I’ve had mine for 25 years and I will never sell it. It was manufactured the same year I was born :) I think the filter is amazing with a warmth and very nice resonance. The one oscillator but with combination functionality can sound really phat! A bit of processing, a delay and reverb and this synth reaches the skies. The presets however are more like toys... Also check out this video: th-cam.com/video/Cmlu4b8gZZY/w-d-xo.html
This was my first synth in the mid 70's. I vastly underestimated it at the time, because it wasn't a minimoog, but actually it was a remarkable little synth, and with a little delay and chorus, it sounded awesome. I miss it and would love to get one again some day.
I bought one of these brand new in 1973, and haven't seen one since. I wish you would have spent more time digging in rather than make fun of it. I got a lot of cool sounds out of it which worked in a lot more songs than you would have thought. I can't remember what I did with it, but it was very cool to see it again anyway.
I'm picking one of these up next week, it was literally the first synth I laid my hands on as a toddler. (Sadly, my dad had to let it go when we moved from Vancouver in 1975)
Great video and great performance. 👍 In 1973 I saw ELP live. I called my music shop and said: I need a synthesizer. They said: we have a Roland SH1000 for 1000 DM. I bought it immediatly ( how naive) and quickly realised: it doesn't sound like a Moog. So I collected all my money and bought a Minimoog in Hamburg for 5000 DM! I still have the Roland today. It is like new. But I love my (now) two Minimoogs. Modified, I can control both devices with one. What a sound! Many greetings.
This was a synth used in a quite a few children's programs in the early to mid 70s.. Always thought they used Moogs or Arps but nope, this sounds exactly right!
Thanks for posting! Wonderful to hear some of those sounds again. I owned one for about 10 years back in the day. Incredibly versitile , add a reverb and echo and the universe is the limit. Used on Dar Side Of The Moon.
My all-time favourite synth! I've had two of them. Sadly I had to sell the first to pay the rent during college. The second was destroyed by an inept tech. Grrr. One of these days I'll grab a third, forever keeper version. Love the videos. Keep 'em coming!
For a while I used to just watch you while unsubscribed but last Christmas... I managed to do just that. U guys were all amazing gift and thank you always for the tips!
i really don`t now a single beat about music, but see you so happy about it , playing and toy with them with so joy, make my life so happy ! this is my first comment on you channel... XD
I own one, and I simply adore it. I think you will too. Despite having just one oscillator, it can sound fat, but I tend to run it through a Boss CE-300 chorus to thicken it up even more (without straying from that classic Roland sound). The filter is a -24db/oct diode ladder design, quite similar to the EMS VC3, and it sounds amazing. The filter always tracks the keyboard, except on some of the presets, so it can be used as a second oscillator when self-oscillating, to create some tuned FMish sounds. However, like other ladder filters (including Moog's), It does suffer from a volume drop on the low end as resonance increases, IMO, the best preset is the bass guitar. It doesn't quite come through in the video, unfortunately, but it is killer. The other presets are ok (they aren't entirely useless), and they can be altered using the tremolo, vibrato, growl, and wah settings. The cool thing is that the parameters for each preset are programmed using a diode matrix, which is easily hackable, so the adventurous can open their SH1000's and make their own presets.
I just got this synth.. for free, due to my step sisters father passing. I never met the man, but I expect we'd have got on due to our common interest in synthesis and electronic music. Not only did he leave this behind, but also a real to real tape deck with two reels of tape in boxes, one labelled with recording of the moon landing. My dad tried to have a go with the synth but couldn't get a sound out of it. So I acquired it from him and opened it up and cleaned all the contacts and hey presto, it works! The sound is great. It's exactly what I've been dreaming of for years. A real analog synth 🧡
Sounds like it was used to write 80's computer games! That's not a bad thing :) Reminds me of my Moog Satellite with it's flip up/down switches, but you have lots of knobs to twiddle with :)
I still have mine with music stand and flight case. I modded it with a CV in/out and added a pulse width modulation to the osc which back in the day was phat! One thing is that it kept in tune far better than the mini moog. :D
Fun fact: The first synthesizer I played on a recording was one of these Roland SH-1000s, along with a Crumar string synth. My bandmate had a lot of fun gear back in 1998. The SH-1000 is a lot of fun for something so simple.
