the only problem i would say about the sp 404 is that it can only take 1gb flash cards. i'm online looking at stores thats in my city and i'm finding only 2gb flash cards. now i have to search around my city at local comp shops. bummer. i know online has them for cheap...very cheap but i need it now...just ranting.

yeah man, it keeps getting more difficult to find the right cf card in stores.

your not lying about that

i just found this on target.com. does anybody know if this works or not.
i really just need something for right now but later on i was going to order a Sandisk one or Kingston.

http://www.target.com/Dane-Elec-Compact ... ard&page=1

that one should work fine

ok thank you for the response. i just read it more and it's only available online but its a couple of little computer shops around here so i'll drive around and hope for the best(very down )

CVS usually has the 1gigs FYI, walgreens maybe too

ok i'll give them a try. thanks

According to the manual, these are the memory cards supported by the 404:

BUFFALO RCF-G (256 MB, 1 GB), RCF-X (32 MB, 64 MB, 128 MB, 512 MB)

HAGIWARA SYS-COM Zpro: HPC-CF128ZP (128 MB), HPC-CF512ZP (512 MB), HPC-CF1GZP (1 GB)

I•O DATA CFS-32M (32 MB)

SanDisk ultra II: SDCFH-256-903 (256 MB), SDCFH-512-903 (512 MB), SDCFH-1024-903 (1 GB)

It also supports PNY cards. If I recall correctly, folks have been having trouble using making the Kingston cards work. Apparently, they're not compatible for some reason and just add clicking noises to the samples. According to this thread, the SanDisk Ultra III cards may not work right in the 404 either; they cause strange panning and clicking problems in your samples.

check a wholesale store like sam's club or bj's, if you need an access card.......borrow your aunts or some shit, thats how i do it, at a sam's club i get 1 gig cf cards for 15 bucks a piece, its the only place besides guitar center that i found them

damn, speak of the devil (actually they are quite opposite from being evil), i just typed that response, went to have some dinner with my folks, got an early christmas present, 2 more cf cards from the sam's club spot, so crucial, just finished fillin up my other two last week, deleting was gettin hard

.......damn man, sorry for rubbin it in haha, hope you find some

lol its cool and yea i wish i thought to go there earlier. now i'll have to wait until friday. suckssssssssssss. i was talking to this guy today and he was talking about the firmware saying I should send an email to roland support center and ask them if they will released a firmware to update the 404 to around like 4gb since 1gb cards are almost done for. This was a CVS manager who was telling me about this also he told me they was selling them for dirt cheap like around 5 dollars because they wanted to get rid of them but that was 3 months ago. HORRIBLEEEEEEE

i've searched all over my city for a 1gb cf card. No one has them. So now i have to order online and wait a week to get it. WHY IS THE LIMIT ONLY 1GB. THOSE CARDS ARE DAMN NEAR EXTINCT

unfortunately they limit each unit to force people to upgrade. my advice is when u have some spare cash lying around, purchase as many cards as u can so u don't have to worry about these corporate thugs pullin at your wallet

I'm always speaking up for the computer with a card-reader system so I'll do it once more. I own only 1 card but I have many copies of the card on my computer renamed like ROLAND_August or so. When I wan't to use the card I created in August I just copy that folder to the CF and just remove the "_August" part from the filename. Fast and easy.
Also you can make like 10 copies of a pattern very quickly.

We should totally let Roland know that 1Gb is difficult to come by these days.

I can't help but think that a simple OS update should take care of everything.