Release date: 1983
Type: Analogue synthesizer

Used:
Used live in Funky Shit and Poison.
(With this machine Liam usually creates the Relase Yo' Delf - riff between Poison part1 and part2).

Roland SH-101

About:
You can see this machine on top of the first rack.
But today there is no SH-101 on the top anymore. The Clavia Nord Lead has taken the place now.

Specifications:
Polyphony : Monophonic
Oscillators : 1 VCO (Independent levels for Saw, Square / Pulse / PWM and Sub-Oscillator)
LFO : Triangle, Square, Random and Noise Waveforms
VCF : Resonant, Self-Oscillating LPF, Mod by EG, LFO anKYBD Tracking
VCA : ADSR, Mod by EG or Gate
Arpeg/Seq : Digital Sequencer up to 100 steps Record / Playback
Arpeggiator Patterns : Up, Down, Up/Down
Keyboard : 32 keys
Control : CV / Gate

Machine info:
The Roland SH-101 is a monophonic bass synthesizer, featuring a 2 1/2 octave 32-note (F-C) keyboard in a light, plastic case. This synth was released in the era just after analog synths like the Moog, ARP, Sequential Circuits, etc. It's siblings include the SH1, SH2, SH3a, SH5, SH7 and SH09. Probably does not sound as FAT as a Moog or ARP. It was designed as a strap-on synth with an optional modulation attachment that stuck out like a guitar neck. It can run on batteries. The SH-101 was pre-MIDI, but it has CV (1 volt/octave cv) and gate inputs in the back. It's 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. The SH-101 also features a very primitive arpeggiator and sequencer as well as portamento. There are also two exclusive versions available.. one is blue and one is red.

Other artists that have been using this: 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 and many more.

Liam: "We do a totally live bit on stage where we hook up the SH-101 to the 909 using the trigger input and have a little jamming session on stage. That's quite interesting!"