Hello, Dr. Mix,- greetings from the dark winter of Scandinavia. Thoroughly enjoying all of your presentations of all of the vintage synths from my youth in the late 70s and up through the 80s. I remember all of those hits that were made with these fantastic machines,- from the the early Tangerine Dream, Roxy Music and the Popcorn hit over Vangelis to Madonna and the entire British New Romantics movement of Duran Duran, Eurhythmics and Depeche Mode etc. The fun part is that I don´t play the piano,- I´m a Metal guitar player! However, if I ever want any of these old fantastic sounds in my music I now know where to look for which DAW plugins to buy and then use your demonstrations as a guideline to making them sound right,- good deal! :) So,- thank you,- fun, educating and entertaining. You of course have yourself a new subscriber.
I fixed a Diode ladder filter PCB mounted board on one of these 3 years ago and it was hell removing all the resin gloop the board was dipped in at manufacturing. To my surprise about 8 diodes were dead but after the board was cleaned up and repopulated with new components the synth sounded so sweet again for the customer.
Roland and Yamaha's first analog synths look similar (The Yamaha SY-1, and This) I think its the preset tabs and the woodgrain, whatever it is, I love them both!
@@Doctormix Of course "cher ami"! I'm a guitarist but I play keys bass and drums quite properly... And I'm discovering the world of synths tones.... Your channel is great lol already spent hours on it ahahah
Hey Claudio. I'm highly interested in a subject and I'd love to hear your insight. So maybe if someday you have room to cover the subject I drop it here. How to use SFX tastefully in a song ? I'm at a point I clearly understand I need that in my tracks, but I have no clue where to start and I'm stuck at wondering how to do. Thanks. ;)
I'm soo exited. I´ve been waiting a long time for someone to go deep with the fat sounds this Roland bad boy can do. This cool synt made the magic bassound used in the world wide megahit "Just an illusion" by the famous disco/pop/funk group called Imagination. It would be amazing if you Claudio could recreate the fat bass used in almost every Imagination hit song. I think the bass sound was going thru a Boss chorus aswell.
damm, a synth before my birth year on Doctor Mix channel... sounds very interrest to my... like the sounds form my old commodore vic20 games... Love it Claudio ^^
By the way, if you disengage the presets you have complete control over all the parameters. Really nice oscillator and filter. Only wish it had CV input.
I remember trying to restore one of these at my last job. The wiring alone made me wanna throw it in the trash. In the end, the issue was a blown via chip that we couldn't replace....
I have both, just for your information in case you don’t know. The SH2000 is high note priority and the 1000 is low note priority. I found the 1000 difficult to play at first, but I’ve since adapted my playing style.
Ok that was happiness in its purest form. PLEASE do more reconstructions with this synth in the future!!! (Also, I'm subbed to the channel. Can I use that as a bargaining chip?)
Not quite, the thing is this is a very simple synth, and a few years later they could make it all into a single microchip. But it’s all about square waves... they all sound like 8bit music :-)
Doc I have a burning question. I want to restore the keyboard of my Ensonic Esq1 starting with the cone shaped springs that hold the keys in place. They are almost all stretched out after 30 years of use witch makes playing with the right velocity a crime. I searched the web and other sources ( there are company's that do keyboard restoration but it's expensive and I want to do it my self ), and I can't find a company that can deliver them. Maybe You or your fans have a clue where to get them. Many Thx.
