SH-4D Demo & Overview! Roland's Ultimate Synth Groovebox 

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it, really fun machine!

Thank you mate, appreciate it

Thanks very much!

No problems, glad it was helpful, you're gonna love it!

Thinking about getting one. How do you like yours? I feel like it looks like it's just a romper for all the presets. I'm really hoping I'm wrong and that there's a lot a room for sound design. Any feedback welcomed!

@@dannymolns3573 Definitely not just a preset machine, all that hands-on control makes building your own sounds from scratch a joy. The sonic possibilities are very very broad with all the oscillator models too!

@@StoreDJ_online that's what I wanted to hear. If the sound design possibilities are more than it first appears then I'm interested!

cheers Kody, it's great fun!

100% here for a new golden era of grooveboxes, loved the old mc505 and mc909, but they weren't exactly user-friendly and digital synths have come a LONG way in 20 years

@@StoreDJ_online ya, I hear you but I just would prefer they work on the one they have out now (mc707) or improve it instead of spreading functionality across the four? they have now.

mc707 development is definitely still ongoing, latest firmware released a few months added a few highly requested features! what are you hoping they bring to the 707?

@@StoreDJ_online A few upgrades (kind word - many were fixes for bad functionality and bugs as well) years after release...that should have been already in the box on release date. I'm not trying to get into a debate here with you. I love my mc707. But both things can be true. You are obviously a big Roland defender. I'm glad you enjoy their grooveboxes. But let's not fool ourselves. We are far from the"golden age" of grooveboxes - in fact that's my point. They build these things for maximum continuous sales - not to create a great long lasting product. In another year they will release something else. And on and on. None of it having to do with evolution but rather product sales and novelty. This is not news. It's a fact. And Roland just proved it with this release.

@@StoreDJ_online honest question what can a digital synth do today that is such a long ways improvement over a D50, JD 800, Akai Sampler, PPG Wave 2, Wavestation, or EMU synth? It seems like if people still want certain performance functionalities the original synths from 30 years ago arguably are still the most direct route to get what they want. The new digital synths from Roland fail by not providing a keybed at an affordable price, having a single knob control multiple functions in the same patch, reusing tones and samples from legacy synths while sounding worse than the originals by cutting corners in the emulation process, and forcing people to menu dive on such a tiny screen for all their modern products. I've got the SE 02 and I'm floored to have such a portable analog synth but for something built off the super tweakable mini Moog the controls can be astoundingly user unfriendly, I find myself just playing it without tweaking and calling up midi cc program changes from another device to do tone changes when a song calls for it. This device looks cool but it seems to fail on a basic level at being a groovebox - I'm not seeing a song mode of any sort. Interested in slaving it to my Deluge as an actually for once knobby tone module but just wondering what about this product isn't meant to directly eat into Roland's sales of it's boutique and aira compact lines, which at the end of the day are also not really complete grooveboxes

Thanks! Your boutique is likely more sonically faithful to the original model if that matters to you, but they'd certainly occupy a similar territory. Before you make any rash decisions with beloved synthesizers, Go and try an SH-4d in store if you can, see how it sounds to your ears 🙂

I feel the opposite and want to do B2B with them!

Sell your syntakt to me for $650 and we'll call it even

Considering how much is crammed into this little box, it's incredibly streamlined and easy (no manual was available at the time of filming, but i had no problems), if you're familiar with synths and step sequencers you'll have no issues. Haven't used the mc-707 extensively sorry so can't really comment there -Mike

no pattern chaining at this point, but when you switch patterns the current patterns plays in full before switching to the next one so it's easy enough to do manually. Hopefully we see chaining in a future firmware

Hey there, each synth model shares the same master envelopes and filters, but some oscillator models feature extra modulation, like the FM engine and SH3D engine. With some tricky programming, i suspect there'd probably be a way to do (or get close to) what you're wanting, but the easiest way would be to layer two tracks

Random, but Im a JD-Xi owner and SH-4D seem to got more sound shaping options than JD-Xi

just tried it, yes you can :) While in the mixer/mute mode, hold shift and select which drum sound you want to tweak, then play with the filter and level of that drum sound to your hearts content.

@@StoreDJ_online You are the freaking best!!! Thank you!

no song mode or pattern chaining at this point, patterns do wait til they're finished to switch to the next selected pattern though, so it's not too hard to do manually. Can't see a song mode happening but hopefully we see chaining in a future firmware

Do you not understand what it is… it’s a phrase writing synth! Not a groove box not a beat machine. It’s a synthesizer. No song mode or pattern chains are needed.

@@officialknightowlz Ok, that's clever phrasing, but sure. Nevermind the dedicated track to drums, but ok it's not a beat machine. Nevermind the four tracks of Synth, it's not a groovebox. It's just a simple, normal synthesizer. Got it.

@@brianwilliams4686 the whole tr line of drum machines are synthesizer also I think you are over looking that fact.

Sure is

Yes! It features AIRA link support so should work together beautifully

Would definitely encourage you to try one in store if you can, it might surprise you 😉

650 euro £530

599€

@@saintnicholas5507 AUD is different, this is a local store that's why I was asking them, sometimes we pay less, sometimes more.

Available to order now at AUD$1059, stock has landed in Australia and is on route! Always best to check the website for current pricing 😉

@@StoreDJ_online Yeah too expensive for what it is, I know you guys have sales and don't set Roland's $s, but they're taking the piss here.

it can be turned off 😉

None of these patterns were made by Roland, but thanks for the feedback 😂

@@StoreDJ_online oh I am sorry if these were yours as they are better than I could ever create ,🤦 I thought they were professional programmers hired by Roland 🤦

@@stevegriffiths566 🤣