Rikki don’t lose that video
You don’t have to post another take
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It’s a pretty fun video but there was a nasty high pitched whine going the whole way through which I guess might be the reason he pulled it.
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No hiss whatsoever from P-6. Dead quiet.
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Talking about step sampling:
64 one-shots on 6 pads multiplied by 8 banks = 3072 one-shots at your disposal at any time. Crazy.
Plus effects. Plus sequencer.
Mamma mia. What a “toy”!
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Kinda annoying to have to give up a full slot per single cycle though, my first thought was this would be crazy powerful to have 64 available, but doing it this way loses the ability to play chromatically afaik.
No big deal anyway, I was just thinking about how best to load up Bank A with my standard stuff and will be exploiting the hell out of chains/step sampling to fit in a bunch of my go-to sounds.
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Yep, it would be so powerful to have 64 SCWF’s on one pad with ability to play chromatically… Oh well. I’m too gathering now all my one-shots for the bank A, to have all 384 drum sounds in one bank. It will free all other banks for the melodic samples. Also I’d like to have one bank dedicated specifically for the granular samples (choirs, voiceovers, nature sounds, etc.)
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Got one on back order. Expected in a week or so. My goal, as someone who cannot sing, is to pair it with a E4 Voice Tweaker and create short vocal clips, mangle them, then load them into my Digitakt II.
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Just watched a YouTube video where they use a chopped sample in step input mode. You need to edit step by step to select the desired chop. Such a backwards implementation.
From the Ricky video, I understand a bit more about the Bus A and Bus B crossfade thing the developer mentioned in that article. I didn’t realize there was a mixer mode. So you can assign some samples to A and some samples to B and then do volume cross fades between the two in that mixer mode it looks like. I’m not exactly sure practically speaking how I would utilize it, but I get what it does now at least.
(I wonder if that can be automated or if it’s meant for live use).
Reupped
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I’m glad Ricky moans about how hard it is to real-time play notes on the P6’s buttons, which shake slightly side-to-side and don’t always cleanly trigger. I have the same complaint about the S-1’s keyboard buttons. Don’t know why Roland did it like this.
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been running into similar issues but im thankin the lord he mentioned the quantization timing setting because i need mine down at 50, everything has been working much better for me since making that change
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Yeah, I didn’t know that quantization timing thing existed until he mentioned it in the video. Thanks, Ricky …
Trying now to move back and forth between his vid, the p-8, and the manual and get my head around this box. So far, I still feel a lot of affection for it.
Things have come a long way since my first 20th century sampler (Casio FZ-10m, which cost more than a used car and had a total sampling time of 29 seconds) . . .
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Quick discovery for other beginner/explorers:
Pad 5 in Bank A, used in Pattern 1-1, is a step-sample or chop. You can hear it clearly if you mute all pads except Pad 5, then play Pattern 1-1.
If you turn on KEYBOARD when the pattern isn’t playing, RECORD button is off, and PATTERN button is off, you can hear different short hat and percussion samples by playing the different 16 keys.
For example:
- F is some kind of reversed sound,
- A# is mostly clave,
- high C is closed hat layered with some kind of shaker/tambourine.
I wiped most patterns and samples for future point-and-shoot sampling experiments, but found it helpful to preserve Patterns 1-01 thru 1-06 and Banks A and B, just to see some of what’s possible. They use granular too but I haven’t checked those settings yet …
Little by little, we learn to walk.
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If you hit granular and those step samples does it pull up the screen where you can change things like volume and mute group, etc?
Mine comes at the end of the week, so can check then, but just curious as I haven’t seen anything about this in any of the videos. Basically, I’m curious if step samples are assigned to like a master mute group for the pad or if individual mute groups is possible. I’m guessing settings are common to everything on the same pad, but it would be cool if only some of the step samples could be assigned to a mute group, otherwise you will need to separate your hats out from your other drums when building up sample chains.
No, it doesn’t seem to. Hitting GRANULAR selects the granular pad and allows for chromatic playing of the granular synth’s chosen sample. Holding down a step key while hitting GRANULAR doesn’t seem to change that. In other words, once you hit GRANULAR, you’re basically choosing a new pad (GRANULAR), and unchoosing Pad 5, where the chop lives.
(BTW, I’m guessing my Pad 5 example is a chop, not a step sample, judging from how the individual bits sound.)
I don’t think you should take my word too much for anything at this point, lol. The p-6 UI is highly context dependent, so it’s easy to end up doing something you didn’t want to.
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Cool, no worries! Yeah, looks like a lot to sort out even if you’ve read the manual! Good luck!
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