The BOSS SP-505 Groove Sampling Workstation/SP-505 is a sampling
workstation made by
Boss Corporation, which is a division of
Roland Corporation. The
digital sampler is part of the SP family and was released in the year of 2002, as a follow-up to Roland’s
SP-303 installment. Ironically, both the 303 and 505 installments were succeeded by the release of Roland's
SP-404 in the year of 2005.[1][2][3][4][5]
Features
SP Lineage
The following list is a correct order of each SP installment's release, as an attempt to help musicians avoid any confusion.
Having the traditional features of the Roland & Boss Grooveboxes, the 505 has the ability to record audio directly via line/mic, or import/export industry-standard WAV and AIF files via
SmartMedia card.
The SP-505’s
internal memory provides over two minutes of CD-quality mono sampling, which can be expanded to over one hour using an optional 128MB SmartMedia card. The Smartmedia cards range from 8Mb to 128Mb.
The interface design of the sampler consists of 16 large pads, and three control knobs. This design is now traditional to SP installments, with individual distinctions throughout installments.
There are 64 onboard tones with drums, bass, keyboard, and also synth sounds.
29 effects like
tape echo, isolator and vinyl simulator, that can be extensively utilized by resampling and realtime control.