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There's already a master compressor on the MC707. All it needs is a few more params and a trigger input, make-up gain etc and it becomes the much sought-after Sidechain Compressor. Two new params on each pad/tone/looper, 'Use Master Compressor (Yes/No)' and 'Send to Master Compressor (0-100). That's...

My last post on this topic, hope it gives you laugh... Roland, I've made a tune using only the MC707. It's a worldwide, global number one hit. It's absolutely fantastic, everyone will love it. All it needs is a bit of sidechain compression to be ready for release. The one off the T8 would be fine. T...

Simplest way is to have 2/3 drum machines in your tunes. Import the samples from SD card in the Sample Util. Assign the samples to the pads of the drum machine. Turn the Release for each pad to 0. To play the whole sample back, select the pad, put a single note at the start of the pattern for the pa...

Yes, I've done it using a vocoder on a vocal sample. You have to set the track output, and the track input when re-recording. Alternatively, connect a multifx unit as a Send/Return device, that also works. The internal sampling, however, recording the Mix Out, with everything you don't want muted, t...

Yes, in conclusion......no desire to slag off Roland, but sometimes, I think they fail to realise what they have. Here in the MC707, you have a product that most people really like NOW (not as a retro product 30 years from now!), but TODAY people speak very highly of the MC707. It's a winning design...

We had an idea for Roland for the TR8s and TR6s which should keep 'em selling for a very long time. It's a simple idea of adding Scenes, 128 to each preset. Each Scene would save which variations were active, which instruments were muted, how many times the whole Scene plays, and whether it moves to...

Roland wants to sell music hardware, that's its core business. Much of what Roland makes is really good, but often it misses the obvious functions that tunemakers need. It would sell a lot more of every product, and spend much less time and money on new ones that don't sell, if it listened more to t...

Just a few more; Pitch Chromatic (per step) control for the individual instruments of the drum machine Sample Start position as a controller (assignable) on Tone Tracks and Drum Machines, with Random or Alternating Modes too Alt Samples on the Drum Machine partials, so that the drum machine plays Pa...

Restore your old backup. Make a new kit called CR-78, choose the instruments from the Inst list for each one. There are more new instruments than will fit in one kit, so make a couple of kits. The snare has a snappy control that you can assign the Ctrl knob and alter per step, along with the pitch a...

Yes it seems to be generally agreed by most that a sidechain compressor would be the thing that takes the MC707 to a better live machine. In the meantime; Drop the base volume by 25% on the steps where the kick also plays. Not quite sidechain compression, it's a way around it, keeping the kick and b...

If you ain't got one of 'em, definitely worth getting. We are not Roland's pet advertisers, in fact, we're quite anti-corporate most of the time. But we will tell you what we find both useful or disappointing from time to time, corporate or otherwise. The TR6s and TR8s are drum machines that aren't ...

Well done Roland! Needed for years, the CR78 kit for TR8s and TR6s. Our all-time favourite drum machine, now on our all-time drum machine. Er..... Just add step microshift (or quarter, half, threequarter) step shifting, and you've got the most enduring and useful drum machine ever made, but some for...

Cheers for reply. Actually I'm a big fan of ACB. But I'm less a fan of VSTs, prefer hardware, personally. Behringer are remaking the analogue stuff for those who want it (many people). I quite like Roland's 'ACB take', and reckon they could make some new stuff with it, the like of which you couldn't...

On the System 1, not the 1m, can be clicky too, it's just the ACB. Useful, the click, on low basses, which when mixed, the click can give a sweet and sharp attack, giving the impression that the bass is louder than it actually is. I found the plug-outs on the System 1 less clicky also. Don't think i...

Step microshifting. For dem wot have groovey riddim, brothers and sisters :)