Criticisms
The Roland MC-909 received good reviews at tech magazines like Future Music and Sound on Sound. However it faced serious competition from the cheaper and more intuitive Yamaha RS7000. Many MC-909 users complained about several operating system bugs at the Yahoo! Groups forum and also Roland Clan Forums. In fact, even when the machine was released in 2002, it took Roland Corporation 5 years until some of the more complex bugs (like the inability to store RPS patterns) were fixed in the operating system upgrade v1.23 in early 2007.
Another common complaint refers to the unit's size, which makes it less portable than a laptop with a midi controller.
The sampler, although powerful, lacks the ability to set keyboard ranges for different samples, making it difficult to create realistic sounds from a set of multisamples. There is, however a work-around for this via an external editor on the PC & Mac called: MC-909 Editor Update v3.1, that is freely available for download at this site.
The Roland MC-909 is no longer in production by Roland Corporation. The Roland MC-909 is consequently called to become a legendary star, as Mellotron or the Casio SA-1.
While no longer in production, the MC-909 can be bought these days second-hand at places like ebay.
- Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) US$1,795.99 on October 8, 2002 - when they were first released by Roland Corporation**
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