Hi, I'm new to this and haven't bought my SP yet, been reading through the manuals though and maybe my question is just too simple to find the answer...

I've owned an MPC 1000 previously. So it has these folders and programs that you can load and they bring the samples to the pads you've assigned them to when you load them up, if you want to. You can also scroll through the memory card and listen to samples you've saved there and assign them to the pads. When you turn the power off, they "disappear" and have to be loaded again unless you turn on the auto load function. Simple.

So how do you work it out with an SP? Is there any more "space" in the SP and the memory card for samples except for the 12 pads in each 10 banks? Can you like, scroll thru them with the SP itself and do you just have to delete old ones to get space for a new samples? If I switch the SP off and switch it on again, do the samples I put in the pads stay there?

Sorry about a long post... language difficulties.

yo,
the sp works a lil differently than the mpc for loading/saving.

on the 404, you can turn it off and it will still remember everything just the way you left it, no matter what. when you put in a diff card it will just be the way it was when you left that card. you can export the samples to the card so they can be stored/renamed on a computer, or you can switch the samples onto the internal memory banks, put in a different card, and switch back to the banks on the new card. it will also remember patterns but NOT the BPMs so you have to write it down or sample yourself talking to keep track. you can also load sounds from computer via card reader and decide which pad to begin the loading of samples in that order. hope that makes sense. 1 gig is alot of room for sampling so unless you are in takes on it you definitely won't run short of space.

That answered just about everything. Thank you very much, man. Much appreciated.

Although it seems that 404SX doesn't have that internal memory... but that shouldn't be a problem either. Just a new thing to get used to.

no prob g! no internal memory on the sx?

Edited my answer:
I've been trying to find this shit out with Google and as far as I can understand it seems that this is the case. Roland's specifications on the SX don't mention internal memory at all and another thing, if you want to factory reset the SP and have formatted the original 1 gb memory card, they have the reset file on a cd-rom that comes with the package. You copy it to the card you use to reset the SP. So it seems the only writing memory SX uses is the card. I guess that tells it.

Kinda odd. Personally I wouldn't overlook the possibility of circulating samples from card to SP to another card or something. Now I'm not sure which SP I should buy... win some, lose some.

if you are into chopping alot, the og 404 has a technique with the mark button where you can progress through the sample as you chop without having to start from the beginning each time. just a thought. but the sx has lots more other functions.

yo kel, you remember what that post was called explaining the thing with the mark button? i remember reading about it but never actually doing it and wanted to revisit

This has probably been asked thousand times but I couldn't find what I was looking for, so I'll ask it here... When you've done a pattern, is it possible to edit it later? More important: is it possible to change the volume of an individual sample?

I'ma get my hands on a 404 this week. Looking forward to it.

You can change the volume of samples, as long as you're out of "pattern mode." Yes you can go back and edit the pattern.

Thanks again. This is a great forum.