ROLAND MC707 - ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW IN 4 MINUTES
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Hi Body.. Nice to see you again active with your videos. Great Review. As ususal. Take care dear Bobeats and keep the good work.
Bo... your voice ain't annoying at all. It's actually quite soothing.
haha yes! Bo could review breakfast cereal and I'd watch few lol
Yea. I agree. Most youtubers these days all sound like girls.
I think you’re on to something w these short reviews. Really helpful Bo. Thanks.
Thanks for the hint to the Deluge at the end!
Fell in love by Roland's sound and just got one ;)
You have to make more videos like these Bo. Make a long one for in depth and these shorter ones for us people with ADD. LOL. Thanks very much for this. I'm thinking of picking one up. Never would have been able to sit through 40 minutes (until AFTER I bought it, of course).
Thank you Bo! Always enjoy your videos and positive energy. It's appreciated!
Recently obtained one used for $650 USD. Very happy with it. Appreciate Roland’s well done updates to the device. Thanks for this and headed over to the lengthy video. Salud.
Wonderful super cut, Bo!
thanks David!!
Great vid bro!
Great vid man. I already have the TR8s and various cool synths so I don't feel like it'll benefit me much just yet. I just had to check the thing out and you give the best run through
This alongside the TR-8S will give many tracks for synths, or additional percussion and drums.
Your 40 minute video on this was great, as was this one. I have an Octatrack MkII, and a Social Entropy engine, which were purchased to be the brains for my live shows. But this looks like. . .fun. I'm not being flippant when I say that; it looks like it would be inspiring and immediate (at least more than an Octatrack.)
Yeah I'm thinking this paired with the digitakt would be pretty great
I'm really debating between MC 707 or MPC One, must say I always loved the Roland sound and drums kit
Great vid Bo
So fresh and so clean!
I was thinking of buying Novation Circuit as my first GooveBox. I had MC-303 many many years ago...
Nice man! I have been buying Roland groove boxes since 1996. My first MC-909 cost me 2500.00. And wasn't half the tool this is. It seems to me that Roland has been playing attention to the live groove box community. I Can't wait to get my hands on this. Finally a rival to my Deluge. Good review. The synth sounds are fat and very usable. Everything the 909 could never. Be..
GAS level is going up quickly. Thanks, Bo!
Sitting in the corner drooling 🤤 waiting for the Jupiter Xm Review...😉
Love the twin peaks vibe of that session.
I was considering the MC707 while watching your longer video review and had the exact same thought ..."This does less than my Synthstrom Deluge. I don't need it!"
G.A.S. (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) AVERTED!
Thank you, Bo!
I agree, I got a Deluge recently and it has really inspired me, it's a lot of fun as well as being incredibly versatile.
was about to buy a deluge, saw one of these, got GAS, now i think i'll still get the deluge
Everyone should buy a Deluge.
Pls do an in depth guide to the synth engine. For me that is make or break for this product
Nice impartial spin through the MC-707.
thanks buddy
Lol I watched that first review for about 5 min, thanks for the adaptation, very considerate of you haha
some people have a life apparently 😬
@@BoBeats You're very accomodating, providing options for us all haha
If I was more interested in this device for my setup, I'd happily watch the 40 min review and trust it is time well invested, good sir 😊
Great breakdown
The rather unbiased review is of use to the public, thumbs up. The closing statement or summary is also valuable as you, as I too agree, consider the price point rather expensive when comparing it to other like products. I would have like to have seen the name of an alternative solution within your comment at top.
With all of that internal real estate, that screen is just too small for comfort.
It's only 660 at the moment which I think is a good deal.
Lol Bo saying “my annoying voice” when I picked this video just so I could hear him talk. :)
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This with erica techno system since the last 707 update will take you into some places youve never thought it would be possible to go to
Thanks for the video. What do you think, does it make sense to replace the TR-8S by this ? Is the Drumbox workflow of it as quick and easy ?
For info you can have different sounds on different clips in a track it’s described in one of the Roland tutorial videos
As soon as they add a Midi track to the existing 3 Tracktypes (Drum/Tone/Looper) I'm sold. Really hope they will add this!
Just use a tone track lol it also doubles as one.
