MC 505

TheRolandMC-505 is agrooveboxconceived in 1998 as a combination of aMIDI controller, amusic sequencer, adrum machine, and a desktop synthesizer with many synthesis features: arpeggiator, oscillators, and voltage-controlled filter, control of attack, decay, sustain and release, different envelopes and 2 LFOs. It was released as the successor to theRoland MC-303and is functionally related to the later-releasedRoland JX-305Groovesynth, which added a 61-key full-sized keyboard but which lacked the MC-505's Megamix and D-Beam hardware and functionality. TheRolandMC-505 is also the predecessor to theRoland D2,Roland MC-307,Roland MC-909and theRoland MC-808.