In the “voice” & “p.env” menus for each pad, you have an envelope and there is a param in the menu for t.env, which is envelope type. If you choose AdAC, it loops and you can control the speed with attack and decay if you lower the sustain enough, like a function generator
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This is very cool - it is not on all samplers… and indeed this was a feature that old samplers had, I think the EMU Xt had it
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Has anyone tried connecting a USB hub to the P-6 to connect more devices via MIDI? It’s not working for me. The manual says that some MIDI information “might” not be sent while using a hub but I’m not getting any connection.
In my experience, it’s also not allowing any connection to MIDI keyboards that do not offer USB-C to USB-C connections.
Connecting over MIDI cables works as expected and every other function over USB-C seems to work properly as well.
Does anyone else have similar experiences?
I thought the P6 was just a USB device (and not also a host like the SEQTRAK) therefore in theory it shouldn’t support any controller directly over USB?
Will try it with a MiniLab 3 via USB-C cable tomorrow - hopefully I’m wrong… 
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You might be right. I’m used to using the Seqtrak as a host and just assumed the P-6 would behave the same way. I at least thought plugging in a MIDI keyboard would work directly over USB 
I think you need an USB host (iOS, Android, computer)
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Another good stream. I always learn something when watching him and you can tell he legit really likes it. He’s making really good use of speeding up sample chops and step sampling them. Fitting loads of chops on one pad, sounds great as well when pitched back down.
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In my mind I’d like to pick one of these up & use it like a “micro groovebox”, very limited but still just possible to make full tracks with some drums, bass, pads, lead etc. across several patterns.
How have people been using this thing, with the 48 samples limitation?
Creating sliced kits? e.g. a single 808 sample with different hits sliced into it?
Or just burning though the 6 pads & 48 samples with one shots?
Also - I couldn’t see anything about pattern chaining in the manual, obv not expecting a full song mode here but maybe something to link patterns together
Both for me… I’ve been slowly making 16/32/64 note drum kits for things I don’t mind being a bit chunky… and placing these on the banks E/F/G/H.
Leaving banks A/B/C/D mostly for quick sampling of whatever I am working on at the time for one shots and loops, and then offloading onto another device for further work. For me, the P-6 has been more a temporary place to try things out quickly without having to be too precious about it or the limitations.
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An OP-1 Field plugged directly into the P-6 will work because it’s a usb host. But that’s an expensive keyboard.
I think you could use a raspberry pi nano or similar to act as a host for both a normal usb midi keyboard and the P-6. It’ll need some software installing but should be pretty stable once setup.
I think CME are developing a nice portable keyboard/synth which will be a midi host. I remember seeing a superbooth video.
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As much as I appreciate limitations and was aware of what I was getting myself into with this, I still struggle with conceptualizing a workflow with the sample export and other limitations
But I was thinking that this would be a really good box for a process where you intentionally work with a single sample and make the most out of that one sound
Because it excels at resampling. And most of my free pads are taken up by many resample takes. Just reprocessing over and over again with every new mfx or every new granular iteration
So I feel like intentionally starting off with one sample and having 47 free pads to build off of would be very powerful. I think that’s what I’ll try to force myself to do. I don’t have much use for a sampler really, I only use samples that are my own, aside from some vocal acapellas. So this idea really inspires me
So I thought I’d share that. I think that the p-6 will really excel at that sort of process
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The first two things I’ve recorded with this have been made from a single sample. I think it’s really great at this kind of sound design, especially since you also have the granular engine.
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i really like those recordings you shared here. just made one myself with the sound of a metal necklace but i cant get my iphone adapter to work. it only works 30% of the time, it seems and i cant figure out why, even with the syntakt now with the p-6 on the ext ins
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I can’t get mine to work either. I need to try that boot up trick to turn off USB power to see if that fixes it.
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The granular functionality of this unit is such a nice bonus 
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Are you on ios 16,5?
this is excellent!
chef’s kiss
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17.6.1
Thanks man
I suppose it’s obvious, but it’s very low effort. But that says a lot about how easy it is to make nice soundscapes on the thing from a single sound recorded through the built in mic
The resonator mfx is ultra powerful. I’ve been putting that on everything. I’ve been making these little beats that sound like early 2010’s mount kimbie/james Blake just by throwing the resonator on the whole pattern with the (shift + ctrl 1) chord to Maj 9 and brightness somewhere around 50. Sounds perfect
On low tones, it rounds them out and turns them into like future ambient 808s and obviously with high frequencies it sounds like rings. which I guess it technically is, in modal resonator mode anyway. The “ambience” reverb is also very grainy if you set the time very high iirc. It turns into like a very vaporous broken up particle verb
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