Can't comment on a lot of that cause I still haven't installed the update, but I'll force myself to get it done today after lunch!TGN wrote:Thanks SP-USER for explaining.
When i was in italy i took the mk2 with me for doing some lofi uk garage house with the TR STYLE sequencer mode. Gonna finish this ep in the next weeks, but i already have some thoughts and complaints:
I like the possibility to set velocity, pitch, shuffle, sample start per step,but once entered it is not possible to see these details again, you have to guess them. So if you program fast hihats in a 2 bar loop with the heavy use of different velocity, pitch and shuffle settings, it is nearly impossible to recreate this pattern, because you can not comprehend afterwards what you were exactly doing. So a workaround is to resample the loop. Fortunately you can mute kick, snare, etc to get only the hihats.
And it is not possible to copy or alter notes like on the elektron machines. If you don't like, erase and do it again. Copy? Resample. Or crop and duplicate the pattern.
So when it comes to these things, nothing changed.
The overall behaviour of samples set up in TR-Mode is different, too. Normally if you have a pattern running, you can retrigger samples, which are also triggered by the running sequencer. Samples which were entered in TR-Mode can't be retriggered by hand while the pattern is running. If you trigger the sample, it plays on top of its own, polyphon. But on the one hand, the release of a fastly triggered kick drum sample is not cut this way. I always liked the sound of my MC-505 for this behavour.
On the other hand there is a disadvantage: If you have programmed a pattern in TR-Mode, the pitch (and maybe other parameters) of a sample is hardcoded in the pattern. if you change the pitch of a sample it does not affect the pitch of this sample in the pattern. But you can pitch down your sample and resample it and put this to the pad.
I like the sp-404mk2 for techno/house/4x4/ stuff, but you still have to find your workarounds on a luxury level now - what a luck, it would not be a SP if it wouldn't be this way.
Another thing - i recently bought an alpha juno 2 in good shape and i love this synth. So in wanted to sample it straight into the mk2. Unfortunately the stereo inputs do not tolerate a lot of gain. drum samples imported from SD-Card are way louder than my phrase samples of the alpha juno. Glad to have a compressor efx, but i wish the extern inputs would accept more gain/volume.
Congrat's on the Alpha Juno bruh, very nice, but not sure why you're having gain issues. Are you aware of the GAIN tab hidden in the SYSTEM menu?
- Press SHIFT + PAD 13 to enter UTILITY mode
- Press PUSH/ENTER knob to enter SYSTEM menu
- Turn CTRL 3 knob to select GAIN tab
Do any of the settings on the GAIN tab help with that?
BTW, I just thought of an even better way to select the FX busses, in fact it's so good I refuse to believe that there's a better way.
We have a "BUS FX" pad and we also have pads that contain the numbers 1 to 4 (all on the same row even). So what Roland should do is make it so that when you hold down the "BUS FX" pad, pad numbers 1-4 light-up to represent the four busses. So in order to choose any of the four busses, you just press pad 1-4 while holding down BUS FX - simple as that!
That's it, perfect in every way and completely logical due to the naming of the pads involved (BUS FX + 1,2,3,4). Doesn't get any more logical and obvious than that. And when the four pads light up to show the busses, the currently selected bus should be a different colour to show which Bus is currently selected.
This means you could even hold down the BUS FX pad just to remind yourself which Bus you are editing without actually switching it, so it's the best of both worlds. Seriously, there is no better way to do it than that, there literally isn't.
If there is I would love to know what it is because the pads are all on the same row and are (literally) named perfectly with "BUS FX + 1,2,3,4", so I reckon that's the way Roland should implement it, and I'm surprised they didn't do so from the start.
