especially sound, but also workflow wise i think the mc-101 beats the op-Z. of course more menu diving, but only if u use the advance options of the mc-101 (i mean the op-z is very clever but simple when it comes to parameters)
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I wanted to try acid on the mc-707. Not that I need it (I have a TB-03) but I thougt it was an interesting synthesis challenge:
Certainly not clone-quality, but good enough for me to be used live.
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Nice one. Not bad at all. Thanks for trying and the effort. I guess its somehow doable on the 707 but maybe not on the 101 with its limited synth control capability. Again, thank you for the recording!
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Damn that was awesome!! Did you make your own patch??
yes:
- start from init patch
- choose VA square wave, offset pulse width a bit
- set portamento/legato
- add lfo to filter
- add velocity sens. to filter/amp
- affect filter cutoff, decay and resonance to track knobs
- tweak
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Thank you so much! Canāt wait to try.
Nice demo from perfect circuit
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will this be what it takes for elektron to offer us the pro-grade workstation weāve all been desperately waiting for?
say something that combines the best features of the MD/MnM/Octa is a decently specāed and designed hardwareā¦
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I have reached this conclusion.
MC 707ā¦nahā¦Octatrack.
MC 101ā¦yepā¦great sound module with the Elektron boxes.
Further explorations with the MC-707:
Still not making music with it yet, which is always a bad sign, but thereās a lot of sound to unpack in it. Kind of reminds me of having an old workstation (e.g. a Triton or something) embedded in a groovebox. Was surprised to find entire sections devoted to koto & shamisen, or multiple string categories, etc.
The thousands of presets is, in this case, a major detriment to the unit and to the user. The unit is missing a lack of curation, leaving it to the user to sift through thousands of mostly uninteresting presets to find the ones that are worthwhile. Part of what makes a groovebox interesting for me is its immediacy, and the presets work against that.
Pads, knobs, faders all continue to feel pretty good, but the lack of anything but a one-octave chromatic scale really means that most of us will either need to write songs in C or use an external keyboard. I opted for the latter, but I think it introduced other errors, with a weird stuttery/clipping sound maybe caused by receiving clock from the external keyboard. Still working on this one.
The sounds that sound good really do sound good. There are one or two nice piano sounds on here, and electric piano/keyboard. Iāve just started to dip into the synths, and there are some great ones here. Again, the great sounds come with the caveat that you have to sift through dozens of mediocre sounds on your way to finding them.
The editor seems easy enough to use if you already have a grasp on synthesis basics. I suspect Iāll end up making most patches from scratch, considering the preset sifting, and Iām happy with the depth and simplicity of the editor.
The screen has a fairly narrow viewing range, which I didnāt notice or appreciate until I started using the device slightly farther away, when I added an external keyboard.
More once I start getting properly into the music-making! And if this isnāt useful/interesting to anybody, just let me know and I can keep this stuff to myself.
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If you try looping, youāll definitely want to disable external sync, the timestretching algorithm starts to show really quickly and if you donāt have a steady clock, youāll hear it.
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Can you delete the thousands of useless presets and just keep the good ones?
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Great question. I havenāt seen it while browsing the presets, which is where it would be most useful, but Iāll look now (I was just about to tinker around).
looks sweet- Roland is really coming out with a lot of fun new gear.
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Doesnāt look like thereās any way to delete them when browsing the presets, nor any way to create a favourites list. Not great.
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And fun bugs too:
- start a fresh new empty project
- import a one-shot wave file in a drum kit in a drum track
- now create a looper track
- import a wav file in your looper track
- TADA ! All your user samples in your drum track are now in forward loop, even though the sample edit says itās in one-shot mode
The lack of testing baffles meā¦
They just need to make a MD mkiii with cromatic mode and the new sequencer.
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add stereo sampling/RAM machines and youāre close. Would be nice to have proper synth engines too
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and a crossfader 
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Is there anyway to build a drum kit on pc and transfer it like you would do with the opz or deluge ?
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