Holy crow, we’re spoiler with the amount of sampler options nowadays.
You’d think we were living through the dark ages with the amount of belly aching going around the world wide web. Yikes!
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Well, after getting P-6 yesterday, I’ve spent a couple of hours today with it. Yes, it’s for me for sure. Love it’s quick response to my brain movement, even though the menu asks for some diving in. But here I have all what I’ve missed in EP-133: sample looping, resampling, and even more - granulizer 
And the FX - oh my. All these years after selling my 404SX I thought of MKII, but here I have it miniatured and rechargeable-battery-powered!
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Now, if Roland would make same form factor RC-505ish multitrack looper to pair it with P-6… I’ll be totally content.
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So, where we at with all this then? Should I get one or not?
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Totally depends of your preferences. Me happy. You - don’t kno…
you are a 1010 Music ambassador, what are you doing with cheesy Roland gear? 
Jokes, aside, I think it is a cool device, but Tangerine and Lemondrop are superior.
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I like it
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Hahahaha! The responsible answer is no, but its tiny, portable, a Roland, it’s cute. Biggest realization for me in midst of the first 24 hours is that, although I have numerous portable-ish pieces of gear. this is one I’m actually going to bring with me because I’m ok if it gets run over or stolen or whatever. Im sure the availability will even out after the first rush and I could just get another.
Im also not asking it to do anything all my other gear doesn’t already do. I don’t envision myself trying to ‘push it to the limits’ or ‘master my gear’ with this one. Just wanna chill and do some lower bit rate sampling and simple beats. I don’t want to cheapen it by saying this, but I am looking at it as just a fun sideshow.
Edit - I think I’ll be using it to collect samples as well when I’m not in the song writing mood. Sampling in different rates, resampling with the effects, offloading to my SP or BlackBox or MPC.
Edit again - Its hooked up to my computer right now, I’m using it as my in and out, I factory reset it so its totally blank, I got my headphones hooked up and I have my whole bedroom studio full of sounds I can sample in. I’m psyched no matter what happens.
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any of you compared the sound to your lo-fi xt12?
It really makes me wish the SP-404 MK2 had a microphone.
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Definitely spoiled for choice. Has been occurring to me that almost by stealth the sampler/sampling renaissance has overtaken the analogue synthesis revival that had been happening since the late '00s. Or maybe it’s been there all along and I haven’t really been paying attention, idk.
Just finishing the thought from above, but I’m generally quite skeptical about the creative limitations thing when it comes to gear - mostly I kinda feel like I’d rather have something that’s overall pretty capable and make artistic decisions to limit or focus on particular defined aspects - keys, modes, rhythms - or work on a particular limited set of instruments or samples. If I only use half of a tool’s potential this time, I might use the other half the next. But idk, this feels like it’s landing in a sweet spot - I guess really it’s actually pretty capable anyway and can go a lot of different places.
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Same feeling going into this one. I have the SP404mkii and my DAW if I need to do more heavy lifting. I’m not a gamer, but this feels to me like having a retro handheld versus a powerful console. Which you prefer more is a personal choice or…have both.
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At least with my $500 and under samplers, I don’t look for a large scope of capabilities. I prefer a specific set of blunt tools, organized around a fun and fast workflow. Quick and dirty. Cut and Paste.
Something different than a phone or laptop. I’m thinking about boomboxes and cassettes. Click-y plastic and rubbery buttons.
If those types of things (like the EP-133) didn’t interest me wouldn’t be here. But I do. And I appreciate that Roland dropped this one for us plebs that still enjoy these types of things. And I hope they continue to do so going forward.
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FWIW I may get my p-6 this friday and think it the worst piece of crap ever created or just be underwhelmed lol
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Oh yeah, despite being pretty much the same thing - A Sampler that Samples Sounds - for me at least small differences in feel and process have a massive bearing on the outcomes. One thing I love to do is work up a bunch of material on one box or in the DAW, then dump it all into another and see what comes out. It’s kinda amazing how different the results tend to be even though it’s the same person using largely the same basic sampling techniques on the same material. Granted, that is part equipment, part different vibes on different days, but still.
I guess I’m just holding back on this and doing a lot of rationalising because I’ve gotten pretty conscious of the the gear for gear’s sake consumerist thing, but I’m really not seeing much redundancy here, there’s basically not much else out there that’s quite like it.
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Yeah, having owned and used the Yamaha SU10, I feel like if I use that as my baseline it will be hard to be disappointed (as the P6 can do so much more and looks easier to make stuff on). For people going in comparing it to their MPC One or whatever, I think they have a much higher bar to clear. 
The wildcard for me is whether I like the sound.
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Yes! I’m kinda on the fence about the sound. That’s the big unknown for me too.
Also, hoping it’s not buggy as hell
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Just call it R-5… 
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Exactly! And make it 8-track… Dreaming aloud.
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