Bad Gear - Roland MC-808 Groovebox

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-808 Groovebox. Why didn’t the last classic Roland groovebox and scaled down version of the MC-909 become a classic? Are the motorized faders cursed? Wanna get the drivers and editor working on Windows 10? Check out SnowMetal’s great video about the MC-808: Chapters: 00:00 Intro tune 00:54 Overview Roland MC-808 Groovebox, D-Beam 01:26 Sound generator 01:59 RAM situation, Compact Flash card, sample loading times 02:23 Sampling 02:59 Motorized faders 03:11 Synth engines & UI 03:28 Drivers, editor, synth engine deep dive, sample editing 04:05 FX section 04:23 Sequencer, arpeggiator, chord memory, RPS, additional features 05