@21:56 loud sound warning! turn your sound down viewers! General tip for everyone: if you're messing with filter resonance, or delay with long/infinite feedback, place a limiter in your FX chain, your ears will thank you! (I would take advantage of the MFX Limiter via the MFX button or Ben Coe's scatter MFX method to quickly add a limiter when sound designing on the mc101
This new update is awesome! Makes me even more happy that I chose to go with the MC-101. It just keeps getting better and better! Thank you for your teachings on this powerful piece of gear.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge sir. The 101 just got 10 times more useful. Roland needs lots of celebration for putting in the work to deliver this.
Thank you for putting the effort and time into this Ben. Well done! Those willing to learn and find joy in their hearts will find great value in this. Others will go to tiktok. Choose wisely.
22:48 The main difference between the TVF and the vcf filters is that the TVF filters are verry old and sound pretty bad digital when resonance is cranked up These filters also occur in all the jv - xv -previous fantom series and integra in the PCM engine Except for the jd800 and JD990 , the TVF filters in those sound amazing The VCF filters are newer and better analogue filter models ( also occuring in the jupiter 80 , integra , fa series ) based on Moog , prophet , roland jup , these sound a lot better
Great video! I've got all your MC-101 videos saved in a list and refer back to them periodically--invaluable resources--thanks! BTW, with this 1.8, have you played around with the arpeggiator using a external MIDI source yet? I had my MC-101 hang a couple of times while doing this (one time it froze so badly that i couldn't even turn it off--had to take the batteries out!) Now to be fair I was sending send a few MIDI messages through the matrix, but still. (i've asked Roland support, but no word back yet.). Have you run into this yet?
Thank you so much for all your videos. Thanks to my MC101 I discover the world of synths. So you can dive everywhere you want i will be there to learn more. But that's true that i would like to be able to create a TB303 patch, if it can inspire you a new video. 😉 Thanxxx
I can try for sure! Thanks for the idea! To be honest I’ve never had a 303 and I don’t know that I can distinguish good from bad 303 patches. But I can probably copy some classic 303 acid sounds and give ideas. I’ll definitely give it a go!
One correction: Blofeld is 16 part multitimbral, but you have to approach that limit with caution because you only have 25 voices of polyphony to spread across all those parts.
What a useful tutorial - and what a useful synth!! This is deeper than Hype on the MPC One, and gives you so many options for sound design. Virtual analog PWM with a unique PCM transient? You've got it, with a couple more oscillators to spare. Amazing! I'm still skeptical about the overall workflow of the MC-101 as a groovebox, but as a portable sound module and sound design synthesizer, this is pretty dope. 🌟
@@artisans8521 Absolutely, it's just that it's locked down similarly to how Zencore was locked down before the 1.8 update. If you had full access to Hype, it would be comparable to Zencore.
There is no such thing as virtual analog PWM in this thing. Everything is WAV and PCM sample based. Or did I miss something? My 707 has no VA models. That's a thing of Fantom Xm, X and Fantom 678.
@@pcuimac There's definitely PWM on this thing. Whether it's pcm/single cycle waveform based or "true" synthesis is another story, I don't know the technical details of that but I know what my ears are telling me. 😊
12:00 i think it's because Roland made a combination of sampling and synth- sound. It was explained in the manual i had for my Roland D5. The start of the sound is sampled and the rest is synthesized.
Look up LA Synthesis. That’s why my 1991 JV-80 synth can cram hundreds of “samples” in a mere few megabytes. Very smart and efficient. You had 1Mb ROM expansions like a set of Grand Pianos in a small card.
Really awesome the Partial Editor! Buut If I have made a new patch, how can I Import/save this patch and open in Zenology?? It's impossible, and this is :'(
I thought you will show on the side Zenology Pro so it is easier to understand all the options for sound design in MC-101... anyway, good walk through all the options of that new feature in MC-101.
Thanks, I’ve been working on the Zenology pro tutorial over here th-cam.com/play/PLbpx4jJp2aEqWivCnJwZqJMPZFRPpP_pa.html Hopefully that’s useful, the options on the 101 are nearly identical so hopefully when I finish those videos it will help with an even more complete view.
@@BenCoeMusic Yep. I saw your tutorial about the Zenology Pro. My point is that it would be much easier to understand options in the MC-101 if at the same time you demonstrate it in Zenology Pro (I thought about a split screen).
