Still got my original joint. Sold it years back , saw it in a pawn shop. Snatched it back up quick My original joint. Same leather case I sold it in. Said it was meant to be. 😂😂😂
I got a similar story. I had a mic I recorded my first EP on & ended up pawning in my hometown. That same mic ended up in a pawn shop that was by my new crib over 2 hours away. It had my old artist name sticker & same usb cord that I took from my printer
Those cheaper, smaller samplers back in the day had something that's missing on all the new stuff... Character. I still rock a Roland MS-1 (pre SP202), a Yamaha SU-10 and a Korg ES-1. Nothing can replicate that "crunch on the outside, soft in the middle" flavour. The ST-224 is no exception and can still hold its own.
@@shaunkeram I took my SU10 on holiday with me last year. Batteries last a long time. I got a a free midi sequence app on the phone (G Stomper Rhythm), a cheap usb midi cable to sequence the SU10 from the phone. Good fun! All 3 of those samplers are getting a bit expensive. Roland has the better sound (and also runs on batteries) Zoom has the fx (I don't think it has battery power though), and the Yamaha is the best all-rounder imo. Whichever you choose, the setup should be the same for some mobile sampling and jamming.
I was making this sing back in the day. Pulled it out about 6 months ago with all these years of knowledge now & man there’s really nothing u can’t do on it.
I remember the Sampletrak being slept on for quite a while and lofi heads seemed to be more focused on acquiring the Roland samplers as you mentioned. There were a few of us Sampletrak owners that knew we had the best kept secret. Times have changed as the prices of the Sampletrak are steady rising! Either way it's still cheaper than buying an SP! #KiofNC #Sampletrak
Glad I found one a couple months ago. I love the flavor of the 224 and using it for running samples and drum breaks into Live2. The effects are dope! Sample 2x speed standard grade setting, pitch down around -5-10 range, add some effect (only 1 at a time but you could resample to get multiple effects), and sample back into MPC. The poor man's sp1200 is legit!
@@middknight5202 I guess I got lucky when I searched for one on Ebay. After making the purchase, the seller informed me that he was having a hard time finding one but ended up acquiring one to sell about a week and a half later :)
I think at one point I knew that commercial by heart. And word, I've got one of these. It sounds great. Once you get used to the fact that you can only trigger samples as gated and that it doesn't respond to velocity, it works pretty damn well with an external sequencer. You can even sequence changes to the effects, both the parameter values and what effect is being used. I think that's the best way to use it
@@CoolDougLove oh, I see what you mean. I think I ran into that when trying that method. I found the internal sequencer more than usable after realizing the quantize settings and playlist method for performance.
@@SamplersAndThings Yeah, it's dope that you can record different parts with different levels of quantization. Personally, the method I liked best for using it on its own was making loops for different parts, resampling them, and then putting them on one long sequence
Back in the day I bought one and i loved it so much, but sold it cause I wanted more sample time. long story short , I found one on Craigslist and got it about a week ago, and it’s like reuniting with an old love! Great little machine I should have not gotten rid of it in the first place. I like to hear your thoughts on a very very gritty sampler, the Akai S612 which I still have and will never sell that. It is as lo-fi as it comes! A warm hello from your brother from Chi-town! And keep doing what you do.
That car buying example was hilariously true. I tend towards 1-door, 3-wheel gear. It's usually the question, "Does my skill justify a truck?" My work-around is a work-up-to while wondering, will I ever be as good as I want to be?" G.A.S. is a b-yatch and these are the kind of things I think about when I watch these videos. But I'm as old as old school. My grit is Mantronix on Back to the Old School. It ain't hip hop if it ain't got turntable scratches.
At the time of release everyone was trying to make products that had the best "clarity" but like five years later it went the other direction with the "grit" thing. It's weird to me cause this happened in the rock and roll world too. In the 80s and early 90s everyone wanted clarity but after grunge and the death of hair metal every one wanted their shit to sound like old broken tubes. The jcm 800 lead was THE amp to get. Anyway I liked this thing a lot largely because I was in highschool when it came out in most of my time was spent with metal heads. Metal bands loved this thing cus it to let them cue up and mess with samples that they'd play as an intro/interlude for their songs. Samples of horror and gangster movies were super common at the time. It was well loved in that community cus it was cheap to rent/own and you could throw it against the wall and it would still keep going so it was perfect for touring.
