MC 707 / 101 : New Roland Grooveboxes

The 1.60 update is really nice, had some good fun with the arp and random patches :sunglasses:

Still hope they will fix the super slow loading and saving to the SD-card in a future update…

Update: actually the manual update says “time required to save a project is reduced” and indeed it is much better, awesome!

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I think you can use Asio4all to create an aggregate asio audio device made up of different usb audio devices on Windows…

well confirmed on using Zenology Pro on my PC to create my own patches editing all the deep 707 parameters and easily uploading to the 101.
works great.

and also recorded ipad youtube audio to the looper over USB!

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Is it posible to send The 101s audio TO the iPad?

Yes it is. Well, damn. :thinking:

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Just copped a 101 to try, didn’t like the 707 due to the 60 seconds total audio clip limitation, but the 101 seems to have most of the 707 stuff that I did like, so think it might suit me better forgetting about the audio clip limitations.

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Is it possible to send the 101s Audio to the iPad and back into the 101? :wink:

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Is it possible to send the 101s Audio to the iPad and back into the 101, then back into the iPad? :laughing:

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I’ve been able to resist these by telling myself there’s no microtuning support. That’s how I fought off GAS for DN, DT, A4MkII… as news came out about each of those gaining class-compliant USB connectivity to IOS…

but as it turns out, the 707 comes with a modest selection of tunings (Kirnberger, Arabic, Just Major, Just Minor, etc.).

For some weird reason you can send the 101s Audio to the iPad and back into the 101, then back into the iPad and then to the iPad and back into the 101 but you can’t send the 101s Audio to the iPad and back into the 101, then back into the iPad - I think it has been deliberately crippled. :money_mouth_face:

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I don’t see a way to disable internal audio on the MC-101 and use software monitoring. Any ideas?

Don’t know why I care, but I hope more people will appreciate 707

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Thanks a lot, will look into that!

I guess that‘s really not the strange of the MC (at least yet). OT or Deluge for audio, MC707 for on board sounds.
I really like the size of the 101, I have the TR8s and it‘s really borderline bulkiness if that exists :upside_down_face:

I wonder if they will unlock the 60 second limit, it kind of makes audio clips a bit limiting since you can’t really have more than 1 or 2 tracks with a few 2 bar clips each before the memory is used up due to the way the memory is allocated.

I think since the 101 is smaller and cheaper the limitation is more acceptable, I wanted the 707 for multiple audio clip launching but it wasn’t really suitable for that, however the 101 will make a nice little ideas machine and probably a sound module.

Your instagram jams certainly inspired me to check out the 101 :+1: Great stuff!

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Thanks :slightly_smiling_face: glad you liked them.
I think the 101 has the right prize/size/feature ratio, where you don‘t expect too much from it, but rather be pleasingly surprised how well it can sound, if you like that sort of roland sounds, and how good the sequencer actually is (for a non elektron box in that price range :slightly_smiling_face:)

I wouldn’t be surprised if they unlock the mc707 60S limit. In the sonic state review they praised the unit but begged roland to unlock it. It‘s much wanted and they seem to have changed their update policy a lot lately… not sure if it can be done though. :thinking:

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I think the internal RAM is limiting longer than the 60s?

So, apparently it might be possible to use Zenbeats 2.0 on iOS (just dropped today) to edit the 707/101 synth engine. As in, you might be able to edit patches from the iPad, unplug, then have them on them on either device. Trying to get more details.

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Do you have to have the pro version to achieve this or could you do it on core/lite. I found the Roland webpage confusing about zenology/zencore. Information overload.

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