Roland SE-02 Review – Sonic LAB
Roland SE-02 Review – Sonic LAB
The Roland Boutique Designer Series SE-02 analog mono synth
made in conjunction with Studio Electronics – a three oscillator monosynth with 24dB ladder filter, delay, sequencer and USB audio.
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oh i love that old-man dance music outro.
The *_Micromoog_* *_Model_* *_R_* !
Sounds great and I love that it’s possible to store/load presets. If you are in a song band, maybe it’s the perfect budget minimoog-ish for the stage.
the knobs wobble….
I’ve watched lots of your videos and they’ve been helpful and informative. I’m also not normally pedantic but please, please it’s MOCKED not MIMICKED. Mocked means take the piss. Mimicked means copied.
Doesn’t even track over 1 octave for me, even after calibrating it.
I love synths with a lot of knobs.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
what a waste of a great effort by a silly form factor.. why does it have to be so small, charge $50 and build something adult size.
urgh… wobbly knobs….
at 20:14 electronic music at its roots…thanks Nick…
Can you please just make sure your vocal and your synth are at the same level.
such a poor chord progression melody that was used
Mine came in the mail today….just getting my first hands on……im so green…..i play drums/guitar/bass/sing…… Been trying to build a little keyboard corner in my basement rehearsal hall… I have Soooooo much learning to do…..its crazy.
327.00 delivered used off reverb
Liable to order one any day now….. awfully tiny, tho!
Has Roland forgotten how to make analog gear? It took BEHRINGER for us to get new decent affordable analog gear that pulls directly from Roland’s wonderful past. In this case, Roland brings in another company to design the SE-02. Seriously WTF?
jiggly knob central, kind of ruins it
The knob deal: they are fine, I actually use mine a lot. To solve the visual thing: use a sharpie and put a dot of=r a short line where the indicator stripe down the side is. Works great!
So many joysticks could probably perform a fatality trying to dial in a patch
The small size of this synth is of some concern. Small Pots. SE has a thing for small stuff. I’m not much of a fan of 2 Osc sythns, but this synth sounds good, it has PATCH memory. Currently 399 at Sweetwater. I suppose a musician can work with this in their home studio, save patches, then take it out to a gig and play it through a controller or other synth. This is worth serious consideration for an inexpensive sound source to add onto another KB that can use some help.
wobbly knobs have put me right off this
this is awful to watch, listen and follow. why not really going into the machine, working with it, finding sweetness, preparing your clip show before again boring the world with the maximum unsexy? no machine’s so bad it would not deserve a little more attention and showtime stolen by an old lame loser telling the bottom what’s shit about shit. no one needs that..
I can’t believe SE put their name on this POS. My kids have toys with knobs that don’t do that.
Shameful…
Tiny Tiny Tiny !
Wow 26:00 , I know lots of people will often point to a sound and say "woah! boc!" but that patch right there was so boc damn
Talk,talk,talk.
at 18:16 this made me by SE-02….love it…takes me back to Front 242 concerts in the late eighties…
So is this in exact a Roland minimoog?
Those knobs look like absolute garbage.
Those waveforms don’t look at all like they should.
A firmware update brought a dedicated PWM digital LFO, controlled by the value knob. it’s more versatile than the xmod on osc3
Those wobbly knobs though…..a Moog is build like a tank!
Do the knobs send CC? I’m looking for an affordable synth that can double as a knobby midi controller
Great review but it’s a cheap knock off of Roland’s anolouge gear. I wont buy one it’s a Fisher price Mickey mouse toy. I’ll buy one if I see paul Hartnoll from Orbital recommend one
My Logitech joystick has not that kind of slop even after years of use. Is this a feature?
Now I am in a dilema… Behringer Pro-1 or Roland SE02 ?
I can’t see ANY reason to justify the price of most music instruments. it’s sad how grossly overpriced things are.
Yo my dudes which is the better synth Korg Monologue or the SE 02
Can´t get over the fact how much "saw" on top you can hear(and see) in the squarewave mode and this one is so "sawsounding" it hurts ,old synths feels more true to a real square waves.Is it just me ?But a really dislike the fact that it sounds unclean and makes the sonic possibilities much "narrower" with being closer to a saw than clean square.
I still can’t believe that the finest and industry standard review channel doesn’t have a far higher subscriber count. It’s the ‘go to’ for serious reviews. Thanks for another fine example. Ordered one accordingly.
the knobs look very flimsy when you were touching them. Are the pot necks plastic, and not bolted onto the face panel ?
I really like this but I’m concerned about the 1/8" outputs. I think I will wait for the next model.
this is what you are waiting for (I presume your next question, as my next question is does it do pulse width modulation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyqj-u6Kgms&t=21s
I still love my se02. The waveform and range knobs wiggle a little, but that’s because they go down to the lower board for technical reasons, they never felt unstable. I saw some guy showing stepping in some demo, looking closely, he had snap on in his daw, recording stepped automation, embarrassing, turn snap off please. You have to se it for what it is, they crammed in a minimog like, fully analog synth in a pocket format, that sounds really good, with patch memory and full cc control, wich is crazy achievement. They make a lot of fantastic euro rack modules, so they know what they are doing. They added pwm in a later update after this review, and some other features. I add an overdrive pedal sometimes for added warmth. If you don’t like the format, buy a mini Moog or a behringer, if you’re a keyboardist you won’t like this, the knobs are far too small, for my mini studio it’s perfect with the patch memory and cc, try to find that on a minimoog for this price, or at all. Just my 2 cents.
Br bobb
Mimicked for sayin those words? We love you, Nick.
26:25 "I’m gonna get carried away there.." 😀 😀 😀 Please do, Nick!!! Sounded lovely!!
great review – and awesome jam at the end too!
It’s a really nice bit of kit. Tim Caswell put so much passion into this thing, I think it’s his magnum opus.
He nailed it!
nice shirt man
Can it not be polyphonic with the keystep 37?
or its just not capable. Maybe chord manipulation could get you there?
Ridiculously tiny form factor, good if you’re under 12! Playing with one recently I found it impossibly hard to turn the tiny knobs with their tiny adjustments. Really hard to do a single adjustment, as turning one knob you rub against adjacent knobs. Look how big Nick’s fingers are up against the knobs. I reckon this would get really annoying after a while. Great shame as the SE-02 sounds great.
Its cute. I seen it up close. Very cute