Thanks for reminding me of this era that I hadn't thought about in years. There were bands back then like Killwhitneydead that made putting "edgy" movie samples in their songs basically their entire gimmick haha
Great video my dude. Nice to see this unit get some light. My homie got one when it came out (I remember when I was on the phone with him talking about the features on it). Even me and another friend of mine borrowed the 224 from him and kept it at my house. I stayed up all night figuring it out with the manual until the next morning when I got it. And it stayed in my possession for a while. Love the effects on this thing. And even though it has its limitations, I still had fun with the unit. And not long after that, my boy let me keep it.👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 Still have it to this day...I even have the manual too. 💯💯💯😎😎
Love this channel. Just found it recently. Seeing new episodes coming now is awesome. Some Suggestions for new episodes: Sequential Circuits Studio 440 🙏, EPS 16 classic and plus, S900/950..(I’d have too many I guess)
I got mine sampletrak for a couple of months and I felt in love with it🔥 Raw sound, effects and crunchy stretching along with long sampling time, str8 fire🔥🔥🔥
Copped one of these about 10 years ago around for around $100. Prices are up and it seems like the secret it out. 💀 Still much less than I got my SP 1200 for and the sound is pretty close. The effects have a cool character about them and its got a nice, simple sequencer too. Love all your videos bro, please keep them coming.
Aw man you just blew up the price on this. I have the drum machine version with sounds from the Beat Kangs, which they put out before the beat Thang. Has the same form factor
I usually just use a 24 bar length count, and start with the "chorus" for the first 8 bars, then a sixteen bar "verse" section, adding or taking something out for the second 8 yr of the verse, then loop back the "chorus"...really basic song structure, but it works
I've seen some of your Vids and have owned many of the samplers... Had many old school samplers and sequencers YAMAHA RS7000, Roland SP606, Yamaha SU700, Yamaha Rx1 sequencer etc.. and out of all my old stuff I've sold them all but kept my Zoom St242 + Boss Dr202 drum machine. The Zoom st242 is brilliant and fun and really easy to use and chop samples. It's quick to work with and the effects are crazy. They call it the poor mans Sp1200 for good reason. Yes the midi sucks and the sequencer sucks but the fun, experimentation, and sound you get from it is fantastic. The prices of these second hand have really shot up since I got mine. The pads are really nice and it does have lots of features. I've thought about selling it sometimes but just can't part with because it's so easy and fun to use. I still find myself playing with the ST242 for making quick beats and small tracks. I'm super glad you did a review on this. It's a well slept on device but getting more popular and sought after. I was once interested in the Yamaha SU200 too but never got round to trying that. Maybe you could do something on that one too.
I got 2 of these bad boys bought another one before the prices went up for me its the best sampler 🤣 I just got the sp404mk2 and I still like the sound better of the zoom and pitching it's so good
It really feels like yesterday when this came out, I thought the sampletrak was pretty fugly at the time, actually it still is fugly IMO. I'm definately addicted to ...what had happened was... now, always funny and lots of info!
I did my first solo produced and recorded hip hop album from this thing. Well the rythmtrak 234 and there is a mode you can play more of the samples and sounds at once but you have to have the pattern tracked out first. Under performance mode you can play 3 patterns at once and I swear that was competing with me learning FL Studio and Cakewalk In 2004 as a 17 yr old. I sold almost 1,000 copies of my cd and paid for the first semester of college with it. I’m a programmer that worked for Google for some time now.
Aaaaah I have this one! My friend very generously gave me his Sampletrak a few years ago, definitely lots of fun when you get past the quirks (although I will never get used to the sequencer and song mode). Shame this is the only sampler Zoom put out, cause there's so much potential there for an updated version of it.
ST224 was my first sampler. Some years later I bought the Yamaha RS7000 and the Zoom was not needed anymore. But it was a very good machine and not very expensive.
Love these episodes, of all that gear I only owned the mpc500 but I'm bingewatching the whole series xD Also thank you for reminding that trends in hiphop (like in all things...) come & go... it's all a cycle :) cheers !
Hope you still have the 500, i sadly sold mine a few years ago and i regret it. Luckily i still have my CF card with all those beats and i can load them on my mpc one... But still i miss it.
@@jonathansoko1085 Nope I sold it. I don't regret it because I could not gel with the quirky software. But I agree that the machine itself is great, and on paper, it's my dream machine feature-wise.
