SOUNDS & SAMPLES
UVI - Super-7 €79
> Roland’s MKS-7 ‘Super Quartet’ was a curiosity which may be unfamiliar to many readers. Although borrowing from other Roland tech of the time, and in aesthetics fitting into their MKS range of synth expander boxes, it was still an anomaly. Inside, it combined seven voices of synthesis with a sample-based drum machine. The so-called ‘Rhythm’ section used 11 PCM drum samples partially derived from the TR-707. This sat alongside a simple monophonic, DCO-based, ‘Bass’ section plus 4-voice ‘Chord’ and 2-voice ‘Melody’ sections, both derived from the Juno-106. Each section had a range of preset sounds, and though editing was possible from
