THIS is why you buy an SP404-MK2 (Resampling walkthrough)

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[@spvidz]

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[@HellboyMob]

I’m so glad you still put videos up, the main reason I am comfortable with the mk2 is because of tutorials like this

[@spvidz]

Glad to have helped you! 🙌

[@williamillington]

who needs a vintage sampler when this nails the sound so well. I think I need this in my life!

[@kjmbeats]

nice video dude, great walkthrough! Just picked up my 404 this week and your videos have been a fantastic help!

[@spvidz]

Welcome to the gang 👌

[@thebl8nlyblatantnetwork]

I got one coming tomorrow and I have. A Mpc live 2 but for some reason something keep saying get it so I caved in … these deff going to help 😊

[@modulations]

I’m the same have got both the MPC and 404 and use them in different ways. These videos are a great guide to getting the best out of my SP

[@xavior10]

MORE resampling vids and techniques please. Maybe a live finger drumming / sample play /chromatic mode use , in a live non sequencer resampling method ?

[@MonstersFlyinginTheSky]

a company needs to release mk2 replacement pads my 9-16 pads are dying from finger drumming.

[@decoyslois]

Would love to see some layering videos too! Anything where you add a real top kick on top of a sub kick.

[@dennystreet2454]

This video helped me to understand how resample works ❤

[@BrentLane1]

Excellent tips as always brother. Thanks 🙏

[@ukura]

Thanks you for the easy listening tutorial. Haven't got one yet, need these videos to convince me.

[@tarotsuzuki1]

Thank you for showing me! It's great to refine the workflow for a novice like me.

[@spvidz]

No problem 🫡

[@heckingtorrr]

Incredible walkthrough! Thank you for some guidance

[@spvidz]

Appreciate the comment. Hope it useful 👊

[@BeatmakrsOdyssey]

Yeah i always preferred chopping loops and layering drums with resample. the pattern sequencer just feels too restrained for me. i like stacking sounds on the pads, and you can always just split the drums on one pad and the loops on another so you can drop the drums out whenever you want. pattern mode is cool but you can do a live set much more easily just transitioning between pads.

[@rasheedgooden4415]

Shoutout my guy spvids!!! Killing it like always!

[@spvidz]

🙌🙌🙌

[@rorz999]

Great video. My philosophy nowadays with the pattern sequencer is as follows: don't use it to try and sequence full songs. Instead use it as part of the resampling workflow. E.g. I will use the sequencer to make a hi-hat line or a bassline, and then resample to a pad and add FX etc. Then export to use in a DAW or another machine. In a nutshell, I'm using the MK2 as a sampler first and foremost, and all the nice extras assist me with that approach

[@spvidz]

Cool resample concept and yeah - Its 100% more about the sampling side of things with these devices and prepping to sequence somewhere else!

[@aaaarg1928]

in a nutshell pretty crap standalone device then... whats the point of the sp??

[@whistletom]

@@aaaarg1928 Because it excels at a particular aspect. Nothing gets close to getting a pristine sample sounding like it came from an old record. No VST plugin or an MPC can get close to this sound. This video is all about resampling. The SP is very capable in other areas.

[@DariiOne]

Magic thanx Master

[@spvidz]

🙌

[@riddim7774]

They should add the 404a mfx21 to the mk2.

[@krisgakakrisqu0717]

genius!

[@mightyheights7331]

What I really love to do with the SP is sweep effects and filter settings while resampling, it’s a nice way to add movement to your beats. Quick question: recently I found myself laying out a beat on the sp, so doing all of the sampling / resampling and beat building, and then recording back into ableton track by track by track, seems a bit backwards and long-winded but it allows me to EQ individual tracks and use side chain. Do you ever work like that?

[@cresshead]

superb.

[@spvidz]

Thanks for dropping in 🔥

[@wiggesobk]

Nice video man!

[@coreynasfell1095]

🔥

[@spvidz]

🙌

[@DJDigitalJosh]

I always end it with cassette sim into 303 vinyl sim. 👍

[@spvidz]

I've been using cassette sim a bit recently. It gives you warping but in a cleaner way than 404 vinyl sim

[@DJDigitalJosh]

@@spvidz the Cassette Sim seems to concert the low frequency into mono and can cut out the very low frequency and boost the bass at the right frequency. You need to mess with a spectrum analyzer like SPAN.

