Bad Gear - Roland MC-307 - Do DJs hate it??? 

"required the patience of a DX7 programmer" that might be the best review I've read in my life lol

Every "Bad Gear" video: "I'm not very good at doing this thing." *Does the thing amazingly. "Again I'm really horrible at this thing." *Does the thing again with masterful precision.

I really like this concept of reviewing "bad gear". It shows that there is no such thing. Just because the design is not maybe the best, doesn't mean some people can be inspired and be creative with it :)

this poor little waldorf rocket has carried the channel LIKE A CHAMP

My estimation: There are 7 Florians. 5 work on the videos while the other 2 reply to comments. ...Oh, and the 8th one: Austria's creepiest hand model 🖐️

The only problem with selling this box to DJs at the turn of the millenium was the fact that big name producers were pumping out drum loop albums that you could easily beatmatch with the 1200s, which the average bedroom dj could own for the princely sum of 8-10 beer tokens each. I had quite a few of them from people like Kerry Chandler and Francois K, plus my own slates, and never felt the need to add a groovebox to the equation. Especially one that only had a single stereo out. When cdr burning reached x16 speed, the average home studio bod dj could create and burn their own fresh breakbeat cds on a weekly basis, in a vague precursor to the standard Ableton set. CDJs evolved extremely rapidly, and superceded the rudimentary Roland grooveboxes before they could ever be taken seriously in a club environment. The 307 was a clever idea, executed ten years too late.

AudioPilz Bad Gear Jams are LEGENDARY!

The pianos and strings keeping Robert Miles’ “Dreamland” alive

The manatee when you said “amenities” killed me!! 😂🤣

sincerely hope "hiring a bodybuilder" is one of the stretch goals on patreon.

The dislikes on this video are all from DJs who couldn't get the MC-307 to sound as good as the jam in this video.

I like to think that the value on these skyrocketed because someone figured out you bought it and knew you would make sound AMAZING.

The Groovebox type font alone makes my hair instantly grow into curtains with an undercut.

Sometimes I feel like Roland made the good gear on accident

“..ticking all the... groove boxes” ugh! Too good **hits like button**

Well I bought another one yesterday because my own died as mentioned before. Realized that when using it 15 years ago I was just playing with the presets. Working with the tones and fm(yes it can do fm between the tones)gave a huge smile on my face. The envelopes also can do into very deep detail. And all these using a patch that can go up to 4 tones(oscillators) each with their own filter type,envelope type,slope,amount and fm in between This thing is seriously deep if you wanna give the time to it.

Fully expected to hate the sounds from this, but somehow I don't. Great vid as usual!

I've owned this for 20yrs and and you can STILL get lost for hours realizing there is sooo much more!! Love it :) If you want the 90's in 1, the MC range is it!

Your ability to actually interact with this constant influx of frustrating/confusing interfaces amazes me.

Back at 90's my music production kit was: PC + Cakewalk + Roland MC-307 + Yamaha CS1x 😃 ...and it was fun 🙂

_a...manatees!!_ 😫 Aaargh! Stop messing with my brain! 😝😂

I remember the MC-303 and the MC-505 well, but must've zoned out for the MC-307. What would be nice would be a nice development for your channel would be some bad gear jam live streams. Prep some patterns, deliver a chat, intro, laughs, memes and then the bad gear jam live stream... I think everyone would watch!!

I like how you put text on screen so we know what the instruments do. I was wondering which machine did stuff, turns out it was the 307! Who would’ve guessed!

I've got so much bad gear going with this station i should start a bad gear museum.

The MC-303 was the first hardware I owned outside of Radioshack and Casio keyboards or a beaten up solid state Hammond Sounder that was stuck in the corner of my basement, and I used it in my first twee synthpop band in my early 20s as the main source of beats (until I got an ESX-1). We rocked the loft parties in Montreal for years, and successfully toured to NYC, Toronto and elsewhere with it, making people dance and sweat to our pleasantly naive saccharine pop... The sounds from the OG MC series are so incredibly nostalgic to me, I can't help but smile when I hear them. Love the track you play us out with. 6/8 house beats are almost always bangers.

"ticking all the groove... boxes" nooo staaahp

That quick manatee when you said "amenities" got me good

i think you just convinced me to not sell my 307, despite only turning it on 3 times in the last 5 years. i also wouldn't trust that pitch slider not to drift, breath on mine and it travels half the distance to the moon.

