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Talking of noodling… We Followed Old Paths
I took delivery of a secondhand Roland Aira System-1 synth today. The lurid green thing. I already have a TR8 a TB3 and an MX1 so this was to round out the set. (The System 8 being too rich for my blood.)
A curate’s egg: described as ‘perfect condition’ it actually arrived with three dead keys, a common problem with them apparently, on account of a very crappy keyboard design, and maybe fixable if I am bold enough to take it apart, but annoying all the same.
Currently seeing if the guy that sold it is prepared to offer a partial refund on account of the inaccurate description of the condition. Because I want to keep it anyway, for the quality of the sounds, the plug out thing, and the very user friendly tweakable controls. Reminds me of an updated digital SH101. If I have to, I can always run it from MIDI, I guess… (in which case I might as well have got the desktop version, but still…)
Anyhoo, despite the not insignificant handicap of three dead keys on a two octave keyboard, it still inspired me enough to make a thing played and recorded wholly live (oo-er). Well outside my comfort zone really, but here is a somewhat atypical noise for me, made out of 4 AUM File player overdubs from the System 1, no other instruments involved.
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You had me at S-1 (my favorite synth
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Great track!
Thank you! Glad you liked it. Actually playing something - since I can’t actually play anything - felt like scaling a mountain. I suspect if only I could get my head round it, Loopy Pro would make my life a lot easier. I do have an S1 as well, this little Volca-sized gizmo, and very good it is too:
But this is the crappy-keyboard beast used on the piece:
It’s almost as if Roland want to confuse people. First with the various ways their Cloud subscription and Zenology Pro editor works, and interacts with ‘Lifetime Keys’ for various ‘plug out’ synths, and what ones run on which machines, (try to find a simple list of what soft synth emulations the System-1 can host as a plug out on their website - it can’t be done!) , then with their naming conventions - these two synths are both Airas, after all. And then there’s the SH01 A, SH-1, SH101…
So many great devices, so many crappy business decisions. Ah Roland, what are you like?
I envy your knowledge of hardware synths and your ability to use them. My knowledge begins and ends with my younger brother’s Korg M1 and Yamaha DX7. I would sit and scroll through the presets trying to make something musical and then realize I was better off noodling on my second hand Les Paul knockoff.
Ahh to be that young again.
I’d say you scaled the mountain of actually playing something quite adroitly.
The weird thing is, I was a gear review music journalist back in the day, having blagged my way into a job by lying about my actual musical skills. I realised I could understand and handle the tech, which I loved (and still love) messing about with, and write about it like I knew what I was talking about, just so long as I wasn’t actually called on to perform with it. I would never have survived in the ‘show me’ YouTube era of reviewers who do actually perform…
The keyboard is actually 3 moulded pieces, 2 for the white and 1 for the black, my advise would be to use an external controller, but if you do attempt a repair be very careful with the 2 ribbon cables, one is for the keys the other the buttons and pitch bend/scatter dial and buttons, mess that controller and saving and loading patches will not be possible.