I meet him every time I get my boxes out on acid, never fails he's always there. Sometimes in the form of a goat, sometimes solid sometimes translucent, always riding upon a fat bassline, also his clothes change every time you look away... They must've cut the video because he always ends up naked.
*_Ryeland Allison_*_ is a multi-faceted composer, producer, sound designer, remixer and instrumentalist whose work is known worldwide through his contributions to numerous films, records and sound libraries. Living in Los Angeles, he has composed for numerous soundtracks and programmed unique sounds for companies like Roland, Korg and Spectrasonics._ _Ryeland's remix of themes from "The Dark Knight" appears on a Grammy winning special edition CD. Ryeland also found inspiration in the Electronic/Dance music genres by producing international floor-filling tunes on his eponymous solo album as well as single releases. To date, he has remixed tracks for such luminaries as Hybrid, BT, Armin Van Buuren, Crystal Method, Spice Girls and Christina Aguilera._ _A fruitful apprenticeship with Oscar winning composer Hans Zimmer provided Ryeland with the opportunity to work on films such as Inception, Sherlock Holmes, The Dark Knight, Salt, The Thin Red Line, The Fan and The Lion King where he created sounds, wrote songs and played drums. In more recent years Ryeland has broadened his alliance with other composers of note including Harry Gregson-Williams (Spy Game, Shrek), John Powell (Face/Off, Kung Fu Panda) and James Newton Howard (Shopaholic, Duplicity). Ryeland also composed the score for the Rob Schmidt film Speed Of Life and provided additional music for Angels & Demons, The Simpsons, Madagascar 2 and Iron Man._ _"Aloha and good tidings, I hope you enjoy our sounds and put them to good use... May they inspire you to create great music."_ www.spectrasonics.net/company/artists/artist.php?id=23
This was my very first gear purchase. I was 17 and only regretted it when I started to push the limits of the box. It would lag and skip when too much was being used at once. It forced me to get a sampler. Then a digital recorder. Then an analog synth. Then another synth. Then a....well, you get the point. Thank you Roland.
Yep! Still own my MC 303, Roland SP808 sampler & Boss DR 770 drum machine. Still amazing machines when you sync them. Switched and playing acoustic drums now. Pearl :)
in love with how extremely fucking 90s this is. "yeah i'm going to Ibiza to do some goa shit with my MC303" plz just go back to this style of advertising now. without in person NAMM you can just replace it with like a 4 hour long string of trippy 90s promotionals & B-roll
If anyone wants to know more about this guy, look for ryeland allison interview. He worked on a lot of movie music and actually talks about the making of this.
I remember this presentation! The amount of time I spent with this unit :-) I performed at the Roland-hosted live competitions at The End in London with the MC-303.
Richard James - ME TOO!!! Drove down from Newcastle with my brother in a hire car. Would have been early 2000. Feb-Mar time. I left to work abroad in April that year.
But when it came time to save your creations in their completeness, you were totally screwed. It would not send all of the data for the knob rotations, and often times your sysex data was corrupted by insertion of midi clock events. Oh the memories.
The MC303 may not have been Roland’s finest hour, but that being said, it had a pretty impressive midi implementation. I ended up using mine mainly as a multitimbral sound module. Automating the parameters (via nrpns - not the most straightforward) you could get some great results in the studio. Still got it to this day, and it occasionally sees some use.
It's 2021, and I bought mine back in 2007. It was a real step up from one of them cheap Casio's that I got at Circuit City (now sadly missed) back durring Christmas time as a kid. I used it ever since then before not long getting a Juno G, and more and more synths. To this day, I still have my MC303 and to this day, still use it in a huge part of my music despite having well over 12 other syths (mostly roland). I love this little synth.
Bought this in 1998 and toured with it, the VS880, DR-550 and SP202 to create “Burnt Spacepop” we toured from 1999-2001 and brought all that gear on stage with the ethereal vocals from the soprano Spacegirl Z. Just remastered the tapes and adats from back then on our channel.
