This came up on my RU-vid homepage, and I thought it was an Alex Ball video I'd missed. Fascinated to see another obscure piece of Roland equipment I'd never heard of before. The MPU interface that Alex mentions during his cameo is something I find fascinating. It became a de-facto standard for PC soundcards, but was often implemented poorly in third party products. It has "dumb" and "intelligent" modes that as a programmer I am very intrigued by. I even bought an IBM 5150 (the first model of PC) during the pandemic lockdown, and added a clone of the MPU card to it, then spent lots of time programming it to control my MIDI instruments.
The first piece of Roland/Boss product we had in my house was a RolandDG dot matrix printer for our Commodore 64 computer. I can only imagine what writing university essays would have been like on the manual typewriter the C64/printer/word processor setup replaced.
What a gorgeous-looking synth! Always thought the SH-101 was the perfect monosynth. Nails bass and leads every time. Simple single-osc sound, gorgeous filter, snappy envs, perfect mix of simplicity in the synth signal path, yet can produce a great range of sounds. It's hard to make it sound bad or "stupid" 🙂 Excellent video! Love your rig. Class synths, super effect pedal selection - Snazzy FX and all. Groovy tracks. Easy sub, for me!
I’m excited about this, I use my CMU 800 to split midi in 8 CV channels with a little adapter I got from a builder in Japan. Great content once again. Can’t wait to see it.
@@kurtiunlisted8589 Hi there! I have a couple of CMU-800's and are looking for an Apple II interface - even images and I make my own also the copy of the software.
I got to play with the MSW-810 at Knobcon. I don't know how it compares to the OG or the MC-202, but it sounded fantastic to me. MSW are awesome. They have a hand in making the DinSync RE-808 and RE-909 (at least). Love what they're doing!
one thing that still isn't clear to me about the MSW-810: it has CV inputs for pitch and gate, obviously, but can you confirm whether the "VCA CV" input can control both the VCA Mixer's VCA as well as the cutoff frequency of the VCF via the "CV" attenuator's linear potentiometer? one of the reasons I'm interested is that I want to sequence the VCF cutoff via a Korg SQ-64, or some other complex modulation CV from my 2600, Matriarch, etc.
Very nice bit of kit - but at the time second hand 101s were cheaper and IRRC the MT32 was the most desirable computer music module because the Turtle Beach/Gravis cards would constantly crash under windows and the Creative Soundblaster AWE cards were not yet on the market.
A couple years ago I watched all the handful of jam videos made with this on RU-vid! I think one unit was modified to accept MIDI. I’ve always thought this had a gnarlier sound than similar mono synths from Roland, so thanks for saying that. It’s subtle but a little goes a long way. It’s great for chiptune-type compositions as a result of sounding just a little dirtier.
I just stumbled upon this video thanks to the algorithm, so you might have covered that before... but that modded 202 looks nifty. I have an untouched 202, but your mod doesn't look to butchery ;) What does it allow the 202 to do?
Hey there! This mod is indeed quite well done on the outside (inside is a bit of a mess but it works hahaha), it transform the 202 into a semi-modular, you can see more on it in this video I did a few months ago: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MwcKZNyHFwI.html
Whhhhhhhaaaaaat? I knew they had an early CV/Gate interface for PC, but that had some shitty fixed sounds! Edit: But yeah, with no MIDI and no built-in sequencer, I wouldn't have had the tools to use one anyway, so I guess I didn't really miss out on this thing.
Please do a breakdown of the tune at 0:34. It’s so sick. Sounds like the best version of Luke vibert or something. How do you get that kind of harmony between the synths while it still sounds kind of “Off”. Microtuning? I’m always having issues with keeping things interesting for 3-5 minutes.
Well it was easy here to get the "micro tuning" effect as both things are analog they drift and are not 100% stable so even when you tune them together there is sime slight weirdness happening (I think I also tuned those a bit off from the get go to get this effect more pronounced). I have a bit of a limited timing at the moment but if you really want to see a breakdown of this please consider booking a teaching session at my Patreon ;-)
It's not vintage at all, even tho it's a classic that's being sold since a few decade: the RE20 from Electro Voice. It's expansive but good at almost everything, especialy vocals.
I use guitar pedals with basicly everything hahaha. But yes I love pedals on synth and drum machine more than the rest. I plan on starting a neww serie of videos where I'll try guitar pedals actualy.
Answer from Alex when I asked him: "Goudou Irukayama was the guy. I stumbled across an interview with him in a Japanese magazine from the 80s that came with a Yamaha CS-30. I had the article translated and he makes no mention of the 100m, just talks about synths in general."
a pioneer, whoever he was. If he was never famous, I hope we find him like One Eyed Willie in the Goonies movie, in his treasure cave with a dagger in his teeth.
Well I can understand but I don't know many people who use synths without reverb, so having a little bit of it on it don't seem like such a crazy idea. If it was a 25 sec shimmer it would weird for sure tho.