Great Video, Ben! The part about loading your own samples was absolutely helpful as it was not intuitive how to get them in the bank. Suggestion, if you can take screenshots of the pcm wav list we could use ocr to create a pdf of all the waves as a reference. I have not been able to find one successfully. Cheers
@11:52 it sounds like the initial transient is a real sound/sample that fades into a synthesized sound to give the sound the illusion of an infinite sustain. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure synths like the Roland D-50 & maybe the JD800 were notorious for building patches like this (i think the concept was considered PCM synthesis, but not entirely sure, will double check, may edit this comment for accuracy), so it seems like there are plenty of sound in the ZenCore engine with patches like this
I think that’s the case with the d-50 but my impression was that it had something similar to the partials we have in zen-core. Where we could do something similar by using pcm and VA in different partials, I didn’t really expect it in just one pcm sample, you know? But in any case it sounds really good and I love the layering options we have!
@@BenCoeMusic my guess could be wrong, as what your saying makes sense, super weird, super interesting, my type of thing to explore & nerd out to though! So much control, so many options 🤯🤯
Thank you so so much for these videos!!! Could you please use wave 377 “TB303” to make an acid lead. I tried but I can’t make the slides and the accents that the 303s have. Or just comment with an idea how to make the slides.🙏
@@IliyanIrmanov Did you tie the notes? Also, 303 has specific kind of tied note portamento unique to that machine. You'll have to play around with values. If you want 'true 303' sounds, you might look to get the bheringer 303 clone that released this year for 200$.
Hello Ben and Thanks for your usefull tutorials. I have a question though: With this new 1.8 update, is it possible to assign Sys Ctrls to other parameters than the ones pre-assigned?
No way. They actually did it! I had just about given up on this happening. This is wild, the mc 101 may officially end up overtaking the Syntakt as my favorite current piece of gear because of this update. I think you can guess what my next track (well the one after next) will be made with!
Thanks for another video! What controller do you use when composing patterns on the mc101? I must admit though, with Zenology Pro, I often wonder what I need the mc101 for. I originally planned to use it away from my computer desk but the need for some kind of keyboard kind has me using it by my desk...
Keystep 37 or Launchkey Mini MK3 are great portable midi keys that can be used with a MIDI cable and a power bank. I own both and love using them with my 101. The Launchkey will require a 3.5mm to standard MIDI dongle but it’s great for on the go.
I use my Launchpad x most of the time because it’s become my preferred note-input device. I have it connected through a raspberry pi which powers the 101 and the Launchpad. Agreed it’s slightly less portable though I keep them in a little stack with a battery to move about the house. I’m very nearly finished with my stage-ready case for two launchpads, the sensel morph, 101, battery pack, and raspberry pi in a guitar-sized instrument. Keystep and launchkey like Stuart said are also great options.
@@shmish I actually use the raspberry pi for midi as well as power. Up to 3 usb controllers can be plugged straight into the pi along with the 101, and it moves the midi between them as well as provides power. It’s super convenient, and I got the pi 3b before they got so difficult to buy, so it was a lot cheaper than most commercial usb midi hosts. I set the pi up as described here neuma.studio/rpi-as-midi-host.html (not my tutorial, I just followed it).
In Zenology pro each partial has a key range parameter so you can effectively create splits and zones . Is that parameter available here as well ? If so that opens up each track to be sudo multi-timbrel with limitations of poly modes etc. ,but a thought none the less .
Unfortunately that feature isn’t available here on the 101. However I’ve had success making at least a two part keyboard split by mapping keytracking to level in the mod matrix as positive for one partial and negative for another partial, then setting one partial to start high and the other to start low. It isn’t perfect and you’ll hear overlap in the middle octave but like for little particular splits it’s doable. The alternative would be for someone to make a utility patch in Zenology pro that has the partial splits already made that you could then load your own samples into from the 101. I think that would work. I’ll look into it.
Hey Ben. Awesome tutorial. I might've missed it, but did you post that PCM List of all the groups of Sound Categories you made? The one with each bank and numbered lists of, for instance, Bank B 16-87 Electric Piano's.
Ahh no I’m sorry I definitely forgot about it. I’ll post it in the Facebook group and patreon and hopefully a picture at least on the TH-cam when I get home this evening and link it from the description.
Ok, added to the Facebook group, my patreon page, and the links to them are in the description and in a post on my channel community page (which I can't link here for some reason) but should be find-able now. Thanks for reminding me!
On the second page for each oscillator the first option switches it on or off, so you can just turn off 3 and 4. On an init patch 2, 3, and 4 are off by default.
