Really awesome that Roland keeps updating the MC101. They had a reputation for abandoning devices but they seem to be turning this around for the last couple years.
That’s because the older Roland devices weren’t as popping like we all thought! Roland did poorly on original drum machines. The new stuff like mc101 and tr6s keeps getting updated because they are currently still popular and not to many people have the old shit anymore due to manufacturing is nonexistent in old Roland vintage gear . These devices are capable of way more now and in a compact portable form
While not the best way to edit the synth, at least we can. Kudos to Roland for opening up this functionality; it makes the MC-101 an entirely different beast.
Ben - well done Mate. I like how you choosen to present the features - had the manual next to the video - that made many things click. I wish the I had this for the other update (expect 1.6 ;) the Scatter trick is almost worth a small extra video. Looking forward to get home this week so I can test drive the new version on my MC101.
I was not expecting this at all. I’ve been using my MC-101 less as I’ve gotten deeper into sound design but this is definitely going to put it back into the rotation. Thanks Roland and thank you Ben for the walk through!
Excellent tutorials. That must come from the fact that you know in real depth all the engineering of music..I really enjoy your materials. You help me make some sense of my MC-101. I am more of a concert composer oriented but I can’t ignore this other part of music…thank you!
Oh yea one more thing, the fact that they added the jd800 multFX & the exciter are great editions, considering that the looper export feature made it feasible for a entire track to be made & mix solely on the groovebox. Deceptive powerful!
@@BenCoeMusic , if you do your deep dive. Check out when OSC PArameter GRP = SAMP. The parameter WAV let you pick your own PCM waves if loaded to the project. This makes it also a synth sampler.
Nice to see Roland supporting the unit and some great new features, but, still no way to chain scenes in any order which would make song creation so much easier. Look forward to the video on synth engine editing. Much appreciated Ben. Thank you.
Thanks for this-nice video! As a MC-101 owner, I’m intrigued with more MIDI integration, with a keyboard controller and SP404MkII; it seems like so much could be done.
Thank you, your tutorials are amazing, with this update I think the mc-101 is worth the purchase. I bought mine a few days ago and love it. Your YB channel has really help me understand this machine with it's quirks ( the rotorary knob per track design still catch me out, I still have to rewire my muscle memory )...Anyway Thank you.
Man your videos are really nice. I feel your excitement about the new features on the MC-101. This product has become a Swiss Army knife for beat-makers. I hope Roland will also bring the tone partial editor on the MV-1, another bit underrated product that has a lot of potential.
Thank you! I’m definitely excited about all this, and yeah I really feel like it can do almost anything. I really love the verselab as well, I haven’t made videos about it but I actually use it at least as often as the 101. For sure an underrated powerhouse.
@@BenCoeMusic you should definitely make videos on the MV-1. I was quite disappointed that almost no one covered this on TH-cam today. Shows it’s clearly underrated on the market right now. The community remains smaller than the MC lineup probably. But I love the workflow of it and I believe it has tremendous potential. With a couple more features like side-chaining or that tone partial editor they just added on the MC-101. Possibly the issue was the way it was marketed at launch for musicians and singers while it has so much potential in the home and on the go production markets. And although the workflow is more general public oriented and hence quite intuitive. I’m not certain their initial taret market did dig this.
@@mixedatmidnight I’ve heard some people have had issues with it on the verselab, I actually haven’t had time to try it yet lol if I figure it out I’ll let you know. Someone in the verselab group mentioned if there are too many things in the sound folder it had issues but putting sounds into sub folders seemed to fix the problem. No idea if that’s the case here.
@@BenCoeMusic thanks for the tip ben, i do have a lot of files in the sound folder (over 100 I think) - went a bit crazy buying those SDZ files :D I'll try a subfolder. Feels like ver 1.81 wont be too far around the corner
Very cool. *Both the update and your video on it.* I use the vintage Roland boxes mostly, but this litle gem could be a great addition to my setup. So many useful features...
I finally folded and bought an MC 101 last week because of this update. So far so good. Loving the portability of it too. The Korg Electribe could be run off batteries too but was a bit too big for the backpack.
Thanks for extra scatter FX's tip, I probably never had found that out since I don't use scatter mode. It's even more useful for my MC-707 with all the in/outputs! You earned a new sub bro.
Holy shit, I've always found that the MC-101 was insane value. If you can live with the 4 track limit it's a workstation replacement as far as I'm concerned. Even before you could make your own sounds the huge library of presets was enough. Of course I was dreaming about an uptate like this, but I never expected it to happen, I thought they'd want us to get the 707, MV-1 (or maybe an in-between model with keys and more knobs?) but now this is probably one of the most fully features tiny synths for on the go you can get on tóp of a workstation replacement. I am absolutely blown away by what Roland has added to this machine. Favorite piece of gear ever, even if the learning curve was a tiny bit steep. (Honestly that's not that bad either. If this is your only groovebox you'll know it inside out after not too long.)
Thank you for the detailed breakdown! I'm especially curious about how you use Scatter and would love to see some tips and ideas. Your trick of putting another MFX on a pad without any retrigger etc. is so simple I thought "wow why didn't I try that?" I agree that it's under-utilized and has immense potential, but I haven't seen anyone go into it as much as other aspects of the MC-101.
Thanks for sharing! Subbed to your Patreon today :) Like making the Scatter effect part of the INIT/template project, are there any other settings you'd recommend for an initialized project? I'm sure this is all subject to personal taste but it'd be great if you could discuss this topic (if you find it relevant too).
Glad it’s useful for that too, my video for update 1.6 on the 101 I think has some more info on the random tone generator the verselab just got. I’ve been so focused on the 101 I haven’t even gotten to update my verselab yet haha but I’m excited for that stuff too! Thanks for still watching my 101 videos even though you’re 100% verselab now!
wow! i wish it was possible to combine speaker sim & phonograph, it being called phonograph rather than vinyl seemed to imply it'd have that lofi eq/impulse response too, I guess you can mess around with the EQ of the track anyway. All this beast needs now is a sidechain compressor and it'd do pretty much everything
Really awesome the Partial Editor! Thank you Roland! I have one question, If I have made a new patch, how can I Import/save this patch and open in Zenology??
