An all in one techno music production studio, this machine has it all. A massive collection of professional and coveted electronic synth and drum sounds, effects, built-in real-time VCF and envelope knobs for tweaking, a sequencer/arranger, and many other great additions. This is the successor to the MC-303 and is now much more advanced. Its sounds will be familiar to any techno-head.

The LFO and resonant filters allow quick and easy sound manipulation. The new D-Beam allows you to randomly tweak your sounds by passing your hand over an infrared beam! It has a great sequencer for building your songs (with groove quantizing and part level faders for mixing) as well as many idea catchers like the phrase sampler and arpeggiator.

This is an all-in-one music machine that's great for DJ's or anybody else who wants to create slamming dance tracks. Designed as a stand alone machine, they do not work quite as well when incorporated into a multi-synth keyboard rig. It's perfect for beginners and advanced users, but offers the most possibility to those who will use it exclusively. By the way, in comparison to the MC-303, this is far better especially in the quality and quantity of sounds! It is used by Beck, Chicks On Speed, Peaches, Freddy Fresh, and Cibo Matto.

Monkeynuts

March 14, 2012 @ 3:18 am

How it goin folks!

I'm looking to purchase one of theses in the next few days and my question is....

Say I want to use this machine alone without anything else- and I want 14 parts/patches of each song on each separate channel, how would I control every sound/patch as I can only see 8 faders? Does it have a setting where you can switch to extra channels of the mixer....or is it just a 8 channel? Hope this makes sense, if anyone has any suggestions it would be a massive help.

Cheers!

Mokujin

February 24, 2012 @ 4:11 pm

I purchased this vintage digital groovebox machine for the sole purpose of using it for live performance.
This machine will take some getting used to, but that is why I purchaesd it in the first place... ie so I could made my own patches and tweak the sounds into an evolving and growing live set over time.
This really is one seriously sexy looking machine, I love the twisted esthetics from Roland and in time it will beome a true classic in sight and sound. I would suggest you get a midi controller keyboard to really get the best out of programming it then she will open right up.

lcaise

February 4, 2012 @ 11:33 am

I've get one of this few days ago. Patches are top for deep-house, techno, house etc. Drums, basses, leads - good. So, grab one of mc505 - its worth of it!!!

ludovic

January 23, 2012 @ 8:04 am

it's just few days and this machine impressed me!
for sure not as fat as analog (i was sure of that and i didnt even expect from it), but i found the sounds who cames out very contemporary for techno tracks. drums and synths.
great midi tool, i start immediatly to trigger mono evolver keyboard, clavia modular and ableton flawless!
sound engine and synthesis ok. For sure need to be deeply sqeezed to reach nice sound.
thumbs up!

R3

December 3, 2011 @ 2:43 pm

Imagine having the Roland JD-800, an eight track sequencer and samples from every vintage Roland drum machine all in one box. Yes, it is digital. Yes, the preset patterns and large chunk of the patches are dreadful, but the amount of detail you can put into programming patches and songs on this thing is absurd. The phone-book sized manual is testimonial to this. Peaches and M.I.A. built their entire music careers with this box alone. If you can't make this thing sound good, then there's something seriously wrong with you.

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