An all in one techno music production studio, this machine has it all. A massive collection of professional and coveted electronic synth and drum sounds, effects, built-in real-time VCF and envelope knobs for tweaking, a sequencer/arranger, and many other great additions. This is the successor to the MC-303 and is now much more advanced. Its sounds will be familiar to any techno-head.

The LFO and resonant filters allow quick and easy sound manipulation. The new D-Beam allows you to randomly tweak your sounds by passing your hand over an infrared beam! It has a great sequencer for building your songs (with groove quantizing and part level faders for mixing) as well as many idea catchers like the phrase sampler and arpeggiator.

This is an all-in-one music machine that's great for DJ's or anybody else who wants to create slamming dance tracks. Designed as a stand alone machine, they do not work quite as well when incorporated into a multi-synth keyboard rig. It's perfect for beginners and advanced users, but offers the most possibility to those who will use it exclusively. By the way, in comparison to the MC-303, this is far better especially in the quality and quantity of sounds! It is used by Beck, Chicks On Speed, Peaches, Freddy Fresh, and Cibo Matto.

dan

November 28, 2012 @ 9:27 pm

i use all hardware in my rig. roland mc 505, mc 303, microkorg, roland mc 909 all synched together via midi (with the help of midi solutions event processor). i replaced the lcd screen with a blue one off ebay. there is a learning curve, but with the motivation you can conquer it. you do have to tweak the sounds to make it sound unique (ex: cutoff/resonance/envelope/fxm/pitch mod/panning/lfo/effects/etc.) before the 909 came into the picture the 505 was the power machine for my recordings. it's got some bad bugs for recording:

Twiek

November 9, 2012 @ 4:43 am

I don't understand why nobody speaks about how the filters sound. I'd love the Machine to the fullest, it has great sounds (if you program them), but those filters sound [beep] ty is as hell. Compared to the Sound of the MC 303, 505's tweaks sound sh*tty. Sorry :)

jayfonics

August 29, 2012 @ 11:31 am

the mc 505 is a great machine point blank! if your a preset hoe you will not like it ....but if your a tweek head you will like it. if you hate on this machine its only because you have no imagination and no skills at programing... great sounds... just one LFO alot on knobs for creating your own sounds midi in and our 3 stereo outs in the back midi sync to mostly any daw..protools fl studio ..etc good grooveboxx help pay my bills ..classic machine to me ...peace!

Darrin

August 17, 2012 @ 9:00 am

I bought one of these when they came out to replace my 303 which had been stolen. I just emailed a bunch of places to replace the LCD which has a row of dead pixels. Other than that, it's been a super trooper for me since the millenium. Go Groovbox! (uh, these patches will become retro-cool at some point, right?)

G-Love

August 5, 2012 @ 3:45 am

You know, I think its a freakin' shame what some of these people on Ebay are asking for this thing. RIDICULOUS!!!

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