If you like Roland products, over the past few years you’ll have been spoilt for choice. You’ve got the original AIRA line, the Boutique range of the classic synth recreations like the Juno and Jupiter, and you’ve also got the powerhouse grooveboxes in the MC-101 and MC-707. So it was hard to see any holes in the range, but Roland had something else planned, and that was the new SH-4d.
The SH-4d is a five-part desktop synth: four of those parts are melodic synth engines that use one of 11 oscillator modes, and the fifth part is a rhythm section that has plenty of its own sound-sculpting possibilities within. Each of these parts are coupled to a sequencer and an effect section, as well as a multi-effect that works on the entire SH-4d output. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves already. Let’s take a look at the specs and see just what the SH-4d is capable of.
