In the meantime, I received a similar response from Roland support. At least they admitted that this is a problem and promised me to forward the issue as a feature request to any product specialists.
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but the setup is Oxi One and MC-101, no computer present
Ah, my bad. Yeah, as @darenager says, “PC” = “Program Change”. I regret the ambiguity and will edit the above for clarity.
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I just had a more or less frustrating experience with the 101: When I copy a step inside a tone track, the included notes are copied without the previously set note lengths. Dear God …
EDIT:
Strange. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I haven’t figured out how to reproduce the issue yet.
Really ? I know they lose the note micro-timing (start/nudge whatevs), which is kind of understandble, but I hadn’t noticed note length gone.
I could understand it if the note lengths exceeded the end of the clip, but that was not the case.
Wish for next MC-101 firmware update: a battery level indicator somewhere in settings.
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Does anyone here understand the Chord Designer? I’m especially irritated by the Spread parameter because I can’t set simple triads with it.
No matter what I do, the Chord Designer always creates four-note chords.
I was literally scouring the documentation and menus for a battery indicator yesterday! At least I stumbled on the battery type setting (NiMH/Alkaline) which I’ve now set correctly as this probably alters the voltage at which it gives a low battery alert.
…I assume it gives a low battery alert? I’ve not got through my first charge yet!
It does, but in my experience, it alerts you with not much time to spare. You have about enough time to save your project, not much more.
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You can turn the 4 individual notes on and off per pad. So it’s actually quite flexible.
It would be very nice if you have some hints what exactly to do. I have read the manuals. Unfortunately, this topic is described very briefly.
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I can tell you how it works on the 707… 
But it’s not more than what I just said actually: You go to the chord designer, pick your spread, key etc. Then press enter (this might be different on the 101) to apply them to the sixteen pads in either of these modes: 1 is just chromatically, 2 is diatonically in key.
After that you can press a pad while in chord mode and turn notes on and off per pad It’s that easy.
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The on/off switching of individual notes inside a chord is apparently not implemented in the MC-101. The other options are pretty similar when comparing the two update manuals.
Anyway, thanks for your support.
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Yeah, just been looking for that on the MC-101 without any luck. There, you seem to need to sequence the chord and then remove notes from the sequence.
That’s too much effort for me, I’d rather use a chord progression app on the iPad or iPhone. It’s still annoying that we can’t generate triads in the MC-101´s Chord Designer.
So after a while I have a workflow that I really like. Your remark about resampling if you want to export slowly entered my brain, so thanks for that.
(I’m not so fast when it comes to technique and this is my first hw sampler)
I printed out all the cc’s of my synths and love controlling them with 707’s three knobs.
It feels so relaxed to work like this. External synth on Tone Track, Just focus on a nice sound, ideas come up fast, make a couple of variations in clips, use motion rec, sample them in looper track. All tight. Export, write down export notes.
The next session I will import these into a drum track and delete the clips on the looper track. Get another synth, maybe a hardware effect and there you go again.
This way I stay in the zone that keeps me inspired, in stead of the arrangement brain setting, that I get with a Daw.
Now I save that for another day, when I’m in the mood. Now I get more out of my other synths, don’t have expensive ones, but the variation in sound plus the precise way I can work with the 707 is inspiring.
Like you said; the tracks that I don’t have exports from (like drumtracks with imported samples and MC-707 synths) I can resample in a looper track and export, works really well. But for now I only do that when a track is good enough to mix in a Daw.
Anyway, 707 is growing on me in half a year now.
Edit; forgot the slicing when importing the (exported) samples in the drum track, next to the loop I can import slices of it on other drumpads.
I know this is not new for many here, I just had to find the right workflow for me on the 707.
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Hmm … I wonder if you could use saved clips to keep all those CC assignments for a given synth ?
Sounds like a nice way to work … one external synth at a time.
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Not sure, but it’s so fast to assign; shift / track select / midi and you might choose different cc’s another time.
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