Boss SP 505

Category: Products / samplers / roland samplers
Added: 17-May-02 | Author: admin
New price: $495 | S/H price: Not listed
Company Link: BOSS
Company Link: roland
Boss SP 505
The Boss SP 505... and now I just got one!Jesus where to start, well, it's so new to me I'm still figuring shit out. I'm basically comparing it to our current sampler, the electribe ES-1. Here are the huge pro's, for me at least: NON-global delay (unlike Mr.ES-1), graphical waveform editing on a huge gameboy-like display, it does real loops (unlike ES-1)um...well let me talk about the cons b/c this is what SUCKs:
RCA analog in/out's (minor pain), no MIDI thru (kind of fucks up the MIDI chain in our live setup, have to use the thru box, yay), um, and it doens't have a dedicated mute/solo button for individual samples. I guess I'm looking at this from a live-useage perspective so that may not be a big deal to other people.
It does have a 4-part sequencer controlled by 4 buttons that could serve as mutes...but I dunno. Everything feels a bit out of my immediate control at the moment...too many screens and things to push. Prob. just cuz it's new to me. But no dedicated mute for each part? C'mon, I must be missing something (I hope).
One MAJOR SUCKY THING: The pads, while they are big, aren't EVEN as responsive as say, a typical mid-80's drum machine! Like, you try doing some two-finger snare rolls and you'll see- it will miss notes!!! I can get 1/32 notes w/ one finger but I can hardly get 1/16ths with 2 fingers! Again, maybe that doens't matter to most ppl but for me, it's kinda critical. The control over the quantize is great tho- and w/out any quantize it records at 1/96 resolution. Yes, we can now break out of 16 steps and actaully make some beats!
Basically I think it's better than the ES-1, but I'm keeping the fucking receipt till I'm convinced I could actually make it work as well as the ES-1...
Anybody else messed w/ one of these? $495 new...
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Product: Boss - SP 505
Name: Biff
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fartstrings r us
Activity: Hobby-ist
Date: 09-Oct-02
Easy to use, can give you the blues
when BPM sinc, gets on your nerves that you can't think.
still getting to no one and other.
hate the plastic casing
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