I appreciate the mc-303 for being the first "groovebox" but The mc-505 was a giant improvement and then the mc-909 was the masterpiece of "groovebox" gear! I have had the D2 for a decade and the mc-909 for 6 years and it great to sit down with one piece of gear and have so many options at your disposal :)
i had a 303 for a week and finance came through expensive so sent back. waited for 505 and had for years.... sold 5 years ago and bout 909 a few days ago off ebay. is 909 a big improvement on 505? a lot more patches i hope
Ha! So hella 90's. Loved the 90's. My buddy bought one of those. I mean, we were all hoping for what Roland just put out way later in the Fall of 2017..the TB 03...a digital and affordable TB 303. But as we all know the MC 303 was something else. But I remember thinking the drum sounds were pretty cool at the time. I still have a bank of the samples. Turns out that in multitimbral mode the front panel sound shaping parameter knobs were disabled. We wanted to use it with our other gear not just by itself..which I think is where the harshest criticism of the unit comes from. By itself..unless you were really really dedicated to it, the MC303 was lacking. But mixed with other gear it was a fine modern sounding addition. But we didn't want to sacrifice the front panel tweaking ability so I actually paid to have a midi filter box programmed to only allow the drum channel 10 and one other midi channel through so we could sequence the drums from another sequencer and sequence one other part which we still could tweak thus totally bypassing the MC 303's internal sequencer. Kind of a wacky plan but was a fun techno geek adventure at the time. But getting a cool, sort of analogue modeling synth sound out of it when there was no way we could afford a Nord Lead and the MC 303 at the time was still more versatile than the Novation Basstation.
A 303 & a Tr 909 and we toured the uk in the early 90s playing alongside band like the prodigy & N’Joi. Shades of Rythem Digital Boy. Whall I love that machine. ACEEED 😊
Right? He’s ina corporate product demo and I’m legit looking at his pupils like... hmm... I know he’s not high.. but look at those bags. 90% sure he was last night lmao. He’s got that soft “I did a lot of drugs last night” voice and least 5 times he forgets what’s word he’s going to say, looks to note cards, then to a very random spot in the room, and then to sort of nowhereee ok back to the drums lol.
I remember checking it out at SamAsh when it came out and was suprised how bad it sounded. Never bought any newer Roland product after that time. Except the um-one usb midi interface, that is quite good. Bought many older Roland gear though.
Getting to groove boxes with electribe, then Polyend Tracker, I can't wait to get home to fire up the MC 303 I bought before all that because it was at a good price, but abandoned, didnt understand it then. It seems to offer awesome new possibilities now, come to think of it. Can't be more complicated than a Tracker
Buena maquina harware a un que tiene sus años en su epoca era de las mejores piezas para cualquiera que tenia un equipo musical electronico...yo tube la famosa MC 909 Grovebox conmutada con el famoso teclado Quasimidi Sirius y entre los dos era de lo mejor en sus epoca para componer,interpretar,mexclar,tocar,combinar..alucinante..Bien animo con todas las cosas y vayamos todos con alegrias y felicidades...Good hardware machine for one that has its years in its time, it was one of the best pieces for anyone who had an electronic musical equipment... I had the famous MC 909 Grovebox switched with the famous Quasimidi Sirius keyboard and between the two it was the best in his time to compose, interpret, mix, play, combine... amazing... Good luck with all things and let's all go with joy and congratulations...
This box was my teenage main synth, my friend where amazed that i was able to make cover of euro dance shit and other new wave stuff with this machine , the sound bank was a bit dated but as an hardware sequencer and real time arpegiator it's fire when you hook up this thing on real analog synth and sampler.
There was also this legend about a right patch sequence programing and morse code tapping the tap button that together opens a portal and sends you safely to this video dimension
Super machine , called 303 , but no "slide" function , and after 1 track,the machine is full and starts bugging.The sound was not bad for the 1st digital toy from Roland , better comparing to what they propose today as VSTI hardwares.At this time,I had prefered to buy a quasimidi Raven that was another digital workstation , but huge , and whith much more memory.After several dizains of years,if I had to return to this period and to choose machines , I would buy the original vintage synths , that weren't so expensive in the 90's.Today,the only digital thing in my set is Ableton.I only use analog machines.But I consider that the MC's from ROLAND particully the mc 505 , are excellent as drum machine that doesn't sound bad at all, and particully the sequencer , to drive others synths using midi.
