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 Post subject: Roland waking up? Mc707 + mc101
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Grooveboxes + sampling...
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... Little screen on the 707..mmm...it should be the continuation of mc909/mc808 but....

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 Post subject: Re: Roland waking up? Mc707 + mc101
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https://www.musicradar.com/reviews/roland-mc-707

All I can say is it’s about friggin time Roland stepped up to their own game. Playing samples chromatically means it’s no SP, but in theory you can do crazy stuff like the sampled vocals of Nu Shooz’s “I can’t wait”, and play those samples where you want on your keypads or connected to a midi controller.

It can’t do everything. It’s not quite a looper. You record a clip but it’s not as easy as a SP to loop. Also, you’re gonna be doing a lot of menu diving. And it probably needs as many updates as Roland can program for it to fine tune it.

Other than that, it looks fun. Will I buy one? Probably next year.

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 Post subject: Re: Roland waking up? Mc707 + mc101
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Also, you’re gonna be doing a lot of menu diving

yes, i noticed that...it has a little screen...(so maybe it's conceived to work with pc? like the mc808?)...i still keep my mc909, it has also 16 tracks (vs the mc707 -8 tracks...)...i have to read specs somewhere

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"No one-shot sampling or loop-slicing"...damn...

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the screen reminds me on elektron type of...

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 Post subject: Re: Roland waking up? Mc707 + mc101
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this got input sampling ? not just from SD .

Looks nice these .. the price is pheasable .. the sounds are appealing too

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this got input sampling ?


i think you can directly sample

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 Post subject: Re: Roland waking up? Mc707 + mc101
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707 can, 101 can't.

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I’m really thinking of getting a MC101. I don’t care that it can’t sample. It uses 4 tracks, 1 for drums, 3 for melody, but with that Zen Core engine, you could download a library of synths or drum sounds, and it’s compact and portable. It can pretty much do what it’s big brother can, but I could see myself just using it for chord changes & synth stabs. Not sure if I would use the drums, but they’re there and I could add swing & probability which my other drum machines can’t do. So there’s that.

There’s also a cousin drum machine with the TR-6S. Same size as the MC101, but it’s a shrunk down version of the TR8S. It has a FM synth engine. Nothing too complex, but it’s there to get some different sounds you won’t get anywhere else.

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 Post subject: Re: Roland waking up? Mc707 + mc101
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I think the MC-101 is a great little device. Shame you can't sample from an analogue input but at least you can load it with samples from an SD card, and you can sample standalone as long as you're sampling the 101's own output, so it does at least have proper standalone resampling.

I reckon something all homies should be aware of is the way Roland have listed the specs (it's a bit careless). They're actually under-selling this device instead of over-selling it, cause technically it's got eight tracks, not four.

In terms of recording, a track is generally referred to in mono capacity, so that two tracks make stereo, and four tracks means two stereo tracks, one stereo and two mono, or four mono. What the MC-101 has though is actually "Four Stereo Tracks" which makes it a heck of a lot more viable than the specs Roland have listed for it.

Roland list it as having "Four Tracks" when the correct terminology for what it has is "Four Stereo Tracks". It's as big a deal as a four-track cassette multi-track user would feel about suddenly having four stereo tracks to play with as opposed to four mono ones. Makes all the difference cause it means you don't use-up extra tracks for stereo panorama.


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Roland list it as having "Four Tracks" when the correct terminology for what it has is "Four Stereo Tracks". It's as big a deal as a four-track cassette multi-track user would feel about suddenly having four stereo tracks to play with as opposed to four mono ones. Makes all the difference cause it means you don't use-up extra tracks for stereo panorama.

that's good news

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guys i have some question for the mc-101 headz here
-do you know if an usb charger works in order to give the machine electricity? how much amperes?

-i know sampling via usb is possible on a laptop, do you know if it is possible on an android smartphone (ios is possible it seems)?
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Don't have one so can't be sure about some of it, but it definitely is powered by USB. They should have done the SP-404MKII the same way, then there'd have been enough room to keep MIDI DIN!


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