The terrible sequencer and buggy midi implementation are what kept this thing from becoming truly legendary IMHO. I love the sound of it tho and bought 2 of them back when nobody wanted them. The best way around it's limitations are to just resample things off of it into a clean sampler with a better sequencer once you get things sounding like you want them to. Basically bypasses all the issues
The sequencer is not terrible IMO. Most people don’t go beyond the default quantize setting and bar length because they don’t know they can. Gotta read the manual.
@@SamplersAndThings I've made full songs using just the sampletrak before, but I think most would agree that workflow isn't as fast or easy as most other samplers
This is exactly the reason I still kept mine...lol Great for making beats and transferring/sampling to a better sequencer/sampler. Quick and easy to use, even more so than many of the modern digital samplers.
@@reggiegimmix9128 Word. It's definitely quick and intuitive for chopping. It's actually my go-to when it comes to chopping and rearranging melodic samples, because I can do it quick without losing inspiration because of menu diving
I know a guy who uses a zoom but tells people he uses a sp 1200 LOL.... I let the lie continue but when he tells people i just give him that eye, i can tell from a mile away that isnt the sp sound but hey it makes him happy. Eventually i will blackmail him into buying me a chop cheese or something so i dont snitch
The SP505 is another affordable poor man's lofi unit, its a suped up 303 but cheaper, its slow but there's a hack that's to just use 16mb cards, have a whole box of them, then it becomes they fastest vintage sampler of them all. Its currently cheaper then the Sampletrack, better effects including the 303s vinyl sim and you can have more then 1 effect, it has visual waveform chopping like the mpc 2000xl, its they most underrated of them all!
The 505 is a good unit, but it sounds different than the 303. Comparing them side by side, the effects in the 505 sounded less "heavy" to me. Especially the vinyl sim compression, it sounded a good bit thinner. It is one of the best SP's though along with the 606.
It’s weird even against an sp404 which are also weird af xD I’m talking about shape… in fact blame goes to roger linn himself about the 4x4 paradigm… but these even hasn’t 4x4 pads… omg… xD
@@DyReckProductions Doc, it's all good. Being bass player during the time the units came out is like me taking a tour of my career. I was in bands or studios where somebody had at least one of the items your reviewed. I remember just sitting waiting to do my part. Also, you are 100% right about people not reading the users manual. It's funny...the only item I did not see in any band or studio I was in was the Korg Oasys. I had to go to the music store to see it. After I saw the price tag I stopped touching it...LOL. Thx for the videos that take a brutha back down music memory lane.
Here's the problem with Zoom products. They work well, but the look is always terrible. They all look like toys. If they built them to look like the MPC or Sp 1200, they would have sold more and be taken seriously. They are just cheap looking and feeling. The buttons are awful. I had a drum machine and digital recorder from Zoom. The button went really quickly. Maybe one day they will get it right.
Still got my original joint. Sold it years back , saw it in a pawn shop. Snatched it back up quick My original joint. Same leather case I sold it in. Said it was meant to be. 😂😂😂
Dope story!
Damn, lucky.
Now this is it!!!
That’s Amazing!
I got a similar story. I had a mic I recorded my first EP on & ended up pawning in my hometown.
That same mic ended up in a pawn shop that was by my new crib over 2 hours away. It had my old artist name sticker & same usb cord that I took from my printer
Those cheaper, smaller samplers back in the day had something that's missing on all the new stuff... Character. I still rock a Roland MS-1 (pre SP202), a Yamaha SU-10 and a Korg ES-1. Nothing can replicate that "crunch on the outside, soft in the middle" flavour. The ST-224 is no exception and can still hold its own.
I feel you on that fam.
Es 1 is Incredible!
I’m debating getting a ms-1 or Su10 possibly st-224 which do you recommend? Mainly for travel and sample off of phone any insight would be bless
@@shaunkeram I took my SU10 on holiday with me last year. Batteries last a long time. I got a a free midi sequence app on the phone (G Stomper Rhythm), a cheap usb midi cable to sequence the SU10 from the phone. Good fun! All 3 of those samplers are getting a bit expensive. Roland has the better sound (and also runs on batteries) Zoom has the fx (I don't think it has battery power though), and the Yamaha is the best all-rounder imo. Whichever you choose, the setup should be the same for some mobile sampling and jamming.
I was making this sing back in the day. Pulled it out about 6 months ago with all these years of knowledge now & man there’s really nothing u can’t do on it.
