MC-1

• Play three melodic parts and sixteen drum lanes using 128 presets built from recorded instrument attacks and a monophonic acid engine.
• Build 64 patterns of 16 steps across four parts, with swing, gate, accent, slide and tempos from 40 to 240 BPM.
• Eight synthesized kits cover kick, snare, hats, clap, toms, cymbals and percussion, edited as hits and lane levels on a grid.
• Arrange up to 128 pattern entries with one to sixteen repeats each, stopping at the end or looping.
• Send every part to four shared effect banks of reverbs, delays, choruses and flangers, with a master volume and limiter.
• Hold a chord and the arpeggiator turns it into UP, DOWN, UP-DOWN, ORDER, RANDOM or CHORD phrases.
• PLAY + REC records played notes plus sound, level and send movements as step-quantized automation.
• Press SAVE twice while stopped to store a project; USB MIDI, TRS MIDI input and stereo USB audio reach a computer.

Its modes

HOME

Follow all four parts, see note pitches and the playback cursor, and reach the performance controls.

PRESETS

Browse the melodic sound bank or the drum kits in a seven-row list that closes after a short idle.

GLOBAL MIXER

Set PART1, PART2, PART3 and DRUMS levels, switch to PAN with ENV, and mute the selected part with ARP.

FX SENDS

Set the selected part's four independent sends to the R/D1, C/F1, R/D2 and C/F2 banks.

FX TYPES

Choose the algorithm for each of the four shared effect banks.

ARP

Set the melodic arpeggiator's MODE, RATE, OCT and GATE and toggle latch with LFO.

SONG

Arrange patterns with POS, PATT, REPT and LEN knobs and switch whole-song looping.

KNOB AUTOMATION

See the shared event capacity, current pattern usage and REC state, and clear this pattern's automation.

MIDI

Set the four part channels and pick the clock source.

ANALOG

Dial the selected melodic part's tuning variance and slow drift.