Roland MC-707

Love it!

Fantastic! I have bought it to substitute my DAW for live gigs. Sample memory is downside and must be consider before buying.

Great groove-box, very deep, some caveats

I’ve had this instrument for over a year. Used it on at least 4 albums, and even made one or two of them using this box alone. I was going to sell it to replace the multiple things you can here for higher quality gear, but even now that I have that gear I will likely keep it, as it’s extremely handy.

Some Pro’s

It’s not even just a groovebox. One of my main uses is as a 4-channel multi-fx unit, with all the inputs and outputs and routing options available. It’s like having all of the BOSS stompboxes plus more, and then being able to switch between 16 variations of each using the clips.

Aside from that, the scatter implementation allows for very expressive performance, the synth architecture, whilst a bit archaic is very very broad/deep, and each clip has a maximum length longer than most hardware sequencers.

Roland have been killing it with the firmware updates, very responsive to the community, you get new features every few months.

Cons: Synth engine is very broad but not thaaaaaat good sounding, programming patches is a pain, polyphony maxes out quicker than expected. Limited clip rows (16), sampler memory too small.

Good Groovebox

I have to come back to my review after 1month and share my disappointment. It's just a groovebox and has many limmitations, for example you can't record MIDI Pitch or other CC in it , only what the internal knobs are assigned to,. MIDI implementation is rather poor so it's a standalone box. Seems also all presets are per project and not global ??? Lastly loading a project with not even 1 Samples in it takes 5-7s ? Also my unit came new and was slightly uneven on the bottom making it wobble and requiring a tiny bit of sticker added to one of the rubber foots. Otherwise all is good and I can recommend it for live. Disappointing in the end.

My techno hardware

It has infinite possibilities!!IIf you read this ,you probably know what this Roland baby can offer!!

So for someone who is thinking of buying it i will mention only what are the cons : it doesnt have song mode,undo,count in.

Would love a bigger screen but this was a major step from the tr8s screen at least.

I also believe it is very easy to learn and to program but its also very easy to get lost into its infinite settings and sounds!!

Amazing Groovebox

This is an amazing Groovebox. It does exactly what I need, is very intuitive to use, and sounds great. I'm not a professional musician, so can't provide detailed feedback or comparisons to other products, but I like this one really a lot.