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No mic light on when I plug it in. I have an SX so I used that power supply but still nothing. I got this from a thrift store, they described it as no sound out put. Didn't mention anything about no power. I may reach out to mpcstuff and ask them some questions on that mother board.

I couldn't get it to power up with batteries either. So I was looking on mpcstuff.com and the sell a motherboard for it. If I replace it, would that fix the power issue?

Recently got an OG 404 but I can't get it to power up. I took it apart and the boards look ok, nothing out of the ordinary. Anyone have any experience with this? Would this be an easy fix? Thanks

Did you ever figure out what the issue was? I just picked up an SP404sx and I am having the same issues with the wave converter. Any help on this would be great. Thanks

So I currently have a MPC 1000 and I’m looking into getting a SP 404 to use it with. I just don’t know which SP to get. I know the og SP uses the same memory card as the MPC so I feel like that would be convenient and also the fx’s on the og are supposedly better. But it seems like the more popular ...

I appreciate all the responses, it's been super helpful. If I had the funds I would definitely get both. But right now I want to start off with one. I like how there are so many tutorials and guides online for the mpc1000. I haven't really found too many tutorials or guides on the sp 404 though. I ...

What’s up. I’m new to this forum and had a question for all of y’all. I want to get into making sample based beats, which do you guys recommend the SP 404 or MPC 1000. I have a family, wife and kids, I want to get into this as a hobby. I have time to dedicate for learning the hardware but the less ...