many thanks homie 
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Unfortunately you can only map SP pads. Knobs and other buttons are a no go.
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I just released a beat tape, composed on daw then sampled on the Sp-404 mkii and recorded as performed live, then mastered.
It’s a mix of hiphop (ish) beat, sample flipping and bass music.
Soundcloud here
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Can’t listen without signing up to Spotify?
Cheers!
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Let us know if you upload it anywhere else. Would love to give this a listen!
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Soundcloud link added
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Link’s not working for me…
Cheers!
Not working for me either
Some dirty, maximalist, bassy stuff I just made
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Does anyone here often use the SP 404 mk2 in combination with an iPad?
I am just wondering if bouncing between the two might get me around the limitations of the SP when it comes to building tracks…
I just want something fun, simple and dawless to collect samples from my record collection and get me away from the laptop. I have ableton Live but not used it in ages.
Sorry, I never really tried to use program changes, so I dont know…
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I’ve never tried program changes either, wouldn’t even know where to start!
That said, if it didn’t work, you could resample each pattern to a pad and trigger each pad via midi!
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I use my iPad frequently to expand SP when I want more options or complexity.
As a sound module leveraging all of the amazing synths, sound modulators, loopers and sound effects is a cable away.
A app like Drambo or Loopy Pro eliminates the pain of creating or recording perfect loops in time from any source. Set the time, bars or recording threshold and go. Sample, resample…barely breaks the traditional SP workflow. Just enhances it.
Beatmaker 3 could be the best sampler on any platform. I chop stuff up often and have tons of sounds stored in BM3 as it has a better file management then SP. It brings everything MPC and Maschine does on the best touchscreen—to SP. This is what i typically use to create sounds or packs to sell because you can layer and resample your way to great sounds from any combination of sources very quickly.
Egoist and Looperator by Sugarbytes are a cheat code for SP. DrumComputer by Sugarbytes might be an even better drum sequencer than TR style.
Essentially, with iPad attached via UsBC an iPad becomes a great power bank, sample/sound source, plugin host, effects rack and/or mixer (AUM, Loopy, Drambo) for SP making it more powerful than all of the other full sampling workstations like MpC, Maschine, etc and still exponentially more portable.
SP x iPad/iPhone is definitely more powerful and fun than my other Standalones. Still smaller footprint and I can design custom skins, screensavers for sp on it and get inspired (sample) from YouTube, HBO, Spotify, whatever.
I even made the custom skin for my SP with Adobe Illustrator for iPad.
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So is the SP acting as the brains of this operation (ie. you’re producing material on the iPad to add to the SP), or is the iPad the final destination?
Both.
Depends on many factors like project, inspiration, genre, vibe, location etc. However, I’m definitely mixing and mastering a lot of my projects in Logic or Zenbeats on iPad these days.
Even though iPad has sophisticated DAW like apps and now slimmed down Logic…it still feels DAW-less to me. As simple and powerful as I like but still very minimal and portable.
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Really appreciate the detailed response! With all the apps you mention, can I ask how much you typically do on the SP itself? What you posted above re Drambo and Loopy pro makes me wonder if the SP is really painful to work on for sample manipulation. It kinda sounds like you could almost do without the SP?
I’ll be honest and say part of me wants the SP so I can get my internet addicted ass away from online devices: do you think a workflow where you just hook up the ipad now and again when you get stuck at certain moments is doable? That is, I’d like to do as much as possible just with the SP, and augment it here and there with my ipad.
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I reckon that AUM’s a pretty great environment for back and forth stuff between the SP and the iPad to live. When I’ve connected up the iPad, it’s been cool both for getting sample fodder into the SP using whatever combination of apps to make it, and then live recording a later jam from the SP.
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Agree about AUM being awesome.
Only issue I have with it is file management, but that might be a me thing.
Recordings made in AUM are accessible from Audioshare if I recall correctly, so I get them from there if I need them afterwards. I don’t particularly like AUM as a sample player as it’s very fiddly in that regard IMO, but there are plenty of other apps that do that well, and the SP of course!
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