Ha! I get a bit shy when going into restoration. I tend to call the pros. These guys are deemed to be amongst the best in London synthservice.com sorry I can’t hrlp more. Ah, youtube tutorials. Ha! In the US? Www.synthchaser.com
Dear Dr. Mix, I am soooo waiting for the video about Korg m50. I'd like to see what would you take out of it. I don't sweeten you but you are one of my favorite TH-camrs :) Thanks for great contents.
Grande Claudio!!! Il suono del sax è terribile 😂😂. Come al solito gran bel video.... ci fai un saluto in italiano nel prossimo video??? Sei il numero uno!!!
It doesn’t sound like What A Fool Believes synth to me. You can watch them playing that song and it’s not the same synthesizer or sound. th-cam.com/video/qKYQNtF11eg/w-d-xo.html
@@ds99 I think in the original recording they used an Oberheim 2-voice or 4-voice. In that video Michael McDonald is using a stage piano with a Prophet 5 on top.
I’ve had mine for 25 years and I will never sell it. It was manufactured the same year I was born :) I think the filter is amazing with a warmth and very nice resonance. The one oscillator but with combination functionality can sound really phat! A bit of processing, a delay and reverb and this synth reaches the skies. The presets however are more like toys...
Also check out this video: th-cam.com/video/Cmlu4b8gZZY/w-d-xo.html
oh wow!! That sounded AWESOME... nice video!! Thanks for the heads up!!
Happy b-day!!
That's litteraly a Nintendo NES music generator!
8 bits baby! 😄
Frank Drebbin no
More like Atari 2600 😆
It’s literally the 8-bit video game synth. I love it!
This was my first synth in the mid 70's. I vastly underestimated it at the time, because it wasn't a minimoog, but actually it was a remarkable little synth, and with a little delay and chorus, it sounded awesome. I miss it and would love to get one again some day.
I bought one of these brand new in 1973, and haven't seen one since. I wish you would have spent more time digging in rather than make fun of it. I got a lot of cool sounds out of it which worked in a lot more songs than you would have thought. I can't remember what I did with it, but it was very cool to see it again anyway.
3:34 R2-D2 sound😂
I'm picking one of these up next week, it was literally the first synth I laid my hands on as a toddler. (Sadly, my dad had to let it go when we moved from Vancouver in 1975)
In my studio I have an SH-1000 above a Juno-6 in a rack. Small world ;)
SH-1000 above a Juno 106 above a Juno 6 over here :)
In my studio SH-1000 is above over everything😁 ✌
Finding your channel has been one of the highlights of this pandemic quarantine. Thanks for the awesomeness!
Great video and great performance. 👍 In 1973 I saw ELP live. I called my music shop and said: I need a synthesizer. They said: we have a Roland SH1000 for 1000 DM. I bought it immediatly ( how naive) and quickly realised: it doesn't sound like a Moog. So I collected all my money and bought a Minimoog in Hamburg for 5000 DM! I still have the Roland today. It is like new. But I love my (now) two Minimoogs. Modified, I can control both devices with one. What a sound! Many greetings.
This was a synth used in a quite a few children's programs in the early to mid 70s.. Always thought they used Moogs or Arps but nope, this sounds exactly right!
Thanks for posting!
Wonderful to hear some of those sounds again.
I owned one for about 10 years back in the day.
Incredibly versitile , add a reverb and echo and the universe is the limit.
Used on Dar Side Of The Moon.
3:04 Jesu bleibet meine freude sequence
6:56!! Atari!!
Yessss I've been waiting for this one! Seeing this pop up in my feed just made my day! Thank you Doctor!
Sounds like a straight up 8-bit synth from the 80's...like
youbecha64 I know I heard the first three notes of the original Power Rangers show!
Kindof, but it is analogue and not digital so I guess it has a bit more warmth. Would recommend Soulsby Atmegatron for that :)
Its stuff like this why Dr.Mix is easily my favorite subscription! Only channel I actually clicked the bell........cant miss none of this!
