I really like the Roland MC-101. It doesn’t have a funky sequencer like the Elektron boxes. It only has 4 tracks. And the menu system is kind of a pain. But, it has literally thousands of excellent presets. It handles samples wonderfully (both loops and one shots). Each track can do a lot (16 samples per drum track isn’t exactly limiting). The effects are varied and mostly good. And, the “Scatter” function is a blast that you can customize quite a bit.
For this track, as all my tracks I guess, I kept it pretty simple. The opening is chopped up samples from some live drumming I recorded back in 2008. Track 2 is a Hip Hop drum kit preset on the 101. The two synth tracks were made with the random patch feature that came out in firmware 1.60. A really nice way to get sounds if you get overwhelmed by all the presets (which I often do). I really enjoyed messing around on this one. Again, pretty basic, but it just felt good.
