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"The Roland MC-303 Groovebox® is a self-contained, retro-styled sequencer and integrated sound module with some very high-tech features. Techno, jungle, hip-hop, acid and other dance styles can now be approached easily and creatively by dance music producers and other groove enthusiasts with little or no musical training.
* 448 dedicated dance sounds, 40 synth basses (TB-303, etc.), 35 synth leads, 33 synth pads
* 12 rhythm kits, including TR-808, TR-909, techno, jungle and house sets
* Built-in vintage synth sounds and arpeggios, Preset and User dance patterns with 300 variations
* 16-part multitimbral with an 8-track sequencer containing multiple quantize functions: Grid, Shuffle and Groove
* Resonant filter, LFO, envelope control and built-in effects: delay, reverb, flanger and chorus
* Realtime Phrase Sequencer (RPS) for instant recall of musical phrases
* Low Boost feature"
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Ugh. The MC-303 was and is a piece of garbage. Crappy sounds and lousy MIDI implementation made for a frustrating user experience. A half-baked effort by Roland to try to cash in on the popularity of the X0X boxes they made 15 years previously. I knew three people who bought this unit when it came out, and none of them were happy with it in the slightest. I can't imagine it having much retro appeal at this point. It's only claim to fame is coining the term "groovebox" which is still used to describe table-top synth/drum machine units aimed at the dance music market. There are some very nice synth products from the mid-late 90s (Korg Prophecy & Z1, Novation DrumStation), the MC-303 is not one of them.
-- Knuckledragger
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