The MC-303 was not perfect but not as bad as some are making it out to be on here! Okay vid did it no favours LOL but it was great for what it was back then. I still have mine though it's been in the back of my cupboard for around 15 years and the power cable is missing.I might spend a tenner on a replacement and take a stroll down memory lane one of these days
And then I was born. All the acid I’ve had (even if it’s not as good, the quantity makes up for quality LOL) was spent melted in a couch, bed or chair in front of a great stereo.
They picked the perfect guy for the video.
he may have actually been tripping while making this video...
Lol, this comment has 303 likes. I just could not hit the like button 😂😛
It’s like his neck has extra bones and joints he uses when feeling the grove.
@Genevieve Hennacy and what is he doing these days?
I want know everyting!
"dust off gamer gunk" type vibes
Legend has it he's still stuck in that trippy dimension...
He's okay with it.
No one's even told him his groovebox isn't switched on
@@beanobawz3432 haha
… which is a tie-dye shirt warped to the point of unrecongizblity.
does he live in a lsd trip
wwwwwaaaahahhhhahhajaja
well, 90s...? :D
looks like he lived on a diet of MDMA and vicks vapo rub :)
I meet him every time I get my boxes out on acid, never fails he's always there. Sometimes in the form of a goat, sometimes solid sometimes translucent, always riding upon a fat bassline, also his clothes change every time you look away... They must've cut the video because he always ends up naked.
The better question is how do i join him?
*_Ryeland Allison_*_ is a multi-faceted composer, producer, sound designer, remixer and instrumentalist whose work is known worldwide through his contributions to numerous films, records and sound libraries. Living in Los Angeles, he has composed for numerous soundtracks and programmed unique sounds for companies like Roland, Korg and Spectrasonics._
_Ryeland's remix of themes from "The Dark Knight" appears on a Grammy winning special edition CD. Ryeland also found inspiration in the Electronic/Dance music genres by producing international floor-filling tunes on his eponymous solo album as well as single releases. To date, he has remixed tracks for such luminaries as Hybrid, BT, Armin Van Buuren, Crystal Method, Spice Girls and Christina Aguilera._
_A fruitful apprenticeship with Oscar winning composer Hans Zimmer provided Ryeland with the opportunity to work on films such as Inception, Sherlock Holmes, The Dark Knight, Salt, The Thin Red Line, The Fan and The Lion King where he created sounds, wrote songs and played drums. In more recent years Ryeland has broadened his alliance with other composers of note including Harry Gregson-Williams (Spy Game, Shrek), John Powell (Face/Off, Kung Fu Panda) and James Newton Howard (Shopaholic, Duplicity). Ryeland also composed the score for the Rob Schmidt film Speed Of Life and provided additional music for Angels & Demons, The Simpsons, Madagascar 2 and Iron Man._
_"Aloha and good tidings, I hope you enjoy our sounds and put them to good use... May they inspire you to create great music."_
www.spectrasonics.net/company/artists/artist.php?id=23
This was my very first gear purchase. I was 17 and only regretted it when I started to push the limits of the box. It would lag and skip when too much was being used at once. It forced me to get a sampler. Then a digital recorder. Then an analog synth. Then another synth. Then a....well, you get the point. Thank you Roland.
And now you own Roland company.
YeZz once it starts it'd not stop ;P
down the rabbit hole!
Yep! Still own my MC 303, Roland SP808 sampler & Boss DR 770 drum machine. Still amazing machines when you sync them. Switched and playing acoustic drums now. Pearl :)
i had the fear that all sequencer behave like that,but not the atari 1040st!😉
We need this man now more than ever
Classic Rotterdam face.
lol
So Rotterdam, bro...
Face is classic Rotten site (90's)
My nightmare is having a hangover that is permanent and room sharing with this guy
but he'll play you those insanely fat grooves from his dimension.
Hell On Earth
But sir, aside the hangover, you're describing just heaven
Oddly it’s my idea and heaven. F**k yer mum.
This guy has been a musician on films like madagascar and inception. Can't get over that.
The green screen keying in this is on point.
