im wondering whats the deal with this machine. im gonna go read a bunch of shit on it now that ive bought it. i just happen to be rich for a second and saw it on there for the first time and said fuck it. is it a cool machine and whats makes it better than the sp 404 and 555 if it actually is better.
softer pads, better fx, sequencing, poly???
let me know, peece!

The best feature of the 606 (in my opinion) is the fact that it has mute groups and u can have pads cut eachother off. Because of this I never have to worry about end points and I save a lot of time when making beats. No other sp's got that - even on the mpc2000xl u can only have 3 pads to one groups=not enough.

dam, 3 pads to a mute group, that sux. well mute groups are good, i got an 808 with mute groups. im just more worried about sampling ans chopping cause i hear this auto chop feature is gay. as long as i can chop my samples like on a 404 and 555 im coooool. everything else will fall into place.

there's no mark button. so basically the way u chop is by setting start and end points by looking at the screen and using the jog wheel... but u can can zoom in and out the screen to get very accurate.

autochop only works well for drums

say u wanna fill up ur 16 pads with drums quickly...You hit sample.. then play 16 sounds leaving small gaps of silence in between. Use the autochop and boom u got drums in each pad. Normally on ur 404 u would have to go and sample each sound onto each pad.

Great machine, the 4 track sequencer is very helpful but, the workflow of the machine overall is kinda slow.

yes it is!!! i keep sliding back to my 808, then back tot he 606 like " i paid all this dam money, work faster" but once you add a screen, shit gets slower. ill kep banging on it until i find a way to benefit from it, then ill rock it hard but up to this point, its just another 16 pad box with alot of function+ someting or hit sample 3 times, go through 3 screens, reset the same parameter everything, so if you sampling 16 pads fast, it will take you a little longer.

once u get used to it u can do alot really fast.... i mean to me... having pan, volume of the sound and mute groups is more than enough... resampling is better cuz u can see what the threshold is for the sounds u are layering... plus using 2 fxs is major as well

2 fx? i didnt know about that, i gotta look into it. but it is a really fast machine with the divide and resample shit. i chop like lightning. but whats the deal with the 2 fx's. i kjnow the machine pretty good so if you can lay out how to do that right quick, id really appreciate it. my 606 has 2 fx and its the shit resampling quicker with more effects.