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I once found my friends mom's vibrator and jizzed on it in the bathroom. Ohhhh wait I mean yeah.. the comp effect, rea.. real nice man see you guys later.

I wasn't exactly sure where to post this, so I picked the most active board. Though there are many SP samplers out there, from what I can gather they are divided somewhat loosely into different generations. The most pronounced effect of this, at least I would imagine, is the sound engine used in a ...

See, that was my first thought. And you're probably right, but after experimenting with the timestretch I can't get an effect that touches that Madlib bass sound, even when I tried filtering. I can't help thinking I'm missing something..

I apologise for the duel Madlib posts I've made recently. I've been revisiting his back catalogue and am once again blown away by the sound he gets, largely out of the SP-303, 505 and 606. He continues to inspire me creatively.

There is one signature production trick he uses that I've been trying ...

I currently own the sp-303, and I love it. My only real complaint with it is the distortion/rumble/smearing sound that occurs when you adjust most of the inbuilt effects in real time.

For most 'set and forget' purposes this makes no difference, but if you want to change effects live and create ...

I can't speak for anyone else on here, but one of my major inspirations, and a significant factor in me hunting down a 303 in the first place, is Madlib the Beat Konducta. In so many ways he's been a musical inspiration to me, and though I don't want to ape his style, I'd like to understand how he ...

I love my 303. The one thing I'm still trying to get my head around? Stereo output. With an MPC for instance, you can send multiple outputs to mix on an external board or inside the computer. In fact I imagine that's one of the reasons many SP users sequence on an MPC.

I also realise that with ...

So I heard a whisper on the wind that a few guys round here are using their 303 with a cassette 4-track at the mixdown stage. This is exactly what I've been planning and I've ordered a Tascam 244 to carry out this task. Since I'm a devotee of oldschool East-Coast mixtapes and 12"s, I thought a ...

So I'm still learning to use my 303, I like the way it works and I've already made some fat sounding loops etc. I'm just not yet at the stage where I hook up a whole song on there. I wanted to find out what you guys usual work flow is. What stages (just talking generally) do you go through to get to ...

Well the SP-303 sound is caused by a couple of things - the internal analogue to digital converters, the data compression algorithm it uses (I don't know much about this) and finally any effects you apply on the machine. Any signal running out of it will be affected by these things regardless of ...

Thanks guys, my other option is to output through my Apogee Duet which probably has better converters, but this is way more of a hassle and I'll need new cables. Anyone compared high quality converters to internal/cheap ones while using the SP-303? Does it make a worthwhile difference?

Thanks for the responses, is this a commonly done way of sampling? Computer to 303? Probably asking some pretty basic questions here, but where would the analogue-to-digital conversion be taking place in this setup - the laptop?

Just trying to wrap my head around it.

OK so I've finally started learning my SP303 lately, and since I don't have a turntable yet I've been transferring samples over with the SmartMedia card from my laptop. While it's great that I can do this, taking the card out, writing the files to it and loading them up on the 303 (not quick by ...