Absolutely wicked review. Very relevant, all I could ask for really! I've just bought one of these B-stock from BOP and currently waiting on its arrival.
@@EverettDudgeon138 Auch! That's pretty bad, it kind of kills a lot of potential! Anyway, I ordered one yesterday, 800 euros is still a great price for a complete drum workstation like this one.
Yes it has! It’s now my main drum sequencer. I used it a fair bit for sample manipulation when I first got it but the onboard effects just didn’t cut it. It was fun exploring ways to get my desired sound and ending up with something completely different though. But in the real world of making and finishing tracks its best feature is the sequencer. It’s so quick to program drum breaks and the 4 outs give me a mono kick, mono clap/snare and stereo precision to record into the DAW with the kick and snare having the DSI filter and drive it I want it
This is a cool vid, nice to see the SP16 in action using it in a way I may use it (if I had one). Are you really going to replace the Digitakt? Or do you have something in mind to use the two machines together? Gonna look through your other vids now.
@@ThesisOfSyn Yeah, I can see from the vid how it offers a bit more. I use the Digitakt for all my sequencing so for that it's basically irreplaceable at the mo. I've heard the SP16 isn't that great as a sequencer for other gear. Well, I'll find it out soon as I came across a good deal on used one yesterday! I'm hoping the two machines will somehow work well together...
yo Bredda .... Great vid by the way ... so I'm thinking of getting Toraiz ,but i just need to know if it's possible to make 8 bar loops , going by the photos i can only see button for 4 bars ? I there a way to create 8 bar drum patterns ?
Hi mate, the only way i get around doing 8 bar loops is by halving the bpm meaning you have effectively an 8 step sequence instead of a 16 step one. Not ideal i know
@@flavatech5938 that’s a hard one. The sp has the prophet 6 drive which sounds great however the mpc has much better effects and those vintage emulation plugins. For precision I’d say the mpc.
I didnt get on with the octatrack. The workflow was really confusing and it was so easy to just delete everything by mistake. The SP16 is so straight forward and basic. It has its quirks but still it was easy and quick to learn with no funny suprises
Have you got the SP-16 clocked to a DAW? Just got one and it’s not synching with Logic X, which is pretty annoying! Did you experience any synching issues?
Yes it synced up straight away both via DIN to the mpc and usb to logic/protools/Ableton . Do you have the correct midi settings on the sp for it? Go to settings>midi in and pick usb as the clock source
@@ThesisOfSyn thanks. Got the settings right. Which OS are you on? So far Pioneer “can’t replicate the issue” but they’re on El Capitan with Logic 10.2.4!
@@ThesisOfSyn yep. It’s totally out of synch. I can just about get it close enough for jazz with a twenty odd ms delay but as soon as logics cycle loops back to zero it’s done for. I guess it’s something dodgy in the firmware. I’ll try installing 1.6 again and if that doesn’t fix it I’ll have to return it. 😏
Hey, so i use the sp16 clocked to the MPC so the sequencer runs in sync with the MPC. The MPC takes care of all the midi note information for the synths too. Im using the SP16 as more of a sketch pad for drum programming while the MPC is more of a centre piece for the hardware
@@Saint_Grial yea man it’s more about flavours. The workflow is like a simplified mpc with a Roland step sequencer with basic Elektron trig conditions....and a prophet filter.....with drive..
