The Roland MC-307 is a combination of

MIDI MIDI (; Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, an ...

music sequencer A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling Musical note, note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or O ...

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis ...

, drum machine and control surface produced by the

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. This combination is commonly referred to by Roland as a '

Groovebox A groovebox is a self-contained electronic or digital musical instrument for the production of live, loop-based electronic music with a high degree of user control facilitating improvisation. The term "Groovebox" was originally used by Roland C ...

'. It is a scaled-down version of the

Roland MC-505 The Roland MC-505 is a groovebox conceived in 1998 as a combination of a MIDI controller, a music sequencer, a drum machine, and a desktop synthesizer with many synthesis features: arpeggiator, oscillators, and voltage-controlled filter, control ...

. It has the same tone generator, but a much smaller control surface. It does, however, have several features that make it an ideal clock source for musicians wanting to do beatmatching. These include a large, very granular tempo slider similar to the sliders found on a modern phonograph and 'push' and 'hold' buttons that permit temporarily slowing down or speeding up the beat clock. It can also transmit

MIDI Machine Control MIDI Machine Control, or MMC, a subset of the MIDI specification, provides specific commands for controlling recording equipment such as multi-track recorders. MMC messages can be sent along a standard MIDI cable for remote control of such functions ...

and

MIDI beat clock {{No footnotes, date=January 2020 MIDI beat clock, or simply MIDI clock, is a clock signal that is broadcast via MIDI to ensure that several MIDI-enabled devices such as a synthesizer or music sequencer stay in synchronization. Clock events are sen ...

, and slave to external beat clock sources such as other

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grooveboxes. It can be used as a sequencer to drive external

units. It is the successor to the

Roland MC-303 The Roland MC-303 is the first of a series of musical instruments known as a Groovebox. It combines a simple sound module with a sequencer to record and store notation, along with controls aimed at encouraging the musician to improvise the music ...

and

, and the predecessor to the Roland MC-909 and the

Roland MC-808 The Roland MC-808 was a groovebox, announced at the Winter NAMM in 2006. It is the successor to the late Roland MC-303, Roland MC-307, Roland MC-505 and Roland MC-909. Background Though cheaper than the Roland MC-909, it has a number of featur ...

Features

The key features of the MC-307 are: * Sound generator with 64-note

polyphony Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture (music), texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice, monophony, or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompan ...

* 8-track sequencer+Tempo/Mute Ctrl Track * 4 assignable CC MIDI knobs * 240 onboard dance music patterns *

References

External links

MC-307 PDF Manual Links:
Online Roland MC-307 PDF Quick Start Manual LocationOnline Roland MC-307 PDF Owners Manual LocationOnline Roland MC-307 PDF Addendum Manual LocationOnline Roland MC-307 PDF TurboStart LocationOnline Roland MC-307 PDF Brochure LocationRoland MC-307 Service Notes Manual Schematics
Other Links:
Roland UK Corporation, MC-307 site and files.

Roland US Corporation, MC-307 site and files.

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