Roland Octapad II

Like its predecessor, the Octapad II offers eight velocity-responsive pads in a sleek, compact unit with LED window and control buttons positioned to the right of the pads. The most annoying aspect of the original Octapad was its modest complement of four patches, which really didn't do justice to the many possibilities it offered. In contrast, Roland's new Octapad offers 64 patch memories (organised as 8X8) and eight patch-chain memories. A further 64 patches can be stored on a plug-in RAM card (M128D). You can switch between internal and card memories by pressing the Card button. Additionally, all data or individual patches can be transferred between internal and card memories. Similarly you can dump and load all or individual patches via MIDI SysEx.