Roland MC-505 Video Owners Manual - Part 1 - Hour 1

Grove Approved!

The Roland MC-505 is a monster drum machine released 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 of attack, decay, sustain and release, different envelopes and 2 Lfo. It was released as the successor to the Roland MC-303 - which created the Groovebox market. There is a full JX-308, and a JV-1080 on the board.

The 262 page manual was difficult and incomplete. This video manual was a 3rd party mail order VHS produced by Pegasus Multimedia featuring Tonee McGuire - Roland Product Specialist and Grovebox Product Evangelist. It's a quick dive and tutorial into many of MC-505's features and work flow.

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Index:
00:47 - The Demo Jam with Tonee - Mood Lighting Included (strobe warning.)
01:47 - Intro
02:29 - Overview of Features
03:13 - Front Panel Layout & Control - what all of 160 Buttons, Knobs, Sliders, & D-Beam do
06:08 - Edit & Shift buttons correspond to multi-use buttons - hollow white & hollow black box
06::40 - Back panel jacks and connectors
07:06 - Playing and Selection Patterns
07:57 - Selecting Pattern Categories
08:42 - Part Muting
09:32 - Mute Retain
10:08 - Real Time Control
11:00 - Function button usage - solid white box parameters & functions
11:43 - Real Time Envelope
12:25 - Real Time LFO
13:10 - Part Mixer
14:06 - MegaMix - Mix Parts of other paterns into patters in real time
16:48 - D-Beam Controller
20:57 - Review and Demonstration of concepts ...in Neon (Tonee does a costume change!)
--- Make Stuff Time (finally!) ---
22:36 - Sequencing
22:58 - Temporary Buffer usage (rec + stop activates it anywhere)
23:38 - Sequencing - Step Recording