SP-404 - tricks 'n tips thread

abc wrote:Still nothing. It's weird, I got no problem recording to a pad from my IPod, but as soon as I hook it up to the MP all I get is snow.

Thats weird. Is the MPC working by itself when you connect it to a mixer?

Don't own a mixer, but I plugged my headphones into the ports and everything seems good. I'm gonna pick up a new set of RCAs, hopefully that's the problem.

abc wrote:Don't own a mixer, but I plugged my headphones into the ports and everything seems good. I'm gonna pick up a new set of RCAs, hopefully that's the problem.

Hopefully it's just the cables. Let me know how it all works out.

Ordered a set of Hosa RCA to 1/4 and all is well. I don't know why, but I always have the worst luck with adapters.

Damn...jst scored a minty 505 for 50 quid...no reverse and sample point buttons on the front panel!!!!!! like the 303.Nobody mentions this and its one 0f its best coolest functions.Very sweet unit to go with my 404 .Sounds immaculate.

And Now we have the SP 404sx Killer!

Casio xw-pd1!!!

mines coming in mail tommorow!

200 EFFECTS....200 EFFECTS......200 EFFECTS,sequencer,sampler,synth, runs on 6 AA's, built in speaker, over 800 built in sounds. and $200 less than the sp 404sx.

But catz are SLEEPING on this machine big time! Why not try something different? but you all will say its just a toy and yall will make fun of the sampling time because there is only a total of around 2 minutes(There are workarounds!). but until you look at a couple vids and study the downloadable manual, you wont understand the power of this underrated machine. sometimes the best music is created with limitations, the beatles recorded albums on a 4 track cassette recorder. think outside the box. take a chance and start a new trend and new way of making music will some different machinery.

What's up with only 1 mono input?

richie wrote:What's up with only 1 mono input?

Sure? You must mean the Korg ESX, that has one input.

Sampling into the L input is meant to sample mics which is a mono signal, but if you set the SP to mono sampling, you should be able to sample from both L and R inputs. The dynamics of stereo would be sampled into a mono signal. So if the left speaker has a guitar playing and the right speaker has a piano playing, sampling in mono will put both guitar and piano together on both L and R channels. This what I love about SPs, because I can remove the L jack from the input, eliminating the guitar and sample the R input and have the piano playing on both L and R now.

Capish

Yeah I was looking a the manual and noticed it had a line in and a mic in so I figured that the mic in may have been a different kind of input/with a preamp or something of that nature. Good

If anyone's looking for the CB-SP1 Travel Bag for the SP-404 or 404SX, I found a killer deal on ebay for $15. I just got mine in the mail today and the seller has one left.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Roland-Accessories-Bag-for-SP-555-SoniCell-SP-404/172075272543?_trksid=p3693.c100102.m2452&_trkparms=ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140212121249%26meid%3Df19394f2cc5e4612bbd028c068c0d83b%26pid%3D100102%26