SP404 Mk2 Is Really Neat! 

Thanks man! Definitely looking forward to learning more, especially with the effects and busses and stuff

@@DylanParisMusic Literally just picked mine up yesterday and its definitely a lot of fun sampling and outputting new creative feels to the tracks you wouldn't have tried otherwise

@@DylanParisMusicbjammin has a lot of useful videos on his page

Mpc one is 👑

Right??

Thanks man! I was actually pretty happy with it too, I was in a bad mood this morning so I figured it would end up bad haha. And hopefully they fix the bugs. I can definitely understand running into a wall with this vs an MPC or the push 3 for example. I do like how deliberate I have to be when I use it. I’ll also give that resemble method a shot, that sounds super helpful. I was using skip back a bit like that early on but I don’t think you can lock skip back into set bar lengths

Godspeed GeorgeL909, may your vengeance be just 😎🙌🫡

@@DylanParisMusic this was a great watch. You'll get the hang of the weird 404 flow, I've seen you use much more complicated stuff, but it is a bit chunky. One thing I do that helps make things faster is I don't trim my loops perfectly, I just make sure there's at least one note at the beginning of the loop (you can get rid of it with an envelope later). Then I put the loop on the first step of an 8bar pattern and it will cut off perfectly after 8 bars. That's how I build songs without worrying much about loop lengths. The real magic for me was resampling. It's so fast and easy to resample with fx, and it makes the 404 feel like a synthesizer. For example: I made an 8-bar Rhodes loop on the mc101 and sampled it. Then- cloud delay, reverb, then chromatic pitch shifter and, reverse, and vinyl sim, and it's suddenly a warbly spacey pad. Same Rhodes loop pitched down 12 semitonea with distortion, Juno chorus, overdrive, and cassette sim resampling and in a minute you can have this heavy doom metal sounding guitar. Drench that in reverb and use the filter live while resampling and you can get an industrial horror drone out of it. I think you're doing it right man! I didn't think I'd enjoy working with the 404 as much as I did, and even if you don't wanna build full songs on it, it still does the whole chop a vinyl sample and play drums over it thing pretty well.

The sx reverb is so beautiful as an efx. I love the isolator as well.

Thank you!

That would be sick! Would also love if the looper could do 8 bars, 4 feels too limited but I’m still glad they added that

@@DylanParisMusic for sure!

Heck yeah!

Good to know! Fingers crossed they iron them out quick

Sounds like the new update is the common variable, hopefully they fix the bugs soon!

Super understandable! Also definitely excited about the digitakt 2, waiting to have one here someday too

Keep the sp404 for efx alone. They match well with the digitakt. I’m getting the digitakt 2 too 😂. The pattern seq on the sp404 is still so weird for to get into. But I do use it to record samples. And the app is handy in Ableton to drag and drop samples. But once I get the tr rec under control it’ll be handier. But I agree it’s not at all intuitive. Like press pattern, remain, record, sub, record , etc etc really?

@@wakinglife7065 lol exactly

I hated the Digitakt

@@Lorneplumber- funny how everyone is different. I love the DT, it got me into more of the Elektron range.