A quick jam session on the Roland MC-808

Just a quick play with this awesome groovebox. Check out the motor faders! As you can hear they are noisy, but handy. The music is coming via the microphone on the camera so excuse the quality. The track is a DCE track I was messing about with composed on the MC-808 with some of the "preset" RPS patterns playing over it to demonstrate the RPS mixer.

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Howto & Style

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• dce
• records
• roland
• mc-808
• mc
• 808
• groovebox
• jam
• session
• electronic
• music
• recording

[fastmoneyproductions]

its kind of like the redrum on reason.

The faders are sick.

[dcer10]

Kind of like the redrum + everything else on reason plus a whole lot more, but you can touch (play) it with your hands!

[afxmono]

I'm not sure if this has already been addressed, but can you disable the motorized fader movement if you have previously recorded the movement of the effect or level it was controlling? Thank you.

[dcer10]

Has been discussed. You can turn the motors off.

[tigersun8]

what do the motor faders control? EQ? volume of the individual samples?

and how do you change them? move them as the song is playing and the mc808 remembers it all?

[dcer10]

They control a few sound design controls ie some envelope stages, FX depth, filter, resonance, volume, pan. You can record the changes in your patterns easily and it will play them back (and move the sliders). This machine isnt all samples either ,it has a fully blown synth engine. The only problem is that you cant control all the synth parameters from the front panel, you need a PC as the editor (with the provided software which is REALLY easy to use).

[DeliriumElectric]

Sounds thick in a good way

[punecrusher5000]

dude, that was badass

[akarc24]

hey, so if i wanted to hook up my korg triton to this thing via midi, could i do that and playback/record my synths sounds, and just use the mc 808 as an external sequencer to hold all the data?

thanks

[charcharbiotch]

thanks to you guys i have the courage to learn more about electronic music via roland mc. id love to make music someday. thanks again!

[dcer10]

I cant recall the ram used specifically, it was a 512mb stick. Im pretty sure it says in the manual.