So far I've played maybe 5-8 hours with it. Haven't tried sampling anything yet, just running a DR-202 through it getting familiar with the different effects. I also recently got Sonar 7 producer edition. Would I be able to export tracks directly off sonar and export them to the card?

definitely
just make sure they are in the right format (p 38 of manual)

the SPs work well with long samples, so you can drop entire channels of tracks in there if your card is big enough.

welcome aboard

awesome, I was hoping I could run really long samples. I'm primarily a drummer so I want to play along with this and also use my own drum samples. Although, for the DR-202 being old I must say I've been having a good time working with it, I also send the midi signal to a microkorg.

with long samples - provided you keep them 'clean" ie, fixed bpm and ending cleanly on end of a bar eg 16 bars...

you could program a 16 bar pattern - sequence that big sample as well (just press record, quantize 4, bar length 16, hit the sample on "1") rather than just letting the sample sit as a loop.

this is very handy in performance - and for tracking - it would ensure your later long samples will progress smoothly (as you have done the same to them) -and you could also program yr drums all over the 16 bars as well..

so when its playing - you have pressed yr first pattern (1) - you could then press yr 2nd pattern pad at ANY time within the 16 bars and the 404 will queue that up - then you could switch to sample mode and do some freestyle over the first pattern as it runs out - it should change by itself while you can still freestyle to the 2nd pattern- then you would have to switch back to pattern mode to either queue up the next or previous pattern - back and forth.

If you didn't queue another pattern before the bar length ran out - that current pattern would just play again.

BUT you will lose the beat counter once you change into Sample mode so you will have to keep time in yr head..

if yr a drummer you will kill this.

just remembered - this guy isn't doing necessarily what I said - it could be all freestyle -

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... id=2993895


click on the vidoe for "live at the tavern"

I think Joe sequences most of his stuff in his fav software and imports as sample files to his 404 for performance.

Now I miss my DR-202.