Hello out there,
i bought a 404 2 days before and i am very happy with it. And i am glad to find my way to this great forum! You all do really great music and i hope i can present you my first work soon!

My first 2 problems, i can't resolve for my own is:

1. When i record a pattern and the length is set to 4, the 404 count 4 bars and then 4 other bars... i think normally it has to jump back to the first bar and not record 2x4 bars. What do you think?

2. i record a pattern and drop a bass sample onto a drumbeat. when i listen the pattern afterwards, there's my drumbeat with the bassline. But now, when i play another pattern and wanna switch back to the bassline-drumbeat-pattern only the bassline will be played... Do you know a solution?

The first 4 bars should be a count in and only the 4 bars after that will be recorded and looped when you play the pattern.
I can't answer your 2nd question but i'm sure there is a solution and someone on here can help with that.

2nd Problem
Maybe this is the solution:
Problem: For some reason my samples cut off or don't play all the way to the end of my pattern sequence.

Solution: Most likely you have the sample set to loop or gate playback, place the sample to 1-shot playback and restart the pattern sequence.
-- found it here... gonna test it.

OK, that were newbie-questions
an evening of playing with it...and solved. But thank you anyway!

hm. there's a guy been on here a long time with the username IIIII and you are ||II|....its gonna get confusing!

welcome aboard tho.

holy shit didnt even see that lol

You're an impostor. A fake that mimic other names just to get a response. Scum like you makes me cringe to walk into a 7-11 and ask for a Big Gulp knowing that you'll order the same even with the crushed lemon the way I like it!!!

But welcome to the forum holmes

u cats R out of your minds

...LLiiL

Sorry for confusin' . Didn't know there was another Guy here, with Nearly The Same Nick.
Little Bit about me:
I am 26, Male from Germany.
In The past i Produced Hip Hop Beats with music2000 (Psx), what was greAt Fun. Then iswitched to The pc. First fruity Loops, Then a Long Time Reason with a midi Keyboard. But To work with a mouse really goes on my nerves now. Decided to Buy a sp 404 and a dr. Groove 202. I do not care about that my Music is gonna be more lo-fi , The Way of producing is really intuitive now. And Thats what i Want. Fuck mouses And pc-Keyboards. Need to Buy an 8 track digital Recorder with 1 or 2 chinch Inputs. Any advices? Maybe Boss br 900 or 600...

hahahaha

anyway
i use a tascam porta studio dp02 cf and recommend it... if you wanna copy me

wtf? impostor again? why are people doing that? i totally don't get it. how is it fun to write fake shit and look at the responses? i'm probably too old.