Kommissar lol I was going to comment the same thing... if anything they over keyed it so the background takes over the foreground.
'Insanely fat grooves', still works as current slang in 2019.
and "You're in for a major head charge" does not
It doesn't. Not in 2019 or in 1998.
in love with how extremely fucking 90s this is.
"yeah i'm going to Ibiza to do some goa shit with my MC303"
plz just go back to this style of advertising now. without in person NAMM you can just replace it with like a 4 hour long string of trippy 90s promotionals & B-roll
This is like, the best hidden YTP source
oh?
The groove is in the heart.
The groove is in the box
Burial's real identity confirmed
If anyone wants to know more about this guy, look for ryeland allison interview. He worked on a lot of movie music and actually talks about the making of this.
I remember this presentation! The amount of time I spent with this unit :-) I performed at the Roland-hosted live competitions at The End in London with the MC-303.
Richard James - ME TOO!!! Drove down from Newcastle with my brother in a hire car. Would have been early 2000. Feb-Mar time. I left to work abroad in April that year.
Played at The End too, was a fun night that. :)
Lol, I thought you were Aphex Twin for a hot minute! Better than Michael Bolton I suppose. :)
That guy isn’t safe, he keeps looking off to the side to make sure his keepers approve of his pitch.
Either that or he's concerned by the fact the wallpaper keeps breathing.
He loves Goa Trance :)
Someone needs to find this guy and interview him!
ua-cam.com/video/rB2kCZBsS6w/v-deo.html
@@MusicalArmageddon you are my hero!!!!
Ryeland Allison is actually a film composer for Hollywood ! Well blow me down !
Video editor: "how much pictures can we put on the green screen?"
Lsd guy: " y e s"
But when it came time to save your creations in their completeness, you were totally screwed. It would not send all of the data for the knob rotations, and often times your sysex data was corrupted by insertion of midi clock events. Oh the memories.
It was this video that made me buy a MC 303 yesterday.
I fucking love this dude.
I like that you can see the moments he's reading from the telepromter or whatever they used those days
This is the 90's!! Love it.
The MC303 may not have been Roland’s finest hour, but that being said, it had a pretty impressive midi implementation.
I ended up using mine mainly as a multitimbral sound module. Automating the parameters (via nrpns - not the most straightforward) you could get some great results in the studio.
Still got it to this day, and it occasionally sees some use.
Let me buy it..??? 😢
Same for me. And I even did the midi sequencing (and cumbersone parameter automation) via OctaMED, on an Amiga 1200 😎
It's 2021, and I bought mine back in 2007. It was a real step up from one of them cheap Casio's that I got at Circuit City (now sadly missed) back durring Christmas time as a kid. I used it ever since then before not long getting a Juno G, and more and more synths. To this day, I still have my MC303 and to this day, still use it in a huge part of my music despite having well over 12 other syths (mostly roland). I love this little synth.
Every cupboard needs an mc 303!
the face, psychedelic background, the groovebox = Buy it...!
I got a 303 in 1998 because of this video. I still have it and play it to this day. Crazy.
Lmao the way he bobs his head to the drum beats.
Bought this in 1998 and toured with it, the VS880, DR-550 and SP202 to create “Burnt Spacepop” we toured from 1999-2001 and brought all that gear on stage with the ethereal vocals from the soprano Spacegirl Z. Just remastered the tapes and adats from back then on our channel.
The sound at 2:51 was used in a remix D.O.A. on the Newcastle Sampler 12" on Industrial Strength Recprds
I appreciate the mc-303 for being the first "groovebox" but The mc-505 was a giant improvement and then the mc-909 was the masterpiece of "groovebox" gear! I have had the D2 for a decade and the mc-909 for 6 years and it great to sit down with one piece of gear and have so many options at your disposal :)
i had a 303 for a week and finance came through expensive so sent back. waited for 505 and had for years.... sold 5 years ago and bout 909 a few days ago off ebay.
is 909 a big improvement on 505? a lot more patches i hope
Imagine you have 10 years old in the late of 80's and on the Television pump this spot....life changing......
Then along came rebirth 3 months later...
Is only limited to 2x 303s, 808 and 909...