Can I assign parameters to the knobs of my Launchkey, that are not shown in the display in the moment? Say I have filter page shown, but want to adjust ADSR from my midi keyboard w/o changing pages on the 101? Thanks in advance! Great video as always, much appreciated!
Now to address the elephant in the room - what in God's name are in those red bags behind you (garments?)?!? Ok, now that is out of my system; amazing tutorial / demo - I absolutely love this machine! My one constructive criticism to Roland would have been to make the 'sampler' feature with analog audio-in (preferably 1/4, but 1/8 jack would be fine too). Thank you Obi Wan! - Summer
Haha most people mention the apparently severed heads behind me before the garment bags, but they’re related, my girlfriend runs a character entertainment company and that’s all her supplies. I’d have loved an analog in for sampling on the 101, but the verselab and 707 both have it, and the sampling over usb can be pretty useful with a phone on the go!
Does the device allow to set different MIDI channels and add a favourite sound to each one? I am considering it to replace my current sound module and use channel + - instructions from the keytar to change between the sounds. Does the Roland MC 101 have that functionality, so it can replace Integra/Sonic Cell modules? Or not? Even if it didn't, I like the sounds a lot. Just to see if I should sell the Sonic Cell or keep it.
It can do that a little bit but not across all 16 midi channels. You can set each of the 4 tracks to respond to its own midi channel though, so that works if you cycle through just 4 channels. When playing in a band with the 101 as a sound module through my keytar-ish instrument, I set up a project which has all my presets loaded into it (16 sounds per track x 4 tracks = 64 possible sounds) then you can set up the mc-101 to scene changing mode where pressing one pad will change the scene, which will switch the sounds for all 4 midi channels. So if one song requires 3 different sounds, between songs I’ll press the button on the 101 to call the appropriate scene, then during the song I can switch between the 4 midi channels from my instrument as needed. You can also change sounds on each channel by sending midi program change messages on that channel, or change whole scenes by sending program change messages on a different channel, if your keytar can do that it can be convenient. One more thing you can’t browse the sounds by doing any of these, you have to set up each sound in its own clip ahead of time and then you’re changing clips with the above operations, which changes the sound. Hope that helps, I used the mc-101 as a live sound module for a while with my keytar, if you have any more questions don’t hesitate to ask.
They don’t all respond by default to cc but in the mod matrix you can set CC’s to control almost any of the new synth parameters. They’re flexible there, and you can set up to 4 assignments per partial.
Hi Ben, I may have already asked you.... is track 1 intended only and always for drums or can it become 'tone'? I mean, can I have 4 tracks of 'tone' sounds? thanks and greetings from Italy
All of the tracks can be any track type. The only limitation is any project can only have one “drum+comp” track, but you can have multiple regular drum tracks and certainly all 4 tracks can be tone tracks. To set it up you can just delete the default drum track by holding shift+project and then pressing the track you want to delete. Then you can create a new tone track there.
@@BenCoeMusic thank you very much, "drum-comp" = "compressor" ? and when I find "W" = wet? you reminded me of two other things I didn't understand😓. Roland with ZenCore and the new grooveboxes has taken a big leap forward. I was used to the MC303 with which I started twenty-five years ago where it was normal not to have screens and to manage all the options by pressing the few keys available and a handful of LEDs to indicate what you were doing. yes, I also used an environment where you could connect the machine to the pc, but mostly used for live performances. ok, the 101 has a small screen but compared to the 303 it really does a lot of things. I recently got it and I made the update even less and I'm exploring it slowly. Greetings from Italy
They’re sort of for different things, but you could interpret it that way. The verselab has 3 extra tracks plus the vocal track. Since update 1.8 the mc-101 has the synth engine access which the verselab doesn’t, and the 101 also has scatter and more flexible scenes. Also I believe the verselab is typically more expensive than the 101, it recently dropped in price, I assume for Black Friday sales, I don’t expect it to stay this way forever.
@@sinewaymusic I haven’t had a chance to update yet; is the process of saving/loading patches from project to project apparent within the new partial menus or did you have to do some searching
@@EiseniaFoetida It's already a feature since the beginning I think. Initialize a new tone track and choose between Presets, Random, Project etc. Select Project and then the project file and the track you want to load the tone from.
I understand your excitement, but this "Zencore" engine in the 101 & 707 is just the same as the Fantom X/XR/G/FA engine. Don't know about the availability of Supernatural sounds despite having a 707. Have to look it up. Sadly the ability to load VA engines like Juno(s), SH and Jupiter is missing.
