Roland Mc-101 Aira Dj Groovebox - Pocket Production Studio, A Portable, Compact Four-Track Version

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Vor einigen Tagen ist meine Entscheidung auf die Roland MC101 Groovebox gefallen. Hier habe ich ca. 3000 Instrumente und ca. 80 Drumsets wählbar, die ich noch weiter sehr individuell anpassen kann. Das Ding ist echt klein und wiegt nix. Die Verarbeitung und Haptik der Knöpfe ist sehr hochwertig. Want some help getting started with your MC-101? Roland have created a full video manual to help you along the way. Specifications You can record patterns in real time, or use the Step buttons to enter triggers. Clips can be up to 128 steps long (eight bars at the standard resolution). Record quantising is available, or you can add quantisation by degrees to clips after the fact — nice! For more information, please visit: https://www.roland.com/global/products/mc-101/ Watch video. Roland MC-101: Importing Samples as Tones It’s like you’re reading my mind! Although I guess I did compare against the Digitone somewhat in the text so I’m sure I more than hinted at my fondness for it.

RGB pads allow you to produce your own original music with tactile input of drum, bass and synthesizer parts. For more information, please visit: https://www.roland.com/global/products/mc-101/ Watch video. Roland MC-101: Advanced Drum SequencingLastly, it’s more power efficient and can more easily run off of a powerbank and birdcord (the Syntakt will require a more potent PD-compatible powerbank). For more information, please visit: https://www.roland.com/global/products/mc-101/ Watch video. Roland MC-101: Scenes Unsurprisingly there's a ton of classic Roland sounds, both as virtual analogue recreations and sample-based patches. There's a particularly strong showing for the various flavours of Jupiters and Junos, MKSes and JXs. In fact the VA oscillator has a Juno mode, as does the filter. The Juno chorus is also recreated in the effects section, along with some other classic Boss and Roland effects like the CE‑1. Over the last few decades, as old and new electronic instruments makers alike returned to analogue technology, Roland hardly blinked. Firmly committed to exploring the frontiers of digital technology, Roland CEO Jun-ichi Miki, who also happens to be an engineer, best encapsulated the company’s vision in a 2019 interview on the occasion of the JUPITER-X and JUPITER-Xm release. Random Tone Generator sparks fresh ideas with multiple algorithmic options that create interesting new tones on the fly.

For more information, please visit: https://www.roland.com/global/products/mc-101/ Watch video. Roland MC-101: Sequencing Drums But yes, it may be a slightly better fit for me. The sounds coming from the Digitone are equally otherworldly to my ears, but in a more pleasing, nuanced, rich way. It was my gateway drug into hardware about two years ago and I still kind of regret selling it. This can vary depending on the specifications of the batteries, capacity of the batteries, and the conditions of use. Accessories Owner's manual Like drums, synth clips can be recorded live or entered as steps. The step sequencer handles polyphony and note lengths elegantly. Chord entry is similar to the Circuit: select a step then add the notes. Where notes are held longer than a single step, this is indicated in dimmer light across the step buttons. Selecting a step opens an event list–style editor. If this sounds like a turn-off, think again — I found it faster and more precise than most graphical editors. As well as changing notes, you can adjust velocity and length, and slide the start of a note off the grid. A powerful new arpeggiator livens up your productions with tasty melodic lines and real-time control over motif, rhythmic variation, octave, and hold on/off.Things are simpler at the rear of the MC‑101, with just a USB port, SD card slot, MIDI I/O ports and stereo audio outs. USB generic driver mode lets you connect your MC GROOVEBOX directly to a smartphone or tablet, great for producing with Zenbeats app (available on IOS, Android, Windows, and Mac) or your favourite DAW. But then there are plenty of downsides compared to the MC-101. First of all, I can’t help but feeling that the overall sound is a lot more limited. While the synth “machines” are tweakable, I find it hard to dial in really lush sounds. There is no chorus, no gritty distortion (the overdrive is actually pretty gentle), there’s no compressor, there are no lofi effects, and there’s no way to layer any sound with samples. The biggest omission of all is some form of polyphony, and an arpeggiator. I owned a Digitone last year and loved the way it implemented this. It’s frustrating that Syntakt doesn’t offer the same voice stealing and arp functionality as the Digitone. The Digitone also has a great chorus. Though Roland isn’t chasing ghosts by resurrecting its past analogue systems, the company is most assuredly putting the sounds of those ghosts inside its machines. The MC-101 and its big brother, the MC-707, serve as Roland’s re-entry into a groovebox category that has more recently been dominated by the likes of Elektron, Novation, Teenage Engineering, and Korg. Inside the box, the MC-101 features the faithful sounds of a number of Roland classics such as the TR-808, 606, and 909 (and others in that series), as well as the Juno-106 and SH-101.