3:37 The most legendary stank-face in the history of synths
I've got one of these. Fun piece of equipment. Awesome, when you hook it up thru MIDI to a keyboard and a sustain pedal.
Straight from Rodderdam, jongens!
geniaal haha
Hoppakee
Ha! So hella 90's. Loved the 90's. My buddy bought one of those. I mean, we were all hoping for what Roland just put out way later in the Fall of 2017..the TB 03...a digital and affordable TB 303. But as we all know the MC 303 was something else. But I remember thinking the drum sounds were pretty cool at the time. I still have a bank of the samples. Turns out that in multitimbral mode the front panel sound shaping parameter knobs were disabled. We wanted to use it with our other gear not just by itself..which I think is where the harshest criticism of the unit comes from. By itself..unless you were really really dedicated to it, the MC303 was lacking. But mixed with other gear it was a fine modern sounding addition. But we didn't want to sacrifice the front panel tweaking ability so I actually paid to have a midi filter box programmed to only allow the drum channel 10 and one other midi channel through so we could sequence the drums from another sequencer and sequence one other part which we still could tweak thus totally bypassing the MC 303's internal sequencer. Kind of a wacky plan but was a fun techno geek adventure at the time. But getting a cool, sort of analogue modeling synth sound out of it when there was no way we could afford a Nord Lead and the MC 303 at the time was still more versatile than the Novation Basstation.
A 303 & a Tr 909 and we toured the uk in the early 90s playing alongside band like the prodigy & N’Joi. Shades of Rythem Digital Boy. Whall I love that machine. ACEEED 😊
love these 90s videos
this lad has most definitely eaten a lot of pills and other class A's lmao
Right? He’s ina corporate product demo and I’m legit looking at his pupils like... hmm... I know he’s not high.. but look at those bags. 90% sure he was last night lmao.
He’s got that soft “I did a lot of drugs last night” voice and least 5 times he forgets what’s word he’s going to say, looks to note cards, then to a very random spot in the room, and then to sort of nowhereee ok back to the drums lol.
Worth having one just for the arpeggiator.
Ryeland actually made a lot of patterns in the MC-303.
one of the best promo for a Roland for me
Jeez. A trip down the 90's road 😊
The head of this guy is as amazing as the sound of the MC-303 !!! :D
4:26 "Here I'll go from a hip hop pattern to something with more of a trance feel."
I really wish you wouldn't.
+Tyler Nichols Lol what
Racist
Sounds sick tho.
I remember checking it out at SamAsh when it came out and was suprised how bad it sounded. Never bought any newer Roland product after that time. Except the um-one usb midi interface, that is quite good. Bought many older Roland gear though.
Getting to groove boxes with electribe, then Polyend Tracker, I can't wait to get home to fire up the MC 303 I bought before all that because it was at a good price, but abandoned, didnt understand it then. It seems to offer awesome new possibilities now, come to think of it. Can't be more complicated than a Tracker
He owns a Rolan and at least 3 shirts.
This is amazing, I want one! The last tune reminded me of Iron Soldier from the Atari Jaguar. :P
I love his LSD wall paper.
I never knew that Peter Cook had a groovebox!
Hahaha yes if he had a love child with Peter Fonda, and that love child was the singer out of the Verve who hadn't eaten for 3 years
3:37 when that great thurd is leaving your body after hours of holding
legend says he never stopped grooveboxing
My dumb ass just bought two off eBay in 2022! When the world ends we’re gonna need standalone boxes like this to keep the party going!🎉
Get a generator too... 😂🎉
3:38 when i hear my fav tune!
I had brought the Mc-303 2 months after it came out. I had the VHS from Roland before I brought it.
3:32 Great Rotterdam promotion! Now I need a MC 303.
This is incredible in a couple of ways..
Jesus Murphy ! Jacob from Trailer Park Boys !! Greeeeeasy
we finally know what he did in the 90s before TPB started
I don't remember things being so trippy in 1998...
if you can´t remember then the party was good :D
Oh, they were indeed...
This and the model cycles ones are the best musical advertising ever, Can you name others ?