@@8superben Well, you are 1y too late for your answer :) They added quite a lot. One of them being midi out
@@MrJanHjohnson well yes hehe I just got my 707 yesterday it's awesome! Do you have one?
Hi Bo - thanks for the videos. Will youg et a chance to have a look at the mc101? To me it seems the more interesting of teh two! Thanks.
soon!
I'm looking at that display and the first thing that pops into my head is: Would hooking a Launchpad Pro up to Midi in be helpful?
Granted the 707 uses an 8×16 grid vs the 8×8 of a launchpad, but that'd be a lot of up-front prep to fill 128 slots with clips. :)
Also, the send and return on the box look like they act much like the fx loop on a guitar amp where the signal is sent out of the amp, into one or more fx pedals and back into the amp before it hits the output to the speaker box. Is that correct?
I’m loving the 707. Curious though. How did you get the pads to play your external synth? I’ve tried a bunch of settings and no luck. The sequencer will play my external synth. But I can’t get the pads to play. Thanks!
Hey Bo, would you do an in depth review on the MC101? Ive been seriously debating on getting one but I’ve not seen hardly any videos like the ones for the 707, thanks. Great vid btw
101 vid coming
@@BoBeats Yes!
Are the pads velocity and aftertouch sensitive? Also how many LFOs & envelopes does the synth engine have?
Yo Bo, does it have a precount on the sampler/looper? Also, is it possible to disable quantization? What are the quantization values? Are triplets included?
For somebody considering the TR-8S, is there much reason to pick the TR-8S over this? Would there be enough differences to justify both?
for a live set both could be fun. Id pick this over tr any day
Thanks
I ended up reading the full reference manual. Wow. This machine is not only cool, it is Elektron cool. They are really going hard at it. The announced price is very agressive too. Oh my.
Same here (read the manual). All these people in the comments talking about what this box can or cannot do, a) lack imagination when it comes to the resampling, bouncing tracks, parameter locks, etc. and b) don’t really understand how deep it is. The synth itself is way better than Deluge imo.
@@mikenoface very! I'v read the manual through and through, watch the loopop video and this device have a very high potential for absolute weirdness. It's a very, very deep machine. I'd go as far as to say that it could be somehow as crazy as the Octatrack. I really need to try/buy one. I mean fuck, the synths, the samplers, all theo effects, LFOS, layers, USB audio, lots of physical in/outs, the scatter thing. And it's only 1Kusd$. That's brutal. lol
Goodmorning Bo, do you know how to make simple drumlayers with custom samples? I've seen the wave group but cant select samples from the sd. Thanks!
Sounds good but very expensive. For the price this machine needs a good color screen with sequencer like Akai Force or Akai MPC Live.
I just wish they would do a modern version of the mc 909... 8 synth patches and 8 drum/synth patches... even if they released the same box just not a bulky with more sample space and more effects, I would pick one up without hesitation. Everything that has came after just seems like a less capable version, even though the memory / sampling capacity for gear is exponentially larger.
The price does seem a bit high. Especially since the sample editing options are so slim. Hopefully they add a sample slice feature. Since you can already set up what seem like drum racks per track, it would be great to be able to sample something, then slice it into drum rack, then jam or sequence the slices. Many other samplers have this feature. But as it is, it just does not offer enough to justify the price.
Really helpful demo. When you say one sound per track for tone tracks does that mean that there is only one sound available for all the clips on that track?
There is a clip setting: either one sound per track, or one sound per clip. So you can basically have different sounds playing on each clip
@@BoBeats Thanks for getting back to me. That gives a lot more scope for expanded compositions. Thanks again for producing really helpful demo vids.
Yeah I'll hold onto my circuit. The circuit can even do ACB drums with the synth engines but it can be found used for $200.
Good point.
Brand New, used MC707 from $1000 to $200 sounds like a good deal.. :)
Yes, it's a good unit. Limited compared to the mc707 but probably better value for money.
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Can I set all tracks to synth instruments and connect/sync with my Roland TR-8S?
Hi Bo, as a performance box, is the Model:samples a good alternative of the MC 707 ? Thanx for the quality work !
I wouldn't call it an alternative but the MS is a great little bit of kit
How does this compare with the AKAI MPC live?
Can the MC707 record audio?