Nice.
Can it pan drums to left and have samples to right
@@legendsflashback yes do it every time
@@Shakeabreaka nice thx it's 12 bit sampler
its like xmas every time we get a new episode. glad you did one on the sampletrak, I've been looking at this for some time.
No doubt fam..Thanks!
Definitely a fav. Still need one for the lab. Keep em coming.
No doubt bro!
I remember the Sampletrak being slept on for quite a while and lofi heads seemed to be more focused on acquiring the Roland samplers as you mentioned. There were a few of us Sampletrak owners that knew we had the best kept secret. Times have changed as the prices of the Sampletrak are steady rising! Either way it's still cheaper than buying an SP! #KiofNC #Sampletrak
I feel you.
You created some bangers on there @kiofnc
I used to have this. This machine has dope effects and if you want to go live…all your samples are right there.
I feel you.
Great video. This was dope for its price and preformance for its time. 👊
Glad I found one a couple months ago. I love the flavor of the 224 and using it for running samples and drum breaks into Live2. The effects are dope! Sample 2x speed standard grade setting, pitch down around -5-10 range, add some effect (only 1 at a time but you could resample to get multiple effects), and sample back into MPC. The poor man's sp1200 is legit!
Yup..I feel you.
Which cable do you use to connect 224 to live 2? TS or TRS?
@@UrazGrassia TRS L&R and you could make it mono in the sample window in mpc if you want.
Heck yeah! What a nice surprise :) I got a SampleTrak about a month and a half ago and I love it so far.
Nice.
How in the world did you find one?? Haha
@@middknight5202 I guess I got lucky when I searched for one on Ebay. After making the purchase, the seller informed me that he was having a hard time finding one but ended up acquiring one to sell about a week and a half later :)
@@michaelheath1194 haha lucky indeed! I hope to be as lucky one day!
I think at one point I knew that commercial by heart. And word, I've got one of these. It sounds great. Once you get used to the fact that you can only trigger samples as gated and that it doesn't respond to velocity, it works pretty damn well with an external sequencer. You can even sequence changes to the effects, both the parameter values and what effect is being used. I think that's the best way to use it
You have three options for triggering, not only gated.
@@SamplersAndThingsNot if you're using an external sequencer. Whatever you set the pad as, it will trigger as gated.
@@CoolDougLove oh, I see what you mean. I think I ran into that when trying that method. I found the internal sequencer more than usable after realizing the quantize settings and playlist method for performance.
@@SamplersAndThings Yeah, it's dope that you can record different parts with different levels of quantization. Personally, the method I liked best for using it on its own was making loops for different parts, resampling them, and then putting them on one long sequence
No doubt..If you use it along side other gear its a beast.
Back in the day I bought one and i loved it so much, but sold it cause I wanted more sample time. long story short , I found one on Craigslist and got it about a week ago, and it’s like reuniting with an old love! Great little machine I should have not gotten rid of it in the first place.
I like to hear your thoughts on a very very gritty sampler, the Akai S612 which I still have and will never sell that. It is as lo-fi as it comes! A warm hello from your brother from Chi-town! And keep doing what you do.
Thanks bro!..I appreciate it..The s612..Thats a good one gonna put that on the list..Akai's legendary sampler!
Man I love these episodes. You gotta do one on the Roland W30.
No doubt..Thats definitely on the list.
@@DyReckProductions please do one on the Roland S-50 I love that machine it was like owning a poor mans Fairlight!
DyReck, I love the lesson as well as the banter. You've got that old Huxtable personality.
Lmao! thanks bro.
That car buying example was hilariously true. I tend towards 1-door, 3-wheel gear. It's usually the question, "Does my skill justify a truck?" My work-around is a work-up-to while wondering, will I ever be as good as I want to be?" G.A.S. is a b-yatch and these are the kind of things I think about when I watch these videos. But I'm as old as old school. My grit is Mantronix on Back to the Old School. It ain't hip hop if it ain't got turntable scratches.
Lmao! I feel you fam.
Man, I’ve been wanting one of these for a minute now! Maybe I should get one before they get crazy expensive.
Good stuff as always. Great work!
No doubt fam..Thanks..They go for a decent price on ebay..Just make sure you don't get one that's too beat up.
Zoom products are good. Their rhythm machines are easy to program. No multiple outs but still. I’m sure I hear them sometimes on movie soundtracks.
