can i do something so that i have say a 6 sec long sample with gate off, but there is a part where i want it to only play the first 3 sec until another sample comes in to say cancel the rest of the first sample out? I kno i could just make it into 2 samples of different lengths but id rather not. any ideas?

btw i got this thought from watching a video with the mpd24 (cuz i was thinking of buying it off a friend) where the dude changed the polyphony setting to 1 so it canceled the other sample out

to my knowledge, with the sp-404/sx, there's no polyphony settings nor any sample choke mode.

it'd be cool though!

but nah, sorry

could you use loop mode, so that you tap it once to start playing, then tap it again to turn it off? not exactly ideal, but I think its the best you'll get.

i had this thought myself a few months back, i think its something that i think nobody really does in pattern mode, but using loop to turn a sample on and off gives you alot of flexibility if you got a sample that you wanna cut off at a few different points but all start at the same point, and i would just go no quantize on the turn off and sequence it til i get it exactly right, some samples would be harder to work with than others obviously, but still, could be an excellent tip/trick to use

yea i was messing with the loop idea a bit myself. . .like you said not ideal but its the 404, gota make it work