Sonicstate decided to do a new vid on the 101. XMOD stuff is rarely demoed for some reason, but they demo it here.
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Reeeeeally want to get an mc101 now.
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Was about to sell the 101 in order to buy a nymphes, but I jammed around today - and I still really like this little menu divy fella. The sound of it just speaks to me somehow. The roland sounds just feel familiar
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I’m busy but in a couple days, I watched a video showing the Maschine with a Volca FM, and it automatically maps the macro knobs for you.
I want to see what it does with the 101.
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Can you run live audio into the mc101 (over usb) and mix in external synth/drum sounds in real-time?
Don’t see why not. The only limitation I can see is the usb audio needs to come from a usb host, which usually means a computer. It won’t work directly with a synth that provides usb audio out, since that is typically going to be a usb device, not a usb host.
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It would have to be class compliant USB host and 101 driver set to generic.
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I’m think of a combo with an op-z which I believe is a usb host 
Does the audio come into a track or into some kind of master mix element?
pulled the trigger on 707, what would be a good video tutorial for this thing? Will be watching loopops video today, but as far as I remember it’s a launch video, so no new firmware features.
There’s a great series by Roland Cloud Academy on YT. Long format, touching on almost all of the features and workflow things.
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Does look like a fun little box.
Having had the TR8-S for a few years, I cant say the menu dive bothers me at all.
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Certainly its an option on track settings (not clip) to insert from the usb audio in. Not sure about direct into master.
EDIT: Doh … @Oxenholme is right, on the MC-101 the usb audio sound is heard from the headphone socket as a default routing. (Didn’t check if it went through effects or not)
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I know that on the 707 you can just bump up the external audio level in the recording menu without having to use up a track. Don’t remember if it bypasses the master fx that way as well.
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I have a large archive with already looped .wav files (in sense of: instrumental samples with embedded sustain loop tags).
Unfortunately these loop tags are not recognized by the MC-101 after importing. Can’t the MC-101 do that?
Software like Ocen Audio or Endless WAV are playing the loops in my samples correctly, so I think the tagging of my sample files is technical correct.
Any ideas?
MC-101 (when I had it a couple years ago) ignored loop metadata.
(So does the MV-1 on latest 1.81 firmware.)
Don’t know if they added it to the MC-101 with more recent firmware.
Curious if the MC-707 reads sample metadata.
Uhh … after seeing this workflow I’m now gassing for the 4 extra tracks on a 707.
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To be honest, I’m too 
I am especially interested in the two stereo inputs and that I can sample directly on the device. The latter also works okayish with the MC-101 and an iPhone. However, with the 707 you don’t have to be stingy with tracks and always have a looper track ready for sampling.
Some more improvements in detail: You can normalize samples with the 707, but not with the 101. And also the Chord Designer of the 707 seems to be a bit “deeper” editable.
Fortunately, Roland made the 707 bulky enough that I have my GAS under control. For the moment.
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Okay, I have a MC-101 on my table for 10 Minutes now, and I already struggle with the Drum sequencer.
To copy and paste a Step on a tone track, you select the pad by pressing it, then Shift FX to copy, Select the target step to select it, press Shift FX to paste. Works fine.
Doing the same on a Drum step does not work. How do you copy paste here? Having a repeating HiHat pattern, they cannot mean that I have to program every step of it?
Within the 16 steps you have to repeat every step. If you want steps 17-32 to be a repeat of 1-16 then you can double the clip length by pressing (I think) ‘SEQ’ + ‘>’ .
Don’t ask me why copy/paste doesn’t work with drum tracks though …
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As far as I know, it isn’t possible to copy steps of drum tracks. Only the content of the pad (a.k.a. the drum sound) can be copied. To do this, you have to switch to note mode and then perform the usual copy/paste procedure.
Copy/paste makes sense for tone tracks – but for drums, which are usually programmed via TR-REC?