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The MKS50, & the Alpha Junos, are excellent for deep, tech-y house. The MKS-50 is in fact a Juno in a rack need I say more? The only synths that even hold a candle to this synth are other Juno's in my opinion, although I've never heard another Juno make quite the same hoover sound. You know that hollow rave sound of the late 80's early 90's. The Hoover pad on this synth was made famous by Lords of Acid, L.A. This synth DOES approach the sounds of the Minimoog and 303, this is one of the fattest synths in exsistance, when compared to the newer virtual analogs there is no contest, the MKS-50 will eat the VA for lunch, and then rip your ears off. (The MKS 50 is an Alpha Juno-1 in a rack with some extra features like chord memory and performaces) I completely disagree with the main author of this review, maybe I'm biased because I've owned an Alpha Juno-1 for about 5 years now. You will find more info and patches for the MKS50 on this site. All in a all a plain and simple unit that will work faithfully if you like its sound.

It works well with midi so it doesn't require a midiretrofit or midi-cv converter to work with your other midi gear. If you are looking for one of these units I advice you to get one with the programmer right away cause the PG300 is dedicated for the job.Ĭonlusion: A well build sturdy piece of 1u rack synth that adds one nice sound to your arsenal if you are looking for synthetic pads, sweeps or electric sounds. Its sys-ex implementation is also very simple so you can edit if from a midifader box if you put your mind to it or buy a Roland PG300 programmer if you can find one. The inteface using only pushbuttons and stepping menues is not an ideal for sound editing, but there are editors out for it to most sequencer software. This makes it good for things like sweeping pads, synthetic strings, electric basses and some snapping pops and thuds. It rather has a character of its own that places it beetween the moogs and the TB303's squelchy and screeming tones.

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With that I mean that it is warm and analog, but not as full smooth and big as a minimoog or even an Roland SH09. The sound that comes out of this engine can be descibed as synthetic and semi fat. Included in the machine is also a chorus that comes in handy for pads and strings. So it can only play one sound at a time, no multitimbrality here, but you can atleast play chords using the six voices. On part of polyphony you get six voices of the same sound. The same goes for the LFO, but you can of course modulate with different amount of the ENV and LFO. On the downside is that although you can control amplitude,pitch, pulswidth and the filter for the sound you only have just that one ENV so they must all follow that same shape. The pulswidth of the square can be modualted by the LFO or ENV of which you get one each. Then you have one sub oscillator that adds a suboctave copy of the DCO and a noise generator. The DCO outputs square, triangle and sine. DCO means that it has digitally shaped oscillators, you could say it is an early form of VA. On the front there is one volumeknob, an LCD display and a bunch of push buttons.

It has internal powersupply so you don't get one of those ugly 'wall warts'. On the rear you have one each of midi in, thru and out and one pair of audio out. It is cased in a one unit rack box made of sturdy metal.

The Roland MKS50 is the rackmount version of the Roland alpha Juno.