Roland SH-4D -- is it for you?

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ALBER

[hugocaldeiravinagre]

Great video. i have deleted the factory patterns. how can i restore them ? i ve made no backup and i have no restore folder in my 4d drive like the manual mentions.

[TechGently]

The unique drum sounds that you used in your initial sequence is what I go for. I'm learning all the time. I jump in on the Sh-4d with Bank 3 (no presets), Select an engine, Shift 10 (init) and start from scratch. Then the Tie button by holding down the note and hitting the Tie button repeatedly..and smudging it out by filtering. Only complaint, Write function is confusing, lack of Metronome, or count in. Hoping they address that in an update but Roland's history is they might do 2 or 3 updates on a new machine but then abandon it.

[TheDalien]

Must be a good thingy hence the fact that you pet it.

[Michel-rm]

No drums, no seq.? Would an Integra be an addition?

On the fence of an SH-4d owning a Jupiter 50 (Integra based) incredible bread & butter synth.

[ender]

On the bass put a oscillator an octave up and or add in bit of bitcrusher / distortion / ect for some mid range...hell maybe even a ring mod if desperate. Hell could sequence bass notes with stacked octaves and adjust velocity to blend volume levels ( page 60 in manual covers velocity and note length editing ).

[sandkipper]

Does is sound sufficiently Rolandesque? It seems to have more contemporary sounds. What do you think? I like the Roland sounds and I prefer the price of this compared to the Jupiter Xm.

[PavelKabelik]

Hi Alber, please, would it be possible to provide more information about combo SH-4d and Digitakt as main MIDI sequencer? How good is MIDI implementation on Rolands side? Are you able to switch sounds on SH-4d from Digitakt? I have SH-4d and I am thinking about Digitakt as main centerpiece...Thanks a lot!

[Sequenceserenade]

I thought the digitakt can only record /play 4 notes per MIDI track… also will it pass thru more than 4 notes at one time per channel for recording on the sh4d ?

[snörre]

7:24 OMG, how do you want to tell me if this is for me if you don't bother to learn the sequencer. I am out. Not interested in your other machines with that title.