How are you getting on with it? Mine just arrived but no power supply or batteries around, so have to run out to the shops.
Great, it takes a short while to get used to it, you will probably need to do the update as mine shipped with an older version. You can use a Volca power supply if you have one of those around.
Workflow is quite ok once you get some of your own samples on it, the 4 tracks go quite a long way thanks to the polyphony, so chords or drum parts are possible on single tracks, I think it sounds really nice, with the exception of the tape fx which just layers mains hum and white noise over the mix 
Why no YouTubers mentioned this is a mystery, itās crap. But really no other complaints for the price, stick with it for a few days until you get used to the workflow/operation and it is worth the effort I think.
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Is the resampling useable?
I guess thatās subjective as itās a lofi machine, but if I resample a custom break thatās been made across 4 channels, how does it sound? Obviously itās crunchy in the first placeā¦ So just wondering.
I keep face palming a bit too when I search YouTube for the latest videoās. A lot of cheesy music that makes it sound like a toy, when Iād expect loads of crusty boombap sickness. Maybe itās just because not that many people have picked it up yet
Not sure if you can resample if using all 4 tracks as I think you need a track (and empty sample) free to do it, I tried resampling and it was crusty as all heck, noticeably more so than the pattern, even at 24k sample rate, also the level is much lower and I couldnāt figure out how to adjust it, manual did not even mention resampling. TBH I doubt Iād bother resampling on this basis, better to record externally then resample that IMHO.
Cheers 
Meh. Not going to be arsed to do that generally I think, so probably a no go device.
TBH I think for Boombap it isnāt that suitable, you have limited sampling time and slots and sample management is by sysex. It is more like a drum machine/synth than say an SP404 or MPC, that said it is good but somewhat a walled garden, actually a little like a SP12/1200.
Would you say itās harder to make a boom bap beat on it than a PO-33? It seemed like a slightly fancier but immediate version of that, but maybe Iām in āgrass is greenerā territory
Probably a bit easier but Iām not a Boombap guy, though I do have a PO-33. I guess if you can try one with a return policy that would be the way to go. The chopping is just dividing the sample into equal sections currently there is no manual chop points. I asked them to implement the OP-1 style chopping and they seemed to think it was a good idea, but who knows if they will add it.
https://soundcloud.com/leptic-p/ecoute-ca?si=64d98a0e712c41a29cc76746a3c9d4e1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
some sort of boom bap made with it & resampling is ok if you stay in the lo fi standart
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Hey guys, Iām struggling to update the firmware to v 2.0. Iām on a Mac using Sysex librarian, followed all the instructions and lowered the transmit speed even to a ridiculously low level and still canāt get past the UPDT status on the Lo Fi 12. I checked MIDI cable Iām using and it works well for everything else. Iām using Digitakt as the MIDI USB source, is there a mode I have to put the DIgitakt in to make this work? Thanks for any tips.
Yes the update is not fun, buy it with the os2 installed
If I had a Time Machine then I would 
The digitakt canāt send sysex files to external gear. And be careful to do so, because it can break the machine. Youāll need an audio interface with midi to get it working. Hope, that helps ā good luck!
Yikes, thank you.
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Yeah 
or a midi cable to USB, thatās what Iāve done
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The mad lads at Sonicware now have a 6khz sampler. The Lofi 6. Only 500 available.
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this is vaguely irresistible. last thing I need butā¦ what is this sudden pain in my walletā¦
I donāt think I can justify paying $300 for thisā¦ maybe. probably. hopefully this gas pain will soon subside.
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This looks sick, to bad you have to pay 80 extra euros to get it in Europe 
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It made me dig out my Yamaha SU10 to see what itās lowest sample rate was, however the lowest it goes is 11.64 khz.
Shame it wasnāt made easily available to those in the UK, canāt be bothered getting ripped off with all the import tax lark
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