The Ulimate Soundcard

[606man]

The Ultimate Soundcard

When using your SP-606 as a soundcard with your DAW, you have access to the powerful effects processing on the 606 within your DAW..

Firstly, to get your 606 acting as a soundcard, make sure you have the drivers installed, and then go into 'control panel' (PC), 'sounds & audio devices', and select the 606 to do everything...MAKE SURE IT'S PLUGGED INTO THE PC!!

Contrary to what the manual tells you, you actually want the control to be INT and not EXT…here’s why:

If you run your DAW through the 606 with the control set to EXT, as the manual says, then you can turn the MFX on and off, but that’s about it. You can control things in your DAW, use the transport, etc. Whoopee Doo. You can do that with any controller. However, if you set the control to INT, you have full control over the MFX 1 + 2, the Filter and the Master Compressor. This is the easiest way to experiment with your mundane VSTi sounds and the like, all with absolutely no strain on the CPU!

Note: if you have the SP-606 set on EXT, you can still control the Filter, but not the other FX…

Program something in your DAW (such as a synth part), run it through the 606 and start tweaking!

Play with the MFX, Filter it, Compress it for maximum impact; all at once and in realtime. This is a fantastic way to see what you can do to get variations etc. from your sounds with minimum fuss..

Remember the signal path through the SP-606 goes like this:

Input (computer in this case) --> MFX1 --> MFX2 --> FILTER --> MASTER.

[606man]

Just discovered something else with this one: if you track a song in your DAW through the 606, or even part of a song, such as the drum track for example, you can record some live edits/tweaks back into the 606.

The almost unlimited sampling time means that you can do several 'takes' of your track, with little edits (filter hits, insane distortion, bitcrushing, reversing etc.) all the way through. Then you can comp a really good, live-sounding, take from your efforts. It's a great way to inject some live feel to your tracks, as the tweaks will always be 'human', rather than the sterile edits that DAW software encourages...

[drewzle]

dude these features are amazing
i didn't realise you could use the 606 as a soundcard
the pads are velocity sensitive too, yeah?

Just discovered something else with this one: if you track a song in your DAW through the 606, or even part of a song, such as the drum track for example, you can record some live edits/tweaks back into the 606.

The almost unlimited sampling time means that you can do several 'takes' of your track, with little edits (filter hits, insane distortion, bitcrushing, reversing etc.) all the way through. Then you can comp a really good, live-sounding, take from your efforts. It's a great way to inject some live feel to your tracks, as the tweaks will always be 'human', rather than the sterile edits that DAW software encourages...

so are you recording each element onto a seperate pad of the 606 whilst doing the live tweaking
then sequencing them all to play in sync?
then your whole track can be put together as a Pattern?

sounds wicked man. i guess the 404 could be used similarly in a slightly compromised way (not as soundcard, just recording each element of a track through Ext Source into a pad). might have to give it a try

[606man]

Yeah man you could do it in a cut-down way with the 404. Only thing that would put me off would be those RCA plugs letting noise into the sound - but if you're doing lo-fi stuff it shouldnt be a problem