I bought a sp 404 recently and had trouble with my cf cards. The 1GB Delkin cf doesn't work and the sandisk 1 GB doesn't work. They will format but the sampler reads them as empty when they are not. I want to know if there is something wrong with my machine or if it's really that finicky with the type of card. I noticed a few people saying the transcend cf works but they're are a few different types; Transcend CF ultra 1g industrial, 133X Compact Flash Card Transcend 1GB..Can some one help me out on this one? I've been through hell trying to figure this out! Why do they make it so hard!?

the awesome and affable wax inspektor compiled a list of cards that work. you can see it in this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9616

if yr formatting the card, how do you know there are sounds on it? are you dragging them across from a pc? have you tried just sampling into the machine to see if the cards work then?

Thank you for that link. I have a card reader. I have formatted the card and everything else correctly, this is the 2nd card that I have ordered in and waited for. I am just worried I will order in another card and waste more time and money so I would like to know specifics about these cards that apparently work.