Buena maquina harware a un que tiene sus años en su epoca era de las mejores piezas para cualquiera que tenia un equipo musical electronico...yo tube la famosa MC 909 Grovebox conmutada con el famoso teclado Quasimidi Sirius y entre los dos era de lo mejor en sus epoca para componer,interpretar,mexclar,tocar,combinar..alucinante..Bien animo con todas las cosas y vayamos todos con alegrias y felicidades...Good hardware machine for one that has its years in its time, it was one of the best pieces for anyone who had an electronic musical equipment... I had the famous MC 909 Grovebox switched with the famous Quasimidi Sirius keyboard and between the two it was the best in his time to compose, interpret, mix, play, combine... amazing... Good luck with all things and let's all go with joy and congratulations...
Holy shit! He looks like Jacob from the hardware store in Trailer Park Boys S4 ep 3 is it him?
This box was my teenage main synth, my friend where amazed that i was able to make cover of euro dance shit and other new wave stuff with this machine , the sound bank was a bit dated but as an hardware sequencer and real time arpegiator it's fire when you hook up this thing on real analog synth and sampler.
Hey that guy is Ryeland Allison he's a musical friggin genius
I’m not sure if this promo was for a musical instrument or if it was for lsd
Legend has it that in the event of a nuclear blast the mc303 will protect you
There was also this legend about a right patch sequence programing and morse code tapping the tap button that together opens a portal and sends you safely to this video dimension
the 90s is overflowing!
I want to know who or what he's looking at when he's looking past the camera. Also how many costume changes did he do shooting this video?
The que cards, genius.
It's annoying that people look into the camera for videos. It's not like they can see the viewer!
Damn it, now i want one!
Super machine , called 303 , but no "slide" function , and after 1 track,the machine is full and starts bugging.The sound was not bad for the 1st digital toy from Roland , better comparing to what they propose today as VSTI hardwares.At this time,I had prefered to buy a quasimidi Raven that was another digital workstation , but huge , and whith much more memory.After several dizains of years,if I had to return to this period and to choose machines , I would buy the original vintage synths , that weren't so expensive in the 90's.Today,the only digital thing in my set is Ableton.I only use analog machines.But I consider that the MC's from ROLAND particully the mc 505 , are excellent as drum machine that doesn't sound bad at all, and particully the sequencer , to drive others synths using midi.
The shaggy of the 90s!
The MC-303 was not perfect but not as bad as some are making it out to be on here! Okay vid did it no favours LOL but it was great for what it was back then. I still have mine though it's been in the back of my cupboard for around 15 years and the power cable is missing.I might spend a tenner on a replacement and take a stroll down memory lane one of these days
This video is dope.
you know what nothing beats these old grooveboxes the d2 example is a monster
This needs to come back!!!!!!
Gonna tell my kids this was Liam Howlett
4:18 The groove knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't.
I wanted one of these so much back in the 90's.
The patches are dated but the drum machine and sequencer are still awesome...I put my blofeld through it and I can create some amazing things.
Morpheus kept him in that room for eternity.
Ryeland Allison is the name of the guy demoing this and he has risen high in the music word: ryelandallison.com/
Apparently not high enough to pay his hosting bill.
Yes his face is proper raver! Even in 1998 this videos seems a bit late to the aceeed scene
This takes me back to dancing in abandoned warehouses melting my face off on acid. I however, was totally over it by 1998.
And then I was born. All the acid I’ve had (even if it’s not as good, the quantity makes up for quality LOL) was spent melted in a couch, bed or chair in front of a great stereo.
More, more, more!
This guy keeps looking off camera as he's expecting his Ecstasy dealer to arrive any minute.
Classic ideo- maybe tooo trippy ha, but still a great demonstration of the 303
beam me up Roland!
Groove is in the art :-)
Cool dude ;) Thanks for the video, top stuff :) Respect
This dude is the lovechild of Mr Spock and Tom from Myspace.
Anyone has any idea from what did this pattern that kicks in 3:46 might come from? I"m feeling like I"ve heard it befoee but I don"t know where.
That was the phattest groove I have ever heard
What's really odd is that this promo video had an MC505 in the intro part at 0:23... (and was way better than the 303 imho)
5:09 his 4th pill just kicked in