7 Minutes with the Roland SE-02 (Sounds Only) 

SE-02 is off the chain, Big things do come in small packages, way to go Roland, keep them boutiques coming, all we need now is a boutique mixer with some radical effects built in and part USB hub, I will buy that in a heartbeat.

Amazingly huge sound from a small box. It has a great sound character of its own in my opinion.

Take my money!!!!! Can't wait to have it! Thank you so much Roland and Studio Electronics!

Sounds huge, welcome back to the table Roland!

This is a really smart move from Roland and SE. Roland, being the giant it is, gives SE the infrastructure/cust support/easy access to that end of the market, while SE build some of the greatest sounding discrete analogs on the planet (it's been a while since Roland have done that). Both could benefit from future collaborations - imagine a poly fwaaarrr

I don’t care what the haters say, this is a fucking future legend.

Okay, I want two, please... Now all we need is for Roland to make a true analog polysynth...

Spot on, Roland. Well done SE.

Gotta say, on first glance, Roland look like they've knocked it out of the park with this :D

Sounds huge... crisp yet beefy. Nice work guys.

omg i need one so bad my ego want me to stay in this world just for these sounds

best demo of this yet. it's nice to see something other than people fiddlin with knobs

excited! Roland gets my money again after 15 long years!

it's just amazing to see how you can create vast compositions with two pieces of equipment!

That has a gorgeously warm sound!

Very impressed by this huge sounding all-in-one-box fella. Chapeau!

Wow, Roland finally listened to what people want!

Sounds great and I'm sure they will sell a lot of them, but I'm really confused as to why Roland decided to do a Minimoog clone out of everything they could have done considering their rich legacy of analog gear. I'm starting to think their archives over everything they made in the 70s and 80s got lost in a fire or something and they don't know how to make them anymore.

My favorite boutique

It's so refreshing to watch a RU-vid synth demo where the presenter actually know how to play his instrument. He' did play a few too many flashy solos for my tastes. But overall he did a good job showcasing what the SE-02 is capable of. Most RU-vid presenters let the same `16 note sequence play throughout the entire video while they twist a few knobs on the synth.

Love that Roland is back in the analog business, but unlike the Series 500 venture with Malekko which sounded distinctly Roland, this sounds like a Studio Electronics box with a Roland logo slapped on it. Great price point though, I hope they sell a ton of them and give us more analog!! And more 500 Series modules please!!!

Massive sounding! Great job Roland & SE.

Great module from Roland. It is a pity that Roland is not developing any more analogue gear...

AWESOME!!

The bass & the leads sound hella fly. Like damn ... Studio Electronics came through tho...

Woah! Welcome back again, Roland! :)

OMG, yes-!! A legend is born. This thing is really gonna shake it up. If I owned a TB-303, I would be considering selling it in light of this news. I've got an ATC-X Quad which is an older Studio Electronics synth. It has a emulated 303 filter in it, which is quite good. With this new partnership I think they could match or maybe even better the old champion. Imagine a 303 w discrete filter and amplifier topology. The DB-303. Dare to dream!

Regarding the rise of view counts and interests on Gearslutz, it will sell like something between TR-8 and KORG minilogue. Roland clearly won the game by saying nothing. True Guru!

A lot of Moog clone DNA in this one but with some nice Roland flavor. Digging that it's analog. Definitely sounds great. Wishing it had bigger controls though. Honestly wishing it was more of a double din, rack sized unit like the old SE-1 Model D clone.

Definitely sounding nice!

That's fantastic it covers a lot of sonic ground and sounds mint.

Berhinger is shaking in their boots! This sounds for real!

It may be more expensive than Behringer's Model D, but this is where my money will go... Far more options and patch memory. I bet Uli's feeling sick now ;)

A lot of the complaints I've seen so far seem to concern the fact that it's a monosynth. Personally that's not an issue for me; after all, Wendy carlos' Moog Modular synths could only do one note at a time, and look what she was able to get out of them. To me this seems just as competitive as any other true analog at this price point, even if the Korg Minilogue has a keyboard and this doesn't. I'm still getting at least two...

this answered my question about the polyphony. the sounds are out if this world good. now I must decide between this or the Ms 20 mini

I'm SO glad it has 384 preset and 128 user locations and it's SO FAT!!!!

I love my D. -05 Have to admit on the used market Usually 200-250$ around here may have to take a bite on this SE Want my Behringer 2600 and Arp though And the Korg Wavestate more This however sounds really good My Deepmind 12 does put me In this sonic region close enough and well enough for me until i find another going for 200$. Great vid

This is how the original boutiques should had been done.

Just wow! Finally Roland...

Mine is on it's way!Can't wait!

I guess the Roland guys finally walked by the Korg booth at NAMM.

Man, sound amazing! Nice nice nice!

Ich sollte meinen SE-02 mal wieder spielen ❤

Absolutely love it. Roland bring the huge Studio Electronics moogy 3 oscillator sound to everyone The X Mod looks really impressive, would of been nice to have a bit more connectivity but the sound of it makes it a win win to anyone Bet Uli is cursing like Hunter S Thomson at Richard Nixons inauguration haha Well done Roland and Studio Electronics

0:33 "It's so good, it's so good, It's so good, it's so good, it's so good" "I feel love, I feel love, I feel love, I feel love, I feel love..."

I canny wait to get my ear lobes around this Beast !!

