FLIPPING HARD DRUM BREAKS ON SP404 MKII // How to Process Drum Break Vinyl Samples for Your Beats 

Hello Ryan, shortcut for deleting pads from the sequence: hold pattern edit and del button at the same time, select the pads you want to delete and push enter, big time saver you don't have to wait 8 bars. Love your vids !

As a multi-instrumentalist ( guitar , bass, synth, sampler ) and someone who respects music composition, KUDOS / Thanks for giving proper credit to the original artists when you do these tutorials.........Youre the ONLY person I've seen do this in years. 👍🏽❗ Respect for appreciating the original artists.

i discovered kimiko kasai because of this video. so, i did what any normal person would do: went to japan to dig through crates of vintage vinyl. found this exact album in perfect condition and i love it!

This machine is a masterpiece for the price. Sampling is a true art. If done right, it's amazing and saves you so much money and time. Great videos.

Hoping to see more SP404 MK2 videos! Got one awhile ago, but sample based production is so new to me that my SP404 has become an effects unit for my Syntakt and Digitone. Been drawn back to trying to do more sample stuff, but sadly very few people do full beats/tutorials with the SP404, so thanks for this video showing the full process.

Been looking for vids about how to make beats in this style and was about to give up until I stumbled upon this - great vid and thanks for the inspo! 🙏❤

Nice vids man! When you chop a sample you can also press remain (with v.2.0 on) and it will chop it exactly at the closest 0 crossing so you don´t hear the blip :)

Wonderful video. Thanks for the detailed explanations.

Great video! Great tutorial! Thanks!

Thank you for this. Excellent tutorial.

This beats fire that bass slide is filthy 🔥

This video was just the thing I needed! I've been looking into buying the SP-404 MK2 for a hot minute now, but I felt like I was jumping into unknown lands due to all of the shortcuts and the workflow being a bit different compared to other machines. Luckily, there are videos like this that make it clear how to do a thing and what you're doing with the thing. Now I'm 100% certain I'll be buying this thing :)

just traded into a 404, my first sampler, and this was super inspiring. thank you!

Cool stuff. Great beat. 🔥🤗❤

Nicely done.

Dude U got a sweet workflow and that beat has a great organic vibe. Sounds fkn great, the for the great video.

Man, this is good stuff!

I just found your channel. Good tutorials and good energy.

Very informative thanks !

Your facial hair has this magical quality of never seeming to change very much, and yet always being just a little different the next time you see it. Amazing and inspirational channel. Even though I can only directly apply the knowledge from your videos on the akai mpc, I really enjoy watching you work with gear that I'm not familiar with. The SP404 seems like something nice to have in addition to the mpc. The different workflow automatically inspires different ideas and approaches, plus it looks like a much lighter and portable toy to bring along for those long journeys where I end up with the free time to lose my head.

Hello Ryan, nice video and great tips, ;)

Nice beat and video, sir. I can't stop using my mk2 since I got it. Peace.

Dope video once again, will carry over some techniques to my MPC Live 2. Love how the compressor made the drums knock.

Sounds crazy

Brilliant! Thanx for the Vid..

Awesome. Cheers. Lee

“This is the way” 🔊🎶. Artist, dibiasi has a very similar approach. Thank you Ryan for sharing 🙌🏾

“Let’s do it”

Great one!

Good work…👏🏾👏🏾

I only wish I could hear what he was bobbin' to instead of what was playing in the video. That beat broke my brain.

Very good

Hey Ryan I absolutely love your videos and find them very helpful, you’ve really helped me get better at sampling. I’m not sure if you’ve heard of the band tv girl but I was wondering if you are able to figure out the key components of their music because I’ve really wanted to make a similar sound to them but don’t know how, if not that’s fine I just can’t really find anything online about it, keep up the great work and vids!

Dop vid Ryan!

