Strange s****y thing

ellaguru · Post by **ellaguru** » Sat May 09, 2009 3:19 pm

hi
that's what happened to me today. i don't use sp-404 very much but today i was in a record shop to listed to some vinyl and after few listen the sp-404 were off. i put it on and the "SP-404" written stay ther without go away. when i put out the CF card everything were ok. but when i put the card again in it was the same thing as before. all the sample in the card went away...s**t...
what really happened?
the card is broken?
peace

balazs · Post by **balazs** » Sat May 09, 2009 3:36 pm

yup, it sounds like the card is fucked. I use those cards for messing around and have fun on the sp, not for a project. I write "DEFECT" on those cards knowing the info saved on it can be lost at any time.

plexxsounds · Post by **plexxsounds** » Sat May 09, 2009 4:14 pm

I'm just curious and have to ask this ellaguru. If you're in a record shop listening to records, what do need your 404 for? I'm just using a turntable and headphones you know

timfromtexas · Post by **timfromtexas** » Sat May 09, 2009 4:37 pm

getting samples off the records without taking them home?

elhuana · Post by **elhuana** » Sat May 09, 2009 6:24 pm

That's right Tim

plexxsounds · Post by **plexxsounds** » Sat May 09, 2009 6:46 pm

As if sampling in it's self wouldn't be stealing enough

I'll take my stolen 404 and break in to a record store at night and sample the shit out of the wax before the police gets there. Then I make beats and upload them to Piratebay.

ellaguru · Post by **ellaguru** » Sat May 09, 2009 8:28 pm

I'm just curious and have to ask this ellaguru. If you're in a record shop listening to records, what do need your 404 for? I'm just using a turntable and headphones you know

ahahah
i was there with the sp-404 to listen to records with because i have my own turntable , the sony ps-j20, wich it has only rca outputs and in this shop they don't have turntable to make you llisten to...it is just a general shop wich sell everything used and also records...
anyway i will try to steal as samples as possible the next time to post after in the sp-forum boys!!

seriuos, wtf happened to the sp-404? i don't use it often, the card is (was?) new and now when i try to sample without card it is written PRT wich , i think from what i remember from sp-303, Protected or something...
...how could this thing happened? how to try to format (or watever) the card? how to make this thing don't happen again in the future? i repeat, the card worked right, until today...

peace

ellaguru · Post by **ellaguru** » Sun May 10, 2009 5:51 pm

i put the card in my card reader and it reads it normally...when i put it inside sp-404 is the same problem as before.
maybe there is an upgrade in roland site i ignore?
peace

ps
how to make disappear the "PRT"?

Dr Van Nostrand · Post by **Dr Van Nostrand** » Sun May 10, 2009 7:13 pm

just gotta get a new card man, that shit is always gonna cause problems, ditch it and find a new one

ellaguru · Post by **ellaguru** » Sun May 10, 2009 8:22 pm

so this s**t happens very often?
anyway i tried to format it with sp-404 but with no success, i will try with the card reader...

E.Simon · Post by **E.Simon** » Sun May 10, 2009 9:13 pm

yes, i think when you format it in your card reader the card will work again if not the card is broke i think.

That thing about taking samples from the record shop and post it on the forum would be nice :p

ellaguru · Post by **ellaguru** » Sun May 10, 2009 10:03 pm

That thing about taking samples from the record shop and post it on the forum would be nice :p

ahah ... maybe the god of copyright has discover me and punish me this way by advertising me like this

JayLost · Post by **JayLost** » Sun May 10, 2009 10:51 pm

all just steal beats that i didnt make and put them up on myspace and call them mine

lolz

JOKE

ellaguru · Post by **ellaguru** » Mon May 11, 2009 7:36 am

ok
i formatted the card with the card reader and the sp-404 not even turned on. So i formatted the card with my mpc 1000 black, the card was succesfully formatted, and the sp-404 accepted this card to be formatted by itself. the problem is that after i tried to sample things on the memory card 1)The sample disappeared after turn on again the sp-404 2)They were badly recorded (not in stereo, half recorded etc). i will try to use this card with the mpc 1000 to see if it really works and i will use another card with the sp-404 to see if it got problems or not.
the card is a Kingston 1gb compact flash.

korakios · Post by **korakios** » Mon May 11, 2009 11:22 am

Try avoiding formatting a flash card with windows...there is a utility from HP which is perfect for formatting flash cards:
http://www.eocfiles.com/bdc86eb1ed2989c ... P27608.exe

it might help...