By Ill-Green
Sun Oct 24, 2021 4:20 pm
An article on the engineers behind the MK2.
https://articles.roland.com/roland-engi ... p-404mkii/
SpectacularCommodity1776 wrote:the SP 404 has to be one of the most successful scams in music gear of all time. it honestly blows my mind how many people have been tricked into thinking the SP 404 is a useful piece of gear. I've even seen listings for these silly toys that are in the same price range as an MPC. I'm honestly convinced this whole "lo fi" wave online was at least partially started by roland people to sell old stock on used markets and eventually get people to buy more toys like the MKII. that's the reasoning people use to justify buying SP 404s, right? that it has a cool "lo fi" sound or whatever? regardless, seeing people get excited over this is downright depressing to me. I really hope at least have of the people in this thread are secretly working for roland and aren't genuinely unwittingly perpetuating a scam.