Yeah they make really good products.
awwww yesss dyreck covering one of my fave little boxes, fair and accurate and indepth as you KNOW HE IS, thanks man, excellent video
Thanks fam..I appreciate it.
At the time of release everyone was trying to make products that had the best "clarity" but like five years later it went the other direction with the "grit" thing. It's weird to me cause this happened in the rock and roll world too. In the 80s and early 90s everyone wanted clarity but after grunge and the death of hair metal every one wanted their shit to sound like old broken tubes. The jcm 800 lead was THE amp to get.
Anyway I liked this thing a lot largely because I was in highschool when it came out in most of my time was spent with metal heads. Metal bands loved this thing cus it to let them cue up and mess with samples that they'd play as an intro/interlude for their songs. Samples of horror and gangster movies were super common at the time.
It was well loved in that community cus it was cheap to rent/own and you could throw it against the wall and it would still keep going so it was perfect for touring.
Wow Thats crazy..They were throwing it against the wall Lol...Well Zoom makes alot of well built rugged products.
Thanks for reminding me of this era that I hadn't thought about in years. There were bands back then like Killwhitneydead that made putting "edgy" movie samples in their songs basically their entire gimmick haha
@@prufrockrenegade Cool.
7:06 8 x 3 banks is 24 not 32 lol
I enjoy so much your analogies. Haha, keep this channel and content rockin, I'll be here!
Thanks fam!..I appreciate it!!
I had one of these for years. I wish I still had one.
Great video my dude. Nice to see this unit get some light. My homie got one when it came out (I remember when I was on the phone with him talking about the features on it). Even me and another friend of mine borrowed the 224 from him and kept it at my house. I stayed up all night figuring it out with the manual until the next morning when I got it. And it stayed in my possession for a while. Love the effects on this thing. And even though it has its limitations, I still had fun with the unit.
And not long after that, my boy let me keep it.👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 Still have it to this day...I even have the manual too. 💯💯💯😎😎
Nice!
Love this channel. Just found it recently. Seeing new episodes coming now is awesome. Some Suggestions for new episodes: Sequential Circuits Studio 440 🙏, EPS 16 classic and plus, S900/950..(I’d have too many I guess)
The EPS 16..And those akai samplers those are good ones..Gonna put them on the list...The 440 is nice too.
I got mine sampletrak for a couple of months and I felt in love with it🔥 Raw sound, effects and crunchy stretching along with long sampling time, str8 fire🔥🔥🔥
Nice!!
Copped one of these about 10 years ago around for around $100. Prices are up and it seems like the secret it out. 💀
Still much less than I got my SP 1200 for and the sound is pretty close. The effects have a cool character about them and its got a nice, simple sequencer too.
Love all your videos bro, please keep them coming.
Dope video....you must do one for the Akai S20 and Akai MFC 42 filter that went on top on the 2000xl
Good ones..Gonna put them on the list.
@@DyReckProductions Thank you I have a few others.
@@bangmateo7481 No doubt fam.
Aw man you just blew up the price on this. I have the drum machine version with sounds from the Beat Kangs, which they put out before the beat Thang. Has the same form factor
The Beat Kangs had some dope sounds..And they gave you a ton of them.
one of the best samplers ever conceived.
you're a great story teller, really enjoyed the whole video.
Thanks fam!..I appreciate it.
It was either this or the sp 505 for me back in the day. I got the sp!
My first hardware sampler was the Boss SP505! I got it from a pawn shop for $40! I miss that thing…
I usually just use a 24 bar length count, and start with the "chorus" for the first 8 bars, then a sixteen bar "verse" section, adding or taking something out for the second 8 yr of the verse, then loop back the "chorus"...really basic song structure, but it works
How about a Zoom Sampletrak MkII? That would be amazing!
That would be dope!..But there really into the handy recorders right now.
@@DyReckProductions huh?
@@shizzyshawn412 The company Zoom is focused on there microphones and hand recorders.
Shawn Manuel maybe Behringer would make one ?
They actually have a great effects units for guitars and stuff. And they released some vocal effect processors as well. So it might turn around 👏🏻
when I started making beats, I bought this sampler on discount when Mars Music was closing
Oh ok nice..Mars Music had all the good stuff.
I slept on that machine, because I wasn’t sure and didn’t know enough about it. Also it didn’t have a real sequencer….that was big for me, back then.
