i have a 404sx and was watching a video of someone chopping their sample pretty fast on a 404. they would unpress mark and then press it again on the part they wanted but their sample wouldn't restart. I tried it and mine always restarts when i let go of mark. Is this because i have an sx or what?

this is the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMIsgV0Vgp8

maybe im doing something wrong

the whole idea behind that method is to not set an end mark point, you hit mark once and it sets a start point, then you just let off the pad when its on gate, or hit it again, or let it play to the end (but that kinda defeats the purpose) but that just makes it so the end point is the actual end of the recorded sample on that pad, then when you go to turn off mark it doesn't jump to the beginning of the sample when you leave the end point open like that, and so you hit it once to turn it off and it just keeps playin from where you left off, and then you press it again, usually pretty fast, to set the next start point, but don't hit it a third time so you, again, leave the end point open, and proceed with resampling in small pieces

i keep trying to do what u said but its still giving me problems.

I press mark once while the sample is playing to adjust start point(which works)

When I play the sample again and press mark it unmarks and restarts to the beginning of the sample everytime. i try to press it real fast once its on to the next chop but it will just restart everytime. It might be because im on an sx

don't think it really works on the sx... you have func+copy the sample to the new pad, then truncate the sample. Rinse and repeat.

besides speed another benefit of this technique is you can leave a little sound at the end of each chop and fine tune the end points once you get into sequencing

yea i don't think this works with the sx. its still not hard to chop but that way was quicker. im getting the 303 tomorrow, i wonder if it works on that?