i got that feeling too. i kinda think he was just using our ideas for the 555 soft development/updates. if not, Mike speak up.

I wonder if Roland forces him to make those terrible beats when he demos their product, if I had to demo a Roland box I'd actually show all the capabilities of the boxes they sell. Every demo beat or video they have is garbage and sounds like it was made by someone who just took the thing out of the box for the first time.

I never had that with my 404.
I actually never had a problem or 'bug' in either 404/303.

Only thing that annoys me a little is that if you swap patterns on the 303 the bpm resets.

What do you mean by swapping patterns? do you mean switching from one pattern sequence to another?, 'cause I don't believe this occurs on my machine.