Wow! Thats nothing short of a sensation! The official Roland 1.8 video mentions the new tone editor for the MC 101 in a sidenote, but indeed thats the true sensation here. Zenology Pro is like 250 quit for a lifetime license. Here you got a full blown portable hardware groovebox on top for another 200. From a different perspective, the MC 101 is now officially a true budget ZenCore Synth. Just compare that with a Novation Circuit or a Korg Electribe 2 which are both in the same ballpark. Here you have the full blown engine which drives the Fantoms and Jupiter series. Unbelievable that Roland really did that! 👍
One more thing Ben. User Da Fisc on an MC Facebook group has found a really significant bug with the new update. Basically, it seems like .sdz files (Purchased Roland Sound Pack drum kit files loaded onto the SD Card) are no longer loading properly to the pads for playback after the 1.8 update for at least him and myself. here's a copy paste of the post: I think I found a regression regarding the use of zen core sound packs (drums specifically) after updating to 1.8 on the MC-101, but I'm not sure if it's the update or if it's me that might have done something wrong. I updated properly to 1.8 and did a factory reset. Steps to reproduce: 1. Load default project 2. On the drum track (track 1), load a drum pack from a SOUND FILE (i.e. Roland Zen Core sound pack) 3. Trigger the newly loaded drum pack by pressing the pads Expected behavior: - The drum samples of the loaded sound pack are played Registered behavior: - Drum samples from sound pack are not played and it's still the 909 samples that are played, only the MFX settings change Could someone confirm if you encounter the same behavior? (I confirmed the behavior in a lot of detail in my reply comment. I'd suggest testing this bug and making some sort of light about it so that Roland can patch it in a hotfux asap since our paid extra drum kit content is inaccessible until they do. That's a big deal!)
Opening zen core for the mc 101 by itself it's huge!. Congratulations on being (I think) the first channel to do a review and explain this 1.8 update. Just a quick question. Do you own a 707? If not , you'd love it
Thanks! I don’t have a 707, I’m sure I would love it lol I haven’t gotten one because I’ve been working hard to focus on only buying things that I need, and the 101 is essential to the live performance rig I’ve been building for the last year or so, so I’ve really been focused on that. At some point when I have enough space/free time I’d love to get a 707/tr8s combo.
I'm ready for that in-depth synth patch editing tutorial because I am literally about to travel across Europe by train in a month and own an MC-101 and was thinking I'd need a dedicated travel-sized synth for my mobile setup for producing sample packs because the 101 wasn't tweakable enough, but now I'm pretty sure it is, but still need convincing that making good-sounding synth patches on it via Partial edit is possible without insane amounts of menu-diving / knob turning / key combo pressing just to make slight adjustments. What's more, the dedicated mini-synths I was contemplating buying were the Microfreak, Blofeld desktop, and others, which you mentioned in the video, so now I'm in a purchase stasis where I feel like I shouldn't buy an additional synth until I've seen you create a synth patch with the new update, because if I could design a plethora of synth sounds in the 101 to layer with the rest of my setup, I could save space and weight in my suitcase, plus money in my wallet, which I could invest in more 101 expansion pack purchases to have still-more presets as jumping-off points for sound design. I'd win, Roland would win, and even you would win because then I wouldn't sell or not use my 101 which will mean I'll watch your videos to actually get to know the 101 in depth
Coming tomorrow, stay tuned! I hope you think it lives up to the hype I’m giving it! If you have any specific sorts of sounds in mind I’m thinking of doing some “how to make x sound” on the 101, so let me know ideas!
@@BenCoeMusic Absolutely: the biggest reason I wanted a Microfreak was because of its Modal Oscillator mode that is basically a simple physical modeling synthesis type. With it, I could get very short, "plunky" wood sounds, and other sounds that sound organic and real, for the purpose of feeding audio into my Lemondrop granular synth (or SP 404 MK2, etc.) to make "gentle, ear-tickly kaleidoscopic stereo field sounds", for one example, but to put it more simply, I'm just after sounds that are gentle, organic-sounding, short, pizzicato-like, ASMR-inducing, sound like they're from nature / jungle / forest / fantasy, etc. If you look up "gecho loopsynth ASMR", the sounds achieved by the Loopsynth in that video are quite like what I'd like to make. I've already got a binaural microphone for capturing my own actual audio, so now I'm hoping I can have a synth with stereo output that can also match those same sonic goals. On the Microfreak, I could simply switch to Modal mode and dial them in in a matter of 5-10 minutes and record them out in the SP-404 MK2 and layer them with any sampled sounds from the microphone, then export as a sample to process on computer and include in sample packs. So I guess I'm wondering if I can do the same and achieve nearly the same results by using the MC-101 for that instead, and get those "low-key, ear-candy gentle organic synth sounds" that physical modeling (and FM synthesis - I was also considering the Liven XFM) seems to make it easy to create P.s. here is the full list of travel-friendly synths I was looking into as a "sound generator to feed FX pedals with" before I discovered the 1.8 MC-101 update: Bastl Kastle 1.5, Bastl Kastle Drum, Korg Volca Modular, Meng Qi Wingie2, (still intrigued) Plinky, Bastl MicroGranny 2, Orba 2, Glo, The Polyphonic Whale, Tasty Chips GR-1, (wish list 📃😁) Waldorf Blofeld (still wondering 🤔) Arturia Microfreak (still want, but it's mono out 😭) Monome Norns Shield Volca FM2 Anyma Phi (so perfect yet too flawed, I think) Critter and Guitari Organelle (still wondering 🤔) Gecho Loopsynth (still strongly want but is not a synth) 1010music Nanobox Lemondrop (got it) Sonicware Liven XFM (still want) Modal Skulpt SE Modal Craftsynth 2 Nunomo Qun 2 (still learning / considering) (I have ruled out most of these out, due to limited sound design, harsh timbres, mono outputs, high prices, unavailability, incompatibility with setup, complicated assembly, etc., but just wanted to include for reference)
Also, can you tell Roland that in the Partial Edit menu, it would be nice in an update to have a change where pressing one of the 4 buttons below the 4 knobs quickly 2 times (or 3 or etc), or holding it down, or shift+press button, etc., would cause the parameter in question to return to either A) "default", if that's even applicable or B) "the value it was at when the user scrolled to that page of the partial edit menu" so that bumping one of the knobs accidentally or fiddling with the knobs purposefully, or trying not to forget any of the 4 values on each page, etc. can all be "smoothed over" by simply forcing a "snap a value back to what it was before I started fiddling" function. I'd say "just enable the new undo combo for it!", but I don't think the "EXIT+
I ended up selling mine because the menu diving was driving my insane. I wish roland would take all this amazing features and put them inside a device with a nice, hands on user interface. Thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching anyway! I think maybe the fantom is more hands on but after working with Zenology pro as a vst there’s just so many parameters there I really just don’t know the best way to incorporate it into a faster workflow. Would definitely be cool though!
