MATRIXSYNTH: One-off Roland MC-8 Micro-Composer with Factory Blue Case?


Tuesday, June 18, 2013

One-off Roland MC-8 Micro-Composer with Factory Blue Case?

via the Roland MC-8 Micro-Composer blog  where you'll find more pics and additional details.  If anyone has any additional info on this leave a comment there or here.

"I’m convinced that the blue paint job is factory, though I’ve never seen another like it. It only has 4k of memory, as opposed to the usual 16k found in later machines. Also, it has a two-prong power cable instead of three prongs. There may be other differences lurking inside. I don’t know what serial number these started at, or how the numbering scheme worked, but given that only a few hundred of these were ever made, I’m sort of fantasizing that maybe 600000 could mean this was the first one off the line…? Who knows…"

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