Roland MC-101 Beginner Tutorials: 3) Drum programming

Lesson 3 of my beginner MC-101 series, where we go through the whole machine assuming no prior musical knowledge. This lesson is all about programming drums and the many options available for your musical creation needs.

Once again I’m blown away by the support from the community and I’m thrilled to be able to help people, thanks so much for checking it out. As always ask any questions you have and I’ll work on answering them in the comments or in a future video.


I followed this tutorial to update my firmware each time and it should work to update straight from whatever firmware you’re currently running to version 1.5 (most recent)

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I made a playlist for the MC-101 videos, so feel free to check them out there, I’m going to try to get on a faster upload schedule (still have a lot of videos I want to make!)

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Table of Contents:
00:00 Intro
01:50 Re-Define Tracks
02:40 Drum vs. Drum + Comp
04:45 Drum Kit Considerations
09:30 Kit Demos/Types
13:00 Change Pad Sounds
14:45 Drum Pad Settings
24:00 Reverb and Delay
28:20 Advanced Step Sequencer
35:45 Mutes
40:15 Drum Roll
47:00 Outro