MC 808

The MC-808 is agrooveboxintroduced byRolandin 2006. It is the successor to the lateRoland MC-303,Roland MC-307,Roland MC-505andRoland MC-909. Roland first announced the MC-808 at theNAMM Showin January 2006. While less expensive than the Roland MC-909, the MC-808 has a number of features the MC-909 does not, including double thepolyphony(128-voice) and motorized faders. It lacks the MC-909'sSRX cardexpandability and turntable emulation. It supports moreflash memory(1GBCompactFlash,) and moreRAM(up to 512MB,) than did the Roland MC-909. It has a 2-line segment built-inLCDthat is less flexible - similar to the late Roland MC-505, and much smaller than the Roland MC-909 largeLCD screen. It also has a largeLED display, similar to the Roland MC-303. The Roland MC-808 requires aUSB connectionto a computer for fullpatchediting, unlike the Roland MC-909. (However, the OS v1.03 update available on the Roland website allows for some patch editing without a computer, most notably sample chopping, including auto-chop.)