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My mom bought one of these



I hotrodded it so I could patch in guitar FX, she was not amused

Wax Inspektor wrote:Thanx for the quick reply...25 bugz? Wow, that' cheap... How often do you use it?

Never actually, I messed around with it for a week and resold it for $75

The MC303 was the first Roland to be marked Groovebox . It has 7 synth polyphonic synth parts and then a sampled drum section. The 8 track sequencer can also drive external MIDI gear (like an SP).

More info and sound smaples can be found here .

Today worth only about $100 in the USA. I bought ...

hematurge wrote: I do wish the 303 had the compact flash slot .

Get one of those $10 xD to SM adapters and you're golden (or a couple if you're rough with your gear).

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Tascam seems to like to use knobs to differentiate themselves from Roland. Roland usually gives you way more goodies but you have to menu surf to get at them.

It has an early 80s digital sound, kinda like a poor man's DX7. When it came out in the 80s at less than $500 it blew a lot of people's minds. Back then there were no synths that ran on batteries let alone cost well under $1000...and that's in 1980s dollars.

The presets (16) are pretty cheesy, you ...

14 x 11 x 4 inches

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Fr@ wrote: it's a common disease for musicians

Especially when forums like this fan the flames

In 1974 I went to South Korea while serving in the US Army. During the first few months there I saw a lot of things happening that would be unheard of in the USA. For example, after a protest on the campus of a university the leaders of the protesters were arrested, tried, found guilty of something ...

hematurge wrote:I have a conundrum on my hands.
Friday I get paid, and I'm completely out of patience. It's goin down, I'm buyin an SP. Thing is I can't really go over like $200 or so.

PM sent about an SP-606

You can also get contest loops at Acid Planet.

http://www.acidplanet.com/contests/?T=6943

Buy a phono preamp, nowadays about $50.



Or use an old stereo receiver or amplifier as a preamp.

The File Import function can import a single file or multiple files. You can specify the starting pad and the samples are loaded to consecutive pads until all selected files are loaded.

Page 68 of the manual gives the details.