ROLAND SH-2000 Analog Synthesizer 1974 | HD DEMO 

Back in 1975 my 7 grade music teacher played a record album with experimental synth sounds and told all of us it is the music of the future. I think this is the exact same demo that she played on the vinyl!

I love how it gets ARP 2600 sounds without being modular (and just when you were looking for value it's got presets) like: BANJO

I think this synth must have been first choice of many composers for childrens/educational programs in the 70s!

I think all these old school Roland analog machines were created by some Aliens that visited the earth at that time and after that humans could never reverse engineered and make better fatter sounding instruments!!! Aliens please come back!!

I had one in the late 70s and I loved it. Great preset sounds and then you can easily modify them

Nice, very nice! Thanks for this.

Sounds amazing and so authentic. Love the oboe sound at 7:16.

wonderful sounds!

This synth into an Echoplex is the opening sounds of 'Fly Like an Eagle' by Steve Miller.

Wow! I had this this synth about ten years ago SH 2OOO And I was doing the same things with it just as u do in the video! I was surprised finding that in fact it had aftertouch (years before midi and everything) (and despite the fact that it had no velocity...) As I remember the aftertouch was done by one simple mechanism under the keys and when u pressed a key it put down a long metal rod of some sort, attached to a potmeter (only one at the end or start of the keyboard)... so the way of building was amazingly simple but the concept and practicality is wonderful! :) Great to see somebody has one :) Thanks for the vid!

The presets sound amazing.

J'en ai eu un , j'étais jeune looool et avec ce Synth je pouvais faire le bruit d'un train ! Looool .

A Great Machine! Thanks a lot for Presentation. Sometimes, the sounds reminds me of my KORG 700 mini.

So nice to see my old kybd, I bought it new back in the day, I think I paid 379.00, and that was a lot. My Fender Rhodes was 579.00 I think. I tried the sh-1000 but took it back to Gilsonite Music for the new the sh-2000, wow how things have changed. And it's funny I just purchased a Behringer Model D, I say this because now analog synth is coming back!

My first synth

Man I got one but the VCO suddenly went silent. It was so awesome while it lasted. Noise/ "Wind" was working but now that's silent too. Working like mad to fix it. She's such a beaut, I want her back!

Fabulous.

I want one, can't help it.

so underrated

Sequence at 3:20 reminds me of "sb-129"

7:04 sounds like the much later released TB-303

Flight of the navigator

Hey Analog Audio1, do you know how much the SH-1000 & 2000 cost, when they were initially released back in 1973-74? Also, do you know if they were intended to accompany home organs & sit on top of them? I know a few synths were designed with that on mind, and those switches on the bottom pf the 1000-2000 look a lot like the switches on home organs.

It didn't only come with aftertouch. @1:35, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CJO7LBYXVAg.html it seems to have come with pre-touch in this video, ie the Synth predicts what keys is gonna be played and plays a sound before the hand hits the keys.... :)

4:49 you accidently played a short boards of canada melody, noice!

Great synth, can hear the midnight express theme lead sound at 2.12secs

4:30 loved this part

When you saw the control panel for this synth did you think you could dial up these sounds? shock!

You can clearly hear this used heavily on the BBC series Box of Delights from 1984.

Perfect Beeper Booper Box.

cool

WIth all the buttons not engaged do you still get a sound - sounds like a square/sine - that triggers throughout the whole keyboard and can be edited like having a normal patch ? in mine i get this symptom and i dont know if its faulty or not, all other is fine. Think of a sub osc but a higher in pitch.

supergrass "sun hits the sky" solo....

Lovely analog sounds! Are u using some kind of reverb effects!?

Steve Miller used this and the ARP Odyssey on his 1976 album Fly Like an Eagle and 1977's Book of Dreams.

were do u get all these vintage analog synths.

what is the name of this song ?

What is the main difference between early Roland synths and Korg synths? Anyone care to chime in? Roland sounds a lot warmer to my ears... very spacey......... classic sci-fi sounds!

very familiar sounds at 3.xx - heard it in lot's of russian si-fi movies of 70-80s

I’m soo damn in love with this little beast. Is the mini korg anywhere similar to this?

My first ever synth.. left it at my dads house when i left home..perfect condition.. he sold it for 40.00 can't forgive him

Is it one with the Moog type filter or the later Roland filter? (serial number will tell you)

great sounds wonder why the makers roland korg Yamaha don't go back to to their a original way of making synthesizers should be cheaper now then before back in the 70,s

Instant Kitaro vibes

Between Roland SH-2000 and Korg 900 PS? Which one do you prefer?

Speaks frequency

Sounds like some of the kids cheap synthesizer/keyboards of the 80's.

Cool! Заебись)

4:21 Trautonium

Hi there are you interested in selling the keyboard

this screams vangelis

how did you get the sequenced sounds without touching the keys?

Sounds like the Gameboy's sound chip if it had testicles.

They're like $4000 now 😔

man sollte vielleicht auch mal erwähnen, dass die Tastatur wirklich unbrauchbar ist, dass auf der Unterseite eine Öffnung ist, aus der ein elektronisches Bauteil rausragt - warum auch immer, dass die kiste gut 20kg auf die Waage bringt und dass diese scheiss Kippschalter echt n Risiko darstellen, da die ziemlich offen und ungeschützt rausgucken und leicht mal eben abbrechen können oder unabsichtlich betätigt werden ... um auch mal die negativen Seiten zu nennen positiv bleibt allerdings, dass es scheissegal ist, was man damit macht ... es klingt einfach IMMER typisch nach sich selbst und klingt immer irgendwie niedlich ... nix für aggro Musik ... es bleibt einfach immer ein happy synth und wer happy music machen möchte, ist in sofern super eingeschränkt und man kann einfach keine fehler auf der Bühne machen - egal was man drückt, schiebt, regelt ... es bleibt einfach süss und schöööööööööön waaaaaaaaaarm .... ps: habe trotzdem verkauft und mir ein moog sub 37 geholt :P

It was an ok synth but compared to a Minimoog or Odyssey it was kinda awful. The prices people are willing to pay for these nowadays are ridiculous.