Never heard of the MC-303, that super intuitive and easy to use Groovebox? 
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The fact that this cost only one model:cycles and a half really sends meā¦
Elektron really has to step up their low entry price products this aināt cutting it no more.
This is really really good by Roland, First groovebox-ish type of product from them I would consider buying. The visual arp looks so fun, the draw synth aswell. Still a bit menu-divey and some very questionnable design decisions for the sequencer butā¦ that is still very impressive for 600 euros.
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The step editor which shows the graphical ātableā view of each note on the step and some probability/velocity/? values for each note 
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Elektronās mo is āpremium instrument experience, not specs warā but Roland is really nipping at their heels here
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Like the pads more with scales and stuff like 707 or tempest but always wanted a system 8 desktop.
may be a dumb question but does each of the four Parts and Rhythm track have a separate assignable MIDI channel? so that if youāre sequencing it externally, the multitimbrality is able to be routed to separate MIDI tracks than just one master MIDI IN
This looks fun. D-Motion is the new D-Beam! Working multitimbrally and being able to record each track separately is really nice to have. (When I do this, sometimes some of the tracks are placeholders for something else I want to grab from another machine. If they come out nice Iāll blend both in the mix.) The specs also list an external audio input, which is fun for jamming along with stuff. Being able to draw your own wave sounds great, though in my experiences with Synclavier V, it can be hard to get a good result. Holding out for the special edition with the groovy SH-32 colors and diagrams 
Eyeing this up and considering shovelling out the shelf full of boutiques (apart from the SH01a and JU06a probably).
Even if the sequencer stinks (which lets face it, itās roland so itās probably going to), having that amount of synth/polyphony to be sequenced by an OT/DT would be an absolute banger.
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Yep. 1-4 + 10 by default, changeable in global settings. (If I recall right from the Sonicstate video.)
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Right. Iām out. Listened to lots of demos now. Sounds great, most of them. Some sound even awesome.
They also sound like everything else Iāve heard the last three decades. Even in the hands of a skilled musician or two.
So even while I can appreciate that thereās a lot going on in just one box here, that alone isnāt a reason to get it, for me. So Iām out.
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Anyone preordered yet? Iām tempted
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I agree. I donāt hear anything that I canāt already do in many different ways.
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An interesting direction for Roland. I think it sounds nice in a very digital way from the demosā¦ would be a nice compliment to something like an Analog Four or Rytm, or a DT or DN to use their sequence tracks, as a minimal two-box setup.
There are a lot of clunky typical-Roland UI things that would probably keep me from buying itā¦ but a lot of that would be alleviated by sequencing externally like any multitimbral synth.
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Just pre-ordered in Sweden (djservice). They say it could come by march 8 but we will see. The thing looks to be a spiritual successor to the JD-Xi to me and that was my first synth and really made it hard to resist. 
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I havenāt broken my vows! Embedded videos donāt count!!
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Just saw it runs on batteries. Thatās a lot of juice to be running on batteries. Crazy how far technology has come.
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just when i was lokking at multitimbral synth, and was resigned to a nord lead, a digitone, or old second hand like novation ks4 or korg ms 2000/r3ā¦
Once again the cycle start again: think that it will be a great success, and that lot of multitimbrals will followā¦
look like it will be a buy for me of one of the firstsecond hand iāll be able to foundā¦ if until then it appear to deliverā¦
greatā¦
does we know how many hardware audio out???
me too
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i wonder though, will you be able to select any patch on the sh-4d with a program change message if youāre sequencing it with something like a digitakt, or do you need to set up ākitsā from within the sh-4d?
L and R Main Outs but Audio over USB.