My all-time favourite synth! I've had two of them. Sadly I had to sell the first to pay the rent during college. The second was destroyed by an inept tech. Grrr. One of these days I'll grab a third, forever keeper version.
Love the videos. Keep 'em coming!
This was my first ! I bought a defective one just to use the keyboard for my synthesizer project, but I managed to fix it! 🥳
I got a used one of these back in the 80s. I loved it!
I think you played every sound from my gaming days back in the 80's! 😄So much love, so much energy! 😀
For a while I used to just watch you while unsubscribed but last Christmas... I managed to do just that. U guys were all amazing gift and thank you always for the tips!
Yayyyyu thanks for the sub!
i really don`t now a single beat about music, but see you so happy about it , playing and toy with them with so joy, make my life so happy ! this is my first comment on you channel... XD
That is a unique find; with a unique design.!!!
I own one, and I simply adore it. I think you will too. Despite having just one oscillator, it can sound fat, but I tend to run it through a Boss CE-300 chorus to thicken it up even more (without straying from that classic Roland sound).
The filter is a -24db/oct diode ladder design, quite similar to the EMS VC3, and it sounds amazing. The filter always tracks the keyboard, except on some of the presets, so it can be used as a second oscillator when self-oscillating, to create some tuned FMish sounds. However, like other ladder filters (including Moog's), It does suffer from a volume drop on the low end as resonance increases,
IMO, the best preset is the bass guitar. It doesn't quite come through in the video, unfortunately, but it is killer. The other presets are ok (they aren't entirely useless), and they can be altered using the tremolo, vibrato, growl, and wah settings. The cool thing is that the parameters for each preset are programmed using a diode matrix, which is easily hackable, so the adventurous can open their SH1000's and make their own presets.
I just got this synth.. for free, due to my step sisters father passing. I never met the man, but I expect we'd have got on due to our common interest in synthesis and electronic music. Not only did he leave this behind, but also a real to real tape deck with two reels of tape in boxes, one labelled with recording of the moon landing. My dad tried to have a go with the synth but couldn't get a sound out of it. So I acquired it from him and opened it up and cleaned all the contacts and hey presto, it works! The sound is great. It's exactly what I've been dreaming of for years. A real analog synth 🧡
Sounds like it was used to write 80's computer games!
That's not a bad thing :)
Reminds me of my Moog Satellite with it's flip up/down switches, but you have lots of knobs to twiddle with :)
I still have mine with music stand and flight case. I modded it with a CV in/out and added a pulse width modulation to the osc which back in the day was phat! One thing is that it kept in tune far better than the mini moog. :D
Doctor Mix in action: operating on boxes and making snow in the studio - MAGIC! ;)
Fun fact: The first synthesizer I played on a recording was one of these Roland SH-1000s, along with a Crumar string synth. My bandmate had a lot of fun gear back in 1998. The SH-1000 is a lot of fun for something so simple.
Nice!
1998: oh I got this trash at a pawn shop for a 100 bucks.
2020: I got this at an auction for 800 bucks!
The best machine if you want to remix classic arcade game tune.
That dude’s got enjoyable skills. Joy to see. Keep the vids coming!
So cool!! More more !
It looks awesome and seems like it would be a really cool lead synth in the right hands! :D
Nice video, rocked it!
6:40 maybe this is the synth that Crazy Bus theme was composed on?
Love your videos! Keep them coming
Thanks!!!!
All the sounds for pacman seem to come from this synth :P
Hello, Dr. Mix,- greetings from the dark winter of Scandinavia.
Thoroughly enjoying all of your presentations of all of the vintage synths from my youth in the late 70s and up through the 80s.
I remember all of those hits that were made with these fantastic machines,- from the the early Tangerine Dream, Roxy Music and the Popcorn hit over Vangelis to Madonna and the entire British New Romantics movement of Duran Duran, Eurhythmics and Depeche Mode etc.
The fun part is that I don´t play the piano,- I´m a Metal guitar player!
