Thanks so much for this and your video on the different Models. I’ve owned the SH4d for about a year and discovered a lot that I had completely overlooked. Excited to making new noises with it!
I was wavering back and forth on whether or not to buy this synth, but seeing that you put out a walkthrough for it it what sent me over the edge. It's a really fun synth, and this walkthrough is fantastic.
@@dannymolns3573 I really like it a lot. It's funny--I saw reviews where people said it has lots of options but was hard to figure out, but I think it is actually easier than so many other synths with sequencers. I guess it is probably harder than a virtual synth (i.e. via DAW) to figure out, but I don't use those. Perhaps the other drawback might be how easy it would be to use live, but I don't do that, either (so I don't really know one way or the other). Don't get me wrong, the sounds are essentially digital, so it just isn't going to replace the sound of an all-analog old-school synth, but with the SH-4D, you essentially have 5 synths that you can sequence (i.e. 4 melodic synths and a drum machine), and each of them can sound completely different.
@@stevenreich8623 appreciate your reply! I'm more interested in the sound design capabilities of this. Is there a lot of room for sound design? I feel like from what I've seen it's kinda of restricted in that way. I wanna go deep and do stuff that my vsts aren't capable of 😯
@@dannymolns3573 I'm not exactly sure how deep you want to go. Have you watched the XNB's accompanying video about the oscillator models? That will give you a much better idea of what you can actually do beyond just the envelope, filter, LFO, and effects. I'm guessing that it might not give you the kind of control you're looking for, but if you haven't watched the accompanying video, I'd say to take some time and go through it.
This is gonna be invaluable for me. My 4d arrives on Monday. Despite the badgear savaging it got, I’m really drawn to this machine. Thanks for your hard work
as funny as badgear can be, mr audiopilz is a bit annoying because although the sh-4d has a few annoyances, it is a lovely bit of kit and I have not regretted my purchase one bit. It's lovely to sit on the sofa and start ideas that end up in my DAW to be completed. It would be great to have more sequencing tools and a song mode, but in terms of an "audio scribblebook" I love it. Naughty clickbait audiopilz😂
@@Jegnome-w8m your reply has ticked all the boxes. He has a lot of hate for Roland and went in two footed this time. I do agree with you. Great little synth
For the tie note thing, you can stay on the same step and press tie multiple times. No need to sitch to the next step for that. Thx for this awesome video
MY shortcut is to start with overwrite and just always use overwrite all the time when nothing is there, It asks you to name the pattern and the tones and the rhythm kit. It walks through each step. Then each time you save and overwrite, it just updates whatever you changed. it's the fastest and simplest way for me.
Listening to you explain the save structure shows me that half of the “synthtubers” that “reviewed” this machine didn’t try or felt they didn’t get paid enough.
Thanks very much for this. It was necessary. When I first got this thing I thought this must be the only sequencer in the world without a record or play or rewind button. I consider myself half-smart but this thing is as unintuitive as could be. I think the folks at Roland are in such deep Groupthink that they have no clue as to how the world works. Many thanks! It does sound amazing though and so I’ve stuck with it
Wow, Thank you !!! Yes, it's a bit overwhelming at first. But once you get the workflow it gets easier, fun and creative. Do not buy an SP-404, it's very confusing. I am am preparing a deep dive to SP-404 and it took me a while to understand it.
@@XNBeatsMusic Hi xnb, was just wondering if you could help . I'm sure you've explained it but here goes. When playing back a pattern of over 16 steps, the follow light dissapears when pattern moves onto steps 17-64. Is there a way to make the sequencer change page as it plays ? This has been driving me crazy.
Great cip mate - Dave from South Australia! Any MSB LSB PC" for changing these presents via Logic? Lots of confusion over this online. Would love to manipulate this machine in the MPC with midi controllers! The manual isn't helpfu haha - Cheers for a great clip!
Hi XNB and thank you so much for your crystal clear video! For my musical experimentation I would need to go below the 20bpm limit of the SH-4D. Do you know if this might (somehow) be possible? Thank you in advance.
Global volume by default is really low on these. If you go to SHIFT 16 (settings) and then System EQ, and then change the value of "IN GAIN" you can raise the volume floor. I have mine set at 20db out of 24. I play through a Roland Street Cube 2 and sure, I could raise the volume there, but, most of the time it is under my desk and I don't want to crawl down there to adjust it there.
When the LFO is BPM synced and key trigger is off, the LFO starts in a random phase position when I press play. This is really annoying since I love playing rythm parts with BPM sync and LFO triggered by the part, not the song. I don't know if I am doing something wrong but this is my only complaint at the moment. I got the synth a couple of weeks ago and I can't say I have spent a lot of time with it, maybe I am missing something.
So would it be best to just delete everything from the favourites pattern bank, in order to start from scratch and save your own to chain them one after another? I.e. The orange row of lights when you hit pattern.
Subscribed ! And Quick question :) is there a way to easily clear the notes but keep the motion recorded? This would be helpful when I use my external midi sequencer to play the notes but want to rely on the SH4D for the recorded motion only Thanks
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Hello is there any quantize options? Could you explain?
I've had the sh-4d for a few days. However, I've noticed that the "keyboard" is a bit harder to press from the higher "C" onwards. Is that normal for these devices or should I exchange the part?
cheers. what about saving stuff externally. I always find these sorts of devices I use alot i run out of patterns and I need to have an easy way of saving them sort of like songs and load between gigs
Does anyone know why it does not play back motion records (01:27:41) if the midi channels have been set to different than the default (f.e. 5-6-7-8 instead of 1-2-3-4)? It records them, because there are in the steps details, but doesn't play it back, only if the midi channels of parts are on default. :(
Hi, is it possible to get the mix-in channel into the usb towards a DAW ? is there a way to browse into the audio track files of the SH4D with a computer via usb ?
I'm really having a hard time determining if this synth is good for sound design. To me, from what I'm seeing is that it's a glorified rompler (that can be tweaked) but can you direct me since you are very familiar with it? I want this or the minilogue xd. But for sound design and to make some wicked patches. Does this have depth in the sound design field. Or does the 11 sound engines take away from this? Everywhere else about this I love. Battery, lights, sampler, sequencer and the groovenoc capabilities. Please advise me if possible!
A Rompler plays back samples and usually has basic filter, ADSR envelope, LFO, Effects. This has samples on board so it can Romple, but the four synth engines can do real synthesis, starting with raw oscillators and building them from there. The drum parts have samples too, but they can also do drum systhesis building a sound up from raw oscillators/modulators
Is there something like this, but to work with samples (ideally, with fade in/out controls per sample)? Any comments from people who knows about synthesizers, and other music production gear would be greatly appreciated 😉👍
I purchased this synthesizer two days ago.After reading through the documentation and working through a few tutorials on youTube I already see one BIG short coming with this synth: One of the most important signal processing blocks is the filter. There is no way to see what the filter settings are configured to in any of the parts or tones. There is no menu selection to show the filter ADSR or show the parameter settings. The only thing I see is if you turn any filter control, the adjustment shows up on the LCD screen instantaneously, but that is not very helpful if you need to see the actual patch settings. Shame on you Roland!!!
