My first (and last and only) dedicated drum machine. Ya the sounds are a little cheezy.. so thats what post-production and effects are for. Great for 4/4 [beep] music soundtrax! :-)

Please ignore the stupid Ratings on this website. Whoever writes these reviews and rates these classic synths is an ignorant douche. Good musicians don't spend their time rating -- and trashing -- great vintage musical instruments. TR-505 is a great machine, I have used it on many productions.

HELP! my 505 won't let me write patterns anymore. all the midi functions seemed to have disappeared as well (not that i ever knew how to use them). what do i need to replace!?

later on, after the dreams of rock stardom were destroyed by the only guy with any talent moving away to Portland, I would only use the thing through a distortion pedal, or to trigger a D-110 module. The sequencing is great once you get used to the Roland style of building patterns, but the sounds really do [beep] . They bleeped the word S U C K again - how stupid is that?

my 1st drum computer, bought new back in the 80's - I wanted the 909 but my parents couldn't afford that one. I was in high school and had a goth/electro band and programmed beats on the 505 and played a Korg Poly-800 and tried to sing like Peter Murphy. It was a trio - the guitarist sounded like the Cocteau Twins and the bass player was just starting out - like me - so we [beep] ed except for the guitar. I hated the hihat sound on that thing so I just didn't use any hihats, ever, and I always asked the sound guy to put too much reverb on the drum machine. More reverb on the drum machine!