however, has a double oscillator that can be detuned.  The 101 lacks this ability, which allows the 2 to create some unique sounds.

Anyway, today I was working on a bass line for the current track I am working on (by working on, I mean spending 20 minutes on at a time) and my SH-2 was having problems with the CV/Gate function that is needed in order for the keyboard to communicate to the rest of the system.

This lead me to go hunting for a copy of the manual, which I found via Vintage Synth.  I also downloaded the manual from the Roland site and uploaded it to here in case the other resource goes away.

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Comments:
bayan on June 17th, 2009 at 1:00 pm #

great, thank u 4 the sh2 manual link, looked around on the Web, couldn’t find it
didn’t wanna register on Roland’s site just to look for it

Van Santos on June 17th, 2009 at 10:05 pm #

Hey bayan! Glad I could help. I had a few issues that this addressed, and I knew that someone else could use it as well. Cheers!