Oh ok I feel you..I kinda didn't want to do the work around sequencer thing too..Im tempted though.
@@DyReckProductions recently I was tempted, I pre ordered the Roland Mk 11.
@@ricardomilice2470 lol..I feel you.
Sonicware has a Kickstarter campaign for a new product, SmplTrek, and people are saying the name is a nod to this Zoom sampler.
Oh wow I got to check that out.
@@DyReckProductions
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I've seen some of your Vids and have owned many of the samplers... Had many old school samplers and sequencers YAMAHA RS7000, Roland SP606, Yamaha SU700, Yamaha Rx1 sequencer etc.. and out of all my old stuff I've sold them all but kept my Zoom St242 + Boss Dr202 drum machine. The Zoom st242 is brilliant and fun and really easy to use and chop samples. It's quick to work with and the effects are crazy. They call it the poor mans Sp1200 for good reason. Yes the midi sucks and the sequencer sucks but the fun, experimentation, and sound you get from it is fantastic. The prices of these second hand have really shot up since I got mine. The pads are really nice and it does have lots of features. I've thought about selling it sometimes but just can't part with because it's so easy and fun to use. I still find myself playing with the ST242 for making quick beats and small tracks. I'm super glad you did a review on this. It's a well slept on device but getting more popular and sought after. I was once interested in the Yamaha SU200 too but never got round to trying that. Maybe you could do something on that one too.
No doubt the SU200 is a good one..Your right about the Zoom it was slept on for a while..But now people appreciate it as a legit piece of gear.
Where is the Japanese band using the Zoom Sampletrak video from?
adaadat's.
@@DyReckProductions Thanks for the reply. I think Adaadat's is the label and Doddodo is the artist name, very interesting stuff.
@@subkulturebeats Yeah she was going in on her performance.
pls do the sp555
That's definitely on the list.
Was waiting for this fam ...... Watching as soon as it dropped !
Lol Thanks bro!
I got 2 of these bad boys bought another one before the prices went up for me its the best sampler 🤣 I just got the sp404mk2 and I still like the sound better of the zoom and pitching it's so good
It really feels like yesterday when this came out, I thought the sampletrak was pretty fugly at the time, actually it still is fugly IMO. I'm definately addicted to ...what had happened was... now, always funny and lots of info!
Lol..Thanks bro.
I did my first solo produced and recorded hip hop album from this thing. Well the rythmtrak 234 and there is a mode you can play more of the samples and sounds at once but you have to have the pattern tracked out first. Under performance mode you can play 3 patterns at once and I swear that was competing with me learning FL Studio and Cakewalk In 2004 as a 17 yr old. I sold almost 1,000 copies of my cd and paid for the first semester of college with it. I’m a programmer that worked for Google for some time now.
Oh ok nice!!..The Sampletrak basically helped you in your career.
Aaaaah I have this one! My friend very generously gave me his Sampletrak a few years ago, definitely lots of fun when you get past the quirks (although I will never get used to the sequencer and song mode). Shame this is the only sampler Zoom put out, cause there's so much potential there for an updated version of it.
Yeah..Maybe if they knew how much folks love it they would make a 2nd version..But there really focused on handy recorders right ow.
@Jaz Branning Yeah That would be dope.
@Jaz Branning Im keeping an eye on that sample trek.
Fun fact. There was an unreleased software editor for this thing that actually unlocks its full potential
Oh wow dope..Gotta check that out!
I was waiting on this one! I had this in tandem with the SP808, a Roland's br8 and a cd burner.
Oh ok nice...Pretty dope set up.
Zoom was my first sampler!!! Amazing machine....
Nice...You must have had some grimy beats..In a good way.
Dang - can we stop making videos on this secret sampler 😕 - I can’t find one under 500 on reverb or eBay 😢
That's hilarious..
@@b33lz no joke I’d prefer it to a ko 33 or boss sp 404
@@tomblaze2 I got my sampletrak for 130$ and that was overpriced when they were going for 80$.To see what they're going for now is blasphemous.
I k now I'm going to cop1 for 380-450 this year at Heston cap
What was the live footage you were showing with person in a black hair wearing a cape or something? That looked wild!
Man I got to find it again..Someone asked me in the comment section before and I told them..Its somewhere there.
People don’t think the sequencer is good but they never read the manual to know how it works. It’s quite intuitive once you know what it can do.
