The 303 sound was dire but overall it seems ‘ok’
Maybe if I was 20 yrs old looking for a cheap/new edm box I’d be tempted.
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These new boxes are so whack. I’m definitely getting one.
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Whack = Hip = Pre-ordered!
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I am on the fence about getting an MC-101 for my son for his birthday (let’s hope he’s not lurking here!). I like that it’s portable. He’s spent some time in making beats with DAWs (took a class last semester, too!) and loves the Pocket Operators I’ve given him. This seems like a reasonable next step, and is a little cheaper than an OP-Z (which is what I want to give him, but my wife put her foot down at spending that much money).
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I think it’s great idea!!! I gifted my son a Volca sample for his bday and he loves it. I think I’ll gift him a Model:sample next because it’s such a focused instrument and it’s Elektron. The MC 101 looks really fun and your son will have a blast using it. Your son is lucky to have dad like you.
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Thanks! The Model: Samples was the other possibility on my list. It’s a little cheaper, but seems a little more limited — and it’s not portable. The kiddo’s in junior college and spends a good portion of his day three days a week down at the college — this and a pair of headphones and a box of batteries ought to keep him distracted in a cafe somewhere once he gets done with his homework.
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The new update made the 707 wayyy more jammable. It was fine before but now it’s digitakt levels of fun destroying and restoring sounds and sequencing on the fly.
The random and reverse shortcuts, step loops, mute flips, knob resets and scatters make it much more of a live instrument and it was already a really good ones. Super impressed with this thing one week in!!
To have two-four separate drum grooves going, two tone tracks and two loopers is just mind meltingly cool.
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Never mind
@ddiamond84 so the 707 is pretty cool? I ordered 101 because it’s so dang portable (and I got $50 off) but am wondering if I should upgrade to the big guy instead…
So after spending a few hours with an MC707, here are some initial thoughts:
Pros:
Being able to load clips from other projects. You can load a looper clip to a looper track, a tone clip to a tone track, or a drum clip to a drum track. So this opens things up quite a bit. Your looper limit is 60 seconds per project, but you can add looper clips until you hit that limit, and then you can delete some on the fly that you aren’t using anymore to free up memory and add more. For drum and tone tracks, you can add clips from other projects as well, but it seems like the clip just holds the sequencer data. You can also import track sounds from other projects also, so you could change a drum kit on the fly, or a synth preset on the fly. Basically, you can import clips (sequencer data), and sound presets from other projects, but they are brought in separately. But in this way, you could use a Looper track as a transition piece. You could be jamming for a while, then find a good transition point, record a loop, let the loop play while you import more clips and/or sound presets, then get jamming again for a while, then record a loop, rinse & repeat.
While the motion record may not be as comprehensive as some machines, you can motion record per step, and the motion on/ff button is a nice feature.
I like how the scenes feature.
You can set Master Tune per project from 415.3Hz–466.2Hz.
The menu diving isn’t that bad, unless you want to get into deep editing of the tone tracks.
Cons:
When looping from internal sound sources, there is slight phasing between the source track and the looper track. So as soon as you loop a track, you would want to mute the original immediately afterwards. Which I guess isn’t the worst thing, because once you grab a loop of something, you were probably moving on from the original source anyway. In the reference guide, towards the end of the looper record instructions, it mentions "The track being recorded stops producing sound.” This would make sense that the source track is muted right after the looper is finished recording. Maybe a bug? Maybe I am just reading that wrong.
Yave to stop playback to save a project. This is just ridiculous. Why do I have to stop playback to save my project? Weak.
What is up with having to remove two screws on the back to get to the SD card? The old pinch off things work fine for me on the SP303 and 404.
All of the user loaded samples go in one folder. No organization. So stupid.
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Thanks for the info, it’s really useful.
For the cons, I guess since the machine is still new there’s some hope for software updates along the way, you should send them a ticket if you get the occasion, I’ll probably do the same when I get mine.
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That is a good idea, and I actually put in a ticket to let them know about the phasing issue, and inquired about the source track being muted afterwards or not.
Is this possible while the sequencer is running ? Say yes and I buy one now.
Yes, loading clips, and sound presets are real time.
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Now he’s under pressure 
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That’s great ! Enough for me to jam non-stop for hours. (that’s basically how I use my TR-8S now). Thank you.
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It’s amazing. Highly recommended. But fwiw I am just as excited for the 101 and preordered that too! I think they’ll compliment each other perfectly.
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That’s quite encouraging. I’m not a fan of the 128 clip limit but this kinda makes up for that.
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Yeah, and they make it easy to do. If you are on a looper track, just press clip, and you can scroll through your projects, and it only shows looper clips. You can also see clips for an entire project or sort by track number. And it’s the same with tone track or drum track clips, and the sound presets as well. It only lets you see things that you can import for that clip slot or track.
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On the drum clips you get 16 drum or sample parts. Can you p-lock the pitch of the individual drum hits? That would open things up for a live set.