Just had a go of an SP-404

maybe you could supply us from there , you said like 300 USD right i could have DHL pick it up if you willing to to purchase for me some time in the next 2 months ( ill of course TT you da cash )

Also tell us more about the sequencing as i want to use this while DJing and how well is the sequecer interated into this thing can you switch up sequences in real time ect ?? like i do like 3 hour DJ sets and would like to try DJ ing just with this ,,of course transfering some of the tracks i do on my 1K to this and visa versa

You have become the official 404 beta tester for us all here,, be proud hehehehe

heres a demo of it - more a demo of filters..small bit on making a beat...looks like a lot of fun

http://www.rolandus.com/Multimedia/Flash/sp404/

http://www.synthesisers.co.uk/roland/sp404demo.wmv

looks dope compared to the 202

Well Madlib made most, if not all of the MadVillain Album on a SP303 so any improvement must be good:

http://www.stonesthrow.com/videos/madlib-redbull.ram

He used an E-MU SP-1200 as well.

Proof 1

Proof 2

He definitely used the SP in there somewhere, but I think he said he did at least four or five of the beats in his hotel room in Brazil with just the SP303, a portable record player and a borrowed tapedeck, there are pictures of the hotel "studio" on the Stones Throw site in the Madvillainy picture section.

anyone find out the official us release date yet?

Can you midi sync/trigger sequenced patterns from let's say ableton live, cubase, mpc?

That way you could be making the body of a beat on the road.
At home you could plug in a midi cable and add new layers(synths, bass, guitar, scratches...) to your track!!!

And what about recording vocals on the road with a shure dynamic mic ?

Can you easily match several minutes of vocals to a sequenced track?

You can't record another sample while one is playing...as far as I can tell...I don't have the english manual...so I've been using sp303 manual. But I don't think u can do it.

Here are some audio samples....no external processing...

1. endoftimes.mp3 - built-in mike and reverb, guitar and voice
2. realtimereverse.mp3 - press a button and sample reverses in realtime.
3. reverbsaturate.mp3 - loop with reverb balance all the way on.
4. reverbshort.mp3 - loop with a short reverb applied
5. subsonic.mp3 - the subsonic effect...it can go lower than in this example.
6. lo-fi normal.mp3 - comparison between lo-fi and normal sampling
7. loop - original 90bpm.mp3 - original loop
8. loop - 115bpm - same loop sped up to the maximum
9. loop - 60bpm - same loop slowed down (it can go slower)


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VCD9LY1J

thanx man, now i really am excited. that subsonic effect is amazing. this machine alongside the 100 will be a deadly combination. so is there really real-time time stretching?

yep...that subsonic effect rocks...instant bassline...it goes down pretty low...lower than my speakers can handle . The timestretch is realtime...just hit a button and then dial in your bpm. The different example bpm loops are done by realtime....When you hear individual loops timestretched it doesn't sound so good...but lay a few over each other and its pretty sweet.

ah man watching that video the sequencer is prety weak like my 303. i think this would be dope with the batteries though. hopefully i can get one of these for the bus. haha

Does it also have regular pitching up/down or just the timestretch? I need regular pitching. I think the timestretch sounds pretty lame, like most realtime timestretchers; the one in Live doesn't sound good to me either.

The lo-fi mode sounds cool though, almost SP1200-like.

I like that they made the sequence switching wait for the end of the pattern - on the 303 it just switches directly...

The basic sequencer is aight... No swing quantize means you'll have quantize off most the time, which is a good thing.

Overal, I'm liking this machine. 10 banks of 12 samples mean you could do a whole bunch of beats before even saving anything! Couple this unit with a Numark PT01 or VestaX handytrax and you have a fully battery-powered setup!

yeah that poping and shit comes in when you try to pitch ish down. on my 303 pitching up works cool but pitching down **** everything up.

idk dude with the 404 can you try mess with the realtime timestrech for us?? thanks