Yeah..Its not that bad..And there's different ways you can approach it.
On my third sampletrak since 2002. My favorite appliance
Nice.
A proper song sequencer (as what are called "songs" on the machine are patterns really) and a mute group are all this machine is missing.
No doubt.
Used to own one of these, was super gritty and intuitive. Miss it
I feel you.
ST224 was my first sampler. Some years later I bought the Yamaha RS7000 and the Zoom was not needed anymore. But it was a very good machine and not very expensive.
Yup.
Love these episodes, of all that gear I only owned the mpc500 but I'm bingewatching the whole series xD
Also thank you for reminding that trends in hiphop (like in all things...) come & go... it's all a cycle :) cheers !
Hope you still have the 500, i sadly sold mine a few years ago and i regret it. Luckily i still have my CF card with all those beats and i can load them on my mpc one... But still i miss it.
Thanks bro!..The 500 is dope..It has a great sound..As long as you don't mind chopping manually..Or don't mind chopping on the computer your good.
@@jonathansoko1085 I feel you..Good thing you still have your beats.
@@jonathansoko1085 Nope I sold it. I don't regret it because I could not gel with the quirky software. But I agree that the machine itself is great, and on paper, it's my dream machine feature-wise.
@@naiveloops Software? I didnt know there was mpc 500 software lmao i just used the machine.
What was that lady doing after she hit the pad on her zoom. She was like “you can’t see the fader I am twisting” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 so much angst
Lmao!
The terrible sequencer and buggy midi implementation are what kept this thing from becoming truly legendary IMHO. I love the sound of it tho and bought 2 of them back when nobody wanted them. The best way around it's limitations are to just resample things off of it into a clean sampler with a better sequencer once you get things sounding like you want them to. Basically bypasses all the issues
The sequencer is not terrible IMO. Most people don’t go beyond the default quantize setting and bar length because they don’t know they can. Gotta read the manual.
Oh ok no doubt.
@@SamplersAndThings I've made full songs using just the sampletrak before, but I think most would agree that workflow isn't as fast or easy as most other samplers
This is exactly the reason I still kept mine...lol Great for making beats and transferring/sampling to a better sequencer/sampler. Quick and easy to use, even more so than many of the modern digital samplers.
@@reggiegimmix9128 Word. It's definitely quick and intuitive for chopping. It's actually my go-to when it comes to chopping and rearranging melodic samples, because I can do it quick without losing inspiration because of menu diving
Still got my beat tape from 1998 using this machine
Nice.
The Prophet 5 is now a free VST and stand alound application if you own Arturia Analog lab V.
Oh ok cool!
I had that was blue and transparent didn't really do much I think I might still have it
Oh ok.
I know a guy who uses a zoom but tells people he uses a sp 1200 LOL.... I let the lie continue but when he tells people i just give him that eye, i can tell from a mile away that isnt the sp sound but hey it makes him happy. Eventually i will blackmail him into buying me a chop cheese or something so i dont snitch
Lmao!..I feel you..The Zoom does have that dusty sound.
@@DyReckProductions It does, but when the 1200 hits, you know its a 1200
😂😅🤣
@@jonathansoko1085 Lol I feel you.
Got this instead of Beat Thang. Luv this machine and miss having it. Made some dope beats with it. The effects were ill.
Love the channel, you gonna do the SP-303?
Definitely gonna hit that up.
@@DyReckProductions My G!
dazmn, i had dat thing a looong time ago. So long i cant even remember what became of it...
Lol..Dang..It be like that sometimes.
Great video brother!!
Thanks fam.
Can you do one on the Yamaha DJX?
No doubt. Gonna put that on the list.
How do you feel about the AKAI MPX16???
Its ok..I wish it had a step sequencer..I thought they were gonna give it one.
Shit I still wish I had mine..I'ma gawd on Anything tho.. but I'll come get u back one day girl! I miss it! 😢
Lol..I feel you.
I’ve been looking at this for about 8 months idk how anyone in these comments has obtained one but, I’m super jealous 😭😭😭
Ebay but unfortunately prices have nearly doubled in the last couple months. I found one for $200 back in Sept. now they're selling for $375+.
Pretty much reverb and ebay..But to find one in good shape might be a challenge.
FAM PLZ DO A VIDEO ON THE SP555
Ohh..Thats a good one..Gonna put that on the list.
bought this machine in I think 1999 .... still have my beat tape... lol
Thats dope.
