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Average rating:
3.6 out of 5
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well I just got mine second hand off e-bay the other day, and am still getting used to the OS, I use to have a 307 many years ago that was my first ever groovebox, though have been using korg for a few years now, my first impressions thus far are great, though as someone said, If you truly want to get creative invest in separite rack synths and use your 909 to sequence those synths, plus you can isolate your processing in the 909 to just the elements that the 909 is using, I am currently taking turns at hooking up my supernova2 rack and korg triton rack, which does have multisampling capabilities, but as far as the groovebox goes by itself...it still packs some nice sounds is still pretty capable..!, but yeh, run that midi out and controll oter synths and isolate those sounds and process further....
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I gave it 5 stars because I use it for studio use only so the issues with it not sustaining patterns is not of concern to me.. yah it would be nice if the lazy roland engineers would fix this, but besides that I love this machine.
I owned a yamaha rs7000 and sold it and bought this. While I do love the rs7000 and it is a solid preformer, it had (to me) limitations that the mc909 does not. for Example, you can effect the filter cut off with note velocity. You cant on the rs, and if you could I never found it. you can not turn the click off in record mode which realy bugged me.
Next I really love the tweak factor of the synth engine. The rs blows in this factor.
One thing I loved about the rs was the fact it would loop the measure you are working on in tr-rec (as what roland calls it) mode.
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"So sometimes, the 6 and 13 track won't mute at the same time. Don' put sounds on it that you need to mute at the same time. Grow up."
No, it's not "sometimes" you goob, it's all the time! It didn't have this problem until the last O.S. Sorry, but IMO you shouldn't introduce new bugs and not fix the big ones....like the lack of sustain. Surely you've noticed this, unless everything you make is 130bpm+, maybe you wouldn't notice.
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I love my MC-909 its a very nice piece of kit. It can sound really really phat and you can lay down nice beats with it. The synth section is extensive and expandable with SRX expasions. I have ownd almost every groobox that has been on the market and i can honestly say the MC-909 leaves them all in the dust. However mixing it with other synths is going to diversify your sound so i say mix it with a few other pieces of kit to get the most out of it.
Enjoy i highly recomend it.
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The MC-909 is a very vexing creature. It really does sound nice. A very crisp, clear "crystalline" sort of sound. Many of its synth patches are excellent.
But there are problems - problems that people should be aware of before they get stuck with this monster.
First, the sampler is not really that usable. The MC-909's sampler lacks KEYZONES, so you can either place 1 "tone" across the entire keyboard, or you can create a "rhythm set" that allows ONE TONE PER NOTE from C1 to C2. Limited. Very limited. Maybe okay for what you want to do, but I've had problems because of this. Also in the sampler domain - the only supported sampling rate is 44.1 KHZ. No resampling to lower rates, which is an oft-used creative tool here. The MC-909 is not really a sampler.
In a move that I consider to be particularly unfair, Roland has "unbundled" most of their best drum and synth waveforms and forced you to buy their $300 expansion card to get decent drum sounds. The truth is that the MC-909's stock drum sounds are not very good, and are what I would call "self-consciously modern". Meaning that they're flagrantly rap/hip-hop/pop oriented. This is really a serious problem. Note that the MC-909 ships with 693 waveforms, but the "Supreme Dance" expansion provides OVER 800 MORE waveforms. And a lot of those are simply missing 808/909 sounds that really should have been shipped with the MC-909. This a brutally opportunistic Roland scam. You will need the SRX-05 "expander" to get decent drum sounds out of the MC-909. Or, you can provide your own sounds. That's what I'm working on.
All in all, I would say that this is one of the more "unfinished" Roland products I've seen in a while. The MC-909 sounds very nice and is stable, but the software implementation and sound set are both grossly lacking. My MC-505 has a better soundset, a better manual, and a more complete software implementation. I was hoping the MC-909 would be an upgrade, but it wasn't at all. I want to sell my MC-909, but I haven't figured out whether I really should.
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