Just got one and haven’t opened it yet - (have the live 2 and mpc key 61) - I just know how much of pain it’s gonna be to learn the workflow - gonna use it for fx mainly
Great review. Imo it adds nothing any sampler cant do. Including apps on the phone. Sp gang might’ve convinced me to get one and I’m not sure I like it better than the sx. Definitely not octatrack or mpc. It’s competing with a 4 dollar app. The sp isn’t the problem it’s just so many better/intuitive options imo
The Roland SP is a niche machine...obviously you can use it to make full beats and like you said it's a completely different work flow coming from an akai ecosystem. I use it as a sound module and effects box. I'm not going to spend a lot of time with double button press combos and button diving to figure out where the heck I am in the beat make process. It's an idea starter, portable, tons of storage and has a great analog sound plus the price is affordable! It's not perfect I wish roland could figure out a way to make this a true eight track machine- I never liked pattern based sequences because like you said I never remember what the hell is going on lol But overall it's dope....and like I said I use it as a sound module....I have over 10,000 drum sounds and instrument sounds on a 32gig SD card! Easy to find drum, horns and bass hits on the fly.
dawg, i’m getting ready to use one of these alongside my digitakt for extra sounds n whatnot and i feel like i’m cheating lmao. it’s an expensive little box and the workflow couldn’t be more different from an MPC (especially chopping)… but if you ever wanna have a steel-built MPC 3000 the size of a book, try out the digitakt !
Thx 4 ur dope videos,did u ever try these 1010 littles unit like the blackbox ?
Just got one and haven’t opened it yet - (have the live 2 and mpc key 61) - I just know how much of pain it’s gonna be to learn the workflow - gonna use it for fx mainly
Great review. Imo it adds nothing any sampler cant do. Including apps on the phone. Sp gang might’ve convinced me to get one and I’m not sure I like it better than the sx. Definitely not octatrack or mpc. It’s competing with a 4 dollar app. The sp isn’t the problem it’s just so many better/intuitive options imo
The Roland SP is a niche machine...obviously you can use it to make full beats and like you said it's a completely different work flow coming from an akai ecosystem.
I use it as a sound module and effects box. I'm not going to spend a lot of time with double button press combos and button diving to figure out where the heck I am in the beat make process.
It's an idea starter, portable, tons of storage and has a great analog sound plus the price is affordable!
It's not perfect I wish roland could figure out a way to make this a true eight track machine- I never liked pattern based sequences because like you said I never remember what the hell is going on lol
But overall it's dope....and like I said I use it as a sound module....I have over 10,000 drum sounds and instrument sounds on a 32gig SD card! Easy to find drum, horns and bass hits on the fly.
SP Gang! 💪🏾
dawg, i’m getting ready to use one of these alongside my digitakt for extra sounds n whatnot and i feel like i’m cheating lmao. it’s an expensive little box and the workflow couldn’t be more different from an MPC (especially chopping)… but if you ever wanna have a steel-built MPC 3000 the size of a book, try out the digitakt !
The digitakt looks interesting. I just can't learn any new workflows at this point. I'm thinking about the Isla 2400. I just can't.