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Roland MC101 Groovebox Production Workstation

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    A portable studio full of vintage gear in a small footprint with a massive groove. Produce and perform music anywhere, anytime, without clutter or complications. The MC-101 has the sequencing, sounds, and effects of the professional MC-707, in a compact four-track version. It has the highest quality Roland sounds and churns out massive grooves with a huge selection of ready-to-go patterns, loops, and phrases. And you can make it your own by adding your own sounds and crafting your own style.

    Pocket production studio.
    The MC-101 is a professional production tool, sharing the sounds and many of the capabilities of its bigger sibling, the MC-707. And there are advantages to being small. The MC-101 is solid yet lightweight and runs for about five hours on four AA batteries. This means you can design sounds, create drum patterns, and compose musical phrases just about anywhere. And the MC-101 is not just a scratch pad for simple ideas. You can produce fully-fledged professional tracks or create backing tracks and accompaniment for live performance.

    Expandable sounds, patterns and phrases.
    Compose from a large curated collection of built-in beats, phrases, chords, and sounds, all expertly crafted by renowned artists and sound designers. And the MC-101 is part of an expandable platform. So, when you're ready for more, or want to explore new genres and styles, you can easily change things up by adding new content.

    Turn a creative spark into fire.
    The MC-101 has a four-track sequencer optimized for creating today's electronic and dance oriented music. You can use the 16 ultra-sensitive RGB pads to create drum, bass, and synthesizer patterns and create your own original music. It's your musical playground, where you can freely combine loops and one-shots with melodic phrases including your own imported audio recordings and MIDI sequences. Compose and trigger clips, rearrange, re-sample, record your knob movements, and more.

    A portable studio full of vintage gear.
    The MC-101 has the Roland sounds that have defined electronic and dance genres for over forty years. Legendary instruments like the TR-808, TR-909, JUNO-106 and SH-101 are all here, ready to replicate classic sounds or be combined, tweaked, and processed into entirely new sounds.

    Play your own custom audio in perfect sync.
    Each track can contain a powerful sample player that can also play your own custom imported sounds. Use your own voice, or the sound of your favorite instrument from your computer. Imported audio can sync with the MC-101's tempo or be processed with the arsenal of built-in effects and hands-on controls.

    Produce tracks ready to stream or perform.
    With the MC-101's massive effects palette, your music sounds polished and fully-produced. Each track has independent effects processors with a huge number of variations. Lush chorus brings depth to pads and other synth sounds. Delays and reverbs create evocative spaces and add movement to delicate sequences. Overdrive, distortion, and amp simulation add grit and intensity to synths, guitars, drums and more. You can also run your entire mix through master effects like filters, bit-crushers and a master bus compressor that glues it all together with punch and clarity.

    Produce and share with the world. With one cable.
    When you're ready to expand on your tracks, or share your creations with friends and fans, simply connect the MC-101 to your computer with a single USB cable. It has advanced USB audio interface capabilities and can record an entire mix or all four parts to individual tracks in your DAW. Or sample sounds from your DAW to capture backing tracks, stems, or the sound of your favorite software synth for your next live show.
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    Roland MC101 Groovebox Production Workstation Specifications

    Roland MC101 Groovebox Production Workstation Specifications
    Product SpecificationsRoland MC101 Groovebox Production Workstation Specifications
      Sound Generator
      • ZEN-Core (Tone, Drum Kit)
      Track Type
      • Tone, Drum Kit, Looper (Audio Loop)
      Maximum Polyphony
      • ZEN-Core: 128 voices (varies according to the sound generator load)
      • LOOPER: 4 (varies according to the available number of Looper track)
      Tracks
      • 4 tracks
      Clips
      • 64 clips (16 clips per track)
      • * Clip Type: Tone, Drum Kit, Looper (Audio Loop), it varies according to the track type.
      Tones
      • Preset Tone: 3,000 or greater
      • Preset Drum Kit: 80 or greater
      • User Sample (as a Tone or Drum Kit): available by importing form SD CARD
      • Looper Sample (as a clip of Looper track): available by importing from SD CARD
      • * Available total time for User Sample: 12 minutes in mono, 6 minutes in stereo (44.1 kHz)
        * Available format of User Sample: WAV 32--96 kHz/16 bits, 24 bits (mono, stereo)
        * Available total time for Looper Sample: Approx. 60 sec (44.1 kHz)
        Available format of Looper Sample: WAV 44.1 kHz/16 bits, 24 bits, 32 bits, 32 bits float (mono, stereo)
      Effects
      • Track Multi-Effects: 90 types
      • Track EQ
      • Chorus/Delay: 9 types
      • Reverb: 7 types
      • Master Effects: 90 types
      • Master Compressor
      • Master EQ
      Step Sequencer
      • Maximum Step: 128 steps
      • * Available on a Tone or Drum Kit Track
      Looper
      • Time Stretch, Pitch Shift
      • * Available on a Looper Track
      Display
      • 16 characters, 2 lines LCD (with backlit)
      External Storage
      • SD Card (SDHC supported) for saving Project Data and Audio Data
      Connectors
      • PHONES jack: Stereo miniature phone type
      • OUT(L/MONO, R) jacks: 1/4-inch phone type
      • MIDI (IN, OUT) connectors
      • USB port: USB B type (Audio, MIDI)
      Power Supply
      • Alkaline battery (AA, LR6) x 4
      • Ni-MH battery (AA, HR6) x 4
      • Obtained via USB port (USB bus power)
      Current Draw
      • 500 mA
      Expected battery life under continuous use
      • Alkaline battery (AA, LR6): Approx. 3 hours
      • Ni-MH battery (AA, HR6): Approx. 4.5 hours
      • * This can vary depending on the specifications of the batteries, capacity of the batteries, and the conditions of use.
      Dimensions
      • 224(W) x 132(D) x 61(H) mm
      • 8-13/16 (W) x 5-3/16 (D) x 2-7/16 (H) inches
      Weight (including batteries)
      • 716 g
      • 1 lb 9 oz
      Accessories
      • Owner's manual
      • Alkaline battery (AA, LR6) x 4
      • SD Card (installed in the product when shipped from the factory)
      • SD Card Protector (installed in the product when shipped from the factory)
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