** It was my junior year in high school 1998-1999 when I first got a Roland MC-505. **I bought it while on vacation in the US, but it failed to do what I wanted it to do. I wanted to make Mowax, Portishead type music. I had no idea what tools I actually needed to make this music. 2000 is when I got a cracked copy of Sonic Foundry’s Acid. Although it’s rudimentary, it was helpful in achieving this sound I wanted. Acid does almost nothing compared to today's DAWs but just the simple fact that it could sample music and I could use WAV files means that I was able to achieve the more organic sounds you hear in trip-hop, just by sampling the actual records themselves.

The good old 505! Now just.. Now part of the Tenishia studios decoration!

In this article there is a complete description of Butch's studio equipment. The Roland MC 505 is vital part of it. For more information regarding this product check out the website!

Persing is the founder of Spectrasonics, a company specializing in developing World Class software 'virtual instruments' since 1994. He has produced dozens of the sampling industry's top selling titles and gone on to create the award-winning Omnisphere, Keyscape, Stylus RMX, Trilian, Atmosphere and Trilogy software virtual instruments. Eric's ground-breaking instruments and sound libraries are the best selling and most widely used in the world. Spectrasonics products are in constant use on thousands of major film, television, music, game and multimedia productions.

In addition to being the Creative Director of Spectrasonics, Eric was a longtime consultant and the Chief Sound Designer for Roland Corporation Japan from 1984-2005, creating the key sounds for many popular Roland synthesizers, samplers, CD-ROMs, expansion boards, processors and groove devices - from the vintage Jupiter and JX series, to the legendary D-50, D-70, JD-800/990, R8, S-series samplers, JV-880/1080/2080, the Sound Canvas, JP-8000/8080, MC-505/909, The V-Drums, XV-5080, Fantom series, the V-Synth and many more.

Devi is seen using the 505 throughout this YouTube video documenting the recording of the Black Dresses remix of 100 gecs' 745 sticky: https://youtu.be/kiqMJJczsEo She also uses it throughout this YouTube video, starting at 0:19: https://youtu.be/6sMwfeK93IY

Devi also mentioned her MC-505 in this tweet: https://twitter.com/dei_genetrix/status/1351181309037727746?t=g5vbB1MpaAbGRd6kW8UntA&s=19 In another tweet, she refers to the Girls Rituals album "EMERGENCY!" and the album "3" (released under her Mom alias, see sources further down for confirmation) as possibly <some of the last records EVER to have songs completely composed on an original run MC505... especially since mine has quickly degraded beyond being able to do small live synths parts with : https://twitter.com/dei_genetrix/status/1245049007589777410?t=LqQZEb-Eq8s5QXbIa3JI_w&s=19

Girls Rituals and blacksquares are both Devi McCallion's aliases, and are listed as such on RateYourMusic: https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/devi-mccallion Girls Rituals and Devi McCallion releases are both present on the official blacksquares Bandcamp: blacksquares.bandcamp.com

In this Instagram picture, Monolithic can be seen with a Roland MC-505 Groovebox.

Frank Klepacki confirmed his use of the Roland MC-505 Groovebox through a comment made under his Reddit username, rocktronic, during an AMA session where he introduced himself as the Audio Director, Composer, and Sound Designer for Petroglyph, known for his work on the Command & Conquer series and the track "Hell March," and mentioned his current project, End of Nations.

Roland MC-505 used to be in A21 live rig around 2012.

Per her own bio on Bandcamp:

"She made pop songs inspired by the sounds of Brittany Spears and Rihanna while surrounded by “punk-er” friends in Maryland, bought an MC 505 to emulate the sound of MIA"