I meet him every time I get my boxes out on acid, never fails he's always there. Sometimes in the form of a goat, sometimes solid sometimes translucent, always riding upon a fat bassline, also his clothes change every time you look away... They must've cut the video because he always ends up naked.
*_Ryeland Allison_*_ is a multi-faceted composer, producer, sound designer, remixer and instrumentalist whose work is known worldwide through his contributions to numerous films, records and sound libraries. Living in Los Angeles, he has composed for numerous soundtracks and programmed unique sounds for companies like Roland, Korg and Spectrasonics._ _Ryeland's remix of themes from "The Dark Knight" appears on a Grammy winning special edition CD. Ryeland also found inspiration in the Electronic/Dance music genres by producing international floor-filling tunes on his eponymous solo album as well as single releases. To date, he has remixed tracks for such luminaries as Hybrid, BT, Armin Van Buuren, Crystal Method, Spice Girls and Christina Aguilera._ _A fruitful apprenticeship with Oscar winning composer Hans Zimmer provided Ryeland with the opportunity to work on films such as Inception, Sherlock Holmes, The Dark Knight, Salt, The Thin Red Line, The Fan and The Lion King where he created sounds, wrote songs and played drums. In more recent years Ryeland has broadened his alliance with other composers of note including Harry Gregson-Williams (Spy Game, Shrek), John Powell (Face/Off, Kung Fu Panda) and James Newton Howard (Shopaholic, Duplicity). Ryeland also composed the score for the Rob Schmidt film Speed Of Life and provided additional music for Angels & Demons, The Simpsons, Madagascar 2 and Iron Man._ _"Aloha and good tidings, I hope you enjoy our sounds and put them to good use... May they inspire you to create great music."_ www.spectrasonics.net/company/artists/artist.php?id=23
This was my very first gear purchase. I was 17 and only regretted it when I started to push the limits of the box. It would lag and skip when too much was being used at once. It forced me to get a sampler. Then a digital recorder. Then an analog synth. Then another synth. Then a....well, you get the point. Thank you Roland.
Yep! Still own my MC 303, Roland SP808 sampler & Boss DR 770 drum machine. Still amazing machines when you sync them. Switched and playing acoustic drums now. Pearl :)
in love with how extremely fucking 90s this is. "yeah i'm going to Ibiza to do some goa shit with my MC303" plz just go back to this style of advertising now. without in person NAMM you can just replace it with like a 4 hour long string of trippy 90s promotionals & B-roll
If anyone wants to know more about this guy, look for ryeland allison interview. He worked on a lot of movie music and actually talks about the making of this.
I remember this presentation! The amount of time I spent with this unit :-) I performed at the Roland-hosted live competitions at The End in London with the MC-303.
Richard James - ME TOO!!! Drove down from Newcastle with my brother in a hire car. Would have been early 2000. Feb-Mar time. I left to work abroad in April that year.
It's 2021, and I bought mine back in 2007. It was a real step up from one of them cheap Casio's that I got at Circuit City (now sadly missed) back durring Christmas time as a kid. I used it ever since then before not long getting a Juno G, and more and more synths. To this day, I still have my MC303 and to this day, still use it in a huge part of my music despite having well over 12 other syths (mostly roland). I love this little synth.
But when it came time to save your creations in their completeness, you were totally screwed. It would not send all of the data for the knob rotations, and often times your sysex data was corrupted by insertion of midi clock events. Oh the memories.
The MC303 may not have been Roland’s finest hour, but that being said, it had a pretty impressive midi implementation. I ended up using mine mainly as a multitimbral sound module. Automating the parameters (via nrpns - not the most straightforward) you could get some great results in the studio. Still got it to this day, and it occasionally sees some use.
Right? He’s ina corporate product demo and I’m legit looking at his pupils like... hmm... I know he’s not high.. but look at those bags. 90% sure he was last night lmao. He’s got that soft “I did a lot of drugs last night” voice and least 5 times he forgets what’s word he’s going to say, looks to note cards, then to a very random spot in the room, and then to sort of nowhereee ok back to the drums lol.
