Looks good! Nice work!
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thanks for the tips. i scuffed up the existing clear layer slightly with a brillo pad type thing before painting it black, as the video instructed, but not much. but that krylon all in one primer+ paint is very nice and works really well on its own. i don’t think it requires any preparation at all, aside from disassembling, unscrewing the control board from the bottom layer, detaching the battery plug, and covering the parts you don’t want painted with tape
the clear coat stuff adds a nice finishing layer, makes it look more professional/less like paint, but only requires a thin layer.
if anyone does decide to paint theirs, you have to get the inner lip which seems like it wouldn’t be visible (the side that meets the top piece of the enclosure). because when i first painted it, i didn’t get that part, as it seemed like it wouldn’t show when it was reassembled, but it did
this is what it looked like after the first attempt, where i painted it laying upside down and ignored the inner lip, which is still visibly yellow here:
and another angle of the finished p-6(with the clear coat rust-oleum layer):
(i think i sprayed a little too much of the ‘Rust-Oleum 334022 Painter’s Touch 2X Ultra Cover Spray Paint - Matte Clear’, but its not as grey and speckled as it appears here)
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Yeah, top coats can be tricky, if they go on even slightly too thick, they tend to cloud up a bit
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Price at GC went up 10 $269.
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I’ve revisited using the P-6 and tried to solve my issue of losing track of everything mid performance.
One thing that seems to help - I rediscovered the sample swap feature, PAD + SHIFT + PLAY so you can juggle things about and get what you’re using onto a single bank, or possibly two.
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Monotron delay sounds epic on this PO-33. I bet it’s a good fit for the P-6 as well. Gonna have to give it a go.
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Oh man, they biting my 2019 style 
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I love the way it sounded on the old Yamaha SU10 as well. I always come back to this video.
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Still amazed by how affordable this great sounding sampler is for all the stuff Roland included.
I hope they keep expanding the Compact line. Anyway I am having quite some fun with combining the P-6 with a mini KP2 lately and being able to record these jams ‘on the go and on the cheap’
A little IDM jam:
A little Disco jam:
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Wow! It’s incredible that is coming out of a crufty old SU10
Love the sample of Tom Jenkinson at the end, I know the exact interview that’s from 
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Wife and kiddos got me a P6 for Father’s Day! Can’t wait to experiment and add it to the sp fam.
If not keep it in the the car for lunch breaks!
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Congrats, man! I might be even more excited than you are. I can’t wait to hear what you cook up.
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Man really enjoyed the tape!!!
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better after every listen! I made a little synopsis on the forum if you wanna check iit!
Man really diggin the p6, you probbaly noticed but basically read the whole thread the last couple days at work!
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Thanks, man! Loved your breakdown of everyone’s stuff and thanks for the kind words.
Glad you are digging the P-6. In a moment of weakness I ordered an SP-202 yesterday. I think the old SP forums beat tapes got the better of me. Looking forward to combining it with the other SPs and trying it with the P-6. Maybe a little mini P-6/202 combo beat tape. Haha.
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No judgement here!
In celebration I posted a bunch of my favorite 202 tapes! Plus Green Dutch’s tape fresh off the press!
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Yep. I copped it and bought a 202 right after. 
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Scenario: I have a drum loop that I want to play bass over and save the bass sample to its own pad (without drums). However, P-6 seems set to always resample the main outs, so I can’t figure out if this is possible or not. I want to play over the drums and not a metronome (if there is one) and use threshold recording to detect my first note but of course as soon as hit play the drums trigger the threshold and it starts recording right away. Do I need to rebuy an SP-404 MKII for 8th time?
Yes, I am 100% sure this functionality does not exist on the P6. Very unique feature for the 404 MKII being able to resample the ext only instead of the full mix. Only SP that can do this.
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