Yeah this is just I guess the ‘base’ engine. No support here for supernatural or the specific synth expansion engines. I am likely wrong but I remember it being discussed somewhere as a hardware limitation, that there’s a particular chip doing the processing in the 101 and 707 and the fantoms and Jupiter etc have 1-3 extra versions of that chip which allows for more complicated synthesis and sampling. Again I’m probably wrong that’s just a distant memory. In any case I’m still very excited we have this much, I think it’s really powerful as it is.
Its Rolands ZenCore engine which covers a large variety of modelling options, including a VA engine called ABM (Analog Behavior Modelling). The engine has always been the same, but with 1.8 you finally can fully programm it like on the Fantom series, or the bigger MC707
@@suga4all ok , so now is real synth. hahha and it was already but strategy market sometimes reveal all features time by time .... I was never interested in this piece since I got it can now do programming. :)
@@effebidi9677 Yes, you are right. It seemed to be a marketing decision to "close" the MC101, perhaps in favour of the MC707 sales. Yet, it seemed to be a false decision so they corrected it (and almost shamefully hiding it only as a sidenote of the official 1.8 video).
@@suga4all mmm .. dunno... I truly think they hide it from beginning so they could sell for both lazy and curious puublic, then, when the mc-101 slowed its selling Roland simply put the truth on air , and the synthesists enthisast came to know.... so they can think of it, choose it and buy it ( if they now need something Roland with 4 channels :D ) ................... I think there are serveral ways to make this kind of market.. For example one fair way could be when the company sells only one main piece of gear investing all their blood in that one project which is possibly a great one.... But that's not the Roland story . so ....................................... :/ ( and anyway is still too expensive for what it is ) cheers
That editing interface is awful - I can't understand how anyone would actually want to build a patch on that. I sold mine because it was bad enough with the limited editing options it had but this is so much worse. A whole synth patch on a two line display with cryptic abbreviations is something from the 80s. It would kill me.
I agree. The iPad has a much better user interface, for this kind of work, if you don't need hardware knobs/faders. But I am still interested in the MC-101, not just for making music/beats, but also because I enjoy figuring out how things work. Like a puzzle challenge, that has a musical payoff.
@@BenCoeMusic Thanks for taking note of this, and making effort to fix in future videos. Love your positive attitude, and the joy you bring to this subject matter. It makes it a fun to learn from you, and puts a smile on my face 🙂
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@21:56 loud sound warning! turn your sound down viewers! General tip for everyone: if you're messing with filter resonance, or delay with long/infinite feedback, place a limiter in your FX chain, your ears will thank you! (I would take advantage of the MFX Limiter via the MFX button or Ben Coe's scatter MFX method to quickly add a limiter when sound designing on the mc101
Damn sorry about that
@@BenCoeMusic no worries! Still a great tutorial
This new update is awesome! Makes me even more happy that I chose to go with the MC-101. It just keeps getting better and better! Thank you for your teachings on this powerful piece of gear.
Wait...wait....wait...you can load your own custom sample on each partial?!? Then filter, shape, and modulate each one? That’s amazing!!!
Right!?
Getting close to wave sequencing
Thanks for sharing your knowledge sir. The 101 just got 10 times more useful. Roland needs lots of celebration for putting in the work to deliver this.
Actualy Ben as a guitarist became popular on youtube as synth teacher :-)
Thank you for putting the effort and time into this Ben. Well done!
Those willing to learn and find joy in their hearts will find great value in this. Others will go to tiktok. Choose wisely.
Loved the PC Music synth tutorial at the end. Layering the sounds like that is so inspiring!
22:48
The main difference between the TVF and the vcf filters is that the TVF filters are verry old and sound pretty bad digital when resonance is cranked up
These filters also occur in all the jv - xv -previous fantom series and integra in the PCM engine
Except for the jd800 and JD990 , the TVF filters in those sound amazing
The VCF filters are newer and better analogue filter models ( also occuring in the jupiter 80 , integra , fa series ) based on Moog , prophet , roland jup , these sound a lot better
Thanks for taking the time to make these MC-101 videos my dude. I hate wading through manuals so these have been very helpful.
Glad they’re helpful!
You programmed 1 finger Chord like J6, respect, SUBBED
Great video! I've got all your MC-101 videos saved in a list and refer back to them periodically--invaluable resources--thanks!
BTW, with this 1.8, have you played around with the arpeggiator using a external MIDI source yet?
