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Published on 10/16/11 at 16:04ROM with hardware sequencer and effects.
• 1x stereo main out
• 2 sub (possibility of inserts, for testing)
• MIDI in / out A / B Out
• 2 footswitches
• 1x USB (MIDI file exchange, can also dump classic)
UTILIZATION
Simple and clear. You select a sound, you press REC, it is recording. There is a choice between real-time recording, screen (how Roland BAR) and step (to work the hair close to the wheel).
Everything is at hand, the menus are very rarely used during the phase composition. And when you dive, this is rarely beyond one level deep, because the machine architecture eliminates the need for "sub-sub-sub-menu".
The knobs 16 are multifunctional: according to the selected page, they control the volume of 16 tracks, the pan, the synthesis of the active track, and ... external hardware.
Yes, yes, really. The MP7 can become (as the name suggests) a control station for the studio thanks to knobs page "program" is a mini-BCR2000 ...
The only downside: no UNDO after registration (even OS 2.0). A real shame.
SOUNDS
I have the original ROM (Pure Phatt) and for now I'm happy. For those who find the sounds limited, scratch a little, it's worth it.
The MP7 can program your own sounds ... And that's unique (for a 10 year old machine ... Think of what Roland was at the time!)
Each sound is composed of four stamps, self-powered waveforms single, percussion or PCM. So you can program (with a little work, it is the only part a little twisted) sounds from the Moog bass to ethereal pads to burne reverb.
Or we can make a sound like "snare drum lined with a low TB-303 surrounded by a slide guitar arpeggio in which pouic with an LFO." It would sound really bad, but it can be done. Besides the factory sounds will sometimes look far in this style in bad taste so WTF. Be.
The only limit level programming is in the manufacture of drum kits, not really free ... But it turns round quite easily.
For my part, I erased some factory sounds rotten to me a base of four presets: a saw, a square, a triangle and sine. With that, we can go very far!
OVERALL OPINION
I use it occasionally when I have time. Learning is a bit long for those who want to go further than a "boom-tchak" on 4-stroke, but it's exciting.
I usually couple the MP7 in Ableton Live, which I use as a piano roll. I compose on Live with MIDI, and MIDI recording outgoing MP7. It simplifies the job well in publishing
I still have to buy a sampler, and I can almost do without PC!
No opinion about the price, etc., it's vintage. I love this machine, compact, solid (box 100% steel, not plastic)
• 1x stereo main out
• 2 sub (possibility of inserts, for testing)
• MIDI in / out A / B Out
• 2 footswitches
• 1x USB (MIDI file exchange, can also dump classic)
UTILIZATION
Simple and clear. You select a sound, you press REC, it is recording. There is a choice between real-time recording, screen (how Roland BAR) and step (to work the hair close to the wheel).
Everything is at hand, the menus are very rarely used during the phase composition. And when you dive, this is rarely beyond one level deep, because the machine architecture eliminates the need for "sub-sub-sub-menu".
The knobs 16 are multifunctional: according to the selected page, they control the volume of 16 tracks, the pan, the synthesis of the active track, and ... external hardware.
Yes, yes, really. The MP7 can become (as the name suggests) a control station for the studio thanks to knobs page "program" is a mini-BCR2000 ...
The only downside: no UNDO after registration (even OS 2.0). A real shame.
SOUNDS
I have the original ROM (Pure Phatt) and for now I'm happy. For those who find the sounds limited, scratch a little, it's worth it.
The MP7 can program your own sounds ... And that's unique (for a 10 year old machine ... Think of what Roland was at the time!)
Each sound is composed of four stamps, self-powered waveforms single, percussion or PCM. So you can program (with a little work, it is the only part a little twisted) sounds from the Moog bass to ethereal pads to burne reverb.
Or we can make a sound like "snare drum lined with a low TB-303 surrounded by a slide guitar arpeggio in which pouic with an LFO." It would sound really bad, but it can be done. Besides the factory sounds will sometimes look far in this style in bad taste so WTF. Be.
The only limit level programming is in the manufacture of drum kits, not really free ... But it turns round quite easily.
For my part, I erased some factory sounds rotten to me a base of four presets: a saw, a square, a triangle and sine. With that, we can go very far!
OVERALL OPINION
I use it occasionally when I have time. Learning is a bit long for those who want to go further than a "boom-tchak" on 4-stroke, but it's exciting.
I usually couple the MP7 in Ableton Live, which I use as a piano roll. I compose on Live with MIDI, and MIDI recording outgoing MP7. It simplifies the job well in publishing
I still have to buy a sampler, and I can almost do without PC! No opinion about the price, etc., it's vintage. I love this machine, compact, solid (box 100% steel, not plastic)