[sdiy] Roland SH-1000

[Fredrik Carlqvist]

One year ago, a friend of mine offered his (broken) SH-1000 if I could
repair his ARP. So there I was with the thing. Five '73 circuit boards, a
complete hawk's nest of red wires, a home made aluminum front panel,
handdrawn. And the original service manual. All in a pile. And a lot of
white smoke coming out when switched on. Three months later, this was my
first synth too. This started my synth DIY career. It is now in a beautiful
pine box, with the same handdrawn panel. It is also MIDIfied.

It has a nice filter (probably 12 dB) with good resonance, the unique
'growl' control (which just sweeps the filter freq from one of the LFO's).
In a very organlike manner, different octaves of squares and saws can be
mixed in to blend a waveform. 

My friend, being separated from his SH-1000 (which BTW was his first synth
too), had to get a new one just one month later.

Fredrik C