I remember reading a decent post/convo about bank and memory workflow but after literally 2 hours of searching the forum, I can't find it.
Can someone remember or link me? If not...

What is your workflow for the 303?
Do you use Bank A&B for each idea and save to a slot on C&D?
Do you use C&D just for breaks and drums?
How do you work on multiple tracks?

Sorry for the re-post!!

I use snares and hats and kicks and little percussion stuff on A

I use short samples like bass notes or chord stabs or whatevs on B

then C and D are where I record long samples
like 30 seconds of a record
and then I chop that up and resample to A or B or C or D
depending on what the sample is

Depends on which process you choose. If resampling, will probably never use the internal banks since you can't leave loops running in a non-selected bank (possible on the 404). If using the pattern sequencer, will only use the internal banks when I run out of physical room (all 16 pads) in the card banks. I frequently dump projects from the card memory onto my computer. This allows me to archive projects like I would in a DAW, as well as save changes I've made in either a pattern or pad. My current process goes as follows: assemble drums in one card bank->consolidate into one or two pads depending on variation/bar length. Move those pad(s) to the other bank->resample drums with live synth from external source. Loop best take, add, subtract, supplement

Thanks for sharing guys.

I ended up finding the other post and seems like everyone's got their own unique workflow and mine's no different heh.
Just gotta do what works for you.

I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding you but you totally can leave a pad looping and change which bank your using on the 303 as well as 404 and 404sx. The 202 might not be able to do this, but I thought I'd add that the 303 can do that.

I use a bank for drum hits arranged in my usual arrangement (kicks on the left, hats on the right, filler and snares on the middles). Then I use another bank for a background loop of effected white noise or a simple chord progression looping.

If I'm resampling though, I put it on pad 1 and slowly fill up the rest of the pads with each new layer and if I run out of room I delete the first pads I used. I like to keep the previous couple "layers" if I decide I don't like what I added recently.

Overall though, whatever gets you working with the device is best, hands on are much better in my experience than planning too much. Try a beat/song one way and if you like it, stick to it. If you don't like it hopefully you learned something from it.