Sure, was gonna reply in the su10 thread floating about, Im definitely down for something like that. Dunno if calling it a battle is worth it but we should start a thread, drop some samples and make some su-beats

i leave my 404sx on 24/7 cus i use it to play my laptop out my monitors. it's a horrible habit.

I do the same with a MOTU Traveler. It hasn't died yet.

SP Confessions...

I first bought the SP-303 to play live samples for a death metal band, because laptops were still 3x as much and frowned upon for on stage use.

I bought my 404 to make boom bap patterns to the songs I write on the geetar and then uke. Only beats I've made is for the BB's here, and if you listen to them you can tell, haha. Still looking to find a way to record the whole song into the 404, vocals and all, I'm close using a looper pedal though.

The DJS-1000 looks sick. I’ve read up on it just a bit but haven’t seen a few things noted. Can u tell me how many pad banks each project can hold, how many tracks is the sequencer, and what’s the on board memory situation? Sorry to b a pain. I couldn’t find a clear list of tech specs & maybe ur down to get a little deeper w ur endorsement?

I'm still trying to understand the things of Pioneer, its a different language than the SPs but they are not far apart.

Its pretty much 16 of everything the way I see it. 16 pads to lay 16 samples to 16 tracks that create 16 patterns altering through 16 scenes per project. I think Scenes are the banks to SPs. So to translate the above you get 16 banks of 256 samples if you filled every pad. You can have as many projects you want depending on the size USB stick you put in, I have a 64GB in mine, so its gonna be a long while before I max it out. Its unknown of the max GBs you can stick in there.

Its the baddest machine on the planet. Just imagine if an SP404 can timestretch/pitch tune like a CDJ, edit samples and browse sounds all while the sequencer is playing in real time. You can chop while you are sampling, in fact, you can play the sequence while you sample and chop. Slice is practically Auto-Chop and you can adjust the start and end points of each chop. There is a Ducking FX. Everything is done on the fly and in real time with the DJS. If you can demo one, try it with its internal sounds and spend hours playing with it, you'll figure it out in no time and will see its magic when you really get involved with it. Now this is the King SP I been dreaming about. Its a mix of a Roland SP, Elektron Octatrack and MPC. Intergrates in the most simplest form.

There is a thread in the Other Samplers forum. I explain the good, bad and ugly.

Thanks for the info. I’m definitely intrigued by this thing. I’ll look for that other post u mention.

After 10 or more years with the SP I just learned about the Gate Mute trick lol!!

Yeah dude. I remember the crazy stacks of 3.5” floppies! Those discs were pretty durable. Probably about 4-5 yrs ago I went through the process of updating the eos on a e-mu e4xt which needed to b done on a series of dos formatted 3.5” floppies. I still had a couple discs floating around. Wracked my brain getting that figured out but it was a fun challenge.

Haha! I imagine that was fun, but well worth it.

This thread got so sidetracked.

gate mute trick ?

If the sample is in gate mode, when the sequencer is playin the beat & you don't want the sample to play, you tap it right when it's about to play & it won't play.

A sample that is in gate mode will stop playin when you tap it basically......