Roland SBX-1 Sync Box: Connect All Your Gear Together

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Roland has officially introduced the SBX-1 Sync Box, a utility module that’s the lingua franca of electronic music gear – letting all your gear work together, whether its DIN, MIDI or control voltage gear, vintage or new, and hardware or software.

The Roland SBX-1 Sync Box opens up new ways of working with your gear.

SBX-1 is designed specifically to make it easy for computers and electronic instruments communicate and synchronize with each other. It supports a vast array of both analog and digital devices through DIN SYNC, MIDI and USB, and any of these can be the master clock source.

You can also use the SBX-1 itself as the master sync and control your external devices using its internal clock. It even lets you bring swing to devices that don’t have it built in, like the TR-808.

Roland’s examples below demonstrate how the SBX-1 can be used to keep all types of gear synchronized.

More patching examples are available at the Roland site.

Features:

• Simultaneous conversion between MIDI, DIN SYNC, and USB/MIDI

• Control external devices with SBX-1 as the master sync source

• Shuffle adds swing to patterns generated on devices without swing like TR-808 and TB-303

• CV/GATE jacks introduce enormous creative possibilities

• SYNC button corrects timing errors with a single press

• Output up to three channels of triggers or LFOs with different characteristics

• DIN SYNC supports both Sync24 and Sync48 compatible with a variety of rhythm machines

• Works with the TR-8 through optimized AUX jack

• Runs on USB bus power or with AC adapter

Specifications:

• Switch

· [DIN SYNC IN] Switch (24, 48)

· [DIN SYNC OUT1] Switch (24, 48)

· [DIN SYNC OUT2] Switch (24, 48)

· [TRANSPOSE] Switch (H, M, L)

· [POLARITY] Switch (+, -)

· [bEND] Switch (WHOLE, OCT, LFO)

· [AUX] Switch (1, 2, 3)

· [POWER] Switch

• Buttons

· [CLOCK SOURCE] button (D-SYNC, MIDI, USB, INT)

· [sYNC] button

· [sHUFFLE] button

· [sTOP] button

· [PLAY/PAUSE] button

· [TAP] button

• Knobs

· [TEMPO] knob

· [FINE] knob

• Indicators

· [D-SYNC] indicator

· [MIDI] indicator

· [uSB] indicator

· [iNT] indicator

• Display

· 7 segments, 4 characters (LED)

• Connectors

· DIN SYNC (IN, OUT1, OUT2) connectors

· MIDI (IN, OUT1, OUT2) connectors

· USB COMPUTER port: USB type B

· DC IN jack

· CV jack: Miniature phone type

· GATE jack: Miniature phone type

· BEND jack: Miniature phone type

· AUX jack: Miniature phone type

• Power Supply

· AC adaptor or supplied from the computer via USB

• Current Draw

· 150 mA (When using an AC adaptor)

· 200 mA (When using USB bus power)

• Accessories

· Owner’s manual

· Leaflet “USING THE UNIT SAFELY”

· AC adaptor

Official pricing and availability information for the Roland SBX-1 are to be announced.

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