Before th MPCz, anyone remember the Roland SP-808?

Does anyone remember the SP-808 sampler? Do you remeber if it had a sequencer on it? If it did, why did it fall off? Noone is talkig about it anymore...

casue its just a drum machine no sampler. it is talked about and used alot still. alot of hip hop and dance music still use 808s.
http://www.vintagesynth.org/roland/808.shtml
it is all presets. and its just a drum kit. i would just get an mpc and get one of the thousand free 808 kits from online. including www.akaipro.com site.

u should get a mpc, which has a sampler, and a good sequncer, and then get a keyboard or synth. The alesis micron is pretty cool and is not that expensive.
http://www.zzounds.com/item--ALEMICRON?trk=smx
get a cheap mixer like a berhinger and some monitors and u got a good little setup. i see u with all these posts for diff gear but i think u should just start with a 1000 and go from there according to what ur needs become.

I think we are talking about a different piece of gear. The Roland SP-808 is not a drum machine, it's a sampler with audio recording. But I don't know if it has a sequencer because it don't say.. I don't want to assume at this point. You can get this thing on the street for less than $500, and if it don't have a sequencer then you can get something to midi it up..If this is so then I would hold off on the MPC1K because it would be pointless.. I post alot because I am going over seas for 6 months and I want to make sure I am ahead of the game and this site offers alot of insight. I think it's one of the Producer Headquarters. Thankx for always giving me a good Word though.

my bad, ur right. i saw 808 and i just skimmed it. nah the roland is aight, but the mpc is hands down the best sequncer i have used. its real comfortable and easy to use. if u have the dough though go with the 2000xl. for the money i think its the best mpc around. the sampler isnt that bad and the sequncer is perfect.

The Roland Sp-808 does not have a good sequencer feature at all. I would have to hook a Roland MC-307 up to it then control the pads via midi. I only use this combination because it allows me to get a little more audio out of it(100MB Zip Disk), and the sounds from the MC-307, make a perfect cheap "MPC"...I have money, but I like to get the most out of it. But I still agree with you..MPC obviously has a strong engine. Once you begin to expand and load sounds to it, there is no need to put the MPC down. Thankx

the sp 808 is great for live situations.
it has a lot of samplin time
nice effect wich you can sample through
a 4 track recorder built in
and a very easy user interface.
its not really built to be midi controlled and it doesnt shine in that function.
its a great loop sampler and a great way to add a live feel to the show.
i think the delays are great on that machine.
its more comparable to a su700 then an mpc.
peace

your better off with an su700.. the sp808 streams its samples from zip disk, not from ram. how wonderful, not.... i dont like the sounds of that at all.

its a piece of garbage, first thing i bought when i got back into making music, thought it was a shortcut to really getting an mpc.

SP808 is only good for phrase sampling. I bought that sh*t thinking it was better than the MPC. Onboard efx and all. To my disappointment that sh*t was garbage. It had no internal memory and read everything directly from the Zip disk. If you tried to bang out a beat on the pads while recording the sh*t would freeze because it couldn't keep up. I had to step record every beat but if there was a lot of 16th notes it wouldn't read them all the time. It was good for resampling though. I ended up having to midi and record a drum sequence from my Dr Rhythm as a phrase and f*ck wit it from there. There are no sequences. However you could record a "sequence" and resample it to a pad so you basically could have all your sequences stored on pads. On top of that it only has 4 tracks so you had to constantly keep bouncing tracks. If you recorded a full song with vocals it would take up most of your Zip space. I bought it for I think $1200 and couldn't sell that sh*t for more than $400. It didn't even have the eight outs either. Good for live gigs though

first thing i bought too when i got into this shit... made some dope beats with it but it wasnt easy... more of a phrase sampler for dance music. It was very hard to trigger one shots. NOT A GOOD INVESTMENT...( but the lights and colors were cool!@1)

yeah i still have one.
it kinda sucks.
you can't make drum patterns like on the mpc.
the pads are not velocity sensitive, which is horrible.
the effects are ok. i sometimes run my mpc through it,
but they are nothing to write home about.
and it saves in some wierd roland format,
so then u have to convert those files to wav file on your computer.
i did not know what i was doing when i bought that.
i wasted a good 2 years on it when i could have gotten an mpc.


so it is a great machine, i have one for sale for like a grand.

it can resample with effects tho i think...still to much space wise to have in a studio for that alone.

just bought one for $360... traded it like 3 days later for a mackie cr1604vlz... i think it was a good deal...

damn...360 for one of those. ouch.

i can hook u up for ike 1500.00 a steal of a price.