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Thinking of getting a riddim, but have a couple of questions:
Can you record a sample by number of bars?
How does the live mode work? Is it loops on the top 3 pads in each group, then one shots etc, or you can put anything anywhere?
I want to perform completely live, no sequences etc., and this looks like the perfect machine for it. Have waited ages for a ādub machineā so to speak.
Further to my post, this is the feature why I want to buy the riddim. Iād imagine you can get very dubby very quickly whilst using lop mode as mentioned with abit of delay, reverb, phaser thrown in.
I absolutely love the Riddim but itās best viewed as an old school sampler.
You only get one effect at a time. Reverb or delay or phaser.
Also, max sample time is 20 seconds, so you arenāt going to be able to put full stems in.
No limits on where you can put loops, one shots, etc. You can sample/resample by bars.
Currently it feels a bit unstable for live jamming. You can overload the machine and get an error when pushing it hard with lots going on. Hopefully they will squash some bugs soon.
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Does anyone use the looper on the EP? What kind of stuff are you doing with it?
Yes, thatās possible.
Feels distasteful to suggest it on this thread but I think your best choice for your needs would be an SP404MKII, or a used MPC One (the black one) which can be had for a great price. Neither quite as cheap as the Riddim and donāt have itās unique charm but they have better and more effects, you can stack them, work with long stems, more performable etc. MPC even has a plugin specifically for dub (Ring the alarm).
Edit: that said for the same price you could add a multi effects pedal to the Riddim and be in similar territory for live dub. Still no long stems tho.
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Build ups,drops, glitch outs, fills, drills. In combo with the punch in fx itās fun. Concern is it can be cliched
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Yes been experimenting with it a bunch. I imagine I can somehow resample (tell newb here slowly figuring it out) and that where I believe it will shine for me.
Taking my onboard samples and glitching/looping/restructuring them with the looper and or fx, resample and sprinkle in sparingly.
But starting out itās fun just to get different elements going then work with the screen indicator and timing to see what you come up with.
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When using auto chop is it the same on the old EP that some of the chops are super short and some are really long? I would have expected the chops to be more or less evenly spread out into how many slices you choose. Iāve noticed that one could be a fraction of a second and another might be a huge portion of the sample.
Is there an easy way to clear all the assigned samples out of a bank? I wish the manual was better and easier to search.
Also, what does the machine sample at internally on the machine? The files seem surprisingly small, although even lower bit rates would be appreciated.
All in all, Iām liking sampling directly into the machine. The external tempo detector works fairly well, and Iām happy to see you can fine tune the tempo to two decimal places.
Today I was sampling loads from my phone using a Korg Plug Key and getting comfortable with time stretching, looping, pitching, resampling, etc. Itās all pretty quick once you get the key commands down.
I saw someone request audio sampling over USB in a YouTube comment on a TE video. I wonder if there are any technical issues with pulling that off. That would be such a quality of life upgrade.
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any one got any (better) explanations for all the Punch in FX?
9 - ?
8 - ?
7 - ?
6 - Batch FX send
5 - Batch High Pass
4 - Batch Low pass
3- Repeat/loop (pressure sensitive from initial trigger?)
2 - Slow down - but itās actually slowing down the clock and midi clock out, this is great when EP is master so everything stays locked to grid.
1 - ?
DOT - ?
0 - shift pattern pad trigger position up? (pressure sensitive for amount of shift?)
ENTER - ?
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From watching an interview from the design guy, and from this blurb in the manual, I believe itās doing what I would call transient detection? (Hobbyist here)
So yes I believe different lengths depending on the sample used.
Edit - have only done the app transfer g samples, going to explore direct sampling in the next few days off this week. I suck at it but I keep trying.
Edit hereās the pic
Thanks, yeah. I saw that in the manual as well, and understand transient detection, but was surprised the chops were so all over the place. Not a big deal, but it did have me wondering if there is a bug there.
BTW, itās worth noting that the web app is a good way to see and adjust your chops.
One other thing Iām surprised about with the EP is that I donāt see a way to destructively trim samples. With the limited space on the device it would have been nice to have a way to shave off unwanted stuff from stuff sampled on the unit, even just in the web app. Again, not a big deal, just a surprise. Iāve gotten around this by using resample to grab the bit I want and then scrap the original sample.
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I donāt know how you did this, but it is greatly appreciated.
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I missed that post! Thanks for reposting and thanks to @sm7x7
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Not sure if this was known widely or not, but Iāve been using the EP-133 for a while and just learned this little feature while reading over the riddim manual:
Apparently you can select which sample slot you are sampling to! It doesnāt solve the issue of not being able to move around samples once they are on the device (sounds like thatās a limitation of how projects refer to sample slots, which makes sense) but still nice to know you have some control over the sample library without needing the sample tool. Cool stuff!
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Yep. Thatās something Iām using all the time these days.
Thereās a surprising amount of features packed into the machine. I really love the vinyl timestretch mode. Once you get your beat all constructed you can switch over to the live play mode and explore how it sounds at different tempos/pitches with everything all locked into place. Really cool for discovering alternate versions of your beat.
Iāve been having so much fun making little beats and then live jamming them with the punch in effects and stuff that I have yet to record anything or even use song mode. I think it might be the most fun sampler Iāve ever used. Missing a handful of features but even so is the surprise hit of the year for me.
Standalone might be where the magic is with this machine since itās so much fun to play, but I feel like combining it with the SP404MKII is going to be a powerful combo.
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i had a bunch of fun jamming on the 133 last night using it just as a drum machine. found myself using the fader automation way more too, they seem to lend themselves more to drums rather than the melodic stuff in my tunes. got a cool funky melody type deal going by using the pitch fader control when the claves popped in. havent just jammed on a single pattern for that much time in quite a while!
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