Bad Gear - Roland MC505

Become a Patron and get access to music clips from the show, additional content, Bad Gear samples and even more AudioPilz madness Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Roland MC-505 Groovebox. Is this late 90s all-in-one dance music solution, successor to the Roland MC-303, the last real groovebox or is it yet another rave music cheese machine? Can it hold up with successors like the Roland MC-707 ??? Thanks to legendary Austrian composer and electronic musician for one of the Roland MC505 he was using during the early days of his career: Chapters: 00:00 Intro tune 00:58 Overview MC-505 01:21 Most-hated Preset Pattern (Psytrance 1) 01:30 Display Issues 01:41 Mixer Section 01:51 Drum Section 01:57 Synth Sections, Synthesis Structure 02:30 Polyphony, Filter 02:52 Envelopes, LFOs, Additional Synth Functionality 03:12 Preset Patches 03:33 FX Section 03:45 Sequencer 04:29 Pattern Sets, Song Mode, RPS, Megamix 04:51 Midi, Arpeggiator, D-Beam 05:10 Low Boost 05:20 More Preset Patterns, Limitations 05:48 Connectivity 05:53 Smart Media Cards, Pricing, Thanks 06:12 Hate 06:38 Jam 1 (Techno) 07:34 Jam 2 (Drum’n’Bass) 08:41 Finale (Buttrock Goa) 09:09 Verdict