Whats up guys? Been lurking the forums over the last month learning a lot of really useful material. I've had an OG 404 for almost a week now and I love it. I've been working with Ableton and some midi controllers for the past year or so and the SP seems like its going to fit perfectly into the workflow. One question though...

Let's say i sample myself playing a looped guitar chord. i'll add some reverb or delay to the sample, resample it to another pad, set my markers where i like them but when the resample loops the reverb/delay gets cut off when the sample ends and the loop starts over. Anyone know of a way around this?

couple of ways to do this probably, i got two for you

resample the same loop on two different pads with the same effect on each and use the sequencer to make a sequence that triggers the two samples back and forth, so if you had a 1 bar loop for the guitar, you would make the pattern 2 bars and trigger one for the first bar and then the other for the second, then work from there

if your not into using the pattern sequencer you could resample the original loop with reverb or whatever on it, leave loop on and resample it, letting it loop a few times so the reverb is consistent thru the original start point of the loop, then find the best spot to loop it (sometimes you don't always wanna pick the original start point esp with something like reverb, look/listen for a (close to) zero point for the transient, blah blah blah) so that the reverb tail from before the start point is carrying over into the marked zone

not everything is easy to do on the 404 but you can accomplish a lot of things with it with a little bit of creativity and 'outside the box' thinking

awesome man, thanks so much for the help. i knew there was probably something simple i was overlooking but those approaches totally make sense.

the pattern sequencing is still quite daunting to me but i'm just going keep working with it until i finally feel comfortable.

im sure this will inspire some more out of the box thinking with the SP too. cheers

yeah what I tend to do is play through the whole sequence twice (or more), then set the start point at the 2nd time the sequence starts so that there is already a tail - you might want to keep the first part though for the very first time you play it, because sometimes it sounds weird with the tail included in the first loop.

This is how I'd do it. Keep the first pad to play then loop the second one indefinately after the 1st pad finishes.

awesome, thank you gentlemen