My minimal setup turning SmartPhone into SP404 | GAS Therapy #62

[@JazMystic1]

The hero nobody asked for, but we needed!

[@1LoDeezydotcom]

We didn’t know that we didn’t know we needed him

[@igotbit9454]

Homie crushing the whole industry single handedly 😂

[@novo_ephemera]

Damn right

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

Yeeee. Shalom. ​@@novo_ephemera

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

Nice way of putting it. Haha xD

[@seedmole]

Your content is part of what got me to start making my own sequencers instead of wasting money on things that never quite did what I want, endlessly grateful because of that.

[@Qinulee]

I had never thought of a a qwerty keyboard as a controller! Thank you for sharing this, you’ve just made my portable setup to use koala that much better ❤

[@fxbehr]

"Don't get tricked by fancy features people don't use". @2:25

[@adamwlove]

Michael! I found your channel through your LSDJ video! I love your style of content, and sense of humor! Shine on!

[@reslofbeats]

I appreciate the constant reminder that the best gear out there is the gear you already have. Just finished purging out all my unused midi controllers and returning the gear that I didn’t vibe with.

[@JazMystic1]

GAS is a hell of a drug

[@jakerayson8976]

Wow, I didn't know that about the Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard, I have one gathering dust in a drawer, will set it up now! Thank you 😊

[@novo_ephemera]

You are a breath of fresh air. You and I have similar sensibilities I appreciate that and you've challenged me to think even deeper. I also use NTS Radio and other great radio stations need to find new music and inspiration

[@DIYDSP]

Wow mono input! takes me back to the 80s! congrats you just made a portable ensoniq mirage!

[@xxblokkwurstxx7983]

I Love Koala Sampler even without a Controller ITS so powerfull even has stems even though the stems are some times a Bit wierd sounding but still a great Sampler

[@venomslair137]

Android is a diamond mine, not only for gaming, but music production (thanks to the free and open source nature of the system). A mid range Android phone with a Snapdragon SoC and you're good to go. High range can get a lot of brute force, but is bullshit due to the lack of features and many of them are always trying to resemble more like an iPhone than their own phone.

[@mistermotoki]

Love you channel - if I just had discovered it earlier it would have saved me a ton of money #teenageengineering

[@kissaros]

Hi Michael! A friend of mine recommended Digitron for Android, it allows you to play with a synthesizer which you can screen record and import into Koala

[@playpm]

Thanks for sharing it! Just had quite a lot fun with its sequencer! Although the ux design can be confusing, but sounds great!!!

[@jeffryarchambeau5441]

You got my gears turning.

[@DA22A-Audio-Productions]

I can't wait for my dual directional recording cable to arrive. I had the idea of creating a "koalition" of koala samplers across two android devices, but in order to hear both koalas at the same time as record each others output I think a different set of cables will be required. I might already have the splitters needed, but merging the two outputs into a set of headphones might require a mixer. It will be a mess of wires regardless.

[@playpm]

Sounds like a complicate routing, you might also need two TRRS splitter to make one TRRS into two TRRS, so this cable can work with smartphones.

[@DA22A-Audio-Productions]

@@playpm Agreed, the potentional has yet to be fully understood by myself even.

[@raina1565]

Awesome video! Koala sampler is the best audio thing I have ever spent my money on. Now I only lack that one thing - the musical knowledge. Will you ever make a video or a course on how to actually make music and not just use gear?

[@playpm]

Will do, but that'll multiple topics, there're so many topics I need to cover.

[@tuesss]

Well, my smartphone doesn't have audio jack :P Neither in, nor out. Which is silly, I admit... but I chose it for other reasons. However, cheap USB-C audio interfaces are good enough nowadays so not a huge issue. (stop reading here if trying to treat your GAS) OTOH, many of us buy hardware to get away from general purpose computers when making music. I bought the SP-404 mk2 very recently, but so far it looks like the best value for money one can get at the moment, except computers and DAWs. The biggest drawback seems to be the lack of side-chain compression, because there is no good way to emulate it fully without additional hardware and possibly exporting separate tracks. Still, I must say the SP-404 has been my best impulse buy so far. If it had a side-chain compressor and more sophisticated MIDI implementation I would recommend it to everyone who could afford it because it does seem to work quite well for virtually all genres of electronic music, even ambient.

[@DiligentLinguist]

I have sold ALL of my gear (apart from my trusted iPhone 7📱) to survive while developing my own educational product. This video has brought me hope that I can still make some beats in 2024. 🙂

[@urniurl]

Amazing

[@RalphLBaer]

My GAS therapy is knowing the fact that Madlib made a whole project on an iPad

[@stevebrown5597]

Epic!

[@EdLrandom]

I don't really like covering my screen with fingers when playing but looks like koala with my new Orba 2 as a midi controller will be a way to go.

[@ericdavis85]

Niceeeeee‼️🔥

[@the_glove]

I use it with QWERTY all the time. Only problem is that I accidentally fat finger some keys I don’t mean to

[@brahman8333]

Its nice but why do you have those gears end of the video?

[@dennis_doom]

Do you now an alternative for that bidirectional cable? is out of stock on Amazon

[@playpm]

Try ebay, I heard people found it there.

[@napishu9460]

Hello! Can you tell me what bluetooth keyboard is in the video? Thank you!

[@playpm]

It's b.o.w folding keyboard, not sure if it's sold worldwide, but give it a try.

[@ingor.779]

3:52 That hurt 😢

[@siregregg]

Do you have a list of keyboard mappings and shortcuts for koala?

[@playpm]

I think it's on koala website, you can hit Help in koala's menu list to find it.

[@siregregg]

@@playpm Yes, but the Help page doesn't mention all of mappings - like ',' for edit sample or '/' for keybard mode. But I just found out that the newest update lets you import and export these mappings! So you can come up with your own layouts and see what is available.

[@playpm]

Oh damn! I didn't even notice this feature! I'll dig it later, thanks for the info!

[@tzodearf2596]

When I record to phone, my keynoard by cable, I get the initial transient befote the signal quockly fades. Will the microphone splitter give me a long, sustained recordong?

[@TheStreamingShed]

You may just have saved my marriage 😅

[@nurnachman]

blackberry

[@EDMQuickTips]

Plz don’t gas on da sp404

[@jacobastevens]

Hey can you turn my iPhone into a Digitakt? I had to sell mine because my girlfriend left me because I spend too much money on synths.

[@bjamminsincebirth3494]

😂

[@GeorgeL909]

It would be hard on your phone, but on an iPad, GrooveRider gr-16 gets dangerously close to the digitakt workflow It's technically closer to an electribe, but with sampler features and parameter locks/automation. Great software and very decent synth engine too.

[@hajagosb]

If she already left you, then you can buy another Digitakt, and find a girl who respects your hobby.

[@jacobastevens]

@@hajagosb Do you think I could win her back by buying *her* a digitakt?

[@hajagosb]

@@jacobastevens :))) Jacob, I think you should give it a try. Or jusy let her go, and win back the Digitakt.

[@moltenwood]

shouldn't it be called 'koala therapy' by now?

[@playpm]

Or 'GarageBand therapy'?

[@DIYDSP]

So no velocity sensitive keyboard like an sp-404mk2. Enjoy all those hits playing at the same velocity throughout your whole song!

[@aust.in2586]

You can edit velocity on koala

[@playpm]

Usually I will create another lite version pads for dynamic playing, which is commonly used among producers and finger drummers.