MD SPS-1 MKii UW+ Sampling external input

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#1

Hello!

I recently got myself a SPS-1 MKii UW+ and I can’t get to sample my external input (guitar for instance) correctly…
I have followed the steps closely but the sound of the playback is very faint.

Here’s what I did:

Set and INP-GA on M4 and activated a trig to enable
Set RAM-R1 on M1 with the following parameters:

-MLEV -64 (as I don’t wanna record internal sound)
-ILEV 64 (which is supposed to be very loud)
-IBAL -64
-CUE1 and CUE2 0
-Full length and rate

Set RAM-P1 on M2

Procedure for recording:

I put a trig on RAM-R1 and play, and remove it once I recorded my sound.
After I put a trig on P1 to make it play…
I hear the sound very faintly, I tried raising the level of MLEV and that does raise the level of the guitar but it also does record every other machine.

Please help! :slight_smile:
Axel

#2

Only from memory, the MD is boxed atm.

You do not need the inp-ga. If you dial up the cue of your input and hear sth, then it’s all good. You can dial the cue to 0 again.
Not familiar with guitar levels… is it line level?
Set a trig on the RAM-R, length to pattern length
Set a trig on RAM-P, length to 127. On the amp section you can raise the vol.

Thats what I can recall so far. Check it out.

And gratulations on your purchase. Great box you have there.

#3

OK removed the inp-ga. And my volumes are turned all the way up everywhere.

I do hear a very faint sound when I put CUE1 all the way up but nothing normal. I tried it with a synth and it works better even if I have to turn up the volume on the synth quite a lot. Could it be because I need to pass my guitar through an amp for it to become loud enough for the md?

#5

Succeed! Connected my guitar to audio interface then boosted it up from there and connected from line out to MD, works great.

Thank you all.

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