Adrian Marsi, Roland Canada's Pro Keyboards & DJ Product Marketing Manager, gives you a tour of the SYSTEM-1's sounds and creative features. For all things AIRA in Canada, please visit: www.rolandaira.ca/
This thing is amazing. We've been booted from the local guitar center for zoning out into this device for the better part of a couple folks shifts there.
I’d been lusting after this gem since it came out and its finally mine with the SH2 plugout. It sounds insane, so much power to it for the price! Roland are always so ahead of their time when launching products that makes a lot of people diss’em because they aren’t ready to move on. 15 years down the line they’ll all be begging for a remake… the story continues..
This an amazing piece of gear. I went in just yesterday to Sam Ash looking at the NI Maschine Jam and happen to play with this while waiting and thought oh good glory this might just have to be on my list for a gift to myself later this year. Great demo.
Lets be honest, its pretty great how much you did with just 2 octaves, I always struggle with being able to accomplish much with that small of a range.
@@samusordicus Which was written by Purcell in 1695 [ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AYELAu9hqdU.html ]. For the flic, Wendy Carlos [Switched on Bach] adapted it for synth - but this has a much more Baroque feel. I think he's riffing Buxtehude or Bach, but I can't name the piece.
I have the same exact synth. I even have the plug in / out SH101 on it. The synth is so powerful it can replicate so many other synths or go into it's own world. With the firmware, it adds even more synth replications, that requires more menu diving on OSC 2. I would like to add that I can't play worth beans, but I love that thing. Add external guitar pedals and one goes into heaven.
Could this work as a stand alone desktop hardware synth or does it have to run with a computer? Looks like a lot of fun and I really like the sound and look of it.
If you were to were not to have the tempo synced, when changing the speed of the arp would it be a smooth increase/decrease rather than the way it jumps to stay in sync with tempo?
Love that aggressive lead sound , any clue on how you achieved that patch. Just recently purchase the System 1 and it's an awesome little bit of kit , it's sound defies it's size.
Wait for the Roland JD-Xa..... As for the System-1, I think I really love its digital sound. The damn 8 patch memory slots is what keeps holding me back from buying this thing. But it is so immediate and gives some good results from what I can see.
The start of it is this - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HtFMxFQrKc4.html Bach - Passacaglia & Fugue In C Minor - BWV 582 - on a side note it reminds me of Super Mario Castle level music.
Honest question. Why do envelope controls (ADSR) which are rarely touched while playing, get nice linear sliders, while things like OSC mix, cutoff frequency, resonance, and others which are usually played with as part of the performance get small rotary knobs? Is there an usability reason or was it done just for looks? I personally think the Alesis Micron (for example) got it right on that front.
I owned an sh101 in the 80s & the short-range keyboard did become irritating (fiddling around with that hi/lo transpose switch all the time tut tut) but surely this can be controlled by an external (88key maybe?hehe) keyboard via MIDI/USB?
Those digital synth tend to all sound similar, I got a korg micro-x, i am pretty sure i can reproduce any of these sounds. It lacks of character, it's hard to hide it even with a lot of reverb...
Still cant get to install any plug out in my synth. the web logs me out every time i click on join now. which is the only option available. lesson learned will stay far away roland toys for good
Can't wait to automate the Scatter feature in real time. My S-1 should be arriving in 2-3 days. Just need to get the SH-101 and SH-2 Software Synths to complete my setup and all will be right with the world 😬 Side note: while I appreciate the fact that this bloke took the time to go through most of the Factory patches, I wish he would stop with the super annoying pitch bends, good lord If I didn't know better and the first patches I heard from the S-1 were those over-the-top detuned bendy sounds, I would close the video and go looking for another plug-in. Just sayin' 😐😐😐😐😐