How does it compare to BEHRINGER analog clones I imagine the noise floor is better than regal analog but how does the sound feel compared the say the Juno and 808 clones
Can the 707 replace a Maschine or Mpc for boom bap beats with sampling from vinyl? Because I make techno and rap beats, so it would fit more into my habits...
I'm thinking this over the MPC ONE.
OG Steele Well, this is a full on synth. The MPC is really a sampler. You do have a few synth engines built in. But the 707 is more of a synth with a built in drum machine.
@@aristotlekumpis7095 right. Actually, now I'm torn over the Force and the ONE. I really like the Force and it seems like something I could own for years and have great times with even if I never plugged it into a computer. The thing that puts me off is the learning curve. Sometimes I just want simplicity and to tap/"bang" something out quickly without a ton of setup or tweaking, sooo maybe the ONE is better for that. Idk. Gonna wait for now.
@ I have the MPC Live and I really love it. I have tons of samples loaded into it. So I just turn it on, load what I want, and start making music. Plus, I really prefer the screen and layout compared to the MC-707. And, the fact that I can save my MPC Live song as an Ableton Live song and import it makes the editing even better. I can't say enough great things about the new MPC series.
But, what about the more Circuit-like MC101? My question is: Is it enough for me to use it in live shows? and not wish for the larger device.
i will check it out soon
A synth track can hold different sounds - the sound information is saved per clip - pretty neat :)
so into a Synth track you can choose different presets or synth sounds on the following clips?
lol Great Job Bo! Thank you for keeping this short...Roland 707 -? Meh. I'd like to see an MV9000...even though I'd probably not get one since I already have a FORCE. But if its nice enough...and they don't skimp om the synth engine...who knows.
I would love to loop some sounds from my Juno-X, is this something that would work well for me?
The synth sounds can actually be different for each clip and not just limited to one per track.
Pretty easy to do .hold shift and note .., change it to clip instead of track
Shift and sel sorry ..then change to clip
My current GAS is for a Make Noise 0 Coast.
Any advice about this unit?
Ill hate myself when i buy it but i just want it at this point.
havnt tried it :-)
What the best to choose the Roland 707 Mc or Tr8 s ?
thank you, this was very informative :-)
Bo thoughts on
drum engine, same as TR8s or a new engine? Can it boom long 808 with strong sub frequencies? Easier drum work flow? Yes it’s very pricy but if the work flow is improved I might give it a spin.......thx much
Its not the same as Tr8s. It has analog modeling technology and this is pcm based. Basically it means you loose some of the sound sculpting options for the drum sounds but you gain polyphony
BoBeats thx ....much....ok.....it does have a generic sound , but , that doesn’t mean bad.... the synth engine sounds good ...but it’s a pass for my needs
Plz help, mc707 is better than akai force or no?
Sry my bad english i m learning
Does it come with patterns and beats, that we can play one after another without stopping ,like the MC-303? Or is it more about loading/creating beats/patterns?
Its definitely for music creation
I am wondering if you have tried to plug an external midi keyboard to control a tone track? I have searched for this and no one is talking about it. I am currently on the fence between buying this one or the Akai Force. I need to be able to use my keyboard and if this unit can be played from external keyboard I am buying it.
Yepp, in my long version I use a midi keyboard and play a tone track. It works fine.
@@BoBeats going to watch it now
Thank you!
Are there more patterns than heroes ? I’m new and confused on how to get to them
So Bo, you can use the MC707 as a multitrack MIDI sequencer? Each track could handle a different MIDI channel?
yes
BoBeats thanks man. I think it could replace (and much more) a MMT-8
how would you decide between the 707 and an Akai MPC live?
Had the same doubts. And i have chosen the mpc. Really happy with the workflow
Can you test if you can trim the samples in drum kits? I'm imagining loading a sample in multiple drum sounds and chop it up MPC Style
I think this is an important question everyone has as well as if there is a choke option. So far, yes, we can load in our own wav files to create custom kits. it is the same functionality as the TR-8s. At the bare minimum there should be Attack, HoldMode, HoldTime, and HoldStep functions. Editing may be limited to start, end, gain, instrument category, and sample name. I need to read the manual however to confirm.
