Roland MC-303 Groovebox

Quote: [At 0:16] > "I think my first kind of cool piece of gear was a Roland MC-303 [...] "

"My first synth I used to practice on was a little Roland Groovebox—the MC-303."

Roland MC-303 Groovebox Description The Roland MC-303 Groove Box is a self-contained, retro-styled sequencer and integrated sound module with some very high-tech features. Techno, rap, jungle, hip-hop, acid and other dance styles can now be approached easily and creatively by dance music producers and other groove enthusiasts with little or no musical training. Just lay down some cool beats and fat bass lines from the MC-303's huge selection of sounds and rhythms and let there be groove! Specifications 448 dedicated dance sounds, 40 synth basses (TB-303, etc.), 35 synth leads, 33 synth pads 12 rhythm kits, including TR-808, TR-909, techno, jungle and house sets Built-in vintage synth sounds and arpeggios; preset and user dance patterns with 300 variations 16-part multitimbral with an 8-track sequencer containing multiple quantize functions: Grid, Shuffle and Groove Resonant filter, LFO, envelope control and built-in effects: delay, reverb, flanger and chorus Realtime Phrase Sequencer (RPS) for instant recall of musical phrases Low Boost feature.

You can see his MC-303 on top of the Rhodes.

"The midi out of the TD10 and D Drum3, and Notron sequencer went into an MX8 midi patchbay, this allowed me the speed of direct analog input to the V & D brains, but the flexibility to route and merge anything via midi. Additional midi sound sources I used were the Alesis DM pro and an Emu Audity 2000 (the audity was never used on the record). I could also access my samplers, an old Kurzweil K2000 and a Roland S760, plus sounds in realtime from my beatboxs, an MC303 and a Tribe ER1. However for this Crim record no beatboxes were used. ProjeKct X is a different story....beatboxes survived!!!"

This item can be seen in this Instagram picture, uploaded by The Magician himself.

Eric Persing has had a unique and influential relationship with Roland Corp for two decades. He started as a product demonstrator in 1984, showing some of Roland's first MIDI instruments. He quickly became involved in the R&D side with Roland Japan, earning the title "Chief Sound Designer", and began contributing his design ideas, real-world studio experience and sound design expertise. Persing's skills have left their mark on countless classic Roland instruments. He is the originator of many legendary Roland sounds that have become part of the vocabulary and lexicon of musical sound. These include the Factory D-50 sounds such as Fantasia, Soundtrack and Digital Native Dance, a majority of the JV/XP/XV series Classics, all the Factory JD-800 sounds, the original Juno "Hoover" sound and thousands of others. Here is a partial list of the Roland instruments that Eric has contributed his sound design, sampling and design consulting skills: Juno-106 Alpha Juno 1&2 JX-3P JX-8P JX-10 Jupiter 6 Super Jupiter D-50 D-550 D-110 D-10 D-20 D-70 MT-32 U-110 U-20 U-220 Sound Canvas JD-800 JD-990 JV-80 JV-90 JV-1000 JV-1080 JV-2080 XP-10 XP-50 XP-60 XP-80 XV-3080 XV-5050 XV-5080 Fantom JP-8000 JP-8080 S-10 S-220 S-50 S-550 S-770 S-760 S-750 MC-303 MC-500 MC-505 VP-9000 MSQ-700 MSQ-100 MKS-20 MKS-30 MKS-50 MKS-70 MKS-80 R-8 R-5 DR-660 DR-770 R-70 V-Drums V-Drums expansion board SRV-2000 DEP-5 RSP-550 R-880 SRV-330 SE-50 SE-70 VS-880 VS-1680 SR-JV series expansion boards SRX series expansion boards Sound Canvas Project series CD-ROM libraries Archives series CD-ROM libraries Composers series CD-ROM libraries

ulrich stated that the synths on wisconsin death trip where programmed by koichi on this groovebox which was purchased during pre production

David Gray: A Biography - Google Books Result https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0857120522 Michael Heatley - 2009 - ?Music Babylon's bass line, taken off a Roland MC303 groovebox, was also simplified in the verse, allowing a shift from rhythm to melody. “It becomes more light-hearted,” explained engineer Polson, adding “It's nice to have some musical relief after the chorus has been banging away.” If old-time David Gray fans were looking for a .. Also: https://www.mixonline.com/recording/david-gray-375552 The “drawing board” consisted of Gray's electric and acoustic guitars (Martin, Lauden and Gibson), an Electro-Voice D257 microphone, a 4-track, an Akai S3000 sampler and a Roland Groovebox synth. (“About half the sounds on the album come from the Groovebox,” Gray explains.) Without a recording contract or a proper studio, Gray and his drummer and sometime bassist Clune began “messing around,” without any intention of making an album. “I was writing a lot of stuff, all kind of miserable, trying to get something going again, trying to find out what I was doing,” he says.

A Roland MC-303 can be seen in Martin's studio (fourth photo).

At 0:15, an MC-303 can be seen.

This link provides information regarding studio equipment that Danny serrano uses in the studio. The Roland MC-303 Groovebox being one of the most important components. Check it out!!

MIDERA is playing an MC-303 video in this video (along side an ESX-1).

Manuel Göttsching's Studio Roma