Trouble with recording a pattern

SRAM · **Joined:** Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:56 pm **Posts:** 4

Hello! I'm new to SP303.
I'll try to explain my trouble step by step.
I press the rec pattern, set length 2 and quantize 8 and record main samples.
then I record 8 drums samples 1/4 bar length over it (set quantize 4).
When thse samples is recorded I 'll try to record 1 long sample (which length less then 1 bar) at start of the pattern, quantize4 is set too, but the sample plays shorter than real length approx 1/4 bar I think. All the samples in stereo. Gate,Loop and other is turned off.
I'm very dissapointed with that and think that my SP is broken.
Anyone who understand what I mean and know what the problem PLEASE HELP!

AGE · **Posted:** Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:57 pm

Sounds like a polyphony issue.. Try resampling some pads in mono

akira gautama · **Joined:** Sun Aug 25, 2013 10:12 pm **Posts:** 13

hey man, the 303 only has a polyphone thats 8 or 4 .thats means it can only play a certain amount of samples at a time .so when theres to much stuff going on it cuts something out , too much data.

SRAM · **Joined:** Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:56 pm **Posts:** 4

I realized what was happening. My samples have a tail of stereo silence after resampling. I just need to truncate the samples and correct BPM to remove the imposition.
Thanks guys!!!!

SRAM · **Joined:** Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:56 pm **Posts:** 4

How much samples i can play simulatenously in mono and stereo?

false tropics · **Joined:** Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:26 pm **Posts:** 223

You can play a maximum of 8 voices at a time. A stereo sample is two voices, right and left. A mono sample is one voice.

4 stereo samples = 8 voices
8 mono samples = 8 voices
3 stereo + 2 mono samples = 8 voices
2 stereo + 4 mono samples = 8 voices
1 stereo + 6 mono samples = 8 voices

SebP · **Posted:** Tue Nov 19, 2013 7:52 pm

polyphony is a pain at first. When I got my first SP 2 months ago, I was used to never worry about it. I always used stereo samples in a DAW. Got used to it and now, I like the fact that I have to think about which effects I want to keep in stereo.

Green Dutch · **Joined:** Thu Nov 08, 2012 9:01 pm **Posts:** 693

I found sometimes when I hit the limit and the 303 starts skitzin out if I turn it off for a couple seconds and turn it on again it corrects itself. Its seems like blowing on an NES cartridge lol.

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