I just read the manual and they have different names for the options on how you can use Drum Kits and Loops. Unfortunately drum kits cannot be time stretched. Only pitch with course and fine. However, with all the parameters to use for the sequencer, some interesting patterns can be created with the reverse and release options. Effects can also be applied like delay. Mutes are handled by...mute buttons...could be nice to perform mutes live and is stored in sequencer playback. Here is the intersting part: FWD,
REV, FWD+REV, INV, RND for the Sequencer. Looks like a lot of fun.
I have read the manual and it’s a joke. I’ve seen Roland’s videos and they detail a lot about the engine. But I can’t see trim sample for drums. I’ll stick to my deluge for now.
Divinital chillax bro. I'm not spreading anything. I just said I didn't saw sample trim in drum mode.
hi there, maybe someone already asked for this, but for me it is something important... it is possible to apply different sounds to each clip ? i mean, i pick track 2 with Tone engine and then select a determinate synth voice for clip1, then select another synth voice for clip 2 under the same track, etc etc ? this way it would be feasible to use it as a sort of Ableton hardware for real. it is not clear to me after seeing the demos and reading the manual if this is possible or not. if so, then it can be a great machine for develop a live show with practically only this gear. otherwise if you can only have the same sound on all the clips under a track then you have 8 different ‘sounds’ at a time and if you want to change the sound palette you need to stop and change project on the fly which automatically falls into a non-value-machine for real live shows...
Yes, different sounds per clip is possible
BoBeats thanks for your quick reply... nice feature then! so the only thing you have to keep in mind is to ‘respect’ the type of sound within a track, but the possibilities are great. cheers,
Can you PLEASE check one thing on the unit before you send it back? Sidechain compression...can it be done? Its not mentioned in the manual. Please reply if its possible that this machine can do it.
i have not found any reference to it, but there are some fx module that is named something like side chain and creates a pumping effect
really promising.
Foot switch for live looping?
Bo, how does it compare to an AKAI MPC LIVE since these machines are in the same price bracket?
just very different devices. Mpc live is a daw in a box, this is more a performance tool
@@BoBeats That makes 100% sense, I didn't think of that.
BoBeats The MPC is not just a DAW in a box. I think you are doing it a disservice there. It’s a very powerful and flexible machine. It can do everything the 707 can do and much more. You can easily use it as a performance tool once you get into the work flow. I personally think with the recent updates the MPC is hard to beat. I really want to like the 707 but the price is a bit excessive.
One glaring issue is the 60 second looper sampling time per project. MAJOR deal killer for me.
Can the 707 do everything the tr8s can?
I'm new to all this, can I just plug in and play or do i need a computer etc? Thanks (I need it for samples and synth as I have a live drummer) 👍
Heya!
Mc707
Deluge
Mpc one
Maschine+
Circuit Tracks
Roland VerseLab MV1
Mc101
are all good plug and play synths with sample capabilities. So look into all of them
I’ve watched and read so much about this last couple days but still don’t know if it’s possible to record a sample straight in and use it as an OSC on a Tone track :/
Yes you can. If you watch Loopop’s review vid, the synth engine has four oscillators and you can set them to be a sample. So you could layer up to 4 samples (or loopers) as a tone track. With full envelopes, lfos, filters etc. or blend samples with the virtual analog and pcm oscillators.
Mike Noface thanks. yeah but can you sample in to those osc slots via the unit? Or need computer/card to import? And can you browse/recall these patches you make in future projects?
can you sidechain?
Hey Bo, does this work with Aira link to a USB port on the MX?
Yes it does, check Sonicstate video
I have the TR8s and the Akai Force. For just sound fidelity, the Akai Force is in a different orbit than the TR8s. This should have been priced sub $1000 and it would have made more sense. I've seen the Akai Force sell for the same price, just buy that instead.
I wanted some simple sampling to add to my hardware synths...I bought the Akai MPX16. I can't use it, it has the worse sound I have ever heard in a music product. The DA or AD converters or the recorder is absolutely un-usable as a music device. After buying a little ZoomH2 recorder for $80 bucks I though the whole record reasonable quality to SD card issue was solved, I guess not! After this experience it would be difficult to trust and make another purchase with Akai. IF Akai could not make a quality device for musicians, then don't make it or make it and charge more money. The MPX16 is in excusable. OR just tell us it is learning toy not intended for music production.
never even heard of the force, gonna checks that out now i suppose.
