Holy hot damn!!!!! Man your tutorials are absolutely the best on RU-vid I'm so glad to have found your channel. how you explain everything just clicks with me - absolute master
Dude this is like my favorite SP 404 MK2 video so dope I also loved your mixtape video. I can't comprehend how you remember all those songs sooo dope! Keep up the great work!
Wow so I used my SP-303 for like 20 years just making samples live from vinyl since I had only a 16mb card. Finally decided I'll upgrade. can't be that much different right? man what a machine!
I'm honestly shocked, I've looked at the MK2 for so long, watched a bunch of videos on it, but never caught that it had amp sim until you mentioned it in this very video; crazy that it does, when the significantly more expensive and powerful Akai MPC Live 2 doesn't! I've written to Akai regarding this before, and they ain't done shit about it, so that's a huge win for the 404, enjoy that!
Took me by surprise, I’ve used a lot of amp sims in the past that were not very convincing - this turned out to be one that is on point, esp when you add it’s reverb or tape echo or vinyl sim to it.
i haven't had an sp since the 202 and after seeing the constant upgrades and features added to this new 404mk2, i had to get one. since i went with a mac studio over a macbook on my upgrade this year i felt the 404 was gonna be the perfect solution to having something portable and immediate....just struggling with getting my samples to lock in time for longer passages but its still so much fun. the guitar preamp is a plus. i like to send a fender twin through the cloud delay and just rub or scrape my strings for sound fx's to resample.
I love your joyful disposition in making music! Awesome closeups of the screen on the new unit. Not many RU-vidrs are putting the camera close enough to really see what's going on there. Thank you for the video!
Duuuude filming this thing was a fresh challenge - you gotta get the lighting just right so the screen is clear and not reflecting orover exposed. Thanks for checking out the vid, cheers!
This is honestly the best 404mk2 vid I’ve seen yet.. you explain things quickly and easily and it’s done in a very musical way.. I wasn’t so hot on this device until I found your video. Ty!
@@Nonjuror Man it keeps blowing my mind as I keep researching about it. Btw have you tried it outside yet to see how well the screen is under the sun. Probably a dumb question because you can just go and try to find some shade lol
Haha I haven’t been so bold to take it outdoors yet, need a case like the deck saver one for the 404a…I’m in Hamburg n this time of year sunshine isn’t much of a problem this far north…
Thanks a tonne man, appreciate you! I was hoping I was gonna see a JFilt breakdown on this thing today…ain’t no beat making culture on youtube without the VSB foundation. Cheers!
@@Nonjuror I just preordered mine :} There isnt a manual for download yet, i wanted to find out about the connections.. Do you have any idea if those 6,3 klinke outputs/inputs are symmetrical or not? I need to get some cables too, question is which ones. (pls pls let there be symmetrical outputs!!)
The fact that you can simply pan samples in the 404 now is huge for me. I was using a external mixer with my sample sources just to pan! I’m not going to know what to do with all the extra desk space now
Haha thanks a lot! The 202 was my first SP so it’s always what I instinctively compare them all to. They nailed pitch on the Mk2 - it goes down to 50%, the 202 goes to 80%. I need to experiment with the lofi effect on the Mk2 to see how close I can get to those 202 sampling rates sound! Cheers!
Hi bro. I’m about to buy one of this but I still have a question: can I record from an external source while using the pattern sequencer? I’d really like to record my scratching during sessions. If not, do I have another option to get this done? Mad props and much love brotha!
Hey man, yep yep. I do it with bass / guitar a lot. The pattern is playing and you’ve got your deck connected to the line in, you can have it record the line in to a pad while the beat plays. You’ve then got just your scratching recorded to that pad. Cheers!
bro that glass at the end has scared the shit out of me in the airpods for the second time. i wasn’t looking at the screen when i was listening at the end hahah 😆🤦🏽♂️
Yep, blew me away. You can chop a stereo sample, copy n paste all the chops, pan one left, the other right and use one for the A section and the other for the B section.
Awesome video. Really want to produce my own intro music for my videos. So I can build up an audio track on the Roland, are you recording the final track from the audio outs into an audio interface on your computer or into an audio recorder?
This is so sick man - will this allow us to combine the recordings of the line in whilst there is a beat already playing on another pad (the way the 303 did)? to combine/record both onto a new pad? Hope that made sense thanks!
I hope you all get this notification - you can indeed 303 style resample to a pad while recording audio thru the ext source onto the same pad. Also, while resampling a pattern to a pad too.
Hahaha I’ve recorded a lot of guitar solos into the 404a just jamming to a metronome on my phone hoping I’ll be able to use the force to line it up later…
I was able to find a used but basically brand new MKII from a beat maker in my area in the midst of this long stretched production delay. It’s easily one of my favorite pieces of hardware.
Thanks man! Yeah, yesterday I burnt thru my phone battery twice trying to keep up replying to everyone’s questions…was a crazy day. Just glad to be able to talk about it and hear what others like Dibi are doing with it now. Appreciate the beer, cheers my dude! 🍺🍺🍺🍺
One of the better videos if not the best on this topic 🙌 You have a new subcriber! The question is, do you think this is a good device for beginners in sampling and pure sampling of vinyl as well throwing rhymes out of enjoying nothing professional?
Thanks a lot, much appreciated! Definitely a good device for a beginner, it does a lot so the learning curve is a thing but you’re gonna learn a lot about how all production gear works by getting to know it. It samples very transparently, so sampling vinyl is perfect coz it preserves that warmth n grit. Probably wouldn’t record verses on it tho if that’s what you’re looking to do, you could if you can nail a full take I guess but it’s not like working in a DAW… cheers man! 🍺🍺🍺🍺