Me too. I liked the drum sequencing and it was a great sound module but just such a pain for editing and I could never get comfortable with the melodic sequencing. And all the thousands of unlabeled shortcuts.
i already have a mc101 since few days, awesomee, but...its posible to turn off - on partial on audio.... not just for editing, i mean, i want to mute partials so i can hear in which partial number are each of the sounds i´m listening, thanxsss in advance, nice channel
BTW MC101 firmware 1.80 appears to have 1 or 2 new bugs that weren't there in 1.72. eg. Can't load drum kits from SDZ SOUND files. I have logged a support issue with Roland.
I’ve heard unfortunately :/ last update 1.7 broke the drum+comp track functionality briefly but they fixed it within a week or two if I remember correctly, so hopefully it’ll get repaired soon.
It’s ok. They basically added everything that should’ve been there in the first place - the external arp and modulation & the undo for starters. Still no additional random sequence functionality and no user patch saving structure.
Excellent as ever. Can't wait for your partial editing vid. The MC-101 manual has been updated already. Do you know if there's a list of the PCM waveforms available?
Thanks! Zenology pro lets you search the pcm samples but if you don’t own it I don’t know if there’s a list (maybe in the Zenology pro manual, my phone won’t load it now but I can check). I’ve gone through and made my own list though doing my best to categorize them usefully. I’ll talk about it in the partial video and I’ll figure out the best way to share the list I made.
@@BenCoeMusic Check out the MC707 Soundlist Manual for the wave list. Also recommend the 707 Reference Guide or the zenology Manuel to understand the parameters better. The Mc101 is a subset of this.
Great Video!! It would be perfect to describe the Interaction of the Sensel with the 101 now. I have used a midi host and it was impressive with the 1.72!! what host do you use?
I actually use a raspberry pi configured as a midi host. I should really talk about how I have everything integrated together, my live instrument/rig is very nearly finished (finally) and I think I’ll make some videos describing all the interactions then.
Though I was hoping for better sample chopping worlflow on the MC-101, partial editing is an absolute game changer for MC101 sound design! Mad love to Roland still updating the MC/MV line
Me too, but slicing a sample is not THAT hard. And considering that you get the WHOLE engine editing you can now do crazy shit with sample oscilators. I had the 707 too and I know that you can mess with them A LOT. Sadly I sold my 101, but I'm definitely buying one again and holding on to it. This will be one of THOSE pieces of kit :)
@@alecsbuga not the 707, I'm talking about the 101 with sampling. It's super tedious getting the timing right for each chop if youre doing manual chops in the groovebox, start & end time when samples are the sole measurement. I just want an option to set start & end time with seconds (for quicker, ball park start & end times) on top of sample measurements (for more fine tuning of the start times)
I just splice samples in my DAW before I export to the 101, only spent a little while with the new update but all the partial editing seems to apply samples as well!! AWSOME
I think there is a problem with using the scatter MFX. When I did the settings on each step the way you showed and didn’t use any MFX, I played an open hi-hat on every 16th and I can hear a glitch every 16 steps. I guess because the scatter’s length is 16 steps every time it has to retrigger it’s not doing it smoothly. Can you please tell me if you have the same issue!🙏
Hello. I am french and i have a very bad english. I don't find how to put the second page of knobs control. Modweel aftertouch etc.... in ON mode .it's always Off. I read in the update manual that it's only possible to reccord 4 parameters and the pitch bend in a clip. Have i anderstand or you don't think ? ??can you explain simply ????Thank you for all yours vidéo on mc101. 👍
I'm interested in buying one of these to use as a sound module but I've read some comments stating that you cannot save your own patches unless you save them to a song and even then, you're still not able to rename patches. Is this true?
I believe so! I’m going to experiment in the near future with setting up some editing with a launch control xl. There’s only the 4 channels (I think) with the mod matrix but I’m going to see what we can do! It should at least give us very flexible control over a few parameters at a time.
hello. once the firmware 1.81 is updated, are all the additional functions of the previous firmware included or do I have to update each firmware chronologically to get them?
The partial editor is a real game changer! Sure, it'll be the most tedious synthesizer interface since the DX-7, but as a quick way to remove that annoying hard-coded LFO on a preset that would otherwise have been perfect, this is just what's needed. Will it let you tweak the Zencore parameters externally via midi cc though?
I doubt through CC, sysex/NRPN are laid out for the Fantom for instance though. Not saying they'll definitely be tweakable that way but Zen Core is too extensive for simple CC.
You can a little bit. In the mod matrix you can assign a cc to a fairly long list of destinations. So if you want to use like a launch control or the midi fighter knob controller to expand out the whole synth you probably won’t be able to. But if you want to set up a synth patch so it responds to like a few faders on your keyboard for some extra live tweaking that should be fairly simple. The mod matrix has 4 modulation/destination pairs per partial.
@@BenCoeMusic That's perfect! I want to control it from my MPC Live 2 and just a couple of parameters beyond the cutoff, resonance and decay is enough. Thanks!
Hey buddy I love your tutorials I bought mine maybe 2-3 years ago and I just got back to playing within it and I did the update and reset to factory as I seen ON another tutorial and it I’m not getting any sound @ all I do on what to do I followed the directions and I’m kinda funky @ the please help
Do you think the expanded synth engine will make it possible for third party editors to exist? Like i'd love an MC101 VST so I can use it in my DAW. Some DAWS still don't support VST3 so it'd be especially handy.
Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be going that route. The new options do allow you to route CC’s for many parameters but only 4 at a time per partial. So you could reasonably set up something where your daw controls a few parameters at a time for automation or something but I think it’s unlikely in its current state that we’ll see a full-fledged synth editor that can operate like that.
Hi Ben, I haven’t gotten around to installing the 1.7 update yet. Can I just go straight to the 1.8 or should I upgrade to 1.7 first then upgrade to 1.8?
To me it seems like there is just a plain old, but very good, Fantom X and maybe also Supernatural engine inside? The 101 has, like the 707, no Zencore Virtual Analog engines inside and can't load them, which makes the whole Zencore branding a bit of a marketing lie. 101 and 707 are still very good machines. Nice to see they now fully developed the 101 into a portable Fantom X Synth now.