@@WildernessMusic_GentleSerene mpx16 is nothing like the force in quality. You are comparing a $150 device with a $2299 dollar one. Kind of ridiculous argument sorry
@@slakk5093 Not an argument a statement, it is the first piece of gear I ever bought from Akai (50 years of buying gear) and I was disappointed, so now it is very difficult to trust them with thousands of my dollars. IF the MPX16 is a toy, and I say it is, then Akai should have made it clear it is a toy for learning, not a studio piece of gear.
@@WildernessMusic_GentleSerene fair enough, I have owned many Akai products . S900, mpc2500, mpc500, MPC2000, mpc live, they make solid gear if you spend the money. Unfortunately as you found out they also make trash, and more of it in the last 5 years. Their high end gear is very good though
can esch drum has its own envelopes and filter ?
BoBeats can you do your own version of FunFriday Synths?
@BoBeats you can call it, "Bob Eats Everything". Or "Bob Eats Jam".
Jean-Pierre Joubert YES YES YES!
I think this is a blend of their TR8 and Workstations in more of a modern Groovebox fashion. Roland is going in the right direction. You skipped the new scatter features.
A great package for making music, for sure.
❤️Mul-ti❤️
Since they want a thousand bucks for this, I think I'll pass. In my mind this is around a $500 product.
octa 1300, toraiz 1500, analog rytm 1500, digitakt 600, model samples 400, circuit 350. So when we start to compare its only Deluge that has a crazy value proposition to the MC707. Grooveboxes today are expensive. But I feel you. It is a lot of money. My ideal would be 599 for tr8s and 899 for this
@@BoBeats Yeah... And I already have a TR-8, a Dave Smith Tempest and a Digitakt, so I don't see the MC-707 adding anything in the groovebox area. :)
Undoomed yeah your good man. Too many grooveboxes just makes it difficult to make music
I paid 1000 for mc909 bck in day
Undoomed yay Tempest!
Does the TR8s have much deeper sample editing capabilities?
No. Mc707 is deeper. Especially with the updates
What competition? As far as I follow the MC-707 is pretty much standing out with its feature set, and on top of that appears to sound much better than those new MPCs or the Deluge. And no vintage or modern box offers this much keyboard power in such an compact format.
Mpc and Deluge yeah competes. They offer better sampling but i agree: worse sound engines
Can you record and loop external things like say a guitar
But in real time.
Omg. But I love your annoying voice. I actually love the lengthy videos with cup of coffee😊
Bo Beats does it again. A stripped down version of already good video. Goodwork.🙏🏽
Thank you buddy!!
This is the most interesting product I've seen them bring out in a while, and the performance controls look really useful. Sadly, the price is too high, just like their Jupiter-X, at least for a more mass-market company.
It would've really been smart if they'd allowed for multiple instrument inputs for a proper desktop looper, allowed for Mono L and Mono R recording (say 4 mono) and given 8 tracks of MIDI like the Digitakt rather than forcing you to choose between MIDI and internal sounds on a track. Seems rather silly to lose an audio track in order to use an external one. Not sure there's anything to be gained there, so adding those features would help justify its price better IMO.
Are MIDI/Internal tracks polyphonic?
yeah the tone tracks are polyphonic, not sure what max note count is but i managed to do big chords
@@BoBeats Awesome, good to hear. It'd really suck if they were only mono. I don't recall seeing it in your video, but is there an Arp? If so, is it only for their sound engine or is it MIDI, too? (I'm *still* waiting for Elektron to add that to the Digitakt ... unless I missed something. I don't frequent Elektronauts at all.)
can i apply 8 drum tracks? i mean all 8 channels for 8 drum racks
Yes
If the Mc 101 is exactly this but 4 tracks, i might go for that, I was saving for a Blue electribe 2, but now i have to think twice :)
@@bleepfakes yeah that is a huge con... Electribe 2 is still what i like more. Also sound design looks way better on the electribe so far
Blue Electribe 2 is awesome! They got a lot of hate on release, but I really love mine.
John Chesters I was thinking on get the 101 to compliment my blue E2, but the old JD-Xi cost the same. You lose the samples but gain the keybed, analog synth and the vocoder.
If at all possible, you want to play them in person before deciding.
