I’ve also just got myself a 404. It’s really exciting to play with because it’s unlike any other sampler or groovebox I’ve had before.
For example, there’s a stop button and an additional ‘pause’ shift function on the other end of the device, but no ‘play’ button. You just hit a pad to start playback. And it works! But I’m so used to having the 3 transport controls on every single other music device.
Although I still need to figure out how to actually use it for music making, just playing around with it for the first few hours was a lot of fun.
Thanks. I just lost the answer I typed. After typing I wanted to quote you, I hit: Quote, then I lost what I typed beforehand.
Apparently that does not work. Better work in wordpad or something.
Anyway; your answer makes it a bit clearer.
‘Sample while a pattern chain is playing’ seems like a good plan for me. I will also use different methods like record chords and slice them up.
And I will also load samples exported from 707.
Don’t worry; I won’t ring you up at 3am, I will call before bedtime.
I love recording audio. Started out with a Fostex 4 track, my mic thru a guitar amp for the spring reverb, line out into the fostex.
I don’t expect some metal parts with current going through them to bend to my will. I am thankfull for the mystery and am curious and often amazed at the outcome.
So on one hand it depends on how often I will record guitar. On the other I think GAS could strike earlier. Have my eyes on 404 since last year, ordered it then but it was not available for half a year.
I like what Nonjuror does with it.
Yes, that was a tip that I posted upthread (and again in the MPC thread, if I recall).
Pattern tempo supersedes sample tempo; so, if you have an empty pattern running in the background, your time-based FX will sync to that, project wide.
The upshot there is that you can then also use that “ghost” pattern to quantize the launching of other sequences, because it will follow incoming clock and transport. To that end, I suggest creating a 1-bar empty pattern in every project, as a utility.
Made something really weird! It’s in 5/8 and microtonal, so I don’t really think it’ll be the most accessible lol. I arranged it all on the Syntakt, and used the SP for dynamic eqing and delay, as well as some compression, but honestly this is mostly a Syntakt piece. I don’t tend to perform too much over these more quantized pieces, and I should really change that.
yeah, ive been getting some random jumps where a value changes a ton without me touching it, i feel like it only happens when trimming samples. not sure if its a dust thing or a general hardware thing
happy 8/08 friends, made this tune with some of the new blankfor.ms tape haze samples. did my usual, happy with my synth freestyling. been hitting solid one take melody lines that i enjoy recently
i remeber reading of a way to loop a sample (thats longer than the pattern its in)after playing completely without retriggring every time the pattern restarts, anyone know what the trick is?
where do you guys have the 404 in your setups? im working on some live stuff and i have an a4mk2 going into a digitakt and that going into the 404 and as much as i like having the fx able to freak the entire track (and use skipback to capture cool bits ) i feel like the ext signal peaks too easily in the 404 and the samples sound SO much louder, theres so much more headroom when i use the DT last, but at the same time i feel like having the 404 there has made my workflow so much faster, i can build parts and variations super fast and not having the 8 track limit of the DT is HUGE for me(as much as i prefer the elektron sequencers)