However, if I ever want any of these old fantastic sounds in my music I now know where to look for which DAW plugins to buy and then use your demonstrations as a guideline to making them sound right,- good deal! :)
So,- thank you,- fun, educating and entertaining.
You of course have yourself a new subscriber.
Omg. It's great to back! ❤
Picked mine up for £150 around 2001 or so. Love it.
I fixed a Diode ladder filter PCB mounted board on one of these 3 years ago and it was hell removing all the resin gloop the board was dipped in at manufacturing. To my surprise about 8 diodes were dead but after the board was cleaned up and repopulated with new components the synth sounded so sweet again for the customer.
The Rah Band sounds style... Fantastic!!!
superfun review!
Roland and Yamaha's first analog synths look similar
(The Yamaha SY-1, and This)
I think its the preset tabs and the woodgrain, whatever it is, I love them both!
Sounds Great!
Great synth! Vids like this are why I clicked the bell!
Ha! Niiiice!!
such a great history lesson, which it was everyday christmas like this =D
My favorite synth!!!!!!!!!!!
That synth is madness! Pure madness! For its time
Just discovered your channel.... So great. Knowledge and happiness. Best channel. Period. ❤️😍🙏🙏🙏
Have you subscribed yet?..
@@Doctormix Of course "cher ami"! I'm a guitarist but I play keys bass and drums quite properly... And I'm discovering the world of synths tones.... Your channel is great lol already spent hours on it ahahah
Nice sound 4:54 👍🏻 5:37 presets 😊 it sounds better than the analog synth on my JD-XI
Hey Claudio.
I'm highly interested in a subject and I'd love to hear your insight. So maybe if someday you have room to cover the subject I drop it here.
How to use SFX tastefully in a song ?
I'm at a point I clearly understand I need that in my tracks, but I have no clue where to start and I'm stuck at wondering how to do.
Thanks. ;)
I'm soo exited. I´ve been waiting a long time for someone to go deep with the fat sounds this Roland bad boy can do.
This cool synt made the magic bassound used in the world wide megahit "Just an illusion" by the famous disco/pop/funk group called Imagination.
It would be amazing if you Claudio could recreate the fat bass used in almost every Imagination hit song. I think the bass sound was going thru a Boss chorus aswell.
Hey Bro, I enjoyed this one, didn't know about this roland, but thanks for the info
Lovely!
damm, a synth before my birth year on Doctor Mix channel... sounds very interrest to my... like the sounds form my old commodore vic20 games... Love it Claudio ^^
Yeah!
Lol this was nuts, love it. Nice job.
By the way, if you disengage the presets you have complete control over all the parameters. Really nice oscillator and filter. Only wish it had CV input.
such a beauty ;-; much want
Yeahhh!
I remember trying to restore one of these at my last job. The wiring alone made me wanna throw it in the trash. In the end, the issue was a blown via chip that we couldn't replace....
4:07 : it sounds a little bit like Electric Light Orchestra - From the End of the World
amazing!!!! btw glad seeimg your one nite stand partner 🤣
Super entertaining video. Just subscribed!
Awesome! Thanks!!!
Beautiful synth. I plan to buy one and the SH 2000 also !
I have both, just for your information in case you don’t know. The SH2000 is high note priority and the 1000 is low note priority. I found the 1000 difficult to play at first, but I’ve since adapted my playing style.
Amazing sounds coool😎
It sounds like an NES! It's got that chiptune vibe to it.
I still have mine - somewhere, I will have to go have a look now...
I just clicked on the video and I got crazybus for the Atari 2600
Hola soy Maximiliano de Argentina y me gustan mucho tus videos ¿ Cuando vas a hacer algun video con el yamaha ss30 ? Desde ya gracias y un abrazo
Me gustaria... ahora non lo tengo
@@Doctormix Gracias
One of the few times I've gotten a subscription request in the video and been like "oh yea." I need to subscribe.
Subbed
One.
Night.
Stand.
