That's the D-Beam. It's part of the 555 and Roland throws one in just about everything these days.

i still dont get how the v-link controls video but then again i really dont and most likely wont ever mess with video i love the beats man the beats man boom tis clap tis tis boom boom clap tis boom tis clap tis tis boom boom clap!!

Was he talking about the V-Link? If so my bad, I just woke up when I answered that. =)

Nah, he was talking about the D beam there for sure.

The V-Link matches video-samples based on which pads were struck, if you use keys on the Motion Dive you can control even more. There's a fader so you can do stutter-effects and so on.

Really cool and frankly not even that expensive either!

Mike you need to tell your colleagues over there at Roland that its time for a firmware update to the 555.

next time your not feeling well mike ill sit in for you with my 555 so i can have all those girls screaming when i press them pads haha
nice vid man

Thanks Fellas !

hey just thought ide let some one no im a nerd and noticed a error on the roland site when you click on this link that shows a sp-404/sp-505 deal

you get this deal

im sure the first picture meant to say sp-404/sp-555 instead of sp-404/sp-505........right?
anyways haha back to my lurking