MATRIXSYNTH: Roland MC 202 with Original Box & Kenton CV Upgrade Kit


Sunday, November 06, 2011

Roland MC 202 with Original Box & Kenton CV Upgrade Kit

via this auction
"his auction includes :

the MC 202 unit- everything works great.
Original box (including Styrofoam padding)
Original power supply
Original Operators Manual
Original Patch Book
Kenton 4 socket upgrade (not installed) - I ordered this, but never installed it. If you are handy with soldering it's an easy install, or you could get your tech to install it.

More info on the cv/gate upgrade (from Kenton)-

The MC-202 does have CV and Gate input sockets already fitted, which can be used with a CV converter, however these input sockets are not satisfactory in most cases. Firstly they are designed so that you can enter information into its internal sequencer using an external keyboard (or indeed, the CV converter), the significance of this is that it quantises the notes into discrete steps, in other words if you try and do a pitchbend, you will end up with the notes going up in semitones only, not smoothly. This isn`t a fault with the CV converter, but the action of the quantising process in the MC-202. Secondly, the fact that the note is quantised, sent to the internal sequencer & then played by the sequencer circuitry, means that the response is fairly slow doing it this way. Thirdly, you are limited to the note range that the sequencer can play. For the above reasons, we recommend that you have your MC–202 fitted with additional CV, Gate, filter & portamento sockets. We can supply a kit to fit your MC–202 with proper CV Gate and, filter and portamento input sockets which do not suffer from the above limitations."



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