[@meninsk]

very nice bro

[@spvidz]

🙌🙌🙌

[@jack3361]

You are 100% on the money.

[@BENWORKIN89]

Now you’re talking my language !!!!

[@DonChodle]

You should make a lil ugly mane type beat and tutorial might be too specific of a request. Or just like Memphis horrorcore rap in general

[@user-hn1bc4se2k]

I can’t find the function for resampling or bouncing a pattern to audio by one up to four clicks. I saw it in a video bot lost it, the pro was that it was super easy to use and fast, without listening to the whole pattern. Can somebody help?

[@readytext]

Great stuff. Incidentally, do you think there's *any* loss/degradation as you resample? I tried resampling 16 times and I couldn;t; hear the diff between 1 and 16 - I'm thinking it must be all done in the digital realm, so no *unwanted* loss of fidelity.

[@spvidz]

I've not tried to resample that many times, but on the whole no, I don't notice a difference if I don't use any MFX

[@humansrstupid8007]

nice :)

[@benlem]

dope walkthrough 🙏 I’ve been trying to get a good daw + sp workflow for a while now. would you normally make the beat in your daw, mix it, import it onto your sp and do the fx and resampling, send it back into your daw and master it?

[@spvidz]

I usually sketch ideas on the SP, maybe resample a few things, arrange in the DAW and then run it back through the SP and other hardware for the magic at the end :)

[@benlem]

@@spvidz sick, cheers mate!

[@aaaarg1928]

if you plug usb from sp to daw then you can program daw beats then and route them into the sp without the need for any exporting/importing. the sp literally shows up as an audio send output in ableton on each track so you could re record daw drum parts fed through sp efx and tweak the efx live. sp is basically equivalnt to vst plugin. resampling is totally unnecessary unless you are thinking to do processing within sp when away from studio pc or something like that

[@ManCalledMif]

Hello. Do you ever use the sp404mkii to sequence synths or as part of a dawless set up?

[@aaaarg1928]

its pretty weak as external seq device. each seq note you program will send midi per pad. no chromatic tho unless you program the 16 pads to send each individual note so you would need 12pads per octave to send chord/keys. very limited basically plus using sp to send sync start/stop is not reliable

[@cameronwilliams5430]

Whats up brother. First up, you're my go to for anything sp related and your videos have been invaluable in my learning phase. Wondering if anyone here has had the issue or user error that ive run into. When attempting to record a pattern of 8 or 16 bars it ends up recording double but all the looped samples im having recorded stop looping on the second round of unintentional recording? Wondering whats up!? Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated 👍 thanks all

[@spvidz]

Loops are hard to fit into pattern mode with the SPs. One thing you could try is changing your 'pattern change mode' in the utilities menu (general tab). There are two options - SX and MK2

[@cameronwilliams5430]

Thanks for the response mate I'll give it a red hot go 🍻👍 cheers

[@aaaarg1928]

on sp loops will start/stop when you program a note. i would recommend switch off loop and switch off gate to ALL samples you plan to program into the sequencer. if you are playing notes live into the sequencer then loop or gate will be fine as you will hear exactly how they will behave as tyou play them in live.

[@TABARNAKdeBEATS]

Are you resampling the pattern to a pad first once you're happy with the mix and then adding mfx using resample? So for example, i would resample each pattern individually and then resample the mfx on to those? Do they resample as patterns or are they now samples that would have to be sequenced again? I'm just trying to understand the workflow and resample has me incredibly confused for some reason. 😅 Trying to wrap my head around how a full beat would be put together after resampling.

[@TABARNAKdeBEATS]

Wait am I meant to just loop what I'm resampling? I think I'm over complicating things 😂

[@spvidz]

Once you bounce to a pad, its a sample and no longer a pattern. It will behave exactly the same as any other sample, so if you are resampling a pad that was a pattern be careful not to cut the end of your loop. If I'm resampling loops I always record more than one loop until I'm absolutely happy, then I use the waveform view to make it a loop again.