I still own one. I have had two already.
Nice!
another classic!! so....... when you gonna do Virtual Dj? (just askin...lol)
Thats definitely on the list.
@@DyReckProductions yo you definitely gotta do the Pocket operators too
@@DJICEMAN_73 That is a good one!!..Glad you reminded me fam!
Cool video but if your gonna talk about the griminess of the sound you should of played some audio of it.
No doubt..Gonna see about adding that in.
The SP505 is another affordable poor man's lofi unit, its a suped up 303 but cheaper, its slow but there's a hack that's to just use 16mb cards, have a whole box of them, then it becomes they fastest vintage sampler of them all. Its currently cheaper then the Sampletrack, better effects including the 303s vinyl sim and you can have more then 1 effect, it has visual waveform chopping like the mpc 2000xl, its they most underrated of them all!
Oh ok cool.
I use the 505 with the sampletrak to
The 505 is a good unit, but it sounds different than the 303. Comparing them side by side, the effects in the 505 sounded less "heavy" to me. Especially the vinyl sim compression, it sounded a good bit thinner. It is one of the best SP's though along with the 606.
@@MurderToCassette they don't sound that different to me the 303 vinyl sim is louder doe
I paid a little over $500 back in 98 or 99 for the sampletrak and paid 250 for there drum machine.
Oh ok cool!
the gza line got me rolling loll
Lmao!
Shiny suit era what had happen was…..
Lmao! Word!
I have a sampletrak, in great condition, the smart media cards for them are very expensive though. The poor man’s SP-1200.
The smart media cards are $5 on ebay from China. 16mb works fine.
I walked in the studio with my zoom in 99.... and got laughed at... till I plug that bi#@h in.
Great piece of gear in my studio 🔥
Nice.
I need to get my hands on one. Here I come REVERB!!!!
Word!
LOLOL that GZA line killed me, 😂😂😂
Lmao! no doubt..Wu Tang forever!
RZA did a hilarious commercial for them, literally defaced the technology on video in front of them sarcastically lmaooo
Wow!
got the zoom rhythm trak rt8
Nice!
J Scienide made " the actual heat" on this thing, dope album.
Oh ok cool.
My king
Wat up fam!
It’s weird even against an sp404 which are also weird af xD I’m talking about shape… in fact blame goes to roger linn himself about the 4x4 paradigm… but these even hasn’t 4x4 pads… omg… xD
Lol..Yeah It might feel a little weird banging out on them..But folks love the effects so much that they don't mind.
@@DyReckProductions it’s how it should be! But I was talking about the bullying on the device… it’s just so wrong shaped even for an sp loool xD
@@thelabby9998 Lol.
I’m a fan
Lol. No doubt bro!
I had this sampler.
Nice!
Why do Japanese names sound so violent??? LOL
Lmao!
My homie had this he made hot beats on it and i would just laugh at him because i always had the MPC but its still dope tho
No doubt!
Oh man that Spanish analogy 😂😂
Lmao!!!
Poor Man's SP1200
Yup.
Dirtiest thing insight hahahahhahha
Lmao!
3 x 8 = 24....
The 8 pads on the unit can also hold samples...I knew someone was gonna say something lol..Its all good bro.
@@DyReckProductions Doc, it's all good. Being bass player during the time the units came out is like me taking a tour of my career. I was in bands or studios where somebody had at least one of the items your reviewed. I remember just sitting waiting to do my part. Also, you are 100% right about people not reading the users manual. It's funny...the only item I did not see in any band or studio I was in was the Korg Oasys. I had to go to the music store to see it. After I saw the price tag I stopped touching it...LOL. Thx for the videos that take a brutha back down music memory lane.
@@bsdguy No doubt fam..Thanks!
I absolutely adore my Zoom Sampletrak. This is definitely the poor man's Sp 1200!
I feel you.
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5:38 on LMAO!...
Lol.
Here's the problem with Zoom products. They work well, but the look is always terrible. They all look like toys. If they built them to look like the MPC or Sp 1200, they would have sold more and be taken seriously. They are just cheap looking and feeling. The buttons are awful. I had a drum machine and digital recorder from Zoom. The button went really quickly. Maybe one day they will get it right.
Oh dang!..You would think they would be more well built. There microphones and recorders were usually solid.
40€ in a pawnshop, yes
Nice!