MC-202 Step Programming Tutorial

This video is a quickstart tutorial on the MC-202, with an emphasis on step programming. The purpose is to explain some fundamental MC-202 step programming concepts and is not intended to be comprehensive nor a definitive statement on how one should enjoy the MC-202. ----- 0:00 Intro 1:30 Counting a riff 4:52 Pitch Edit Mode 6:00 Step Edit Mode 8:10 Saving a program 9:46 Verifying a program 10:22 Loading a program 11:30 Accents 14:32 Portamento 15:41 Changing the articulation of a note 17:00 Gate Edit Mode 19:59 Copying a measure 21:53 Syncing to Logic Pro X 24:38 Deleting notes 25:32 Outro ----- Roland MC-202 manual: http://cdn.roland.com/assets/media/pd... ----- Links to the other videos mentioned: ‪@RaveyStabs‬ (using a spreadsheet):    • Roland MC-202 Programming Using a Spreadsh...   ‪@johnisfaster‬ (syncing without a converter):    • mc-202 tutorial #1 programming and syncing...   ----- Although not mentioned in this video, the following video is helpful when it comes to setting up and intonating an MC-202: ‪@gwEmbassy‬ (MC-202 calibration):    • How to tune, adjust and calibrate a Roland...   ----- There are of course many other great MC-202 videos that are too numerous to name here. I'm sure you can easily find them on your own. ----- My Patreon:   / dasmobiusmusic   ----- Some rambling and tedious additional commentary: 1. The range accesible through the built-in keyboard, with octave transposing, is only nominally 1F to 6C. This range refers to how notes are mapped to the internal keyboard, and should not be confused with the actual pitch range of the instrument. On the MC-202, there are 4 settings for VCO octave (2', 4', 8', 16'). Furthermore, the suboscillator can sit 1 octave down (as a square wave) or 2 octaves down (as either a square or a pulse wave). Throughout this video I only used the lowest octave VCO setting (16') and I had the suboscillator, prominently turned up in the mixer section, set to 1 octave down. If I were to, for example, switch the VCO octave to a higher setting then all of the pitches would have sounded higher. Also, the VCO pitch can be altered or modulated in other ways (such as via the tuning knob or via the LFO). The point is, regardless of actual VCO settings or modulations, the MC-202 would still name the notes as "1F" through "6C" based on how the notes map to the internal keyboard and not necessarily on how they sound. 2. In the part where I describe syncing the MC-202 to Logic Pro X, I said that in the Logic settings one "needs" to have the mode on "Song - SPP at Play Start..." The trouble here is with the modal verb "needs." In fact, I don't think it matters which mode is selected!