I had my MC-101 hang a couple of times while doing this (one time it froze so badly that i couldn't even turn it off--had to take the batteries out!)
Now to be fair I was sending send a few MIDI messages through the matrix, but still. (i've asked Roland support, but no word back yet.). Have you run into this yet?
I’ll get one now. If only they would open up the acb on the TR’s.
Thank you so much for all your videos. Thanks to my MC101 I discover the world of synths. So you can dive everywhere you want i will be there to learn more. But that's true that i would like to be able to create a TB303 patch, if it can inspire you a new video. 😉 Thanxxx
I can try for sure! Thanks for the idea! To be honest I’ve never had a 303 and I don’t know that I can distinguish good from bad 303 patches. But I can probably copy some classic 303 acid sounds and give ideas. I’ll definitely give it a go!
Thank you for this review Ben!
Ahhhhhhh... It's almost too much power - pretty awesome - Thanks once again Ben
One correction: Blofeld is 16 part multitimbral, but you have to approach that limit with caution because you only have 25 voices of polyphony to spread across all those parts.
What a useful tutorial - and what a useful synth!! This is deeper than Hype on the MPC One, and gives you so many options for sound design. Virtual analog PWM with a unique PCM transient? You've got it, with a couple more oscillators to spare. Amazing! I'm still skeptical about the overall workflow of the MC-101 as a groovebox, but as a portable sound module and sound design synthesizer, this is pretty dope. 🌟
@@artisans8521 Absolutely, it's just that it's locked down similarly to how Zencore was locked down before the 1.8 update. If you had full access to Hype, it would be comparable to Zencore.
There is no such thing as virtual analog PWM in this thing. Everything is WAV and PCM sample based. Or did I miss something? My 707 has no VA models. That's a thing of Fantom Xm, X and Fantom 678.
@@pcuimac There's definitely PWM on this thing. Whether it's pcm/single cycle waveform based or "true" synthesis is another story, I don't know the technical details of that but I know what my ears are telling me. 😊
12:00 i think it's because Roland made a combination of sampling and synth- sound. It was explained in the manual i had for my Roland D5. The start of the sound is sampled and the rest is synthesized.
Look up LA Synthesis. That’s why my 1991 JV-80 synth can cram hundreds of “samples” in a mere few megabytes. Very smart and efficient. You had 1Mb ROM expansions like a set of Grand Pianos in a small card.
Woah this is insane. Does the MC-707 have zen-core access too?
thank you very valuable video
Really awesome the Partial Editor! Buut
If I have made a new patch, how can I Import/save this patch and open in Zenology?? It's impossible, and this is :'(
I thought you will show on the side Zenology Pro so it is easier to understand all the options for sound design in MC-101... anyway, good walk through all the options of that new feature in MC-101.
Thanks, I’ve been working on the Zenology pro tutorial over here th-cam.com/play/PLbpx4jJp2aEqWivCnJwZqJMPZFRPpP_pa.html
Hopefully that’s useful, the options on the 101 are nearly identical so hopefully when I finish those videos it will help with an even more complete view.
@@BenCoeMusic Yep. I saw your tutorial about the Zenology Pro. My point is that it would be much easier to understand options in the MC-101 if at the same time you demonstrate it in Zenology Pro (I thought about a split screen).
@@SmallWorldBigThings ah I see! Maybe I can make a video or videos combining them, thanks for the idea.
Great Video, Ben! The part about loading your own samples was absolutely helpful as it was not intuitive how to get them in the bank. Suggestion, if you can take screenshots of the pcm wav list we could use ocr to create a pdf of all the waves as a reference. I have not been able to find one successfully. Cheers
Glad it helped! That’s a good idea! I’ll look into doing something like that!
@@BenCoeMusic I found the wave list on page 52 of the MC-707 manual
Hey dude! Excellent video! do you know if there's a way to save/rename the patch once you're done editing it?
@11:52 it sounds like the initial transient is a real sound/sample that fades into a synthesized sound to give the sound the illusion of an infinite sustain. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure synths like the Roland D-50 & maybe the JD800 were notorious for building patches like this (i think the concept was considered PCM synthesis, but not entirely sure, will double check, may edit this comment for accuracy), so it seems like there are plenty of sound in the ZenCore engine with patches like this
I think that’s the case with the d-50 but my impression was that it had something similar to the partials we have in zen-core. Where we could do something similar by using pcm and VA in different partials, I didn’t really expect it in just one pcm sample, you know? But in any case it sounds really good and I love the layering options we have!