I had an Mc 307. The buttons always felt weird, but I didn't mind. Sometimes, late at night, I wonder if it was happy during the time we spent together.

That Midi-Porn-Musik beneath the Erklaerbaer-explanation is so great!! Btw. they (Big Tech) should add micro-payment options directly on the YT page of the respective video, I wouldn't hesitate to pay some cents for the one or other minute of lightness and happiness :) Keep it going! :)

would be down for an arca-ambient-reggaeton-that-becomes-drum n bass jam

I'm sitting here hugging my MC-101 like a pillow und whispering: "Don't worry little fella, you might join your brothers and sisters one day." 😉 Edit: Oh my god, that grooveboxes pun was so dry that it physically hurt, good job. 🤣 Edit 2: I've historically been very impressed with a lot of your pieces, you just nail the style and substance of so many electronic genres. But I honestl wouldn't have imagined you to churn out something that could sit on an Infected Mushroom album without standing out, holy shit dude! :D

Musically this is one of my favourite vids of yours - must be my age but I loved the JX305 (which I borrowed for much longer than I should). Happy birthday for earlier this week young man!

NOTIFICATION SQUAD ASSEMBLED!

Look forward to the EG101 review and track. I have one, built like a Sherman tank! Speakers are great on it. Has a low-fi sampler. Makes an excellent door wedge! 😁

My other request please sir: Yamaha RM1X

Man this is one of the best channels on youtube. Keep up the sick work man.

They do hate it, totally worthless to play records, CDs or MP3s 😋

“That turned out creepier than I expected.”

The MTV Nirvana picture drop, with Kurt playing a USB stick.... Much class!

I was able to get a MC-307 in 2012 as new old stock..100% new. I don't know if I could ever sell it because it's got a museum quality thing about it given its connection to the original but with massively expanded sounds.. over 700 as I recall. For what it is, I think it's really cool, a bit funky, a bit corny, but that's also its unique charm. And there's a lot you can do with it. I've bookmarked the small handful of guys that really make it shine, but as you said, have yet to see anyone who has used it with a turntable as intended. Maybe I should be the first! PS- don't forget the bloated 909!

You’re saying you’re missing one but you haven’t done the 909 too ! May be not a child of the 505 but a better chad sibling

Jamie Stewart from Xiu Xiu swears by these, he has multiple of them and has used them on many of his records

That ending jam SLAPS!

You give me hope for all my crappy equipment.

hard style choices on the obligatory exposition mashup. you are brave and that works for you.

Dunno what people are talking about, this box sounds awesome, ticks all my electronic sound likes. Or is that just your composition skillz?

DJs play with turntables, performers play with synths and grooveboxes. Its like asking : shovels - do doctors hate them ??

I bought this machine back in 2000 and I made and whole rap album for my neighbors. I hope to share it one day .. I made some unbelievable sounds with the apperagator thingy. Jamming on the keyboards like a robot talking. I really like the beat you made .. you represented the 307 well . Those who down it . Does not have the patience to understand its potential. Thanks for making the 307 still relevant. You can totally create an original sound with your finger tips .

Epic Roland strings..... I immediately heard Olive - You're Not Alone!

I think I know who is responsible for the rising prices of failed Roland gear from days gone by. His name starts with P and ends with Z.

Awesome as always!!

The MC 307 Synths sound Great - too bad it looks like a lost labyrinth to actually program a beat/song on - this groovebox does lure me in - I admit -= but shouldn't I just buy a JV1080 for these sounds?

I actually really liked your Goa track and I would love to hear the rest of it

Damn, it actually sounds decent. I'm suprised

The 307 is a badass Groovebox. You only have to listen some presets to understand it. The sequencer and the filters are very powerfull.

:-D :-D "That classic Roland smile with missing teeth..." KOFLCGU... "Kneeling On Floor Laughing Can't Get Up"

The MC-307 was released late 1999, but it's reference manual came out in February 2000.

As a psytrance producer that jam made me really happy. awesome sounds!

Another great vid!

3:08: Ah yeah, that dream house piano sound that Robert Miles popularized in 1996 with Children.

Man, i remember REALLY wanting the 505 back before i even knew what it did 😄

"Jx305 marketed toward keyboarders and Ben Jordans" lol I was like "hey I got that joke"

Love the SNL connection, awesome!

To be honest those presets sound pretty good.

Hell ya those pianos got me feelin some type of way

Amenities and manatees. Dad humor approved.

