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!
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
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.
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😂
@@user-qe9qm4jj1h 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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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'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?
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'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
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!!!
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!
Your channel is great. Thanks for all of your hard work.
Thank you from Munich for your super detailed introduction. It is very helpful for me.
Hi, thank you very much for this and other tutorials, the best I’ve watched in TH-cam so far, congratulations! Cheers from Mexico City 😊
This looked really overwhelming and I was kind of dreading it, but feel completely confident after just an afternoon. Thank you
This is absolutely fantastic. Thanks, you've helped me to totally understand my little black box. No excuses for not making some great music now..
Thanks!.. I appreciate your hard work and detail!!
This is quite detailed and explains the SH-4D pretty well. It's Also a great intro to Synthesis (around min 31:00). Thank you for the Post !
BTW YOURE FAR THE BEST PRESENTER! No chitchat Just what we need and More! Thank you!
Thank you so much !! my arrived yesterday ....I love it !!
interesting thing! Thank you for the video, man! :) I was curios about that groovebox
Thanks for this guide💪
No. 1 video on the SH-4d ! If they added a few drum samples of real kits now that would take the cake. Thanks so much!
Thanks so much, very helpful!
Super helpful, thank you!
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
super !! merci pour ce tuto !!
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.
Yes I needed this guide
Thanks for all of your hard work.
Great channel!
Thank you !!! Glad you liked it and thanks for the comment. It's always nice to hear it was useful.
Wow! This super awesome! TR-8S supeer deep dive pleease :) Thanks XNB!
Excellent way to not read the manual. This machine is a Roland tool box. Thanks for the breakdown.🤩
Excellent tutorial thanks 🙂
Very helpful. Thanks for the video and would love to see more on other synths.
Noted! Thanks for the comment.
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.
How do you like yours? I feel like I'm in the same situation as you were
@@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.
Reminds me of the JDXI. I feel sh4d is a modernized version of the JDXI.
Thx for all your videos. You really the greatest ❤
great video 👏👏👏
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😂
@@user-qe9qm4jj1h 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
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.
same
Same
Thank you for this
i wish i had this level of inspection for the Roland Jupiter XM
Thank You from Florida
Awsome!!! Thanks!!!
Best tutorial on this synth !!! you just dont cover program changes, which are a bit tricky.
This machine rules
Respect to author and thanks. Still, the main thing is uncovered - audio and midi managing via the USB. The whole mix goes into the single out..
Thanks!
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.
Excellent
Thank you so much 😀
I will just say... THANK YOU
You are my loopop 😊
Thank you from Germany
Thanks for the comment :)
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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
Hi, how do you copy a tone in the rythm part? Or is that a feature request for the hard needed update?
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.
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. :(
This is how it works.
Great Channel, can somebody tell me what can this do more than a Roland Juno G?
Something bugging me, how can I use an external keyboard to trigger the arpeggiator? It seems only the mini buttons trigger the arp.
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 ?
How can I edit a step to change its length or note duration? thank you
Can you copy one OSC to another? If so, I can't figure out how. And obviously it's not in the copy paste list but I have hope.
Hello is there any quantize options? Could you explain?
is there a way to have several different reverbs running at the same time on different tones or parts ??
Not OP but I believe the answer is no. Effects are global but individually sent (or not sent) to tracks
Thanks for your help. I am confused by the changing color of the buttons. What do they represent?
RTFM?
Hmm...Talking about Tie Function is something weird. but except that, Good.
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?
Hello !!! No, all keys should be the same. Maybe you want to call the store and get other one.
If you can try a factrory reset first just in case.
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 😉👍
mc707
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
Better than loopop
Great tutorial. But isn't the beat called a "Four ON the floor" and not a "Four IN the floor"?
haha, I've always known it as four TO the floor. All the same thing anyways😀
no mic input for sound processing and sampler for resampling ?
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!!!
This is a pretty common issue with grooveboxes.
‘…Shame on you Roland’ lol 😂