everyone raved about the KP3 and i got one (cheaaaap and used) based on what i had heard.. i was hoping for a loop capture similar to the 555 thing but it wasnt what i expected... i wasnt feeling it at all... got my money back on the resale tip though..

Sounds good to me, thanks for the insights!

I now got an SP-404 and am very happy with it, but I'm still very interested in the smaller differences. The Flying Lotus copy method works fine for me, so I don't think the Pattern Copy is going to make me sell this SP-404.

But I do wonder, does the new SP-404sx also take equally as long as the sample would play, for it to import a sample??

According to the old SP-404 manual, importing a 3 minutes WAV file, is supposed to take 3 minutes.

As the SP-404sx doesn't convert to the SP-404 format anymore, does this mean, it's like near instant?

I wonder if the pure performance difference might be a good enough reason to want an SP-404sx. The [func] button has been a good idea, so that'll mean less [cancel] + [etc.] kind of short cuts you need to memorize.

But... I think I'm going to shrink and print the shortcuts from the manual and turn it into a sticker and put it on the back of my SP-404 anyway (above the batteries).

Time for stupid questions: what happens when you import an 8 bit sample and then press the lo-fi button?