😁
Ok that was happiness in its purest form. PLEASE do more reconstructions with this synth in the future!!!
(Also, I'm subbed to the channel. Can I use that as a bargaining chip?)
sounds great doc! :-)
Lovely filter!
Love Video Game sounds!!!
Love the way your always happy and smiling.....unlike some you tubers😀....plus you look like David Beckham with that flat cap on.
Hahah! Thanks!!! I wish I looked half as good as him 😂😂😂😂😂🤟🙌 love u back
LMAO! that sound on the "Glory Hallelujah" or whatever the song name is near the end! SO funny!
That thing has got to be the way all video games are made
Not quite, the thing is this is a very simple synth, and a few years later they could make it all into a single microchip. But it’s all about square waves... they all sound like 8bit music :-)
Doc I have a burning question. I want to restore the keyboard of my Ensonic Esq1 starting with the cone shaped springs that hold the keys in place. They are almost all stretched out after 30 years of use witch makes playing with the right velocity a crime. I searched the web and other sources ( there are company's that do keyboard restoration but it's expensive and I want to do it my self ), and I can't find a company that can deliver them. Maybe You or your fans have a clue where to get them. Many Thx.
Ha! I get a bit shy when going into restoration. I tend to call the pros. These guys are deemed to be amongst the best in London synthservice.com sorry I can’t hrlp more. Ah, youtube tutorials. Ha! In the US? Www.synthchaser.com
Dear Dr. Mix, I am soooo waiting for the video about Korg m50. I'd like to see what would you take out of it.
I don't sweeten you but you are one of my favorite TH-camrs :) Thanks for great contents.
The synth made me laugh at times. Loved the attack on the bass preset and an earlier one.
Thats amazing! I feel nostalgic even tho i wasnt even alive back then.
So retro, right?
Doctor Mix, could you show us how Lover Boy did the intro to "Take Me To The Top"?
Dr mix kicks ass iam looking at a sh 1000 now actually for sale £450
Where can I get the converter to plug the twist lock into a USA wall outlet I’ve looked all over thanks
Please send it to me so I can have fun unboxing it too! I am just in love with these old synths.
The quality of the sound is eargasmic when you hear it live.
Spettacolo. My real dream is to get someday a JP4 !!! Ciao and cheers from Milan.
Reminds me of the sounds from a Commodore 64. Nice. We had one of these in the studio back in the day. Also had a ARP / Kawai K100P
this synthesizer is a instrument that Tetuya Komuro who is one of Japans most popular musician used fist .
Oh oh, sounds like NES
Edit: With a Serbian keyboard band in the background
I'm actually really surprised at how convincing some of the presets are. I really liked the bass!
Can you give a tip? What are the best weighted keys midi controllers? I don't have a clue haha
Yamaha and Roland both do a great job at it
@@Doctormix Interesting. Thanks
Have you done the Terminator (1984) theme?
Not yet
Used to have one of those in the early/mid 80's.
Grande Claudio!!! Il suono del sax è terribile 😂😂. Come al solito gran bel video.... ci fai un saluto in italiano nel prossimo video??? Sei il numero uno!!!
Va bene dai!
Doctor Mix grazieeeeeeee
Ever heard of Steiner-Parker? That was my 70s synth.
Heard of it
6:00 - Possibly one of the sounds used by the Doobie Brothers in 'What A Fool Believes'.
Really?
It doesn’t sound like What A Fool Believes synth to me. You can watch them playing that song and it’s not the same synthesizer or sound. th-cam.com/video/qKYQNtF11eg/w-d-xo.html
@@ds99 I think in the original recording they used an Oberheim 2-voice or 4-voice. In that video Michael McDonald is using a stage piano with a Prophet 5 on top.
RS 1990 nope
musicmanfelipe has nothing to do with what was used on the RECORD.
I have minikorg 700S. I wanna restoration my minikorg but i dont know where is it? Can u help me where a place i can do it?