The dark trance Goa whatever the F you said bit was hilarious

the MC307 will always have a special place in my heart, as it was the first gear I've owned and that got me into midi, patch and pattern programming. The best MC is probably the MC909 (the newer ones are playing in a different league)

The only Roland groovebox I don't actually have in my collection. I got an SH-32 instead when that released and they were still trying to offload the 307's then, so it was around for quite a while.

Now I really want one to pair with my turntables

I don't even know what the original theme sounded like anymore. But this one was pretty good.

Jamie Stewart from Xiu Xiu (experimental electronic noise band) uses the MC-307 on some of his recordings and that's enough to convince me this thing has some insane sounds to work with!

"yeah i suck at making a song with this" *proceeds to make an entire album from it*

2012 wants that clip from the intro back

Audiopilz is my depression therapist on demand !! Thank you Audiopilz.

I love your content so much

HAHA nice hit and run on ol' benny boy. The last 'Austrian goa mushroom loaded' track you demoed convinced me that it's not too bad of a groove box. nice.

Awesome video as always! That dawless jam was especially cool. Also, I think you've reached peak genre naming by using the word "psybient" :D

This video reminds me of the time with my DSI Tempest, my first groovebox. I think the Tempest is a candidate for bad gear. Five years of hate/love before I sold it. A lot of hate online for it.

I've had the 505 and I still have the 307 Groovebox and I have had a long love affair with this machine! I love it! it's very easy to use and if your an old raver it has that old school sound that takes you back! the biggest problem I've had is with the pitch slider floating alot!

Nice video, mate. I didn't know a "307" existed. I stopped at the mc303 I'm now waiting for the RM1x test. (I still have mine, bought new, on a shelf)

I promise I had the thought just the other day about how Synthwave had a good run, and it’s time for the 90’s version of that trend to hit. Nice to hear I’m not the only one that has that thought in mind. Also I’ve working on a Psy track for a couple weeks now, fun to hear one here.

And that 90s Trance comeback is HERE

I think the worst about it that you had to stop often to get stuff done.. But I Love these Roland presets, got my gw-8 for it an polka Roland rompler for these kinds of sounds

I owe a lot to the 307 because it taught me music structure (beats bars phrases), time signatures, and note subdivisions through the use of the “Track Microscope” function. I didn’t know anything about producing music digitally when I bought one back in 2000, but after messing around with it for a few weeks, I was well on my way, but I quickly found it to be limiting. The sequencer lagged quite a bit, the turntable emulation was subpar and it didn’t feature any of the classic breakbeat perc sets for producing jungle, hardcore, and Drum n Bass. The preset patterns didn’t represent their respective genres very well either.

Yamaha CS-1X - was my first synth but have kept in only for nostalgia and its unique blue plastische cover

There's not a single 307 for sale on Reverb in my country, and the prices I'm seeing people asking for its cousins are making me hallucinate

Would love to see episode with yamaha tenori-on. As it's really bad gear with some potential though

This was my first roland, I think a friend just gave it to me after giving up with it. I got a lot of fun from it at the time but anyone else in my vicinity certainly did not. It was nostalgic to see it again. And yes, where have they all gone? Mine was borrowed and never returned, maybe they all contain a ring like curse that is passed on with the machine. Great vid AudioPilz

i have been noticing some crazy prices on used (crappy) gear on both reverb and fleabay

90s revival is already here. That's the only reason anyone would ever consider any of my trash to get cut to wax. lol

Why is all the bad gear on here the gear I wished I had in the 90s? 🤣🤣

Memory lane, I had a D2 and a 307 in a setup..... I have secret love for the D2, but the 307 was fun too!!! Romtastic but lacking in analogue warmth. The MC-808 also was a great machine, it has nice motion sequencing on modulation. They work well as long as you don't use the CPU to it's extreme. Thanks for some of these old sounds, they're bad, but they are good.... retro is in!!!

Is it ticking all the boxes? I'm so excited!

Esse meme do Chico Buarque chegou ao nível "Eu sou A Universal" 2:23 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It does look dated looking back ,as it was only 98 (other sun the from that era and before look good but now very slick )

307 was the first piece of hardware I owned aside from my techs in 1998. You programmed it better than I ever could !

How do you create such quality content (the music! the visuals! the dialogue! the music!? the visuals!?) week after week?!

I choose to believe that the glass of water just lives in that shelf permanently at this point.