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.

Suburb Animal

January 27, 2011 @ 7:20 am

I also had the problem with the died LCD
I bought one from stressfx@comcast.net for 50$ and I got it a week after.
I just replaced after 5 years of ignoring this sweet machine i'm rediscovering it.

Suburb Animal

January 27, 2011 @ 7:19 am

My first machine. I paid it 200€ in 2002 it was really cheap for it.
I discovered everything about analog synthesis with it.Quite comprehensive machine.
It's really easy to use and learn.The manual is only useful for some complex setups.

I used to couple it with a Akai S3200XL,a Promix 01 and some guitar fx pedalsl to get more analog feel it was awesome.

I can't believe it still that cheap. 64 voices of polyphony, 4 possible per note in each 8 track, so many waveforms, so much knobs!!! Maybe I'm adventurous but I can compare it to a Nord Lead 2 for a third of the price.

Miha

January 24, 2011 @ 6:49 pm

Good news guys, I just installed a replacement lcd today from Rightkeyrepair and it works brilliant, cost me 50$ or so. At first, they sent me a non working one, after I sent it back, they sent me another one, which is working well. My 505 was "dead" for past 5 years, so I am so happy to get it back :)

Sesifredo

January 18, 2011 @ 8:51 am

my lCD die too, try stressfx@comcast.net!
:)

Jakob

January 6, 2011 @ 7:30 am

Talking about the display-bug - the display on my 505 just died :o(. Does anyone know where to get a new display for replacement ?
I'm pretty confident I can replace it myself sp I just need the spare part

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