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Hit shift and the value knob to switch between the looper and skip back. Saves some time for you. Great video man.

Thank you for the video. Very helpful. I got SP-404 recently, and you cover quite a lot of useful features here.

Soooo glad I came upon this channel. Had my SP MK2 when it first came out and just played with the factory stuff. I am now blowing off the dust and I thank you for that. This is the best video by far that I have seen for beginners of this great music tool. You have earned my sub bro. Got you on alert and I can't wait for the next one. Thanks so much for sharing the knowledge.

Sick!!!! My SP will be here tomorrow so I'm gonna be rewatching this all day lol Thanks for this! Glad i found your page

This was very helpful as i wasnt really sure how to use the new updates features. Ive always stuggled to find good bass samples so its amazing that they included the feature to create my own. Thanks so much!

This is a great video! I would say it’s great for intermediate users as there is definitely a beginner and advanced way of using it!!but once you get to know the machine, you’ll find its amazing with what it can do

Thanks for making the video, I appreciate this. I won't forget this. 🙌🏾🙏🏾

mad useful as per usual. Thanks a ton for the content man.

The envelope to get rid of the pop was such a good one. Been using the 404 for years now and still learn something new every day

Great video! Was easy to sub to your channel. Straight forward and entertaining at the same time.

I’m super new to the sp. ao this is exactly what I was looking for. I just have to learn all these copying and pasting sounds and patterns or samples. I’ll be watching this a few more times. Thank you.

Wow , excellent , thnks and i subscribe , more sp 404 videos !interesting work flow .

this video is next level AMAZING

Thanks so much!!!! Very informative!

Thanks youtubers!!! The absolutely best thing about the SP 404 MK2 is it has a ton of tutorials on RU-vid!!! Feel my pain, I'm old school and have spent at least $5,000 on music equipment in my life BUT didn't have the time or desire or videos to learn most of my equipment. The 2nd best thing is the MK2 can do almost everything you want it to do... If you have a sampler that can't time stretch, YOU don't have a complete sampler!! They hooked up with Koala sampler and have stems now... Thanks ZEALE!! Tight tutorial!!! My favorite samplers of all time were MPC 1000 and Korg ESX-1. Actually, the MK2 can do way more than both of them. The MK2 is a all in one sampling workstation. I'm speaking to Roland now, the MPC 1000 16 levels is superior to the chromatic mode on MK2 to make original beats. Please fix that!!! All you need is samples or a cheap keyboard. I have the Korg Kross 2 and between those 2, I can make anything!!!! I'm still not there but learning more and more. I love music, that's why I'm in the game!!!!

Great video. Awesome workflow. Best complete workflow from start to finish on how to make a complete song. Finally someone did it! 🙏🏽👍🏽✊🏽✌🏽

Great Review. I am serious. This is how i do it... I take my Zoom Q2-HD-Recorder with an 32GB-SD-Card. I take a walk through my appartment with a Drumstick...and sample everything i can see...short or long - how i like -. Then i flush my Toilette and sample it for an insane Dubstep-Beat. After about one Hour i go for a walk again...its a SUNNY DAY...with my Zoom Q2-HD(24bit, 96Khz highest Resolution). I walk around anywhere in my troubled but beautiful Hometown Berlin in Germany - just for ONE HOUR...so 2 Hours of my Life....while the REST OF THE Beatmaking WORLD is watching Sampling Tutorials. Back Home i put my SD-Card in my Windows-Tower-PC and transfer the 2 Files on my Desktop. Then i open up Cubase and import 2 Hours of sampling. That means (if i had 2 hours of One-Shot-Samples) about 30 Samples per Minute (actually MORE, but lets say at least 30), so thats 1.800 One-Shots per Hour...but i sampled TWO hours (at home and outside), so i got about 3.600 One-Shots in 2 hours - original Samples, MY OWN SAMPLES - for FREE.🤔🤫 I can turn them into ANY Instrument or Drumsound i want...just with a Basic Cubase Element-Version... So i ZOOM IN to my first 1 Hour of 1.800 Samples and take some time to chop them up the way i want or i let Cubase do it - with a few Clicks with my Computer Mouse. Then i take the Time to process every Sample how i like it - dry, wet, dirty, crunchy, drumsound, pianosound - whatever...In about 2 Days i am finished....with 3.600 Original Samples. Now i create a couple of Folders on my Desktop and name them how I like them to be named. I exported all the Samples in one Folder and then i put them into the specific Folder i`d like them to be - Organize you know...😘 While the Rest of the BEATMAKING WORLD is watching this great Tutorial - and HUNDREDS of other Tutorials on Groove-Boxes, Drumcomputers...any Gear. I have a well deserved SHUT-EYE (Jim Carey said that) and wake up to FOOL & PLAY around and ASIGN my Samples to the Drumpads of my Groove-Agent SE 5. I will NOT count the Number of ORIGNAL DRUMKITS i have made just by 2 hours of walking around and 2 Days of choping, processing, exporting and organizing my OWN SAMPLE LIBRARY. Have a great Day you all. I am a 52yo very hard working StreetMusician and Producer in Berlin, Germany - and thats how I do it. Maybe you`d like to try it too and spent LESS TIME on RU-vid and more time with FRIENDS or FAMILY - or your DAW of Choice. 😊