Great vid thx

i have had every version of the sp and sold all of them at one point looks like i maybe getting this one soon

Yo what’s up Ryan! Love your intro man. 😂 I really need to mess w the compression. I usually just layer my drums and eq the second layer a bit lower.

Also ,...Dude you've chopped up Weather Report for you intro music 😲😜.....Outstanding,...I've never heard that. You've got a pretty good ear for a young guy. Wayne Shorter's sax over Zawinul's keys were so distinctive.

I can make 4 bar phrases or ideas pretty well but struggle with turning that idea into a longer piece that isn't just the same thing over and over. For a future video could you go over turning those shorter loops into a stronger and more diverse song?

Nice video

RIP Dozier

YEAH!!!!!

I bet youre loving the 3.0 update features!

Hey Ryan thank you for your video. Thumbs up! What Staton turntable are you using?

Can you make a video using both the Akai MPC One and the Roland SP-404 MKII. Another request would be how to link them together. Great content that is easy to follow! Thank you!

Great video. Thanks for sharing. I do have a question. So I’m currently working with samples (mostly from Splice since I apparently racked up over 4000 samples before canceling, haha) and I find it hard to come up with more than one variation since most of them are just a simple progression. Any tips on how to work with different melodic samples and making them gel with each other?

The most overly complicated machine ever made. I tried to get with it. But there’s just to much. I don’t get why you can’t just record a beat and add what you want without making patterns and deleting patterns then resampling patterns. When I could grab my mpc and do all that in 10 minutes. Not a diss to your video. Well done on that part. You made the most sense outta all the reviews on this crazy thing. If mpc made a product this small and compact and portable I would love to see that. Anyways just a small rant to anyone thinking about gettin one that’s not a genius like me. Or if you just like finger drumming and recording on pads this device isn’t for you either. Mpc can do all this and more and make full songs. For song making I don’t think the sp404 is capable of coming close to mpc. Oh yea I really like mpc lol 😂 good review I’m just not a fan if you can’t tell. But I did want to be. 😢

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You can clearly see by the full beard, sweater and hat that Ryan has just played with the 404 for a month straight since the last video 😅

The sp 404 is the classic revolutionised ...I wonder what the mk3 be like in future

Do you every use your iPad along side the sp404 as was wondering if you can trigger patterns of the iPad onto the Sequencer on the sp404 not many peoples showing this so I’m guessing it’s not that straightforward I’m yet to get my sp so would like to know if I’m using a sequencer externally as I’m not that great a finger drummer

I Hope You’re Doing Amazing ❤❤❤❤

Snare at 17:24 fucking hard bro

nice. try out po33 next i wanna see what u can cook up from that

The Avalanches used the Lamont Dozier break on Since I Left You! :)

Hey Ryan, was the sp404 mk2 easy to learn? I have no musical experience and would love the purchase one for sampling.

Nic3 1n3

Why was the resampled drum break quieter than the original one so that you had to normalize it?

nice video. drums do have a key though. and it's actually quite important in most genres to tune your drums correctly

Video starts at 4:51

Love the beat! Got a question, when working with a pitch shifted melodic sample, how do you get the bass to be in key?

Why is it that whenever I resample onto a new pad the sound becomes quieter? And it seems when I record out of the SP into say Logic or Ableton that it's never hitting 0db

u should sell an online course ;)

One thing I'm looking for is how to auto stretch a loop to fit 16 steps without having to change the tempo or do any beat matching, something so simple yet I don't believe it's possible on the 404mk2. Other samplers do this natively. Basically how to do everything you did without chopping and using the original break.

yo what record player is that?

What stanton model is that?

This man said slowing down the sample reduces sample rate

I thought this was Rochefort lmao

The percussion point about there being no key is a bit misleading. Depending on how you are making/mixing your tracks you might want to make sure your drums actually are tuned to the key of the song. It’ll make the final mix tighter but… that’s if you want that.

I can’t listen to that intonation in his voice, sorry.

Stanton 👎