Hello,

Just received a Roland SP-404, and I am having the worst time getting it to work properly with the compact flash drive I bought for it. It is a SanDisk 1 Gig compact flash.

When I first started recording samples onto the memory card, it was working ok, but then noticed that sometimes when I recorded, it would do this weird fuzzy tremolo/pan effect that did not sound good. After working on recording samples for 10 minutes, and on only one back, then SP-404 said that my card was full (I was NOT recording a symphony, just drum hits). Afterwards, it crashed.

Now my sampler is fully functioning when I don't have the flash drive in, but now it won't even respond. It just says "404" on the screen and does not respond to any button pressed.

I know when I first put the card in I formatted it, and than i tried to reformat it after all this, but my machine is not letting me.

Anyone got any advice that I could use? I want to work this thing so bad, but the powers that be are not letting me

If the sampler is fully functioning when the CF card is removed, the issue is probably with the compact flash cards. Sometimes certian ones don't work, for mysterious reasons. Just try a different CF card.

K, thanks. What recommendations would you have for a compact flash drive? The one I bought was brand new and I thought sandisk would be a reliable brand...