Forgive me for asking.. I'm coming from a MPC background.. yeah yeah I know.....

Is there any decay options on this machine??? If your snare has some unwanted sounds.. how do you "fade it out" instead of truncating it?

also... is there any way to just slow a sample up or down?

I don't see anything in Sample Parameter?!

thanks

On most sp's there is a mark button that you press to set the start and end point of a sample, but the 606 has some of the most advanced sample edit features of any sp so I'm pretty sure you can use a visual wave form edit style like an mpc. As for changing the speed of a sample you can change this using the bpm button, or there is a pitch shift on sp's that kinda sucks balls but will mangle samples into something new for what it's worth. If 606man reads this he'll know all the answers. You can also check the SPI section here or go to Roland's site to download the manual and it will explain the answers to your questions.

Yeah, you can do this by resampling with the Isolator effect once you've got the single shot part you want and then totally turn all knobs to 0 so there's no sound any more.

As for most of these things, there's no 'press-a-button' solution, but it's still possible. Same story for slowing down, speeding up, however as far as I know there's no way to do this MPC-style, where the sample would change pitch as well. The pitch stays the same because of the BPM-sync function and so on you'd use (to resample with as well to save the speed up of slow down).

thanks guys

this machine is cool and all and super fun to use, but having to apply effects, resample.. blah blah is not a productive workflow imo.

without the ability to simple speed/slow down a sample without "mangling" the overall sample is not to my desire.

thank god for rentals

respect again

Yeah, an mpc would have a much more straightforward. There are plenty of ways to do what you want with the sp, but it takes time for the zen of the interface to hit you with theses machines for some reason. I didn't enjoy my sp-303 for the first year of crap beats that didn't sound anywhere near what I wanted. Good luck on you new sampler hunt.

Don't forget you can do perfect pitch/time changes with P606. They sound much better than the MPC version of the same effect too (they actually stay in tune for a whole octave..).