Made in 1983

The SH-101 Monophonic Synthesizer has brought sophisticated synthesizer
features, mobility, and the excitement of color together in a cost effective durable
package.

Impact molded high density plastic available in three colors, red, blue, and gray house a
synthesizer with features that compare to models costing much more.
A built-in Digital Sequencer allows auto matic playing of up to 100 steps. In addition to the
sequencer, the SH-101 can play automated lines with its Arpeggio unit.
The Source Mix is capable of mixing VCO waveforms with Suboscillator and Noise
Generator for sound creation beyond the scope of most monophonic synthesizers.
Key Transpose lets the user transpose to any key, so the range of performance is
expanded. Octave Transpose can-shift the instrument's range one octave up or down.
In addition to the conventional Porta mento, an Automatic Portamento is pro vided which
operates only during legato passages .
There are CV/Gate Input/Output jacks and an External Clock Input to facilitate a wide
variety of interface possibilities.

Two way powersupply enables the SH-101 to go anywhere and the optional
MGS-1 Modulation Grip gives the performing musician mobility on stage.

Manufactured: 82-86
LIST PRICE: $
Keys: 32 F-C

Connection jacks: Mono Out,
Phones, CV/Gate In, CV/Gate Out,
Ext. clock In, Hold footswitch

Users: (MANY!) 808 State, The
Prodigy, Orbital, UB40, Stereo
MC´s, Primal Scream, and many
more.

OVERVIEW
Beeing the most popular SH-synth ever,
the SH-101 is roughly a "modern" variant of
the SH-09. It is the only SH-synth made
with plastic body, that having both
advantages and disadvantages. One year
after its' arrival, two new colors appeared -
red and blue. These models vere more
expensive and included the otherwise
optional mod-grip

VCO
The single VCO has range from 16' to 2'
and generates pulsewave, sawwave or any
mixture of both. The pulsewidth can be
modulated, with LFO, manual, or with
envelope. A slider controls VCO
modulation. There's also a sub-osc, with
three options, 1 oct. down square, 2 oct.
square or pulse. Note that there's no swith
to select VCO waveform, the available
waveforms can instead be mixed
indepenantly, with the source mixer.

MODULATION
The LFO has a knob to switch between
triangle, square, ramdom and noise. A
slider controls LFO rate.

MIXER
The source mixer controls the levels of
VCO pulsewave, VCO squarewave,
sub-osc. , and noise.

FILTER
The VCF is a resonant, self-oscillating,
lo-pass filter. It has sliders for cut-off freq.
and resonance. It also has three
modulation sliders: envenlope, LFO, and
keyboard-follow.

ENVENLOPES
There is one ADSR envenlope, with three
trigger modes: gate, lfo, and gate+trig.

ARPEGGIATOR/SEQUENCER
The simple step-time sequenser has a
"load" and a "play" button. The arpeggiator
has three modes: "up", "down", and "up and
down".

OTHER
There's a "legato hold" button, and a "key
transpose" button next to the
arpeggio/sequencer buttons. The bender
can modulate both VCO and VCF, and if
you push it forward it activates LFO
modulation which gives pitch-bend,
filter-wah and vibrato respectively (three
sliders for amount). This is very much like
on modern Roland synths. Portamento has
three functions, on, off, and auto. The auto
mode activates portamento when you play
legato. A turning-knob selects portamento
time.