The SH-101 is very cool, especially for techno, drum&bass and ACID! It's a monophonic bass synthesizer. Its sound lies somewhere between the TB-303 and a Juno bass sound. It has a lot of simple but cool features. You can control the VCF, pitch, LFO or all from the pitch bender. It has a white noise generator, arpeggiator with up, down and up/down patterns and a simple real-time sequencer. The LFO offers random, sine, square or noise waveforms. And normal or auto portamento effects give you that elastic bass sound. There are external clock inputs for the sequencer and arpeggiator, CV/GATE inputs and outputs and a CV hold pedal.

Unfortunately there is no patch memory storage and although it has no MIDI there are upgrades available for it from many analog service companies that will allow you to incorporate it into any MIDI studio environment. It can also be controlled by MIDI using a CV/MIDI converter. It's great for bass sounds or bubbly analog effects. They come in three different flavors - gray, blue or red (there was a VERY rare white version too)! It can also be strapped on like a guitar for live performance using the optional Hand Grip.

It is used by Orbital, Future Sound of London, Überzone, The Prodigy, 808 State, The Grid, Cirrus, Eat Static, Jimmy Edgar, Apollo 440, Devo, Union Jack, Luke Vibert, Dirty Vegas, Josh Wink, the Crystal Method, Aphex Twin, Astral Projection, Les Rythmes Digitales, Sense Datum, Squarepusher, Sascha Konietzko of KMFDM/MDFMK, Freddy Fresh, Lab-4, Nitzer Ebb, the Chemical Brothers, Boards of Canada and many more.

relic

September 30, 2010 @ 9:57 pm

To really make a cool sound, use the VCF Mod slider while tweaking the cutoff
and res. By playing a sequence and having the VCF modulated randomly by the
LFO and using the legato trick with env in Gate mode, Really moving grooves
can be made. well worth the $800

relic

September 15, 2010 @ 5:40 pm

perfect for electro-industrial tracks. this synth is MEAN! I own a Red one with the grip!

roger

September 10, 2010 @ 1:41 pm

I owned a blue SH-101 years ago and sold it on in 1995 for a whopping £350! That seemed a lot at the time and to be honest it still seems too much these days!

It's quite a basic no-frills afair which gets the job done quickly...but anyone paying over £350 is daft or too rich IMO! :)

phaelam

September 8, 2010 @ 6:58 pm

picked one up for $400 about 8 years ago. loves it.
good for more than just bass. if you see one, id snag it.
but unfortunately the price it out of hand right now.
been seeing them run from anywhere between $800-$1000 USD.
SH101 is great!

Aske

August 20, 2010 @ 6:31 pm

Just got this yesterday for 500$ on dba.dk
Very nice synth indeed and great sounds too :) love it allready. greets from denmark

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