Jarp2600 wrote:- presets are very Trance-orientated
- No onboard sequencer
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Most synths nowadays have rather limited appeal to me,although i do like the odd Dance genre Preset, i think many synths are overlooked by people because they beleive the presets are the only thing its capable of so in theory bypass using one because its geared for dance heads,which is a shame,because there are a lot of damn good synths out there thats capable of so much more if only some would look beyond the presets...especially VA where you have more options on programming interfaces anyway
I bought a Korg Electribe MX a few months ago the guy in the shop asked me what sort of music i do,when i told him he said the EMX wasnt really suited for me as it was aimed at the DJ/Producer....what a total load of Bollox,the EMX has intergrated into my music perfectly and theres no sign of a Trance or Techno track been written by me with it...just because it has preset Dance patterns doesnt mean its not capable of being used for just about any genre...to me the programmer makes the music not the machine..You only get out of it what you put in.
but on the appearance of trance presets in the SH,if you look at the sounds programmed into the Old Jupiters and Junos many of them were made that way,its just the Trance /Dance genres picked up on it and found they were suited to that type of Timbre
As for lack of sequencer on the SH,would be pretty pointless anyway seeing as its Monotimbral!!!!!the Arps i would suspect takes care of any sort of sequencer lines you may want to play on it,lets hope it has the ability to edit your own Arp patterns.
64 presets may not sound like much,but again we have synths loaded with 1000's of presets,how many times over the useage of the machine are you ever gonna get through a 1000 patches???Its better to have 64 decent usuable patches than a couple hundred of pointless plips and pops or 500 variations of a sampled trumpet your never gonna use.limitations make you explore further to get the most of what it does...
I actually think that having a few Mono timbral synths are better than having racks of multitmbral units.I adore my Prophecy it has a certain charm that many synths dont have..its polyphony limitations are one of its strong points playing wise it gives you a certain sense of playing an old Analog monosynth and actually teaches you to play another way,especially when your used to polyphonic playing..
I'm gonna check out the SH soon,looks intruiging..I just hope Roland havent filled it with TB/Jupiter emulation presets,i get sick and tired of new synths still replicating old stuff,how many tired old emulations can you do!!!!
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