Recording; Recording A Performance To A Tone Or Drum Track; Recording Audio On A Looper Track - Roland Groovebox MC-707 Reference Manual

Recording

You can record your performance or audio, and save it as clips.
Recording a Performance to a Tone or
Drum Track
Creating a new clip and recording on it
1 .
In the home screen, move the cursor to an empty clip slot in
which you want to create a clip .
2 .
Use the [MEASURE] buttons
that you want to record .
3 .
Press the [REC] button .
A clip is created at the specified location, and recording starts.
* If playback is stopped, press the [START/STOP] button to start playback.
4 .
Press the PAD MODE [NOTE]
The pads are in Note mode.
5 .
Play the pads .
6 .
To stop recording, press the
Recording ends.
ME M O
You can also end recording by moving the clip.
Overwriting a clip
(Overdub)
Here's how to add notes to an existing clip.
1 .
In the home screen, move the cursor to select a clip .
2 .
Press the [REC] button .
Recording starts.
* If playback is stopped, press the [START/STOP] button to start playback.
3 .
Play the pads .
4 .
To stop recording, press the
Recording ends.
ME M O
You can also end recording by moving the clip.
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to specify the length of the clip
button .
[REC] button .
[REC] button .

Recording Audio on a Looper Track

Creating a new clip and recording
1 .
Hold down the [SHIFT] button
2 .
Select the audio source that you want to record .
Audio source to
Explanation
record
Record audio from the EXT IN jacks.
EXT
If you pressed the [INPUT] button to make it light, turn the [VALUE]
dial to adjust the volume.
If the input from a USB-connected computer is assigned to the
MC-707's PC IN, you can record from it. Switch the USB output
PC
port of the computer to PC (Ch3-4).
* The default USB output port is MIXOUT.
TRK1-8 Record from a track.
Record the overall sound.
MIXOUT
* If the output port of the computer is MIX (Ch1-2) and USB Mix Select is
POST T-FX, the audio output from the computer is not recorded.
3 .
In the home screen, move the cursor to select the clip slot
that you want to create .
M EMO
In Clip mode, you can use the pads to select this.
4 .
Use the [MEASURE] buttons
5 .
Press the [REC] button .
Record is reserved.
At the next timing cycle of the master clock, a clip is created in the
specified position and recording starts.
Recording ends when the specified number of measures is reached.
* This does not support overwriting the clip.
* The track being recorded stops producing sound.
* If playback is stopped, press the [START/STOP] button to start playback.
* When recording ends, the recorded clip plays.
and press the [INPUT] button .
to specify the length of the clip .