Yeah like Connor said, press the project button, go to “setting” then scroll over, you can set the note color and a few other colors. You can change the fader colors in the track menu too if you want (hold shift and press a track number, then scroll over). I have my preferred settings in a project called 00Init, which I load every time I want to make a new project, so everything is how I like it.
@@BenCoeMusic I knew about the faders but missed the pad changing stuff. Now I know. Yeah a standard initial project to load every time. That is exactly what I'm going to do! Thank U :-)
@@BenCoeMusic I always watch your videos. Very helpful for an amateur like me haha. Maybe you have an answer to another burning question I'm having for a while now. Is there a possibillity for giving the bassdrum more power (distortion for example). I can give it reverb and some other effects like more volume and stuff in the sound settings menu but I really would like to alter the kicks a lot more if possible! I am a Hardcore/ Gabber/ Techno enthousiast you know :-) Thanks again!
Yep, it only takes a minute. It shouldn’t mess with the SD card so your projects should be safe, it just resets some stuff in the utilities menu and maybe some track defaults. Usually only takes a minute or two after the reset to get back to my preferred settings and it does help sometimes with weird glitchy things post-update.
They didn’t. They have added the random tone generator and some nice additional motion track features to the verselab recently though I haven’t gotten that deep into the new things there yet.
I use a raspberry pi configured as a usb midi host box. There are several commercial usb midi host boxes available commercially though that will work. Kenton and iconnectivity both make them.
A little bit. Nothing is mapped to CC’s by default but each CC is an input in the mod matrix. So you won’t be able to control everything with CC but you can map any CC to any available mod matrix slot. I think with a little planning it opens up lots of opportunities for live performance and live tweaking, but unfortunately isn’t enough to break out all the parameters onto a big midi controller or anything like that.
@@BenCoeMusic thanks for your reply! Im trying to figure out if mc101 and mc707 differ on these things but i suppose it's the same. Some website stated you can do the mod matrix mapping with 707 but didn't state anything about 101. Great to know its there as well. I am planning to buy either one and i also have a nice uc33 midi controller laying around
They just added probability to the TR, i can't believe they didn't give it to the MC's. Still hoping they do better integration with Zenbeats at some point.
Great another update to learn! Does anyone at Roland actually make music because the updates should have been available from day one. It’s not like mc101 was made in the 80s . Its like people at Roland get all horny excited with these updates that should have been available already.they should listen to current music and have the mc101 do most of what current music sounds like with an update, not constantly updating the device to do what it should have been able to do from day one. Im glad I’m skilled on drums to add to my music I just use this for bass or synthesizer sounds
@@BenCoeMusic Please make a tutorial about creating things in the right key and scale please, even with Keystep 37 if you go that one, it does also have key and scale mode
I understand the excitement, but if you could explain a little more calmly that would be great. We're not all super savvy, and it's hard to follow you sometimes, especially if the language is different, thank you.
Really awesome that Roland keeps updating the MC101. They had a reputation for abandoning devices but they seem to be turning this around for the last couple years.
They do seem to be putting a lot of effort into improving existing gear, which is great!
Yeah, thanks again, Novation! 😂
That’s because the older Roland devices weren’t as popping like we all thought! Roland did poorly on original drum machines. The new stuff like mc101 and tr6s keeps getting updated because they are currently still popular and not to many people have the old shit anymore due to manufacturing is nonexistent in old Roland vintage gear . These devices are capable of way more now and in a compact portable form
this update just sold me on the 101 to replace most of my volcas as a portable jambox
While not the best way to edit the synth, at least we can. Kudos to Roland for opening up this functionality; it makes the MC-101 an entirely different beast.
Best MC101 video tutorials I’ve ever watched💪 Thanks for this it helps so much.
Undoing takes and access to the synth engine were literally my two biggest gripes. So awesome!!!
Wow! Added options of serious sound design changed this device dramatically. Excellent update!
Thanks a ton Ben for the detailed breakdown of new features. This is. HUGE update. Looks like I have my evening filled up.
Ben - well done Mate. I like how you choosen to present the features - had the manual next to the video - that made many things click. I wish the I had this for the other update (expect 1.6 ;) the Scatter trick is almost worth a small extra video. Looking forward to get home this week so I can test drive the new version on my MC101.
Thanks a lot! Glad it’s useful!
AHHHHHHHHHHH FULL SYNTH ENGINE! OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH!
Pretty much exactly my first thoughts
@@BenCoeMusic I'm literally chatting with a couple people on discord about this and we're basically having the world's happiest meltdown right now.
@@ndguardian the best kind of melt down!
I'm absolutely blown away. Welcome back to the current gear lineup, mc-101. You were missed.
I was not expecting this at all. I’ve been using my MC-101 less as I’ve gotten deeper into sound design but this is definitely going to put it back into the rotation. Thanks Roland and thank you Ben for the walk through!
Thank you for putting so much effort into these videos on the MC-101. Quite helpful!
Excellent tutorials. That must come from the fact that you know in real depth all the engineering of music..I really enjoy your materials. You help me make some sense of my MC-101. I am more of a concert composer oriented but I can’t ignore this other part of music…thank you!
Oh yea one more thing, the fact that they added the jd800 multFX & the exciter are great editions, considering that the looper export feature made it feasible for a entire track to be made & mix solely on the groovebox. Deceptive powerful!
Great video, your enthusiasm is infectious and you do a good job of not only showing how to access these features but also *why*. 👍👍
Thank you! I’m really glad the “why” stuff is helpful
The beast has awoken! Thank you again for another great video of 101, sir! Amazing walkthrough for this update!
Awesome update and great video. Looking forward to your deep dive into partial editor! Gives me good push to revisit my 101
Thanks! It’s definitely given me a ton of inspiration!
@@BenCoeMusic , if you do your deep dive. Check out when OSC PArameter GRP = SAMP. The parameter WAV let you pick your own PCM waves if loaded to the project.
This makes it also a synth sampler.
Nice to see Roland supporting the unit and some great new features, but, still no way to chain scenes in any order which would make song creation so much easier. Look forward to the video on synth engine editing. Much appreciated Ben. Thank you.
I have already sold my MC-101, but it's nice to see that Roland haven't abandoned it yet. Thanks for the video!👍
Thanks for this-nice video! As a MC-101 owner, I’m intrigued with more MIDI integration, with a keyboard controller and SP404MkII; it seems like so much could be done.
