Anyone here use a Roland MC-303 with a MPC ?

Looking at getting a Roland MC-303 and wanting to trigger/Seq with my XL, does anyone have/had one of these ?.

I have one - it was my first piece of gear after my decks. I don't use it now, but it's pretty easy to use as a basic sound module over midi. I even used it temporarily as a midi controller/sequencer to sequence my S-series rack sampler, before I had better options for doing that.

Check out the midi specs because if I remember correctly there's certain midi tasks it is incapable of doing.

oh yes, i remember now ...

first, you can't control the knobs (effects, cutoff, portamento, LFO etc.) via MIDI, they don't respond to CC messages

in normal mode incoming midi will only trigger the active part, so all midi channels use the same set of sounds - not great if you want to use it for more than one track!

in sound module mode it's multitimbral, so different midi channels can trigger different sounds, if you send bank change and program change messages to select the sounds for each channel. but in that mode turning the knobs has no effect

so it's definitely limited when sequenced from other gear, but works ok as long as you don't expect too much from it!

the sounds and preset patterns are pretty dated, but if you want a 90s dance sound it'll provide them!

I finally sold mine last week... I didn't think I ever would but it had to go.

Yeah i got 1 to, Pastor-of-Muppets has it totally right. makes a allright drum machine with built in effects, thats what i use it for

Pastor-of-Muppets wrote:I have one

Pastor-of-Muppets wrote: it was my first piece of gear

Pastor-of-Muppets wrote: I don't use it now

I did however pull it out to hear the music I made when I first started- ****