There was also this legend about a right patch sequence programing and morse code tapping the tap button that together opens a portal and sends you safely to this video dimension
A 303 & a Tr 909 and we toured the uk in the early 90s playing alongside band like the prodigy & N’Joi. Shades of Rythem Digital Boy. Whall I love that machine. ACEEED 😊
I appreciate the mc-303 for being the first "groovebox" but The mc-505 was a giant improvement and then the mc-909 was the masterpiece of "groovebox" gear! I have had the D2 for a decade and the mc-909 for 6 years and it great to sit down with one piece of gear and have so many options at your disposal :)
i had a 303 for a week and finance came through expensive so sent back. waited for 505 and had for years.... sold 5 years ago and bout 909 a few days ago off ebay. is 909 a big improvement on 505? a lot more patches i hope
Bought this in 1998 and toured with it, the VS880, DR-550 and SP202 to create “Burnt Spacepop” we toured from 1999-2001 and brought all that gear on stage with the ethereal vocals from the soprano Spacegirl Z. Just remastered the tapes and adats from back then on our channel.
Ha! So hella 90's. Loved the 90's. My buddy bought one of those. I mean, we were all hoping for what Roland just put out way later in the Fall of 2017..the TB 03...a digital and affordable TB 303. But as we all know the MC 303 was something else. But I remember thinking the drum sounds were pretty cool at the time. I still have a bank of the samples. Turns out that in multitimbral mode the front panel sound shaping parameter knobs were disabled. We wanted to use it with our other gear not just by itself..which I think is where the harshest criticism of the unit comes from. By itself..unless you were really really dedicated to it, the MC303 was lacking. But mixed with other gear it was a fine modern sounding addition. But we didn't want to sacrifice the front panel tweaking ability so I actually paid to have a midi filter box programmed to only allow the drum channel 10 and one other midi channel through so we could sequence the drums from another sequencer and sequence one other part which we still could tweak thus totally bypassing the MC 303's internal sequencer. Kind of a wacky plan but was a fun techno geek adventure at the time. But getting a cool, sort of analogue modeling synth sound out of it when there was no way we could afford a Nord Lead and the MC 303 at the time was still more versatile than the Novation Basstation.
Getting to groove boxes with electribe, then Polyend Tracker, I can't wait to get home to fire up the MC 303 I bought before all that because it was at a good price, but abandoned, didnt understand it then. It seems to offer awesome new possibilities now, come to think of it. Can't be more complicated than a Tracker
Buena maquina harware a un que tiene sus años en su epoca era de las mejores piezas para cualquiera que tenia un equipo musical electronico...yo tube la famosa MC 909 Grovebox conmutada con el famoso teclado Quasimidi Sirius y entre los dos era de lo mejor en sus epoca para componer,interpretar,mexclar,tocar,combinar..alucinante..Bien animo con todas las cosas y vayamos todos con alegrias y felicidades...Good hardware machine for one that has its years in its time, it was one of the best pieces for anyone who had an electronic musical equipment... I had the famous MC 909 Grovebox switched with the famous Quasimidi Sirius keyboard and between the two it was the best in his time to compose, interpret, mix, play, combine... amazing... Good luck with all things and let's all go with joy and congratulations...
This box was my teenage main synth, my friend where amazed that i was able to make cover of euro dance shit and other new wave stuff with this machine , the sound bank was a bit dated but as an hardware sequencer and real time arpegiator it's fire when you hook up this thing on real analog synth and sampler.
I had one to start out but got pissed off because it had no midi for pc sequencing. I would still recommend it for starting out or for a great hobby machine. Does LSD help you interact with your audience as well as this machine?
And then I was born. All the acid I’ve had (even if it’s not as good, the quantity makes up for quality LOL) was spent melted in a couch, bed or chair in front of a great stereo.
