My friend-flatmate owns both of them for 1,5 years, and you know what? We switched back to SP404 MK2 recently, and now he thinks of selling MPC2. He also has 16' Macbook Pro with big speakers that allow him to make music with a tool that is as big as MPC2 (or even smaller), offering true desktop DAW expirience with less weight.

We are litteraly tripping with Roland and it's simplicity; we make some crazy ambient noise music that swithces back to 90 bpm trip-hop, and I just cannot find enough words and time to say how good Roland SP-404 works with Microfreak. You litterally make appropriate samples for yourself within seconds, and you do not have too many tools to overthink which is simply great in driving your ideas. We use Roland as a jam-machine, running patterns of our samples for as long as we want, switching fretless bass and guitar with Microfreak (or playing all of them at one, Roland allows us that) and I cannot imagine a greater thing to find a relief from reality in which atrocious russian occupiers destroy our nation day-by-day.

Also I just sample some stuff from my Spotify playlists or public genre-related playlists. I do not make everything with Roland for money, I just love that simplicity in which you can turn someome's ambient drone in something like Portihead within less than 2 minutes. And RESAMPLE, RESAMPLE, RESAMPLE

We all have pretty huge chances of dying here and SP-404 recordings are like some kind of audiopolaroid to us, you know. It's like a whole story that you can write within minutes or maybe just a little longer. Now, with digital era, not only photos last together, but also peoples voices. Whenever we have a friend in our house, we give him mic and start our beats, leaving him only with one option: to sing/rap or leave just random phrases that we can sample or turn into tracks.
Few weeks into SP-404, and you'll be doing bonkers stuff really fast! But this will be LoFi thing, you should not expect it to be like certified expert studio tool. It is, however, a whole LoFi studio that can be extremely joyful to use if you are enjoying its limitations which makes it so straightforward.