[sdiy] midi controller DIY'ing

[Tony Allgood]

>It also featured a MC-303 MIDI interface for controlling the sad
MC-303.

The MC303 really shouldn't be so maligned. Its a cracking little box of
tricks. Just be carfeul you don't overdo the polyphony of the thing, and
its fine. Its a great hardware sequencer, and the drum sounds are just
fine. Its big loss is in the sound module mode where every thing has to
be programmed in via sys-ex or NRPNs.

But we need to be a little careful when calling an instrument 'sad' too.
As the Roland service chap for my area, I get to see all sorts of gear.
One of which was a humble MC303 that had  stuck power switch. It was
owned by a student. The patterns he had programmed into the user section
were some of the freshest beats I had heard for quite a while. So its
not what you got, its what you do with it.

Regards,

Tony Allgood  Penrith, Cumbria, England

Oakley Modular Synth and TB3030:
www.techrepairs.freeserve.co.uk/projects.htm
My music: www.mp3.com/taklamakan