Roland MC-707 Review 2021: Worth It?
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- čas přidán 3. 10. 2021
- I review and demo the Roland MC-707, a pricey, powerful, self-contained groovebox with a robust sound engine and a performance oriented workflow.
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Your honest reviews and opinions are helpful and refreshing, thanks Gabe!
I just a used one off Reverb last week. I already made 3 complete songs. This unit is a beast. I wasn't looking for a DAW in a box, just a good groovebox.
Nice Summary. Cool Jam! Btw - creating a clip without the display : hit REC and than select the clip via the Pads in the clip mode.
I'm sight impaired and I can confirm that I suffer from those tiny screens, thank you for mentioning it because I would really love to save for a 707, I think I should get a magnifying glass first 😅
Very pragmatic review, thank you Gabe ☺️
I've been using mine for the past year and I LOVE it! It's surprisingly fun to use for Hip-Hop. Sample chopping could definitely be better, but it's still flexible enough to let me do what I want (except the timestretch, that's kinda shitty lol)
Great review Gabe. Fair points and I agree
Excellent review! I’m obviously interested in one and I already have an Integra 7 and a Korg Kronos, and of course other items, but I have a feeling I’ll be able to get a really great work flow going in this direction! Thank you so much!
Great review. One of the huge features of the MC707 however is that it plays well with others. It has robust MIDI capabilities and can work as the brain for hardware setups. For instance, you can sequence externally off of any of the eight tracks, but you can also bring four channels of analog audio back into the box and assigning the audio to separate tracks, using the MFX and mastering chain. Or you can do two mono channels and a stereo channel for poly synths. Or you can bring audio in by USB from a computer or iPad/iPhone. The way it handles external gear is the selling point for me.
Sampling all of my analog synth sounds used on a song and using those sampled notes to create my own synths (up to 8 on a single song!) has been a life saver for performing live. I just need this an a controller and I have the sound of every single synth I want cued up.
CHOPPING is way way easier now. Just record it in to the newish recorder mode and has auto slice and easy save to pads. ( note; there are three different recorder modes that record to temporary making it easy to add to each pad; to project pool , and to tone . You still have to use export if you just want to use the sample in a different project unless you load the whole clip)
Thx 4 the upload 😉 greatings
I loved it before I got it an dloved it more when I got it and love it even more today! I don't understand why the sampler gets so much hassle, once you setup properly and understand it i gotta say I find it really easy to use and love sampling on it, perhaps because I've never sampled on a MPC and MPC user are sample-spoiled? By the way, you forgot to mention (to me really important) the fact that you can have four mono external gear inputs and use it as an fx processor as well which makes the deal even sweeter for a dawless construction... The only flaws to me might the sample time and the looper time (I never use loopers) whiich are well known.. They've been updating the firmware more times than I can count and has been a christmas gift each time and still expecting further updates :) Love you vids, Gabe!
I love your videos Gab! Super useful and the music you create with these machines is 🔥 :))))
The class compliant usb is my favorite thing about the 707. Pairing with the iPad and having 8 different iOS plugins to sample/sequence/loop on top of the 8 internal synths and drum engines, makes for some incredibly crazy and fun stuff.
Good video, another thing to mention would be the great firmware maintenance Roland keeps providing, adding new functions actually requested by users.
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There's a ton of shortcuts with this thing too, which helps avoid some menu diving.
The first good souding music I ever heard on 707. Good Job! Wow!
Sampling is also possible. Step lenght can easily be adjusted by holding shift and the measure arrows.