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.

Reginator

August 12, 2010 @ 6:13 pm

I use this for 90% of my electronic drum sounds. I program synths for the rest. This is a great box and can give you the sounds you're looking for. The overall volume is low on mine but I use a dual channel preamp to get the levels I need for recording.

I haven't tried programming more esoteric drums yet but I'm pretty sure it can do it. All I'd need to do is raise or lower the raw waveform a few halfsteps and blur it with some filters or amp models and voila - instant machinedrum!

Tryptamine

June 14, 2010 @ 5:21 pm

Sweet little box, super cheap nowadays. The variety and quality of sounds you can get out of it are well worth the money. If you are a poor musician with a tate for hardware (like me) I urge you to invest in one of these, you wont regret it.

dj-twister

January 31, 2010 @ 9:08 pm

y dont have words to describe this machine,the best of roland!!!!!!!!!!!

Simon

January 31, 2010 @ 4:57 pm

My old friend used it to do tech-dance track , and I began using it at this time , like 10 years ago . Very easy to start up !!! I have bought one 5 years ago with a broken display , and got it repair only since a few month . I'll mix these good old vintage sound with a Akai xr20 , a new hip hop oriented beatbox .
I have repair the display for like 65$can. , by ordering a replacement display from rightkeyrepair.com , . It's a upgraded display , it won't heat and loose pixel again . I've been able to install it by myself in one hour of work . They can provide a good DIY .

popiol

January 19, 2010 @ 5:41 pm

the 505s demo on that page is much better

http://chomikuj.pl/astral_zone/Syntezatory+Dema

you can also find some other vintage stuffs sounds up there
you just have to click blue 'play' button on the right

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