Hey guys. Love the forum here. It's nice to have a place to go to for questions like this that isn't filled with Angry Internet Men.

I'm new to the 404, which I love, but not necessarily to beat making/electronic music production. . . which is why this is perplexing to me.

I'm trying to record a VERY simple pattern... I have two sounds, both set to loop. I hit them both after the metronome countdown. The length is set to 6 measures, which I am wanting. After six measures, it then plays again, but no samples are triggered, although the clock resets. Then it plays the samples as I intended, then plays the same length with NO SAMPLES playing.

What am I missing? It doesn't make sense to me.

Thanks for your help.

you probably have your sample set to play in loop mode on and gate mode off ( it means that when u hit the sample pad it start playing and when u hit it for the second time it stops playing ).
Try to switch the loop mode off and I think you'll get what u wanted

Welcome on forums

that's brilliant. of course. Thanks man.

I also thank you for that....had the same problem.

No problem man
Always here to help.

So does this mean that the only way to do get it to "loop" would be to hit the pad on "1" everytime? I tried having gate and loop on and it seemed to work but the loop came back around there was always a little hiccup. How do you make it loop as perfect as when it's in loop mode??

adjust your pattern speed.

Yeah I use that trick alot vice versa...I luvit.

I use a sample that is 16-32 beats long ...use it in a pattern that only has 8 beats while hitting the next pad(which is a blank.wav) the longer sample will keep on playing till it´s done...that means after the short bassline and percussions are over but the guitar does a sorta solo till sample is over...ofcourse only if the samplepad of the guitar has it´s gate on and loop off so it plays that sample till the end in that pattern.