If it’s like the other devices you’ll be fine playing and loading simultaneously and the sample will not take too long
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Yes, if…
it already doesn’t have sample slots so it may be different.
the demo-dude changes the kit on the fly in the sonic state video I just linked, and it’s instant.
of course, it may be different, or better - but the file still gets piped to the +Drive I’d guess?
All the more reason to use sample chains, IMO!
(Rytm chains are compatible)
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Idk. Fair few people using the current mpc and maschine range, and they’re at similar or higher prices.
It’s selling for $400 in the US pre-launch. Easy to see that drop by $50 in the year, and that’s new - could easily see these at $200-$250 second hand within a year or so.
As pidgeo says, it’s just a hunch, but a standalone, live-ready device with Elektron build quality and sound quality, along with standout sequencer for that price? Seems like real potential.
You weren’t paying current NYC or SF rent at the time I presume. 
omg ‘You have the unenviable task of presenting the urm… what’s it called?’
Rude!
I just think what all exists in the $349-$399 new in the groovebox/drum market?
Let’s not even talk used because that’s apples and oranges with regard to warranty, value, and such.
TR-09
TR-08
SP-404SX
Electribe
Electribe Sampler
Model:Samples
Drum Brute Creation
It’s a crowded market in that price range.
But I think each contestant can do at least a couple things better than all the rest.
Folks will have to decide which couple things they value the most and go from there.
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M:S is way more powerful to use as a midi module (e.g. can do retrig, lots of CC controls, etc) and both have nice performance tricks.
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id be hesitant to put the Sp404 in that category. Its more of a traditional sampler than a groovebox/drum machine imo. Maybe a MPC would fit the list instead of the SP.
No, definitely not. The sequencer or audio will never stop unless you are loading a new project or updating the machine.
Switching out samples depends a bit on the size of the sample being loaded in, but so far I haven’t noticed any delay. Theoretically, a larger sample (several MB) would perhaps take a 1-3 seconds to load in, but that just affects the track sound and not the rest of the pattern/sounds.
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@Ess not bashing anyone here but any light can be shed on the decision to make sample start resolution 120 instead of 127?
A lot of chains already built will suffer!
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Sure!
David from R&D explains it in this post:
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I have never experienced any unwanted noise when using my E2.
Mind you, I always set the oscillator to Audio-in on the tracks I use to sequence external gear.
Have to say Mario makes it look exceptionally jammable. Having the small step buttons in a row with the bigger trigger pads above them was a great design choice; really easy to quickly enter steps and to play triggers in live at the same time.
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Fair enough, cheers.
Nothing is done without having a reason for doing so. 
No it was a decade in the past so I wasn’t paying current NY or SF rent prices. 
On the expensive rent topic I think that’s housing is one of the next major problems technology will solve. 3D printing entire buildings and other things will hopefully correct the ridiculous idea that a person should work 30 years of their life for a place to call home. If we dedicate 30 years of our lives to something let us dedicate it to something less mundane and more magnificent… so hopefully autonomous driving will create classy nomadic groups of people and 3D printing will allow for beautiful cost effective buildings so that rent isn’t a problem.
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