Roland MC Grooveboxes are always in the back of my mind. It's a different psychology to music making, accessible to even the most theoretically-challenged music maker. You definitely need some manual-reading ability though!
Bought one of these 2 years ago from a guy who bought it new. Immaculate, with manual and a new internal battery and for some reason I have never used it once. It's about time I had a play with it!
It's a compelling instrument. Sounds severely dated from the get-go, but it's really worth reading that manual to see how you can adapt it to your own creative style. Could come to nothing, could be awesome, who knows.... /GF
The MC-303, although mocked, is actually quite good when you dig into it and read the comprehensive manual. The samples are cheesy but when modified can produce good sounds. I use mine a complex drum machine. Some of the new kit in 2019 doesn't come close to the MC-303 capabilities....the initial samples are crap though, just have to work at making them sound good.
Yes I agree. The drum samples, particularly in their default form, are really kind of awful and that's what put me off keeping this item. But yes, with the right attention to detail this thing can produce gold :) Gearfacts
Just waiting on a power pack to arrive and then I'm dusting mine off to use as a drum machine, and to fire off arpeggios into my new td-3 and Uno synth.
@@jonathan1976xxx dont buy any gear just use what you have learn the mc303 only mc303 on my tracks ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cLXOuVoS9ag.html
Man I feel like a 12-14 year old again. I know this cuz I own one myself. Got it for Xmas in 1997. Had hours and hours and hours and hours...................................and hours and hours and hours of fun on it!! I still use it now.
Gearfacts Over the years I acquired more equipment. The next year (1998) I got a Yamaha DJX (that I eventually sold in 2015). It was good in its day but I had to sell it cuz I got better equipment that could shame the DJX. My MC-303 is the only music box I still have from the '90s. Christmas 2001 saw me get an MC-505. The MC-505 was waaaaaaaayyy better than the MC-303. So much so, it's LCD panel had to be replaced (in 2016). That year (2016 to clarify) I got a Roland FA-06 from Kenny's Music Glasgow, a Korg Krome-61 & MicroKORGfrom Red Dog Music Edinburgh (which, alas went into administration). I also got a second hand MC-808 from eBay. Finally, in early 2017 following an upgrade to an iPhone 7, I acquired an Easter egg; an abundance of sounds on GarageBand. My MC-303 from Christmas '97 and MC-505 from Christmas 2001 are still in my set. How cool is that. As stated, my Yamaha DJX was sold. Talking about that, I've seen the Gearfacts video of that keyboard-I enjoyed viewing it..........
It is hard to find a simple yet informative review videos of this beast nowadays. I have this since last 5-6 years and this beast is my favourite synth of all time! I won’t mind those haters as they’re all a fake purists. All you need is to just squeeze your valuable creative juice in order to make this a mighty beast. Thank you man for this awesome video! Really enjoyed mine here (hope you all do too); ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ziSYI9H8fII.html
I traded this for a pss 380 about a week ago lol idk I thought it would've been fun but my manual was in Chinese and that menu diving wasn't fun. My brain was too smooth for that so I opted for something with slider and fixed rhythms.
Thought it was gunna be perfect. Great 808 and 909 samples with basses and synths but that don't mean much if I kinda hate using it. I pretty much use an ht 700 and a couple of Volca boxes now lol
Yeah I think there's a lot of potential in it despite its age. Just got to start those patterns from scratch and stay as far away from those presets as possible... I would have liked just a couple more effects, too. But I guess that's when we move up to the 505 /GF
@@maruobandai the 307 is my favorite workstation. A warning though: the sound of the filter knobs is quite rough, so if you’re looking for super high-res filtering you might not like it.
I bought one in 98-99 & was so intimidated to learn how to use it...(RU-vid tutorials weren’t around 20 yrs ago)..never did much with it except hit play...😂.....sold it around 2005. In late 2019 I decided to buy one off eBay again & am determined to learn what I can do with it. It will never be as functional as my Digitakt but hardware groovebox’s will always have value imo.
