What’re y’all’s plans for the holiday?
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Probably get wasted, turn on my gear, get the munchies, eat chips, turn up the buzz, and pass out!
Typical Friday really!!!
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and eat popcorn while the votes of bb38 come in 
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This is selling me on trying Serato studio tbh. I liked the sampler plugin well enough but felt like I didn’t need to spend the cash when I have simpler in Ableton. But I don’t really like Ableton for sample based stuff for whatever reason. And definitely don’t dig loading full tracks from SD card in standalone. Didn’t even know that Serato studio existed, but if it approximates a turntable plus a 404 with a few digital extras that could actually be pretty appealing.
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I will be eating 404 grains of rice to celebrate the holiday.
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Dedication.
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Start’em young!
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Yeah a bit underwhelmed by this update, personally I couldn’t care less about Serato integration as I don’t use it and probably never will. I guess it’s great for other people who do use it, but that’s it, for the rest of us there’s not much to gain other than an ugly startup screen.
Yeah, I’m into this tbh. Connecting a front end for my entire music library and all my rips to the 404 is a good time, works pretty much flawlessly. Really nice chopping tools, makes it easy to get in flow. Pick a track, jam it a bit, skip back, move on.
I know it’s a curveball update, but worth trying. Only thing I’m wondering about is how much of this will still work once I get through the free trial - enjoying it a lot but still probably not gonna pay $250 for the full version one way or the other. But it seems like the stuff I actually care about, i.e. library and sample chopping, are still in the free version.
I’d kinda moved away from music making on the 404 and was using it more as a utility FX/sampler, but this definitely puts a new spin on things.
Btw, are people really crying out for side chain compression? Every YouTube video on the update seems to have one comment after another on this. This might be one of my old man crank opinions, but I don’t really get why it’s supposed to be essential or even how it would work on this box.
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Sidechain compression is not really all that necessary imho but some new cool effects would have been welcome, along with some substantial quality of life improvements!
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I will say that in terms of QoL as others have mentioned it feels a lot snappier now. Which is a pretty big deal in itself.
Apart from importing from SD which (for me at least with a 512gb card) is still a laggy mess. One of the disappointments with the box, I’d assumed I’d just load a whole bunch of samples and full tracks and pull them from SD, but that’s just not been working out, way too slow. Guess I should probably try another card or something, although the Serato thing also really helps with that.
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this exactly, the whole device feels better.
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Can you please elaborate on that? Are the pads responding better? Which parts of the UI are more “snappy”? Thanks
Ok I might update if things are snappier. Can deal with some logos when i turn it on! Serato Studio is a cool bit of software. Had a 3 month full featured trial a year or two ago. Very quick to get an idea started.
I had a similar experience with 512gb but it’s understandable as it has to read it all then commit a directory to everything to RAM I think so that it’s quick after first total read from disk. When last I checked the 512 read speeds were just not fast enough.
I’m having a much better experience with 128GB Extreme Pro card now. I have TBs of samples but I’ve narrowed it down to my best 65gb of sounds and leave the rest for making my own. I find less is more when it comes to sample libraries so I have different stuff on my DT2, SP, MPC, iPad, MacBook so that everything has its purpose. Gives each box a bit of specificity.
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when recording longer samples there used to be a bit of a pause between pressing resample to end the recording and the screen changing and the new recording showing up on the pad.
i just tested it to make sure i wasnt imagining things and it was almost too snappy lol, the screen changed and the sample pad lit up immediately, before the audio even stopped.
thats just the major one i noticed since updating.
i did just notice during that test that they fixed my least favorite bug, where the FX knobs wouldnt respond immediately to the first turn as if they were waiting to get to their catch point, even when the knob position matched the parameter position. im explaining this poorly, but its gone so hell yeah
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I find it funny that some don’t want to update to newer versions. There’s very little downside to updating and on the flip side there’s often a ton of benefits.
I installed the update on mine today. I don’t love the new boot up animation logos for the various products. I meant to check if they had a different one you can change to in the settings.
Looking forward to testing out the Serato DJ integration. Now that Serato added Apple Music support, this could be a neat way to do things instead of using a DJ controller.
I went and got my free knob at the Roland Store. 
Nice people working there, but sadly no real events or anything this weekend beyond a couple of things yesterday. The people working at the shop were surprised when I told them that the P-6 has a pretty big fan base overseas. Maybe not as big here.
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