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The thing I like about the SH-101 is that is't compact and light. Easy to carry. Does it run on batteries as well?

Yeah, actually I think it took a few "C" batteries. That was a cool feature when the power went out.

So last night my June issue of KB magazine arrived in the mail. Their “Vintage Synth” feature page in the back spotlights none other than...you guessed it...the SH-101. Nice little write-up about its specs and about some of the quirks that made it interesting. (Oh, and it takes six C batteries...I couldn’t remember the exact number before.)

One thing they made a big deal of mentioning was the sheer quantity Roland manufactured. The comparison of production figures was pretty wild: according to this article there were approximately 12,000 Minimoogs, 10,000 Sequential Circuits Pro-Ones, 4,000 ARP Odysseys, 25,000 Korg MS-20s, and 31,000 (!) SH-101s. So if by some chance you do sell your 101 but end up terribly missing it, you probably wouldn’t have too much trouble finding it again!

Incidentally, the front section of the mag sports a nice 2-page ad for the Little Phatty, which is immediately followed by an ad for the new SH-201. Sort of a funny juxtaposition on the heels of this whole discussion.

i saw somewhere that roland came out with a new juno lately too

but i bet it sucks

roland doesnt come out with anything but synthesizers that are supposed to sound like real instruments anymore.

Orpheus9 wrote:So last night my June issue of KB magazine arrived in the mail. Their “Vintage Synth” feature page in the back spotlights none other than...you guessed it...the SH-101. Nice little write-up about its specs and about some of the quirks that made it interesting. (Oh, and it takes six C batteries...I couldn’t remember the exact number before.)

One thing they made a big deal of mentioning was the sheer quantity Roland manufactured. The comparison of production figures was pretty wild: according to this article there were approximately 12,000 Minimoogs, 10,000 Sequential Circuits Pro-Ones, 4,000 ARP Odysseys, 25,000 Korg MS-20s, and 31,000 (!) SH-101s. So if by some chance you do sell your 101 but end up terribly missing it, you probably wouldn’t have too much trouble finding it again!

Incidentally, the front section of the mag sports a nice 2-page ad for the Little Phatty, which is immediately followed by an ad for the new SH-201. Sort of a funny juxtaposition on the heels of this whole discussion.

that's so cool, cheers for the responses

yeah i might have to get that mag

about the new rolands, the new juno and the 201 are being released with a vocoder like thing called the VP 550
all of them are given a very retro look......
the sh and juno look really bad to me but the Vp550 looks awsome (features as well as design)
to me it looks like the coolest thing roland have produced since the T-rex walked the earth
looks like it would really complement either the voyager or LP
and it has a lot of cool connection prospects

yeah as far as selling my sh 101 goes, i think i might just sell my DX 7 instead
i have a DX 100 as well, which in may ways i prefer, the only reasons i wouldn't sell my DX 7 is that i might not be able to enough to justify it, and it has a really nice 5 octave keyboard.

don't know?
another reason i'd like to keep the sh 101 is because i'd like to get a 4 channel midi>cv and buy another 3 and make an awesome polysynth
but who knows

i'll find some way to put the cash together

I liek the SH-101 more than the Juno-60 but wouldn't get rid of either.

Keep the Roland that inspires you most often to use it.

On the other hand, all of these old synths have very different characters, so if you use both consider keeping both and saving to get a Moog later..