This thing is unreal... Will join the Roland family in my homestudio no doubt. Comming from an se1 and a novation superbass station both of them sold this thing will be the perfect allie with my mv8k and fantom xa. At last it paid to be a Roland guy.

Wow! I definitely buy it ! An Analog Sh 101 and a Ryk M-185? A dream?

Had to return mine. It would start producing static and continue to deteriorate until no sound would come out. Switching modes from and back to patch would cure it for about 20 seconds. Internally, the components used are about the same quality as the box and knobs. Sounds amazing when it works, but the overall quality of this unit commands little more than $199

My goodness that’s a hell of a demo.

Great sound! BTW, what is that keyboard? Is it good?

Question: Will the USB audio output work with the USB inputs on the MX-1 Mixer?

Wow! Great demo that thing sounds absolutely massive.

Ganz geile Maschine. Für mich ein klarer Zwang. Muss man einfach haben. Das Demo ist sehr gut, macht richtig Lust, die Maschine dranzunehmen und richtig durchzukneten... ;-)

Sold. Thanks for this video.

Good move excellent sound, I can't find any info on the step sequencer on Roland's site, How many steps and what are the record mode options, per step modulation details, how are chains set up...thx

Yeah, it's analog with auto tuned oscillators. In the sounds in this video however it seems as if they are auto tuned too tight. Nothing of analog warm sound of free running oscillators. It sounds as if frequency and phase, although the oscillators are analog, are in a feedback loop (either analog or digital) that is much to tight. It seems like a fun little synth, competative in its price-range. Looking forward to videos from people who know how to get the most (in sound) from a synth.

@RolandChannel How do you have this module mounted above the keyboard? Is it on some type of bracket? Part #/link?

F-ing love this!

OMG, what midi keyboard is that? Please reply! I need that keyboard because it has the joystick like my old Korg N364 from back in the day. Love those joysticks

ill get the Korg Odyssey module and then this baby. wow

Finally! Roland is back in the analog business!

Until I can afford a boomstar this will do nicely, it’s the most intriguing one for me 😃

The player seems to be making all the alterations to the unit thats Midi controlling the SE02. Why isn't the player changing settings on the SE02 directly??

Amazingly groovy demo

nice demo. better than average. 3:27 most epic lick.

Nice silent review. No talking just showing. Feedback on a slider is wise. I use one of my expressions.

That was fantastic.

Yeah! Nice!

Well i think this just blew all the other budget analogue out of the water.

Nice sound !

Roland is very expensive for what is inside (i think the Boutique series,but not tis one).But this one SE 02 you can buy it with confidence..Its a real synth.

Boutiques are great, I wish they continued making new ones like AlphaJuno 2, SH9, and more..

Good sounds and good demonstration!

That's really lovely

Sounds good.

top!!!

Sounds every bit as good as the nearly 4k mini Moog.

nice a minimoog for the orange president, he will love it.

I LOVE ! 💚

I'm impressed....

Hammer Sound!!!

Nice!

ok. now make an analog sh-101 or 202 please.

The new synthesizer has some unique sounds in it. I have an idea for Roland about a sort of tonewheel sample synthesizer where as you press a note on a keyboard, the sound picks up from not the beginning of a loop but somewhere where a loop is running in real time. If you could have a changing sound in the key of every note on the keyboard running, a changing sound which can be modified and morphing completely into a new instrument but keeping the same note, I think that like a tonewheel organ, there is much a new possibility for creating new sounds because when you play a song, the patches are always morphing into new instruments as you play. Also each not could have a different start point to the wheel which is always running. I would like to try something like this on the computer to hear how it sounds, or on a mixer with audio on 36 channels of every key running a one note track which changes the patch but stays in the same note, and use a midi keyboard just to mute the tracks on/off mapped to every key. Sorry for the long note, but in the future something like this could even be tried in analog (other than digital samples which change the patch by morphing it in the same key). A unique range of sound is what I noticed in this SE instrument, and so maybe we will see it one day too. But for now, aside from my wishes, I think that I would like to see your new Boutique synth in my studio. (Also the same idea I had could be used for drums).

Finally a step in the right direction for Roland ? They would clean up if they were to produce a proper, gig-able killer polysynth again. There aren't currently any real competitors for DSI, and Roland's legacy in this area is supreme. I get the feeling that the company would need a total restructure for this to happen though .. they could of course outsource to SE again, but I dunno - with their history surely they've got it in them ?

NOW JUST MAKE AN 8 VOICE ANALOG POLYSYNTH ALREADY GOD DAMN IT

Well played!

I'd buy a MFB Dominion club, instead of this, but I already have a monster mono synth with 3 oscillators: Waldorf Pulse 2.

Great sound, different from my Bass Station II... I’m thinking about to pair SE02 with the BS2.

..Have they done this with Creamware Pro 12? If not, please do :)

Dumb question , but what is the main difference between this and the SH 01A. I like both but can only do one. Any help ?

Funny enough, the sound that got me most excited was that spooky Doctor Who-type sound at 1:49 ^^ This thing sounds great!

I want the boutique Oberheim collab ;)

Nice nice nice nice

Excellent

finally!

I hope there is an way to adjust slop/looseness in the the autotuning of the oscillators so there can be some vintage sounding drifting.

I noticed you’re using the keyboard controls to modify the sound of the SE-02. How are you doing this?

Hi, can does use with Yamaha psr e373 or sx600