[@TABARNAKdeBEATS]

@spvidz ok that makes perfect sense now. That leads to another question, if my pattern is under 40 seconds long is there a reason I couldn't use skip back instead of resample? Would that not make it easier to trim the loop?

[@hardtakeoff]

@@TABARNAKdeBEATS Because it might fail

[@user-dd9vk1bm3u]

Why no one talks about converting pattern chains into the samples in 4.04 ? doesn't this feature seem useful for anybody except me? finally we can finish beats keepeng standalone or dawless workflow AND without wierd lifehacks! it's seems more useful than trivial looper function that everyone is going crazy about

[@droneoperatr9998]

impossible to get these sonics with a modern mpc

[@droneoperatr9998]

of course the mpc is packed with fx but all these sounds harsh digital and annoying in the high frequency transients

[@spvidz]

Maybe that could be another video - it would be interesting to see what can be done with the live 2 compared to this

[@Hakucho64]

A balance of 98-2 means 98% dry, 2% wet, right? I'm surprised 2% is even detectable by the listener.

[@realramirez5482]

hola buenas tardes exelente domingo estes pasando oye una pregunta yo tengo mi mk2 y entiendo tu punto pero entonces en el mk2 no se pueden hacer pistas completas osea que te tienes que ayudar de otro sampler o de una estacion de produccion musical y el mk2 es solo un complemento mas de tu home studio es lo que quiers decir????

[@spvidz]

It’s capable of full beats but that’s not the thing it’s best for. What it’s best for is what I showed in the video in my opinion 👍

[@L_AMEGAME]

Great video. I have two questions. How do you assign effects to just one individual pad. Is there a way to save that setting after you record it ?.

[@Sammy-B]

Resample to another pad with the effect on. Then it's baked in

[@BENWORKIN89]

Did you see the comment I left about how I preferred resample over the sequencer on one of your other videos?

[@propaneman1093]

I like using this technique with the isolater to boost the lows, but after the new 4.04 update i get really bad unwanted distortion after i resample. I tried looking through the settings but i can't think of anything that would fix it. So for now I'm just lowering them volume of the pad that i want to sample. Do you have any suggestions?

[@spvidz]

Is it that you have MFX on bus 3 & 4 when you are resampling? Then when you play it back after its resampled it will be adding them again

[@propaneman1093]

@@spvidz no. I turned off all effects except for the isolator on bus 1. But I noticed the record level shows that I'm clipping while I am resampling with the isolator on.

[@ILLUDIUM_Q_36]

Let's be clear. Resample is NOT the same as skipback.

[@tommyk88888]

How is a low pass filter adding texture? 😅

[@whistletom]

Because it's a non linear low pass filter.

[@aaaarg1928]

WAY too many timing issues when resampling. when the mk2 resamples it ignores the metronome accuracy. try testing for yourself by resampling a beat from the sequencer and then dropping that loop onto the first beat. you SHOULD have both the sequence AND the resampled loop playing in unison but they absolutely are NOT in time not even close. I edited the start point by around 2000 samples to get it close and to know exactly how terrible this device is. its main strength its its ability to resample you say?? NO - and then you need to adjust start points again?? Ive been sitting on this device for 8 months waiting for the next update , if it aint fixed then I ditching the sp. so much potential but its absolutely riddled with issue. like count in for resampling does not even keep time - the count in metronome and the sequencer metronome are separate so theres a stutter when the sequence triggers...

[@ImGman90]

i hope he responds to this, it’s a great question/point

[@gkm214]

Just bought a SP last week & this is by far my biggest issue with it. I finally got around to finding the fx I like the most and then went to resample and now my drums and sample are no longer in time. Very frustrating and it’s sadly a dealbreaker. I understand this is not a MPC and have consciously embraced that this machine is its own monster but man, that one little thing has me wanting to return it seriously.

[@hardtakeoff]

You're right, it's terrible. You should use an Akai MPC I hear they have all the kinks totally sorted on their units, they're not totally not just releasing a bunch of plugins nobody in the their right minds wants or needs.

[@hardtakeoff]

@@gkm214 Yes, you have to nail takes live. Good thing MPC has song mode totally useful that song mode