@@BenCoeMusic my guess could be wrong, as what your saying makes sense, super weird, super interesting, my type of thing to explore & nerd out to though! So much control, so many options 🤯🤯
Thank you so so much for these videos!!! Could you please use wave 377 “TB303” to make an acid lead. I tried but I can’t make the slides and the accents that the 303s have. Or just comment with an idea how to make the slides.🙏
Set portamento and on the 'common' screen set to mono instead of poly. Then use the SH style step entry to make some acieeeeeeeeeeed
@@heavysystemsinc. I’ve tried that and it doesn’t do the slides properly.
@@IliyanIrmanov Did you tie the notes? Also, 303 has specific kind of tied note portamento unique to that machine. You'll have to play around with values. If you want 'true 303' sounds, you might look to get the bheringer 303 clone that released this year for 200$.
Hello Ben and Thanks for your usefull tutorials. I have a question though: With this new 1.8 update, is it possible to assign Sys Ctrls to other parameters than the ones pre-assigned?
No way. They actually did it! I had just about given up on this happening. This is wild, the mc 101 may officially end up overtaking the Syntakt as my favorite current piece of gear because of this update. I think you can guess what my next track (well the one after next) will be made with!
Thanks for another video! What controller do you use when composing patterns on the mc101? I must admit though, with Zenology Pro, I often wonder what I need the mc101 for. I originally planned to use it away from my computer desk but the need for some kind of keyboard kind has me using it by my desk...
Keystep 37 or Launchkey Mini MK3 are great portable midi keys that can be used with a MIDI cable and a power bank. I own both and love using them with my 101. The Launchkey will require a 3.5mm to standard MIDI dongle but it’s great for on the go.
I use my Launchpad x most of the time because it’s become my preferred note-input device. I have it connected through a raspberry pi which powers the 101 and the Launchpad. Agreed it’s slightly less portable though I keep them in a little stack with a battery to move about the house. I’m very nearly finished with my stage-ready case for two launchpads, the sensel morph, 101, battery pack, and raspberry pi in a guitar-sized instrument. Keystep and launchkey like Stuart said are also great options.
@@BenCoeMusic That's interesting. Do you use the raspi for anything else other than distributing power? You use a midi cable launchpad - > 101, yes?
@@shmish I actually use the raspberry pi for midi as well as power. Up to 3 usb controllers can be plugged straight into the pi along with the 101, and it moves the midi between them as well as provides power. It’s super convenient, and I got the pi 3b before they got so difficult to buy, so it was a lot cheaper than most commercial usb midi hosts. I set the pi up as described here neuma.studio/rpi-as-midi-host.html (not my tutorial, I just followed it).
In Zenology pro each partial has a key range parameter so you can effectively create splits and zones . Is that parameter available here as well ? If so that opens up each track to be sudo multi-timbrel with limitations of poly modes etc. ,but a thought none the less .
Unfortunately that feature isn’t available here on the 101. However I’ve had success making at least a two part keyboard split by mapping keytracking to level in the mod matrix as positive for one partial and negative for another partial, then setting one partial to start high and the other to start low. It isn’t perfect and you’ll hear overlap in the middle octave but like for little particular splits it’s doable. The alternative would be for someone to make a utility patch in Zenology pro that has the partial splits already made that you could then load your own samples into from the 101. I think that would work. I’ll look into it.
Can you do the same on drum tracks? 4 custom samples on a single pad with velocity selection, directly on the MC-101 ? Thanks 👍
More please!
Can you layer different tracks? or like layering the synthis :D?
I would like to add, that your stuff is still usefull. How are you doing?
Can anyone confirm if the HCARD-101 will work with the WAVESTATION SR rack?
Hey Ben. Awesome tutorial. I might've missed it, but did you post that PCM List of all the groups of Sound Categories you made? The one with each bank and numbered lists of, for instance, Bank B 16-87 Electric Piano's.
Ahh no I’m sorry I definitely forgot about it. I’ll post it in the Facebook group and patreon and hopefully a picture at least on the TH-cam when I get home this evening and link it from the description.
Ok, added to the Facebook group, my patreon page, and the links to them are in the description and in a post on my channel community page (which I can't link here for some reason) but should be find-able now. Thanks for reminding me!
@@BenCoeMusic Wow! Thanks Ben.
So just a quick question how do you turn on an off each partial as a whole!? Like i only wanna use 2 partials for the patch.
On the second page for each oscillator the first option switches it on or off, so you can just turn off 3 and 4. On an init patch 2, 3, and 4 are off by default.
