flickr by synthfanKH. The SMS 2000. Yeah, I would say this shot looks pretty real... Title link takes you to more shots of the SMS2000.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Postshow Booth 2 - New Flickr Shots
flickr by synthfanKH. The SMS 2000. Yeah, I would say this shot looks pretty real... Title link takes you to more shots of the SMS2000.
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Damm! drooool..
ReplyDeleteLooks tasty!
where or/and when was this pic taken ?
ReplyDeletehi, just wanted to say your blog is great!
ReplyDeleteWhere can I find levers like that?!
ReplyDeleteWell, if the booth shots ARE real, they certainly were not from winter NAMM.
ReplyDeleteThe SH201 and Juno G shown in the last picture (boxed) were only debuted this January, so it would have to be this year- Musikmesse perhaps?
So it does not fold up like a suitcase. The panel just tilts forward, like a Minimoog or Voyager.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's shot ate Five-G
ReplyDeleteThis looks more real. How cool.
ReplyDeleteI'd love a 'fixed filter' that resonated at each band (variably). Does such a thing exist?
I don't know... we may all be collectively dreaming this thing.
ReplyDelete"I'd love a 'fixed filter' that resonated at each band (variably). Does such a thing exist?"
ReplyDeleteDoktor Phuture: It's called the Moog MuRF (8 band resonant bandpass filter bank). There was a bigger rack-version multiple resonant filter array from the 70's though I forget its name. Probably impossible to find now... but MuRF is great for that
Serge resonance equalizer dr phuture.
ReplyDeleteGood one reed. That was pretty funny. Anonymous, I doubt Musikmesse as well; there probably would have been a ton of buzz around it. I'll ask synthfanKH, and see what he says. The following is the caption in the second new shot he put up:
ReplyDelete"It has been pointed out to me that my sms2000 picture postings have created quite a stir in the synthesizer community. They have been greeted with suspicion and paranoia. I was dumbfounded. Maybe this is typical for all new products.
I had one frantic person contacting me for more information or pictures. I know nothing more than anybody else, but I did have two more pictures where the sms2000 showed up in them. It seems some people want any little extra tidbit they can get, so I've put them up. They are just ugly booth shots so I didn't think anybody wanted to see them. I've titled them postshow booth pictures, tho I suppose they might be preshow booth setup pictures."
In the other post there was a guy standing. He is called Kirkax (it's on his batch). He even got a homepage with some Seekers products!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.geocities.jp/kirikax/index-e.html
Hmmm, there is still something not quite right about that synth (although this shot really looks real). It is supposed to fold up right? Then where do the very over-sized pitch and mod levers go when in folded up position?
ReplyDeleteI too found the hinge unworkable for closure.
ReplyDeleteIf the fold is to be rationalized, it's not to 'fold up', but rather, to adjust knob position relative to player (maybe max 90 degrees) ala Korg Radius.
Just looked a little further into this: There's no way possible that the shots are from Winter NAMM 2006. The shipping photo, where surrounded by all the boxed Roland stock gives it away. At NAMM this year, Roland had the SH201, but had not yet started production- they didn't have boxes, as the only ones that had on hand were handwired prototypes..
ReplyDeleteThis thing is an obvious fake. Kenneth Elhardt should be ashamed for tarnishing Kirikax's name to promote his ungoddy hoax.
ReplyDeleteI too think it's a fake. Trade show's pack stuff in different sorts of boxes.
ReplyDeleteIf it is Elhardt, he he he. He's great to poke so much fun at everything.
(I also don't believe Elhardt's DSP string filter results).
But I do think Elhardt's great, and great fun.
That synth is obviously méga-real. We just don't know it. Yet.
ReplyDeleteBut wait...
I bet 200 Quatloos that it's fake.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to be like the MCS-70, an excellent italian synth that no-one knows about. It was in 1978. This synth was a beautiful and yet a very unique prototype. Only one on the earth, owned now by Patrizio Fariselli. It could be the very same story : the sms 2000 is the only one of its kind. And its like a dream. I have seen the MCS-70. But who could believe in it ? Very few are the people who have seen it. Same thing about the sms 2000. Very few are the people who have seen it too. But both of them exist. And are pure genius machines. Well, I know for sure about the MCS-70, because I have played on it before it disappears. But I guess that the terrific look of the sms 2000 is right equal to its sounding capacity.
ReplyDelete(forgive my english, I am french...)
The exhibtors name tag format doesn't match photos from Namm or Musikmesse. The press releases for roland sh-201 is 1/19/06 and korg radias 1/29/06.
ReplyDeleteIt would be easier if whoever took the photos would just say where they were taken!
-dlm
Why so much interest in this thing anyway???
Why so much interest in this thing anyway???
ReplyDeleteBecause it looks - at last ! - like a synth you really would die for it !
I would so much like to explore sound universes with my ten fingers on it.
I am sure it is a really great synth.
And I am dying (again) to know its exact specs.
(Continue to forgive my english, I am still french...)
whatever it is, i want to have sex with it.
ReplyDeleteahh the French are so pasionate :)
ReplyDeleteI wish I was in France right now.
Hey, this thing has FOUR vco's !
ReplyDeleteAnd what is the section next to the vco's bank, with 1, 2, 3 written on it ?
I like prime numbers of oscillators. The nieu muzik can only be made with prime numbers of things.
ReplyDeleteRight and deep, Doktor Future.
ReplyDeleteAnd FOUR vco's is only for a start.
With sync for vco 2, 3 and 4. Gooood !
Plus a x-y joystick, plus left-hand controllers never seen before, plus a kind of paramatric equalizer, plus certainly several multi-mode filters and others goodies.
That make a very sexy mystery synth...
I didn't do it on purpose...
ReplyDeleteSexy Mystery Synth
SMS
Got it ? :-)))
Funny. Good one frederic.
ReplyDeleteThe picture in this series with a pile of boxes of gear is an obvious fake. Roland no longer uses the stylized "R" in their logo on products, only to label the corporation. So the boxes for Juno-G and SH-201 are wrong. The real boxes don't open that way either. The stack of Roland DL25 is obviously wrong, no such product exists and they can't be a new product about to be released because the little sticker for serial number is the style Roland used in the 80s, not the current style. Why fake a picture if the synth is real? To get debate and intrigue as a marketing gimiick? Or is this whole thing a hoax?
ReplyDeleteThat synth is real, I mean REAL.
ReplyDeleteEnd of the "fake (or not)" story.
But what is this synth is the only good question now.
So, ok, let's all ask...
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SYNTH !!!
For quasi-sure, it is a mono.
For super-sure, it is a 4 vco's.
For ultra-sure, it has a x-y joystick and yet unseen left-hand controllers.
For mega-sure too, it has a multi-band parametric equalizer in it.
What else ?
Dude, it's like so fake.
ReplyDeleteUnless it's real of course.
But, fake it is!
I don't believe nuthin till it's googlable. ;)
Right, plastic packing is fake.
ReplyDeleteUnless it's real of course.
But, fake it is !
'Cause it's just too ugly to be real.
By the way, what is this nice synth just under ?
It's not in the Peter Forrest's book...
And why does Ken Elhardt keep feeling the need to defend it on AH? His ulterior motive shines through his aggressive posture.
ReplyDeleteI found another source of photos for the SMS 2000.
ReplyDeleteCheck this out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18499709@N00/
That's classic. New post is up. Thanks. : )
ReplyDelete