Roland MC-101, 4-track Groovebox

The Roland MC-101 is a 4-track Groovebox. Produce and perform music anywhere, anytime without clutter or complications. The MC-101 groovebox has all the high-quality sounds, sequencing, and effects of the professional MC-707, in a compact four-track, go-everywhere portable version. Get started with an inspiring collection of ready-to-go sounds and patterns, or easily create your own. Craft a unique style by importing custom sounds and loops that sync to tempo. And you can perform with the MC-101, triggering clips and shaping your sounds with direct, hands-on control.

Pocket Production Studio

The MC-101 is a professional production tool, sharing the sounds and many of the capabilities of its bigger sibling, the MC-707. And there are advantages in being small. The MC-101 is solid-yet-light and runs for about five hours on four AA batteries, so you can design sounds, create drum patterns, and compose musical phrases just about anywhere. And it’s not just a scratch pad for simple ideas. You can produce fully-fledged professional tracks or create backing tracks and accompaniment for live performance.

Turn a Creative Spark into Fire

The MC-101 has a four-track sequencer optimized for creating today’s electronic and dance-focused music. You can use the 16 RGB pads to create drum, bass, and synthesizer patterns and produce your own original music. Explore a musical playground, where you can freely combine loops and one-shots with melodic phrases including your own MIDI sequences and imported audio recordings. Compose and chain scenes or clips, rearrange, re-sample, record automation, and more.

A Portable Studio Full of Vintage Gear

The MC-101 uses the ZEN-Core Synthesis System the most advanced synth engine we’ve ever made. ZEN-Core delivers the Roland sounds that have defined electronic and dance genres for over forty years. Legendary instruments like the TR-808, TR-909, JUNO-106, and SH-101 are all here, ready to replicate classic sounds or be combined, tweaked, and processed into entirely new sounds.

Play Your Own Custom Audio in Perfect Sync

Each track contains a powerful sample player so you can import your own custom sounds. Use your own voice, or the sound of your favorite instrument from your computer. Imported audio can sync with the MC-101’s tempo or be processed with the arsenal of built-in effects and hands-on controls.

Produce Tracks Ready to Stream or Perform

With the MC-101’s wide range of pro effects, your music sounds polished and fully produced. Each track has independent effects processors with a huge number of variations. Lush chorus brings depth to pads and other synth sounds. Delays and reverbs create evocative spaces and add movement to delicate sequences. Overdrive, distortion, and amp simulation inject grit and intensity into synths, guitars, drums and more. You can also run your entire mix through master effects like filters, bit-crushers, and a master bus compressor that glues it all together with punch and clarity.

Product Specifications:

Type: Beat Production Sampler with Sequencer

Internal Sound Engine: ZEN-Core Drum Tones/Kits

Screen: LCD Display

Pads: 16 x Performance Pads

Sounds: TR-808, TR909, Juno-106, SH-101

Presets: 3,000 Tones, 80 Drum Kits

Polyphony: 128 Voices (varies by sound generator load)

Sequencer: 64-step Sequencer, 4-track, 16 clips per track

Looper: 4 Voice Polyphony, Time Stretch, Pitch Shift

Sampling: Sample Playback/Import, WAV (up to 24-bit/96kHz)

Effects: Multi-effects, Track EQ, 9 x Chorus/Delay, 7 x Reverb, 90 x Master Effects, Master Compressor, Master EQ

Analog Outputs: 2 x 1/4" (L/mono, R)

Headphones: 1 x 1/8"

MIDI I/O: In/Out/USB

USB: 1 x Type B

Storage: SD/SDHC Card Slot

Power Source: USB bus powered / 4 x AA batteries (Ni-MH, Alkaline)

Height: 2.43"

Width: 8.81"

Depth: 5.18"

Weight: 1 lb. 9 oz.