What Is A Track?; What Is A Clip?; Track Type: Tone; Track Type: Drum - Roland MC-101 Owner's Manual

The MC-101 can simultaneously play back up to four
independent tracks.
You can assign up to 16 clips to each track, and switch
between these clips during playback.

What is a Track?

There are three types of track.
Tone:
A track that mainly handles clips that have pitch.
Drum:
A track that handles drum and percussion clips.
Looper: A track that handles audio loops. You can import
audio data from an SD card, or record sound that's
input from a track. Time stretch is also supported.

What is a Clip?

A "clip" is a collection of data to be played back by a
track. The data included in a clip differs depending on
the type of track.

Track type: Tone

Clip setting:
This contains the name of the clip, and information
and settings for the clip.
Tone:
This contains settings for the sound. It also includes
effect settings.
(MFX)
Phrase: This is performance data and data that creates
changes in the sound

Track type: Drum

Clip setting: This contains the name of the clip, and information
and settings for the clip.
Drum kit: This contains settings for the sound. It also includes
effect settings.
(MFX)
Phrase:
This is performance data and data that creates
changes in the sound
Track type: Looper
Clip setting:
This contains the name of the clip, and information
and settings for the clip.
Looper
This is the audio data played by the looper.
sample:
Looper set- This contains settings that specify how the looper
ting: sample is played.
MFX: This contains effect
Phrase:
This contains data that creates changes in the sound
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settings.
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