Pretty Simple Looping Question...

[romancandle23]

Hey Guys,

I'm new to the board, but have been using my 555 for about 3 months. I have a simple question...

If I have a loop playing from one of the banks I've already recorded, how can I record something on top of it, without the loop that's playing being recorded too? Does this make sense? I want to simply track a new loop without recording anything else, but while another loop or two is playing in the background...

I'd love to get this figured out asap! Could someone email me at [email protected] ?

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Matt

[shmedy]

you cant sample while a sample is playing. the loop capture is about as close as you can get to that, but it just overdubs. have you tried using the pattern mode?

[sharpmotif]

Limited as it may be (15s), you can do that using EXT ONLY in Loop Capture. (I guess that's exactly what shmedy said...?)

If you really want/need to sample longer stuff then you could record the input in a DAW then edit that stuff and save on the card (or sample it back to the SP-555 through USB).

[romancandle23]

That's just silly...wow. What is "pattern mode" and how does it differ from what I'm doing now? And thanks by the way...I mean it.

[springwater]

if you hook it up through fruity loops or some program that you can use the 555 as an audio interface (maybe reason, fruityloops, ableton, cubase) you could bang your pads through your computers audio and it brings it right back to your sp(if that makes sense) so you can use the ext only button and let your loops play from the pads. even after you get your loop (lets say a drum loop) and you save it to a pad, you set your tempo to that loop and hit the measures button which will sample in beats, give it maybe 4 beats and record your new loop and it,ll stop recording on point. then you got a new track to save to the pads and play together.
then you start another track and you get my point.

[shmedy]

in pattern mode you can record the sequence you play your samples from your pads.(follow the steps in your manual to set up to record in pattern mode.) then when you hit your pads it records the order and timing you hit them in, then it loops over.

[romancandle23]

Sweet....the actual answer to my question was simply by pressing EXT ONLY in Loop Capture. I just never saw that before...the Source Select button...I always used EXT and PADS. Thanks guys.