Thank you, your tutorials are amazing, with this update I think the mc-101 is worth the purchase. I bought mine a few days ago and love it. Your YB channel has really help me understand this machine with it's quirks ( the rotorary knob per track design still catch me out, I still have to rewire my muscle memory )...Anyway Thank you.
Thanks for the nice words, glad you’re enjoying it so far!
Hi Ben, I will update to v1.8 today.... Fantastic, your video cames just in time.
Hi, from PARIS (France). 😁
thank you for sharing the knowledge brother! its like they unlocked a whole new machine!
I want that second video about editor first thing in the morning :)
I love small groove boxs , and have had my eye on this one.
Thanks for showing us the new update features.
Glad to! Good luck on your small groovebox journey!
Man your videos are really nice. I feel your excitement about the new features on the MC-101. This product has become a Swiss Army knife for beat-makers. I hope Roland will also bring the tone partial editor on the MV-1, another bit underrated product that has a lot of potential.
Thank you! I’m definitely excited about all this, and yeah I really feel like it can do almost anything. I really love the verselab as well, I haven’t made videos about it but I actually use it at least as often as the 101. For sure an underrated powerhouse.
@@BenCoeMusic you should definitely make videos on the MV-1.
I was quite disappointed that almost no one covered this on TH-cam today. Shows it’s clearly underrated on the market right now. The community remains smaller than the MC lineup probably.
But I love the workflow of it and I believe it has tremendous potential. With a couple more features like side-chaining or that tone partial editor they just added on the MC-101.
Possibly the issue was the way it was marketed at launch for musicians and singers while it has so much potential in the home and on the go production markets.
And although the workflow is more general public oriented and hence quite intuitive. I’m not certain their initial taret market did dig this.
Great video Ben. This update is like having a new MC101!!! The official Roland update video doesn't focus on MC101 so thank you for going deeper.
Thank you! I agree it’s a whole new ball game now!
@@BenCoeMusic BTW I had trouble loading the free MC Production Pack (MCZ file) on the 101. Did you as well or is it just me?
@@mixedatmidnight I’ve heard some people have had issues with it on the verselab, I actually haven’t had time to try it yet lol if I figure it out I’ll let you know. Someone in the verselab group mentioned if there are too many things in the sound folder it had issues but putting sounds into sub folders seemed to fix the problem. No idea if that’s the case here.
@@BenCoeMusic thanks for the tip ben, i do have a lot of files in the sound folder (over 100 I think) - went a bit crazy buying those SDZ files :D I'll try a subfolder. Feels like ver 1.81 wont be too far around the corner
Very cool. *Both the update and your video on it.* I use the vintage Roland boxes mostly, but this litle gem could be a great addition to my setup. So many useful features...
I finally folded and bought an MC 101 last week because of this update. So far so good. Loving the portability of it too. The Korg Electribe could be run off batteries too but was a bit too big for the backpack.
Thanks for extra scatter FX's tip, I probably never had found that out since I don't use scatter mode. It's even more useful for my MC-707 with all the in/outputs! You earned a new sub bro.
Thank you!
Best birthday present ever!
Happy birthday!
Way more excited about this, than the drumlogue, you made my day & kudos to Roland!
Lol thanks I’ve barely had time to look at drumlogue videos I’ve been so excited about this
Holy shit, I've always found that the MC-101 was insane value. If you can live with the 4 track limit it's a workstation replacement as far as I'm concerned. Even before you could make your own sounds the huge library of presets was enough. Of course I was dreaming about an uptate like this, but I never expected it to happen, I thought they'd want us to get the 707, MV-1 (or maybe an in-between model with keys and more knobs?) but now this is probably one of the most fully features tiny synths for on the go you can get on tóp of a workstation replacement. I am absolutely blown away by what Roland has added to this machine. Favorite piece of gear ever, even if the learning curve was a tiny bit steep. (Honestly that's not that bad either. If this is your only groovebox you'll know it inside out after not too long.)
Pretty much exactly my thoughts, glad others are excited as I am!
Access to the synth engine is crazy good, and I am definitely going to try out the scatter effect hack.
I love my MC-101 even more now, thank you Roland ;-)
great rundown! thanks
Thank you for the detailed breakdown! I'm especially curious about how you use Scatter and would love to see some tips and ideas. Your trick of putting another MFX on a pad without any retrigger etc. is so simple I thought "wow why didn't I try that?" I agree that it's under-utilized and has immense potential, but I haven't seen anyone go into it as much as other aspects of the MC-101.
It's done, my friend. I digg in....in a new era.
Thanks for sharing! Subbed to your Patreon today :) Like making the Scatter effect part of the INIT/template project, are there any other settings you'd recommend for an initialized project? I'm sure this is all subject to personal taste but it'd be great if you could discuss this topic (if you find it relevant too).
Yessss.. me happy too.. brand new stuff on the Vesrelab too !! :) This vid is handy for Verselab users also..
Glad it’s useful for that too, my video for update 1.6 on the 101 I think has some more info on the random tone generator the verselab just got. I’ve been so focused on the 101 I haven’t even gotten to update my verselab yet haha but I’m excited for that stuff too!
Thanks for still watching my 101 videos even though you’re 100% verselab now!
This is great - should have been there from the startz bur great to see them updating after all this time
wow!
i wish it was possible to combine speaker sim & phonograph, it being called phonograph rather than vinyl seemed to imply it'd have that lofi eq/impulse response too, I guess you can mess around with the EQ of the track anyway.
All this beast needs now is a sidechain compressor and it'd do pretty much everything
Really awesome the Partial Editor! Thank you Roland!
I have one question,
If I have made a new patch, how can I Import/save this patch and open in Zenology??
At this time I don’t believe you can :( with the new clip export/import it seems like maybe you’d be able to eventually but I’m not sure.
@@BenCoeMusic you can't, last night I tried to do this... :(
Wow! Thats nothing short of a sensation! The official Roland 1.8 video mentions the new tone editor for the MC 101 in a sidenote, but indeed thats the true sensation here. Zenology Pro is like 250 quit for a lifetime license. Here you got a full blown portable hardware groovebox on top for another 200. From a different perspective, the MC 101 is now officially a true budget ZenCore Synth. Just compare that with a Novation Circuit or a Korg Electribe 2 which are both in the same ballpark. Here you have the full blown engine which drives the Fantoms and Jupiter series. Unbelievable that Roland really did that! 👍
Right?? I really think this is an incredible piece of gear especially compared to other things around its price range. This takes it over the top!
