Roland Cloud

[Tony Scharf]

Im very interested in the MC707..but after using the Akai Force and MPC for a while…the sampling time seems kinda low.  I’ve gotten accustomed to loading single samples that are 7 minutes long by themselves… I’d need to pair it with an Octatrack or something that had disk streaming. 

The sound management does sound like a dream come true, though.  Perhaps the MC101 to augment my current setup wouldn’t be out of line..

Tony

> On May 25, 2020, at 7:50 PM, Andrew Tarpinian <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I’ve had the sub for a while now and they are some of my most used plugins - they sound great. They are pretty resource intensive tho. Also over time there have been a few weird behaviors, like you needing to login to reauthorize sometimes - and a weird bug where sounds you already had on tracks certain parameters would bug out. But have not had any major issues in a while. 
> 
> I was looking into the MC-707 recently and I am kind of blown away by it - the synth/sampling/drum engines are insane, like super insane. So insane it’s weird they didn’t put a bigger screen on that thing, it should have one like the MPC Live, I guess it was a price thing and they were sticking to the performance orientated layout of the TR's. And yea realized the Xen connection. So you can design patch libraries for yourself on the computer with a big ol’ plugin and then sync them to the machine, and then fully be able to edit those patches on the machine - that’s pretty game changer.
> 
> From what I can tell? the current Xen plugin in the roland cloud is a preset only player - the editor version will be avail in fall.
> 
>> On May 25, 2020, at 5:31 PM, Mikael Hansson <forums at deadmengods.com <mailto:forums at deadmengods.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> In light of getting the Roland MC-707 I have been checking out Rolands software offerings.
>> https://www.geextreme.com/news/roland-zenology-and-cloud-2-5/ <https://www.geextreme.com/news/roland-zenology-and-cloud-2-5/>
>> 
>> Seems they have re-thought their cloud solution a bit and you can now get different tiers, Free, Core, Pro and Ultimate. There’s also the possibility to buy the plugins which are essentially the same code as in the hardware instruments.
>> 
>> One cool thing is the Xenology synthesizer which is the virtual version of their ZenCore system which is the model used in Fantom, Jupiter-X/Xm, RD-88 and the MC-707/101.
>> 
>> This makes it possible to edit and manage patches in the box and transfer them to your hardware or for instance create ideas on the hardware and then transfer the sound to the computer for the production/mixing stage. The current version is limited to 1 part (Roland lingo for layer) but the upcoming Pro version will have 4 parts, the same as the hardware.
>> 
>> Prices for buyouts seems reasonable, with the top end models like D50 or JP8 selling for $149.
>> 
>> 
>> /Micke
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