Great workflow ideas! Love that they have the sound generator now

Some good tips and very nice instructional video format 👌🏻 Except for how the looper is demonstrated as part of a ‘regular’ workflow, which makes it overly complicated and emphasizes the menu diving and the SP’s shortcut walhalla. I’m sorry, but using the looper for this totally doesn’t make sense to me. Yes, it’s one of the possibilities, but a ‘live looper’ isn’t the right tool for sequencing samples. For that there’s a… uh… (step) sequencer 🤷‍♂️ which is a really straightforward and basic part of the #SP404mk2. So I’m glad you’ve demonstrated that one, too. The looper is a nice addition, but #Roland overly complicated the implementation of it. As said before, it could have been made part of the regular sampling procedure… just an option ‘play loop after sampling’. Same goes for ‘allow overdubbing’ and/or an option to sample onto another pad while playing.

You seem to understand the voice of a novice, you are amazing

I considered buying the 404 for on the go stuff but the learning process that I’ll have to go through makes it not for me. I find it easier to use logic on my ipad to build ideas then move them over to studio one to finish them. I have a lot of respect for you and the guys who learned to use the 404. Yall look so much cooler making music on the 404 than me on a freaking ipad lol

OhhHh! Thanks my friends!

“Stop struggling”? Ya lost me 10x! Heheh. But as far as these things go, you are an excellent communicator!

All this to sample is insane

What app do you use to detect the key of the song? Thanks for the great video!

Dope !!

Great, but a little bit complicate. I think the SP-404 MKII has a strong learning curve but if you got it, its a fantastic device in paralell to the Octatrack MK2

Dope

Mann Thanks :)

Where are those stickers from? Love them.

🔥

Hey did you know there's a feature for individual stem separation with the 4.04 update? I figured it out awhile ago and wrote about how to do it

👍🏾✌🏾!

what amp did you use to find key?

How do you live record your performance? I tried via usb c once but the quality was mid.

Man that piano loop is gonna haunt my dreams. So awful!💀😂 Really nice tutorial nonetheless, I learnt a couple of tricks!

Needs 0 snap when chopping, yes you can get rid of the click with the attack env but that’s just a bandaid to the problem in my opinion

Why would you use the looper if you're only working with internal samples? You can make the same loop on the pattern sequencer, giving you the ability to go back and edit. I have yet to see a RU-vidr demo the looper in a way that makes any sense at all.

damn 00:00 that was very personal 😢

Is there any chance that mv1 gettin some softawer updates?

Where did you get your skin from?

I just got my sp I find when I turn on the filter + drive it’s way too loud

Roland neds tongive it a proper sequecer like the MV 1 or MPC but meep thebpattern sequencer fot then sp fans 12 track or 10 track sequncer

Why not just use audio over USB to transfer the sample?

transiet?

instructions not clear

Downfall to a good track is a great sequencer which sp is not Hope Sp turns into a groove box soon it got potential

Gift me ur SP 😅

Too much menu diving for every function

My workflow is the Mpc one as the base and . 404 as a ‘salad dressing ‘ on the beat per say. This works like a charm. Good stuff tho! Just learned something new for the 404🦾🦾

The man 🌟