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Roland M-BD1

Roland M-bd1

Trend price : 50-100€

Rackmount MBD1 is basically the equivalent of the Srjv-10 bass and drums board. The board features many acoustic drumkits and basses recorded by famous artists like Marcus Miller, John Patitucci, Bob Wilson or Abe Laboriel.

Overview
(weight: 2.6 Kg) single unit basic design with 11 buttons and a very simple 7-segments display.
Terminal connectors:
- Midi interface
- main out
- line input
- headphones


Voice
28 voices of polyphony based on subtractive synthesis and PCM samples at 16-bits resolution. Each patch is composed by 1, 2, 3 or 4 samples layers.

Wavetable
8 MB ROM holds 255 samples focused on drum CD-ROM collection from Spectrasonic but also some new recorded performances like bass licks, slide, picked...

Performance
system manages 7 parts + 1 dedicated to kit drums

Filter
- lowpass filter
- bandpass filter
- highpass filter

LFO
2 modulators, 7 waveforms and 2 destinations:
- amplitude
- filter

Envelope
- amplitude: 4 stages ADSR
- filter: 4 stages ADSR
- pitch: 4 stages ADSR

Effect
- 8 reverbs (including 2 delays)
- 3 kind of choruses

Memory
- 18 performances
- 226 patches
- 17 rhythm sets
- 1 global setup


Audio demo:


Video Clip:

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Review
OK: cheap
NOT : edit / display / memory
"many drumkits- good quality, but awful interface. Obsolete module but bargain price"

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