Can I assign parameters to the knobs of my Launchkey, that are not shown in the display in the moment? Say I have filter page shown, but want to adjust ADSR from my midi keyboard w/o changing pages on the 101? Thanks in advance! Great video as always, much appreciated!
You can use the following MIDI CC:
CC 72 Release Time
CC 73 Attack time
CC 75 Decay Time
Now to address the elephant in the room - what in God's name are in those red bags behind you (garments?)?!? Ok, now that is out of my system; amazing tutorial / demo - I absolutely love this machine! My one constructive criticism to Roland would have been to make the 'sampler' feature with analog audio-in (preferably 1/4, but 1/8 jack would be fine too). Thank you Obi Wan!
- Summer
Haha most people mention the apparently severed heads behind me before the garment bags, but they’re related, my girlfriend runs a character entertainment company and that’s all her supplies. I’d have loved an analog in for sampling on the 101, but the verselab and 707 both have it, and the sampling over usb can be pretty useful with a phone on the go!
Does the device allow to set different MIDI channels and add a favourite sound to each one? I am considering it to replace my current sound module and use channel + - instructions from the keytar to change between the sounds.
Does the Roland MC 101 have that functionality, so it can replace Integra/Sonic Cell modules? Or not?
Even if it didn't, I like the sounds a lot. Just to see if I should sell the Sonic Cell or keep it.
It can do that a little bit but not across all 16 midi channels. You can set each of the 4 tracks to respond to its own midi channel though, so that works if you cycle through just 4 channels.
When playing in a band with the 101 as a sound module through my keytar-ish instrument, I set up a project which has all my presets loaded into it (16 sounds per track x 4 tracks = 64 possible sounds) then you can set up the mc-101 to scene changing mode where pressing one pad will change the scene, which will switch the sounds for all 4 midi channels. So if one song requires 3 different sounds, between songs I’ll press the button on the 101 to call the appropriate scene, then during the song I can switch between the 4 midi channels from my instrument as needed.
You can also change sounds on each channel by sending midi program change messages on that channel, or change whole scenes by sending program change messages on a different channel, if your keytar can do that it can be convenient.
One more thing you can’t browse the sounds by doing any of these, you have to set up each sound in its own clip ahead of time and then you’re changing clips with the above operations, which changes the sound.
Hope that helps, I used the mc-101 as a live sound module for a while with my keytar, if you have any more questions don’t hesitate to ask.
Yeah boyyyeee!
Hello, do you know if I can put a whole song to release live? I ask this because I would like to use it sometimes as a V.S. player
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Wrong , the blofeld is 16 part multitimbral
How do you change the color when you are in note mode?
Thanks a lot bro.
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Push PROJECT button, select SETTING. The color options for the buttons are in there, they're saved per-project.
How could you change the color pads in the Note mode?
6 stage envelope....that sounds like a JD800 envelope (add me druling in a synth store in the early 90th), but not for the MC 101...noted.
Hi!
Thanks for this tutorial!
Do you know if, by chance, the new synth parameters respond to midi cc, and if they can be assigned?
They don’t all respond by default to cc but in the mod matrix you can set CC’s to control almost any of the new synth parameters. They’re flexible there, and you can set up to 4 assignments per partial.
@@BenCoeMusic ooh thanks!
I'll try and find out how to do so, but i don't know the mod matrix very well 😅
Hi Ben, I may have already asked you....
is track 1 intended only and always for drums or can it become 'tone'? I mean, can I have 4 tracks of 'tone' sounds?
thanks and greetings from Italy
All of the tracks can be any track type. The only limitation is any project can only have one “drum+comp” track, but you can have multiple regular drum tracks and certainly all 4 tracks can be tone tracks. To set it up you can just delete the default drum track by holding shift+project and then pressing the track you want to delete. Then you can create a new tone track there.
@@BenCoeMusic thank you very much, "drum-comp" = "compressor" ? and when I find "W" = wet? you reminded me of two other things I didn't understand😓.
Roland with ZenCore and the new grooveboxes has taken a big leap forward. I was used to the MC303 with which I started twenty-five years ago where it was normal not to have screens and to manage all the options by pressing the few keys available and a handful of LEDs to indicate what you were doing. yes, I also used an environment where you could connect the machine to the pc, but mostly used for live performances.
ok, the 101 has a small screen but compared to the 303 it really does a lot of things. I recently got it and I made the update even less and I'm exploring it slowly.
Greetings from Italy
Sorry, again, the chord and scale mode has been improved???
