one things for sure tho, it's a good starter synth any my friends who are music noobs i'll be refering them to it so that they can get a hang of using a synth. then from there they can grow into more complicated software and hardware.

Now there's a quote you can't argue with. A person I am collaborating with is just about to buy one of these and I am looking forward to having a play. I run a TI Polar and a Korg M3, without the radias board, and hoping the sound will be a nice contrast to the Virus.

Looking to invest in either a Radias Rack or the EXB board because at the moment the Korg M3 synths are rubbish. Key bed and electromechs/strings/etc are gorgeous though, but I feel the Triton Extreme had better, stronger, on board patches to begin with, across the board.

I played one back to back with a TI Polar and I was amazed how toy-like it looked, felt and sounded. A shame really, as I really like the SH-101 and had sort of hoped for this to be a proper modernisation of that, rather than just an exercise in cashing in on the name (MC-303 all over again, anyone? ;)), as this seemed to be. The d-beam was good fun; could see that being nice to use live, particularly with the other hand doing broken chord manual arpeggios. I'd rather get a standalone midi controller with d-beam equivalent and use that with a Virus though.

Still, if you like it and the sound it makes, nowt wrong with it for your studio. I love Electribes, but most people think they are "toys". :)

I do have the SH-201. I was a bit unsure the first days I had it. But now I love it really much. It is very easy to create sounds on it. I think it sounds very cool. I would recommend this synth for beginners, as it is easy to learn.

I made some bass sounds on it, pads, plucks, effects, leads and so on.


http://synthdesign.de/roland.htm
You will find some patches and demo of the patches at this site.
I can share some of my patches

Here is a sample of the Roland SH-201 in a trancetrack:
http://www.fornax.no/synth/Roland%20...e%20roots).mp3

I will upload more stuff from the SH-201 on that url if wanted.

Yeah if you have any more samples of different patches and different genres that'd be really cool to hear. Thanks.