One more thing Ben. User Da Fisc on an MC Facebook group has found a really significant bug with the new update. Basically, it seems like .sdz files (Purchased Roland Sound Pack drum kit files loaded onto the SD Card) are no longer loading properly to the pads for playback after the 1.8 update for at least him and myself. here's a copy paste of the post:
I think I found a regression regarding the use of zen core sound packs (drums specifically) after updating to 1.8 on the MC-101, but I'm not sure if it's the update or if it's me that might have done something wrong. I updated properly to 1.8 and did a factory reset.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Load default project
2. On the drum track (track 1), load a drum pack from a SOUND FILE (i.e. Roland Zen Core sound pack)
3. Trigger the newly loaded drum pack by pressing the pads
Expected behavior:
- The drum samples of the loaded sound pack are played
Registered behavior:
- Drum samples from sound pack are not played and it's still the 909 samples that are played, only the MFX settings change
Could someone confirm if you encounter the same behavior?
(I confirmed the behavior in a lot of detail in my reply comment. I'd suggest testing this bug and making some sort of light about it so that Roland can patch it in a hotfux asap since our paid extra drum kit content is inaccessible until they do. That's a big deal!)
Opening zen core for the mc 101 by itself it's huge!. Congratulations on being (I think) the first channel to do a review and explain this 1.8 update. Just a quick question. Do you own a 707? If not , you'd love it
Thanks! I don’t have a 707, I’m sure I would love it lol I haven’t gotten one because I’ve been working hard to focus on only buying things that I need, and the 101 is essential to the live performance rig I’ve been building for the last year or so, so I’ve really been focused on that. At some point when I have enough space/free time I’d love to get a 707/tr8s combo.
I'm ready for that in-depth synth patch editing tutorial because I am literally about to travel across Europe by train in a month and own an MC-101 and was thinking I'd need a dedicated travel-sized synth for my mobile setup for producing sample packs because the 101 wasn't tweakable enough, but now I'm pretty sure it is, but still need convincing that making good-sounding synth patches on it via Partial edit is possible without insane amounts of menu-diving / knob turning / key combo pressing just to make slight adjustments. What's more, the dedicated mini-synths I was contemplating buying were the Microfreak, Blofeld desktop, and others, which you mentioned in the video, so now I'm in a purchase stasis where I feel like I shouldn't buy an additional synth until I've seen you create a synth patch with the new update, because if I could design a plethora of synth sounds in the 101 to layer with the rest of my setup, I could save space and weight in my suitcase, plus money in my wallet, which I could invest in more 101 expansion pack purchases to have still-more presets as jumping-off points for sound design. I'd win, Roland would win, and even you would win because then I wouldn't sell or not use my 101 which will mean I'll watch your videos to actually get to know the 101 in depth
Coming tomorrow, stay tuned! I hope you think it lives up to the hype I’m giving it! If you have any specific sorts of sounds in mind I’m thinking of doing some “how to make x sound” on the 101, so let me know ideas!
@@BenCoeMusic Absolutely: the biggest reason I wanted a Microfreak was because of its Modal Oscillator mode that is basically a simple physical modeling synthesis type. With it, I could get very short, "plunky" wood sounds, and other sounds that sound organic and real, for the purpose of feeding audio into my Lemondrop granular synth (or SP 404 MK2, etc.) to make "gentle, ear-tickly kaleidoscopic stereo field sounds", for one example, but to put it more simply, I'm just after sounds that are gentle, organic-sounding, short, pizzicato-like, ASMR-inducing, sound like they're from nature / jungle / forest / fantasy, etc. If you look up "gecho loopsynth ASMR", the sounds achieved by the Loopsynth in that video are quite like what I'd like to make. I've already got a binaural microphone for capturing my own actual audio, so now I'm hoping I can have a synth with stereo output that can also match those same sonic goals. On the Microfreak, I could simply switch to Modal mode and dial them in in a matter of 5-10 minutes and record them out in the SP-404 MK2 and layer them with any sampled sounds from the microphone, then export as a sample to process on computer and include in sample packs. So I guess I'm wondering if I can do the same and achieve nearly the same results by using the MC-101 for that instead, and get those "low-key, ear-candy gentle organic synth sounds" that physical modeling (and FM synthesis - I was also considering the Liven XFM) seems to make it easy to create
P.s. here is the full list of travel-friendly synths I was looking into as a "sound generator to feed FX pedals with" before I discovered the 1.8 MC-101 update:
Bastl Kastle 1.5,
Bastl Kastle Drum,
Korg Volca Modular,
Meng Qi Wingie2, (still intrigued)
Plinky,
Bastl MicroGranny 2,
Orba 2,
Glo, The Polyphonic Whale,
Tasty Chips GR-1, (wish list 📃😁)
Waldorf Blofeld (still wondering 🤔)
Arturia Microfreak (still want, but it's mono out 😭)
Monome Norns Shield
Volca FM2
Anyma Phi (so perfect yet too flawed, I think)
Critter and Guitari Organelle (still wondering 🤔)
Gecho Loopsynth (still strongly want but is not a synth)
1010music Nanobox Lemondrop (got it)
Sonicware Liven XFM (still want)
Modal Skulpt SE
Modal Craftsynth 2
Nunomo Qun 2 (still learning / considering)
(I have ruled out most of these out, due to limited sound design, harsh timbres, mono outputs, high prices, unavailability, incompatibility with setup, complicated assembly, etc., but just wanted to include for reference)
Also, can you tell Roland that in the Partial Edit menu, it would be nice in an update to have a change where pressing one of the 4 buttons below the 4 knobs quickly 2 times (or 3 or etc), or holding it down, or shift+press button, etc., would cause the parameter in question to return to either A) "default", if that's even applicable or B) "the value it was at when the user scrolled to that page of the partial edit menu" so that bumping one of the knobs accidentally or fiddling with the knobs purposefully, or trying not to forget any of the 4 values on each page, etc. can all be "smoothed over" by simply forcing a "snap a value back to what it was before I started fiddling" function. I'd say "just enable the new undo combo for it!", but I don't think the "EXIT+
Very well explained
Thats amazing Ben! Do you know something about the sample stretching?😢
Unfortunately I don’t, sorry. If I hear/learn anything about it I’ll be sure to talk about it in a video
I ended up selling mine because the menu diving was driving my insane. I wish roland would take all this amazing features and put them inside a device with a nice, hands on user interface.
Thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching anyway! I think maybe the fantom is more hands on but after working with Zenology pro as a vst there’s just so many parameters there I really just don’t know the best way to incorporate it into a faster workflow. Would definitely be cool though!
I think you’d be better suited to the MC-707.
Me too. I liked the drum sequencing and it was a great sound module but just such a pain for editing and I could never get comfortable with the melodic sequencing. And all the thousands of unlabeled shortcuts.
does MC 101 have note repeat / roll function like the 707? cant find info
I thought to exchanging MC-101 for some Elektron... know i'm sure... Thank you for your explanation
This is so awesome!
YES!!!
i already have a mc101 since few days, awesomee, but...its posible to turn off - on partial on audio.... not just for editing, i mean, i want to mute partials so i can hear in which partial number are each of the sounds i´m listening, thanxsss in advance, nice channel
yayyyy I have a gig next saturday !! update or not update ! that is the question
It recommends a factory reset after 1.8 so I'd hold.
BTW MC101 firmware 1.80 appears to have 1 or 2 new bugs that weren't there in 1.72. eg. Can't load drum kits from SDZ SOUND files. I have logged a support issue with Roland.
I’ve heard unfortunately :/ last update 1.7 broke the drum+comp track functionality briefly but they fixed it within a week or two if I remember correctly, so hopefully it’ll get repaired soon.
Great vid, do you get access to ZENOLOGY lite or pro software if you purchase the MC101 or do you also have to pay for monthly or yearly subscription?
Thank you! Unfortunately you don't, you have to either buy it outright or pay a subscription to Roland Cloud.
It’s ok. They basically added everything that should’ve been there in the first place - the external arp and modulation & the undo for starters. Still no additional random sequence functionality and no user patch saving structure.
So, Just bc this is what I understood, are the 4 partials to a tone listed as oscillators in the partial editor?
Excellent as ever. Can't wait for your partial editing vid. The MC-101 manual has been updated already. Do you know if there's a list of the PCM waveforms available?
Thanks! Zenology pro lets you search the pcm samples but if you don’t own it I don’t know if there’s a list (maybe in the Zenology pro manual, my phone won’t load it now but I can check). I’ve gone through and made my own list though doing my best to categorize them usefully. I’ll talk about it in the partial video and I’ll figure out the best way to share the list I made.
@@BenCoeMusic Cheers Ben! There so much to explore!!! It's like having a new device.
@@BenCoeMusic Check out the MC707 Soundlist Manual for the wave list. Also recommend the 707 Reference Guide or the zenology Manuel to understand the parameters better. The Mc101 is a subset of this.
Great Video!! It would be perfect to describe the Interaction of the Sensel with the 101 now. I have used a midi host and it was impressive with the 1.72!! what host do you use?
I actually use a raspberry pi configured as a midi host. I should really talk about how I have everything integrated together, my live instrument/rig is very nearly finished (finally) and I think I’ll make some videos describing all the interactions then.
Can you pan each partial individually on the mc101? I thought the mc707 allows this
Q. has the drum kit edit been enhance too?
Though I was hoping for better sample chopping worlflow on the MC-101, partial editing is an absolute game changer for MC101 sound design! Mad love to Roland still updating the MC/MV line
Definitely good to know they hear us, and I agree, it really brings the 101 to new heights
Me too, but slicing a sample is not THAT hard. And considering that you get the WHOLE engine editing you can now do crazy shit with sample oscilators. I had the 707 too and I know that you can mess with them A LOT.
Sadly I sold my 101, but I'm definitely buying one again and holding on to it. This will be one of THOSE pieces of kit :)
@@alecsbuga not the 707, I'm talking about the 101 with sampling. It's super tedious getting the timing right for each chop if youre doing manual chops in the groovebox, start & end time when samples are the sole measurement. I just want an option to set start & end time with seconds (for quicker, ball park start & end times) on top of sample measurements (for more fine tuning of the start times)
@@SwiftDreamer I was talking about the 101 also. It’s not that bad. At least it has it :)
I just splice samples in my DAW before I export to the 101, only spent a little while with the new update but all the partial editing seems to apply samples as well!! AWSOME
I think there is a problem with using the scatter MFX.
When I did the settings on each step the way you showed and didn’t use any MFX, I played an open hi-hat on every 16th and I can hear a glitch every 16 steps.
I guess because the scatter’s length is 16 steps every time it has to retrigger it’s not doing it smoothly.
Can you please tell me if you have the same issue!🙏
Hello. I am french and i have a very bad english. I don't find how to put the second page of knobs control. Modweel aftertouch etc.... in ON mode .it's always Off.
I read in the update manual that it's only possible to reccord 4 parameters and the pitch bend in a clip. Have i anderstand or you don't think ? ??can you explain simply ????Thank you for all yours vidéo on mc101. 👍
I'm interested in buying one of these to use as a sound module but I've read some comments stating that you cannot save your own patches unless you save them to a song and even then, you're still not able to rename patches. Is this true?
great video
Thanks!
hey! And External Arp via MIDI is possible? I saw on the video just via USB. I try via MIDI and nothing happens 🙃
So cool! So can we assign synth knobs to midi controller? Either way,I love mine! Thanks Ben
I believe so! I’m going to experiment in the near future with setting up some editing with a launch control xl. There’s only the 4 channels (I think) with the mod matrix but I’m going to see what we can do! It should at least give us very flexible control over a few parameters at a time.
This thing is endlessly fun! Thanks for the vids man! Nobody else is doing serious mc101 vids.
hello. once the firmware 1.81 is updated, are all the additional functions of the previous firmware included or do I have to update each firmware chronologically to get them?
All updates are included in the latest firmware, so if you update just to 1.81 you should have everything!
Hot damn! 🎉
The partial editor is a real game changer! Sure, it'll be the most tedious synthesizer interface since the DX-7, but as a quick way to remove that annoying hard-coded LFO on a preset that would otherwise have been perfect, this is just what's needed.
Will it let you tweak the Zencore parameters externally via midi cc though?
I doubt through CC, sysex/NRPN are laid out for the Fantom for instance though. Not saying they'll definitely be tweakable that way but Zen Core is too extensive for simple CC.
