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Zoooooo[STBB954] SP-404 MKII + MPC Live II + lil extra polish in FL ZOOOOOOOOOO

almost never use acas, but i dig how this came out

#musicsky #producersky #beatmaking #sp404 #mpc

An opinion that may get me torched, pitchforked, tarred, and/or feathered, by the audiophile crowd but: broadly, generally, and in most cases, probably not and, unless you're using incredibly sensitive/expensive gear, the more expensive cable may even make it possibly be worse.

An image in two parts: The top half shows a still from an episode of Drugs Inc. where a gangster wearing a baseball cap pulled low and a yellow bandana over his face has an SP-404 MKII photoshopped poorly in his hand (which was originally a pistol). The clearly edited subtitle says, "This is my SP-404 MKII" The bottom half is a close-up of his hand, still holding the poorly photoshopped-in SP-404 with the subtitle reading, "This is my problem solver right here"

only thing it's missing is a toothpick tbqh

#producersky #musicsky #sp404 #beatmaking

First They Came For Our Pianos [#dibiflipsessions25] SP-404 MKII + MPC Live 2 Threw in a little stuff from my PT-01 Scratch to share how sad my turntable science really is.

If it sounds kind of meh and "today sucked" then it was probably meant to sound kind of meh and "today sucked..." or at least, that's what someone told me once.

#musicsky #producersky #beatmaking #sp404 #mpc

Gemini [STBB950] SP-404 MKII + MPC LIve 2

Two-faced ass beat...

#musicsky #producersky #beatmaking #mpc #sp404

a close up of a cartoon character 's fist with a pink building in the background Alt: a close up of the cartoon character Arthur's fist, clenched and shaking with the righteous anger of ten *thousand* Arthurs. but seriously holy fuck i'm mad.

Me: Scrolled halfway down the parent dir for my kick drum samples in the MPC Browser, enter a dir, don't find what I'm looking for, go up one dir back to the parent only to find myself scrolled all the way back to the top.

Also me, the 10th time this happens:

#producersky #musicsky #mpc

Polybrute envy, too. This has to stop. 😭

I've been watching more Jon Makes Beats videos lately and while I'm mostly impervious to GAS, this mf is giving me serious Waldorf envy.

#producersky #musicsky #beatmaking

Valley of Death [STBB949] 404 MKII + MPC Live 2

Got a little grimy with the SP-404 MKII and the MPC Live 2

#producersky #musicsky #sp404 #mpc #beatmaking

Running Backwards with Scissors [#dibiflipsessions24] Made for Dibia$e Flip Sessions #24 using a combination of the SP-404 MKII as a jumpoff point for chops and some initial FX, and then sequenced, mixed, and further dirtied up on the MPC Live 2 in stand

Eyyy I did a thing again, but this time I reincorporated the MPC back into the mix (with the 3.x firmware!)

#producersky #musicsky #sp404 #mpc #beatmaking

YouTube video by Crash Fleet Crash Fleet - Ride The Wave

My new video “Ride The Wave” from the #RootofItAllDetails EP is on YouTube!!!!

#RootofItAllDetails #blackproducer #producerbsky #musicsky #blacksky
#beatstrumental

youtube.com/watch?v=BTYv...

Carry A Big Stick [STBB945] A little messy; my signature style, apparently. Second go with the SP-404 MKII. My excuse this time is I'm experimenting with different ways of getting these tracks recorded.

Second go solely on the MKII - not terrible!

A little sloppy because Pattern Chains and live FX don't seem to play super well together without some forethought, but overall, I'm pretty pleased.

#producersky #musicsky #sp404

one of those cream-colored/kind of yellowed registers from the 1980s and 1990s

gonna tell my kids this was an MPC3000

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a man wearing glasses and a black suit stands in front of a green field Alt: Tim Gunn making an "ew yuck" expression with his face and holding his hand up as if to block the grossness

Took up a challenge to make a trap beat on the MKII and things were going alright, I guess, until I decided to take the Roll function for a spin.

#producersky #musicsky #sp404mk2

... I really dig the Mk2 and even after such a short time with it, I couldn't get rid of it if I wanted to at this point. Roland's latest update just feels awfully lopsided for a subset of a subset of users for a major version jump. The Serato "ad" during startup feels kinda lame too lol

... and these are just the ones that jump to mind after spending only a couple weeks with it. I haven't even begun to dive into additional FX modules or utilities (VU meter? Tuner?) or the plethora of other possible QoL tweaks (Solo pads? Actual fixed length recording instead of just End Snap?)

4. Make individual step editing less obnoxious in TR REC mode

5. Default TR REC velocity to PAD instead of 90

6. Sidechaining (I don't even care about this one, personally, but it's so commonly requested that it would obviously find broad use immediately)

...

Missed opportunities for the SP-404 MKII 5.0 update:

1. Proper envelopes not based on sample length

2. "True" mono (merging L/R instead of choosing one or the other)

3. Pattern recording defaulting to the last used setting for bars instead of defaulting to 2

...

#producersky #sp404 #musicsky

Do You Know [STBB943] My maiden voyage (proper) on the SP-404 MKII, so be gentle because I'm just learning my way around it. Feels like this thing is going to become incredibly important to me in my audio adventures beca

(Trudy Wiegel voice) I did something!

First track done strictly on the SP-404 Mk II since it arrived a week and a half ago. A little rough around the edges, but it reaffirmed my decision to get the thing. I absolutely love it.

#producersky #sp404 #musicsky

*Finally* started actually learning to *use* the Mk2 yesterday, so I'll call this Day 2 (technically) & I really dig this thing! The FX, the lack of bells and whistles that forces you to kind of go head-down-and-do-shit, the quirks & the jank & idiosyncrasies are just right.

ZERO buyer's remorse. 🤌

Picked up an SP-404 to complement the MPC Live 2. It came in on Friday, I spent Friday evening and most of Saturday sliding into a building rage because my audio interface is lacking, Windows audio routing is ass, and I was trying to get the two to do the impossible...

#producersky #sp404

Serum 2 dropped yesterday and I've already seen multiple images of people writing 'BOOBS' or drawing a dick in the new Path LFO type just as God intended.

(Serum 2 is also everything I could have ever wanted in an update)