Im just confused why the versa lab is cheaper than the 101? It seems like a 101 only better......?
They’re sort of for different things, but you could interpret it that way. The verselab has 3 extra tracks plus the vocal track. Since update 1.8 the mc-101 has the synth engine access which the verselab doesn’t, and the 101 also has scatter and more flexible scenes. Also I believe the verselab is typically more expensive than the 101, it recently dropped in price, I assume for Black Friday sales, I don’t expect it to stay this way forever.
This is a great update but I feel like the elephant in the room is that it doesn't seem you can save patches?
You save patches in projects. Then you can load up patches from other projects. It's clunky, but it works.
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Roland doesn't want keyboardists to use this as a flexible sound module. They have other more expensive products for that 🙄
@@sinewaymusic I haven’t had a chance to update yet; is the process of saving/loading patches from project to project apparent within the new partial menus or did you have to do some searching
@@EiseniaFoetida It's already a feature since the beginning I think. Initialize a new tone track and choose between Presets, Random, Project etc. Select Project and then the project file and the track you want to load the tone from.
I understand your excitement, but this "Zencore" engine in the 101 & 707 is just the same as the Fantom X/XR/G/FA engine. Don't know about the availability of Supernatural sounds despite having a 707. Have to look it up. Sadly the ability to load VA engines like Juno(s), SH and Jupiter is missing.
Yeah this is just I guess the ‘base’ engine. No support here for supernatural or the specific synth expansion engines. I am likely wrong but I remember it being discussed somewhere as a hardware limitation, that there’s a particular chip doing the processing in the 101 and 707 and the fantoms and Jupiter etc have 1-3 extra versions of that chip which allows for more complicated synthesis and sampling. Again I’m probably wrong that’s just a distant memory.
In any case I’m still very excited we have this much, I think it’s really powerful as it is.
Will the Mc 707 do the same ?
I believe it should but most of the synth editing features have been present in the 707 since the beginning, they’re brand new on the 101!
So it is virtual analog now ?
Its Rolands ZenCore engine which covers a large variety of modelling options, including a VA engine called ABM (Analog Behavior Modelling). The engine has always been the same, but with 1.8 you finally can fully programm it like on the Fantom series, or the bigger MC707
@@suga4all ok , so now is real synth.
hahha and it was already but strategy market sometimes reveal all features time by time ....
I was never interested in this piece since I got it can now do programming. :)
@@effebidi9677 Yes, you are right. It seemed to be a marketing decision to "close" the MC101, perhaps in favour of the MC707 sales. Yet, it seemed to be a false decision so they corrected it (and almost shamefully hiding it only as a sidenote of the official 1.8 video).
@@suga4all mmm .. dunno... I truly think they hide it from beginning so they could sell for both lazy and curious puublic, then, when the mc-101 slowed its selling Roland simply put the truth on air , and the synthesists enthisast came to know.... so they can think of it, choose it and buy it ( if they now need something Roland with 4 channels :D ) ................... I think there are serveral ways to make this kind of market..
For example one fair way could be when the company sells only one main piece of gear investing all their blood in that one project which is possibly a great one.... But that's not the Roland story .
so ....................................... :/
( and anyway is still too expensive for what it is )
cheers
The reason I sold mine was because of this not being a thing , I lost money on this product, it should have been there from the start
Can you edit randomly generated patch?
Yes indeed!
That editing interface is awful - I can't understand how anyone would actually want to build a patch on that. I sold mine because it was bad enough with the limited editing options it had but this is so much worse. A whole synth patch on a two line display with cryptic abbreviations is something from the 80s. It would kill me.
Lol to each they’re own. I’m just happy I can get so much done on such a tiny device.
I agree. The iPad has a much better user interface, for this kind of work, if you don't need hardware knobs/faders.
But I am still interested in the MC-101, not just for making music/beats, but also because I enjoy figuring out how things work. Like a puzzle challenge, that has a musical payoff.
Try a Yamaha TG500.....or if you really want a headache an Ensoniq Mirage (in hex). Or a DX7....with one data slider.
Great analisys but I'm about to puke due to the camera bouncing
I’m really sorry! Will have it sorted next time!
@@BenCoeMusic Thanks for taking note of this, and making effort to fix in future videos.
Love your positive attitude, and the joy you bring to this subject matter.
It makes it a fun to learn from you, and puts a smile on my face 🙂
Sorry, really wanted to watch this video, but your camera or table is moving and making me physically ill attempting to watch.