![]() ![]() Switching between 10 pad banks multiplies the number of samples that can be accessed to 160, with 32 stored in internal memory and the rest carried on an optional Compact Flash card plugged into a slot on the front edge of the machine. Each of the 16 large, numbered, velocity-sensitive pads plays a single mono or stereo sample. The SP555's primary sound generator is its sampler, which is controlled from a matrix of buttons at the right-hand side of the front panel. Despite jettisoning the family zero, the new SP555 otherwise follows very much in the footsteps of its forebears, providing the usual sampling, effects and sequencing functions, as well as chucking in a few nice little extras such as an infra-red D-Beam controlled synth/filter and a nifty on-the-fly Loop Capture facility. ![]() ![]() The world is not short of sampling sequencers at the moment, so what does the Roland SP555 have to make it worthy of your attention?Įver since the SP202, the Roland/Boss SP range of workstations have been increasing the fun-factor of sampling by combining it with madcap effects, real-time controls, friendly pattern-sequencing and (not least) loads of pretty flashing lights.
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