ROLAND MC101 IN-DEPTH REVIEW

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This is the Roland MC101 and its a portable groovebox and sample player. But is it a Circuit Killer? Let's find out! If you want one use my affiliate link:

Roland MC101 // portable 4 track synth

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this actually sold me more on the 101 vs the circuit bc I only use presets on the circuit and when I get tired of them, it's a pain to switch them out. having thousands of preset tones sounds very appealing.

dandykaufman

I think it’s now time for Korg to make a new Electribe that addresses all the shortcomings of the current iteration.

trco

Been playing for a few days now.
This thing is so powerful and has many possibilities and sounds amazing!
A couple of things I'd like to see for future updates tho please if you you're watching Roland;

1. The c1 to c4 control knobs....the current layout seems wasteful. For example the filter section has only four filter controls from track 1 to 4 respectively. This should surely be setup so that when you're on your selected track the four knobs let you control 4 parameters for that selected track ie filter cutoff, resonance, attack and decay. These would all be ideally editable on a per step basis too.
What you have to do now is hold the filter button down to swap between parameters meaning you can only adjust one parameter at a time which kills performances a bit.

2. More than 8 on guys give us at least 16 scenes. Surely this isn't too big a deal to implement....ideally more.

Any other observations guys?

Really enjoying this so far though. Dare I say kinda ground breaking.

jimmywheelo

Really pleased that you didn’t just demo a load of 4-2-the-floor stuff. Have a really good overview of its capability.
Cheers Bo!

davidholmes

I have had the MC-101 for a few years. I am delighted with the acquisition. It seems incredible to me what can be done with a little box that fits almost in the palm of your hand. Your videos are always inspiring. Thank you for your reviews and for sharing your experience.

SuperEgido

I haven't even gotten to the review and I feel compelled to tell you how much I love the music you created at the beginning. It has a great "exotic" flavor and you used a tasteful amount — just a touch! — of glitchy effects to make it even more interesting. Very nice, Bo!

aptudo

Roland is now up to v1.71 on the MC707 and MC101. It'd be really interesting if you were to revisit them as there is a ton of new features that were added (including a metronome count in 😅)

droussel

Thanks for answering my question @ 2:30. I'm hoping an editor will become available at some point in the future to allow creation of synth patches.

marktaylor

Picked one up last week. I am using it as a portable ideas machine which I then bring back to the studio and use for inspiration re-recording everything on other kit. For this purpose it’s brilliant and absolutely how I used the Circuit. It’s perhaps worth saying that most of the functions are fairly intuitive either obviously requiring shift or use of the Value knob. I mention this as one of my concerns was the lack of physical controls but it’s not been a problem for me. The only criticism I have is the wobbly Value knob which is going to get a lot of use. Longevity is a worry in this regard and although this is clearly the ‘budget’ zencore offering I’m not sure it’s price warrants a wobbly knob. On a positive note breaking out the Keystep converts it into a nice portable keyboard albeit with a bunch of cables and a USB battery for the Keystep .

steventaylor

I'll wait for the 1-channel version with just one knob, one fader and one pad

ionianechoes

I use my circuit for Eurorack sequencing and this will not replace it.
A little too plastic for the price but sounds good and looks fun !

Twinsungamer

hey all! I can't read numbers. This unit doesn't have 800+ presets, there are thousands. Roland says its 3000-4000 and yes, that is correct. I state this incorrectly.

I also want to add some other info:
*Individual drum pads (16 per drum track) have their own EQ, filter settings, and a few other settings which relates to the clip/track settings for filter/adr. You can fine tune and coarse tune individual samples on a drum track.
*mc101/707 projects are compatible. Sound engines are the same. Just different possibilities to edit sounds (I will send Roland feedback that we ofc want this deeper edit on the 101 too)

The reference manual is a great read for all details.

BoBeats

Thank you for your videos. Major flaw in the 101–a user cannot create a song with more than eight 4/4 measures on more than one track (without looping) because Clips cannot be changed on more than one track at once. On one track you can create eight 16 eight measure clips, but the other tracks would have to be looped in eight or less 4/4 measure loops. This is fine for repetitive beat-type compositions, but not actual songs with differences on all tracks beyond the eight measures. Long live the MPC Live! Every time a new product comes out, I realize how much more capable the MPC Live is for producing any kind of song without a computer.

JohnMark

This is really in-depth. I had to watch twice, second time pausing and experimenting with my mc101. This video answered a few questions that I had on how to use this device. Thanks Bo!

sampr

Yea, 3 minutes in and I don't want it. Such a shame you can't fully edit the synth sounds as the roland family or romplers have a great engine which is very flexible. Maybe if a software editors comes out at some point I may reconsider.

geecen