You can a little bit. In the mod matrix you can assign a cc to a fairly long list of destinations. So if you want to use like a launch control or the midi fighter knob controller to expand out the whole synth you probably won’t be able to. But if you want to set up a synth patch so it responds to like a few faders on your keyboard for some extra live tweaking that should be fairly simple. The mod matrix has 4 modulation/destination pairs per partial.
@@BenCoeMusic That's perfect! I want to control it from my MPC Live 2 and just a couple of parameters beyond the cutoff, resonance and decay is enough. Thanks!
Hey buddy I love your tutorials I bought mine maybe 2-3 years ago and I just got back to playing within it and I did the update and reset to factory as I seen ON another tutorial and it I’m not getting any sound @ all I do on what to do I followed the directions and I’m kinda funky @ the please help
Can i make 8 bit sounds with the partial funktion? Great video
Should definitely be possible, might be worth looking into how the bitcrusher mfx on the 101 works, I’m sure there are ways to get what you want
It's still got the number of bars per pattern at 8?
Do you think the expanded synth engine will make it possible for third party editors to exist? Like i'd love an MC101 VST so I can use it in my DAW. Some DAWS still don't support VST3 so it'd be especially handy.
Unfortunately I don't think that the Zen-Core parameters are exposed vía MIDI as in the Jupiter-X/XM/Fantom/JUNO-X/etc.
Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be going that route. The new options do allow you to route CC’s for many parameters but only 4 at a time per partial. So you could reasonably set up something where your daw controls a few parameters at a time for automation or something but I think it’s unlikely in its current state that we’ll see a full-fledged synth editor that can operate like that.
Hi Ben, I haven’t gotten around to installing the 1.7 update yet. Can I just go straight to the 1.8 or should I upgrade to 1.7 first then upgrade to 1.8?
You can install the newest update from any firmware directly. No need to install all of them.
Yep, like pisk1 said you should be good to go straight from any of them to 1.8
To me it seems like there is just a plain old, but very good, Fantom X and maybe also Supernatural engine inside? The 101 has, like the 707, no Zencore Virtual Analog engines inside and can't load them, which makes the whole Zencore branding a bit of a marketing lie. 101 and 707 are still very good machines. Nice to see they now fully developed the 101 into a portable Fantom X Synth now.
No super natural engine to my knowledge, but yes very nice to have so much in a tiny box!
F.a.n.t.a.s.t.i.c.! ... but clearly I'm missing a granulator effect, the mute probabilities on tone tracks, and the "repeat N times" on clips ...
Hello. Question: Why are your pads purple when playing the init tone. Mine are still orange and I never liked that color much ;-) Thank U
You can change pad colors per-project. It tells you how in the MC-101 user guide document, it's in a settings menu
Yeah like Connor said, press the project button, go to “setting” then scroll over, you can set the note color and a few other colors. You can change the fader colors in the track menu too if you want (hold shift and press a track number, then scroll over). I have my preferred settings in a project called 00Init, which I load every time I want to make a new project, so everything is how I like it.
@@connorsol Totally missed the pad changing part. Thank U, found it!
@@BenCoeMusic I knew about the faders but missed the pad changing stuff. Now I know. Yeah a standard initial project to load every time. That is exactly what I'm going to do! Thank U :-)
@@BenCoeMusic I always watch your videos. Very helpful for an amateur like me haha. Maybe you have an answer to another burning question I'm having for a while now. Is there a possibillity for giving the bassdrum more power (distortion for example). I can give it reverb and some other effects like more volume and stuff in the sound settings menu but I really would like to alter the kicks a lot more if possible! I am a Hardcore/ Gabber/ Techno enthousiast you know :-) Thanks again!
Did you do the 'suggested' factory reset after this update?
Yep, it only takes a minute. It shouldn’t mess with the SD card so your projects should be safe, it just resets some stuff in the utilities menu and maybe some track defaults. Usually only takes a minute or two after the reset to get back to my preferred settings and it does help sometimes with weird glitchy things post-update.
did they add the tone editor to the versalab do you know?
They didn’t. They have added the random tone generator and some nice additional motion track features to the verselab recently though I haven’t gotten that deep into the new things there yet.
Hi do you connect the launchpad to the Mc 101 with a computer? how do you connect them please?
I use a raspberry pi configured as a usb midi host box. There are several commercial usb midi host boxes available commercially though that will work. Kenton and iconnectivity both make them.
Can you hardwire an external midi controller to those zen engine parameters via CC?
A little bit. Nothing is mapped to CC’s by default but each CC is an input in the mod matrix. So you won’t be able to control everything with CC but you can map any CC to any available mod matrix slot. I think with a little planning it opens up lots of opportunities for live performance and live tweaking, but unfortunately isn’t enough to break out all the parameters onto a big midi controller or anything like that.
@@BenCoeMusic thanks for your reply! Im trying to figure out if mc101 and mc707 differ on these things but i suppose it's the same. Some website stated you can do the mod matrix mapping with 707 but didn't state anything about 101. Great to know its there as well. I am planning to buy either one and i also have a nice uc33 midi controller laying around
Wow never knew there was a new update never got email from roland
They just added probability to the TR, i can't believe they didn't give it to the MC's. Still hoping they do better integration with Zenbeats at some point.
Isn't that what the mute probability function covers? I use it to do exactly that probability work on my drums. Love it.
Noooooo... I still can't see the update 😭
Say to roland that will be great to get a VST editor for the synth engine
OMG!!
actually kinda want the 101 again, 707 is still out of budget, but the 101 is around the same price as a used digitone
You have excitement pouring out of your ears 😂
Darn right!
Great another update to learn! Does anyone at Roland actually make music because the updates should have been available from day one. It’s not like mc101 was made in the 80s . Its like people at Roland get all horny excited with these updates that should have been available already.they should listen to current music and have the mc101 do most of what current music sounds like with an update, not constantly updating the device to do what it should have been able to do from day one. Im glad I’m skilled on drums to add to my music I just use this for bass or synthesizer sounds
We could choose scale and key before, couldn't we?
I didn’t think so, and it was a feature mentioned in their documentation so I thought it was new. I could have been wrong though.
@@BenCoeMusic Please make a tutorial about creating things in the right key and scale please, even with Keystep 37 if you go that one, it does also have key and scale mode
Sold mine a long time ago because it didn't have these features
I understand the excitement, but if you could explain a little more calmly that would be great. We're not all super savvy, and it's hard to follow you sometimes, especially if the language is different, thank you.
tu parle trop vite