Hardware Samplers products for your home recording studio

Flagship Features The Roland MC-808 shares two key attributes with its predecessor, the flagship MC-909: The same sampling and sequencing features that made the MC-909 so famous are built into the MC-808, making it a quality tool for sampling, editing, track building, and mixing. The most remarkable features on the Groovebox though are the motorized faders!

Motorized Faders Motorized faders on an affordable groovebox?! You're not dreaming. The MC-808 is the world's first groovebox with this feature! Sure, the motorized faders look cool, but they also provide serious power for live performers. No matter what pattern you call up, the faders will snap to the proper position. As a result, the parameter values and position of the faders always correspond, allowing you to see the values instantly and make changes directly. No more unexpected jumps in values when you grab a fader in mid-performance. It's always in the right position. Plus, from the fader movements you can see automations such as filter, pan, and part levels changes. If you want to cancel and control the faders manually, simply move the touch-sensitive faders.

New Sounds & Patterns The MC-808's internal sounds and patterns have been created fresh by top international artists. These slammin' new dance and hip-hop grooves are instantly ready for primetime, but playing and manipulating the internal patterns is only half the fun. The MC-808 allows any sounds to be sampled, edited, and added to the song. WAV and AIF files can also be imported from computer via USB.

Sound Editing Software The Roland MC-808 ships with a free Mac/PC (Mac OS X, Win XP/2000) editor for serious sample and patch editing and part mixing tasks on the luxury of a large computer monitor, and for shuttling the files effortlessly back and forth via USB.

Roland MC-808 Sampling Groovebox Features:8 motorized faders — a groovebox first!

Same powerful sampling & sequencing features as MC-909
Brand new sounds and patterns
128-voice polyphony
CompactFlash slot for memory backup
USB for storage and AIF/WAV file import and export
16-step pad bank, D Beam controller
Editor software included (PC/Mac)