Whats the longest youve ever left your SP404/404sx on for?

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Heat Vision
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Whats the longest youve ever left your SP404/404sx on for?

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Just curious. Sometimes i leave it on for hours and get paranoid about it "burning out" or something.
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haha, longest was when he traveled through TSA. They turned it on when doing bomb checks on it, and when they returned it to me I didn't know they left it on. I planned on making shit on the 12 hour flight or something, but it was on till its batteries died. Quite a while :/ truly boring flight.
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i left my 303 on for over a week. The memory card would erase banks c-d if you turned it off and on, i was working on a long seamless mixtape thing, so yeah a little over a week.
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I leave my 505 and my mpc on for days even weeks!

Good is that the 505 doesn't lose it's it's place when sampling, I just hate when I lose certain fx settings.

And if the power goes out I lose everything I'm workin on in the mpc...got to save first.

My 4 track doesnt like to stay on to long...power supply gets very hot.
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Don't forget that you can set it to sleep mode, which saves the battery...

[FUNC] [7] - then turn contrl until sLp appears.
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^ did not know that, thanks
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i leave mine on forever because sometimes when it bugs out and freezes or even if i switch it off without it freezing, sometimes it does not power back on, then when I turn it off the blue light blinks real fast and looks like its broken, then I try to turn it on again and nothing, then i try and turn it on again and it works finally, so I just leave it on, I know the box pretty well and it likes to play tricks on me.
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i left it on for a day and a half about a week ago. when i played patterns or samples it either didnt play them at all or played sounds i didnt even recognize. turned it off, turned it back on.... everything was fine.
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