Roland Corporation‘s chairman Ikutaro Kakehashi once told me it was the company’s worst-selling keyboard product. Introduced in 1983 - the same year as the first MIDI instruments - the MC-202 lacked MIDI capabilities. Despite being almost 20 years older than the Roland MC-303 and MC-505, the MC-202 fits snugly into the hip, knobby, bass-heavy world of dance music. “Long before Roland reinvented itself as a purveyor of DJ-friendly groove gear, the MC-202 was the original groove box. Review of MC-202 From Electronic Musician Magazine: I have not tested this but it should work fine.ĭownload the Data Here (122Mb) : MC-202 Data Project Corrected If you own or have access to a Roland MC-202 Synth here is the original data cassette that came with the machine. It also features a 4 tap delay section, a master Vst insert and the possiblity to record audio files of what you are doing.” The Sample Player section is a fairly straight forward 4 voices sample player with a good envelope section and the possiblitly to change the pitch, the length, the start point all on the fly. But the most unique feature is that the 4 sequences can play at 4 different BPMs! “The velocities can be randomized too so the accents will also change during timeĪnd make the loops more interesting. What’s special about it is that you can randomize this modifications and so the pattern will never be constant if you want. Nothing new so far, but what makes the GUIdMachine special are a few unique features.įirst of all you can easily shift any of the sequences up and down by any number of steps and you can decide the length of each raw. The Step sequencer has 4 X 16 steps while the sample player can load 4 samples simultanuously. “The Guid Machine is a Step Sequencer combined with a sample player.
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