Roland now into VSTi development, beginning with SH-101

[D-Fusion]

@chitown24 This is no speculation regarding the price for the System 1 synth
If i want to i can preorder it here for 5190 Norwegian kroner which is $850.95 Us Dollar.
http://www.4sound.no/itempg.aspx?id=3232&artno=343724

Or here in Britisth pounds £569:
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/roland-s ... ynthesizer

Seems like it is cheaper directly in us $649.00 but my estimation was for the country i live in which is the first example.
http://www.stevesmusic.com/keyboards-co ... ynthesizer

First of all, aren't they placeholder prices ? the system-1 will not be available until the end of summer. Online retailers often 'predict' prices of hardware many months in advance of the hardware actually being available, and usually over-estimate to be on the safe side {for them, and to avoid disappointment for the customers}.

Second of all, even if the price is correct it's totally irresponsible of you to post the price in dollars without indicating the source, when you are simply converting from a european price from a european store in a european currency - european retailers as you should well know have import duties and taxes that add to the price, something the american retailers, with their dollar prices, don't. In future, post using original currencies and definitely show sources if you're just relying on place-holder prices from retailers.

you know, for the sake of not spreading misinformation.

[tehlord]

I'm getting my system 1 and TR8 on 21st February, I have confirmation of despatch.

[Numanoid]

Looks pretty neat:

[ChiTown24]

Right. because the world is psychic, and we {especially North Americans} should know when you say 'around $800' what you really mean is '5190 Norwegian kroner as predicted by place-holder price from a store in Norway, so allow for an approximate 25% increase on prices in America due to European import duties. soz for the confusion. btw that's why they call me D-Fusion... cos I put the Fusion in Confusion, lolz'

indeed.

[beely]

I just wish Roland's modern stuff wouldn't look so cheap, cheesy and tacky and generally fugly-looking.

Back in the 80s/90s, Roland stuff was the height of sleek, sexy, modern design. But from about the V-Synth generation, their modern design style went (imo of course) to crap and to look it everything is supposed to be appealing to 14-yr aspirational DJs...

[Sendy]

The new livery is very ugly. Especially on the TB-3 the thing just looks like a massive goofbox (whatever that is). Compare that to the iconic 303, actually wait, don't, there's no comparison.

[MFXxx]

My wish would be to see urs diva/zebra/ace or any other to be honest as a plugout...3rd party possible? I wonder how long it will be before we seem then in there

[Kriminal]

I'm getting my system 1 and TR8 on 21st February, I have confirmation of despatch.

Without demoing?

Cant find anywhere that will stock them until end of march

Like the look of the synth, but wont buy without a hands on demo.

[pdxindy]

My wish would be to see urs diva/zebra/ace or any other to be honest as a plugout...3rd party possible? I wonder how long it will be before we seem then in there

No thanks... Putting Diva or Zebra into a keyboard that does not even have velocity is criminal.

[Frantz]

I also think the AIRA stuff looks terrible.

Graphics on the first computers I used in 1979 were monochrome green. Glowing green pixels on a black screen was all the TRS-80 could do:



The Daft Punk Tron look was paying tribute to that retro computer era:




I think someone at Roland saw Daft Punk and decided that is what futuristic electronic music is supposed to look like. But it's not the future, it's retro cheese.



I would be interested in Roland's SH-101 plugin but I'm not excited about buying a cheesy, glowing green dongle without velocity sensitivity to run it.

[Numanoid]

There is something about this thing that reminds me of Nord Modular and Korg Micro-X...

Why?

[tehlord]

I'm getting my system 1 and TR8 on 21st February, I have confirmation of despatch.

Without demoing?

Cant find anywhere that will stock them until end of march

Like the look of the synth, but wont buy without a hands on demo.

So you're saying you demo'd the Venom and STILL bought it?

[fmr]

My wish would be to see urs diva/zebra/ace or any other to be honest as a plugout...3rd party possible? I wonder how long it will be before we seem then in there

keep dreaming

[Kriminal]

I'm getting my system 1 and TR8 on 21st February, I have confirmation of despatch.

Without demoing?

Cant find anywhere that will stock them until end of march

Like the look of the synth, but wont buy without a hands on demo.

So you're saying you demo'd the Venom and STILL bought it?

No, i bought it on recommendation, from ppl i trust. No regrets, great synth and it was dirt cheap(paid for itself from gigs). £1000 on two units untested isnt something i would risk.

You didnt mention where youre getting them a month earlier than everywhere else...

[fmr]

It doesn't take much working out how roland will play this one

SH101,JUNO,JUPITER,JP8000,D50,JD800

It's all good with me though,nice one roland

The guy that presented the System-1 (an interesting machine, BTW, with what seems to be a good filter, and 4-voice polyphony), said the SH-101, SH-2 and ProMars. Besides, wqe already have an excellent SH-101 (no hardware necessary), and an excellent Juno again, no hardware necessary), a good Jupiter-8 and the oscillators of the JP-8000. The D-50 and JD-800 reside on PCM memory, which I don't see the system engine of System-1 be ready to deal with.