@@VJFranzK For me that will mean waiting until 2022 at the best. Here in Chile we don't have even the Minilogue XD or the D-05 in stores.
Can I upload breakbeat samples into this? I create old skool acid and house music, and I'm crying out for a groovebox I can upload old skool breakbeats into!
Sure. You can’t chop/slice samples. But you can have different loops running on different tracks.
@@bleepfakes so I am unsure of how long samples you can load into a drum kit. There is no mention of this in the manual. A drum kit has 16 sample slots. So I believe you could simply cut up loops in smaller portions and use that inside of a drum kit and place phrases. So 1 track = 16 loop slices. BUT. Like I said: I don't know if there is any length limit for the drum track. I assume there isn't really
Thanks for clearing that up! I love grooveboxes. My Volca Sample is fun, but extremely limited and a nightmare to load samples into. Need something I can build melody with too. Think the 707 is for me. Thanks!
BoBeats this sounds promising workaround for drumkit slicing, so you could load the same sample 16 times on one track (I’m guessing it would only take up memory space of one instance of the sample?)?
Do you get pitch etc per sample (Per slice in this case)?
Can you sample in to the looper, save sample to card, then import that to drum? Or do you need to use a computer? Really surprising you can’t just sample straight in to the drum sampler :(
Hmmm... The whole lot of these new Roland products look great, but expensive.
I feel like it would have been smart for them to do what they could to really undercut Elekron's pricing with this one.
Agreed
disappointingly the fx loop is not a bus, it is on a track and I don't think you can send individual drums
great bit of gear how ever if you have a mpc live 2 you dont need it
Is slicing a sample possible?
Yes, since they updated it
At 0:17 you state that the MC-707 has 8 tracks, would that be stereo tracks? Again at 1:30 you continue about drums having 16 parts on one track, however on the synth side, no mention if the single synth sound is stereo.
About the synth engines: What are these engines based upon on the number of Roland's synths?
All tracks are stereo. I dont know wether individual drum parts are stereo or mono, but a drum track in its totality is stereo. The synth engine is a zen core engine, it can mimic a lot of classic sounds but there’s no 1:1 classic
Hi@@BoBeats (A) Are these synth engines able to import custom synth and wav sounds and if so, (B) is it from the Super Natural library series? If not, then (C) which format other than wav can be imported from Roland's library? (D) Is the MC-707 considered a true hybrid synth having the controls you would find on a standalone synth and not a rompler? In the line of questioning, I am trying to evaluate the price point with performance ratio. In other-words, did Roland marketing team toss these synths as a teaser - in that, as a stand-alone synths, they do not compare nor stand up to Roland's synths. For instance, can the synth engine's perimeters be edit or is somewhat limited to the number of oscillators per voice, filters, wave types and LOFs? (E) Summary, are these synth engines a watered down version of what Roland offers in there standalone synths?
The Akia MPC One also has a synth which I would have to ask these same questions.
@@bobcatt2294 "Synth" engine is basically the same PCM synth you will find almost in every professional Roland worsktation plus "supernatural" synth sounds. Think about it as FA synth minus keyboard, minus 8 parts, minus linear sequencer, minus acoustic "supernatural" sounds, minus big screen and no expansion slots, but it has better controls for pattern creation, dedicated 8 track controls and extra connections FA lacks. Also it doubles number of sounds onboard, but this is useless, since no one needs 30 patches of "saw pad", or 40-50 piano patches. With updates (now 1.30) MC-707 is well worth 1000 euros they ask, but only if you don't have another gear already.
A) no, MC-707 can't import wav sounds to use as patches, you can do on Juno DS/Fantom G. It's different engine by Roland, you can't do this even on newest Fantom. If you interested in sound creation MC-707 isn't for that. While synth engine is there, but changing parameters with very small screen will be frustratingly slow, also newest "scene" mode Roland pushes doesn't help either, they basically encourage user to search for a right sounding patch, not to create or edit one by yourself. Though there is zencore editor on Roland Cloud.
Hi Ali - thank you for your assistance in qualifying the MC-707 which I've come to conclude is targeted for the DJ industry. I am looking at the the Korg Kronos - having discovered some serious cons on that machine. Overall, Roland and Yamaha has better builds.
Wait, really? One synth sound per track? So no synth stab and synth bass in the same performance? Maybe i got something wrong?