5 SP404-MK2 tips for ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS!
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- If you are new to the SP404-MK2 then this should be a very useful video for you! These 5 tips should help you on your way to making killer beats with Roland's portable sampler.
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0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Tip 1
2:11 - Tip 2
4:18 - Tip 3
5:43 - Tip 4
6:40 - Tip 5
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DUDE YOU ARE THE FIRST PERSON THAT ACTUALLY HAD GOOD TUTORIALS ON THE SP BACK THEN AND YOU'VE REMAINED CONSISTENT
Appreciate it bro! Thanks 🙏
Thank you SPVIDZ, your videos are always spot on with informative advice and you bring with you, a sense of confidence and trust worthiness,explaining how to use the Roland Sp 404 Mk 2 so efficiently. Your beat making skills are just straight up sick and you're an awesome inspiration. Thank you for rocking so much and showing us newbies the ropes. Keep making videos and I'll keep watching them and telling everyone else to as well. Keep keepin it real, peace!
Thank you so much man! Really appreciate the kind words and the donation. I'll keep grinding for sure! 🙌
Ordered my sp 404 today and glad I found a solid toturial channel already , for me you hit the right flow of info which is scarse. Nailed imo with the yourney of getting to learn your piecse of gear inside out. I bought a tr8-s 2 years ago used it many many hours and im still learning stuff but its all about getting yourself to that magical moment where you feel in control of your device enough to make cool stuff with it.
Nice one for ordering, welcome to the SP gang! Yup knowing your gear is such a big factor in making music. It should be a source of inspiration, not a hindrance
Love this! Just bought one two weeks ago but have been really busy and havent gotten to mess with it yet. But i did start collecting some sample packs and sounds. Looking forward to using it but definitely intimidated by learning the workflow. Thanks for making something for the absolute beginners!
I’ve been meaning to do some workflow related videos. I’ll try and get them on the channel soon 👍
Really good tips, I’ve been watching your videos about the MK2 and just beat making in general, and have learned so much already. Appreciate the effort!
Dope! So glad to hear that. Keeps me doing what I do 🙏
@@spvidz and that keeps me coming back for more! Haha thanks for your work 🙌
Very helpful video as per usual.
Great video SP! I was behind on the latest update, and when I got it, I was hyped! Worth it in every way
Nice man yeah it’s well worth keeping up with the latest versions! Excited to see what else Roland can do with this machine in the future
THIS IS YOUR CONTRIBUTION WITH VERY SINCERE AND REAL INFORMATION, THANKS
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I'm new to sp and love it so far. and yeah, at times its a lot to get thru.
sound tips and advice mate. cheers
Thanks for the tip, I’m a newborn in this and your video definitely inspired me to sit down and learn the SP 🤙🏽
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Thank you!
Thanks for these videos 📼
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Thanks for this. Mine should come in the mail today 🤩
Nice! 🔥🔥🔥
A+ bruh. Thanks!👍🏿
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Great explanation and I’ve watched several.
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How have I not been subbed to this channel. You are the SP-LEGEND bro.
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Thank you for that!
No problem! 🙌
Sage words, thanks 🙏
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mine just got here 5 minutes ago and setting it up now and im about to give it a shot in 5 minutes so im HYPED!!!!
Dope! Hope the videos help and welcome to the gang
Great Tips!
Thanks ma guy! Appreciate you tapping in regularly 🙏
Great info SP! Just got the Mk2 and it is my first - from a longtime MPC user (have the One now, and use it primarily). Looking forward to tapping in with you to learn more. Thank you for sharing man! Everything I've watched thus far has been solid gold. Best to you, my friend!
Awesome! Welcome to the gang and glad to help you out 🙏
Just ordered my SP mkII today, I have been wanting to make beats since the Golden era. Music lover, collector, aficionado, finally I’m making it happen. Good points you made here. TY PS I’m looking for other beat makers/SP 404 mk2 users around Aptos/Santa Cruz CA. area. Holla back✌️
Welcome to the gang, good luck with your SP journey! I'm sure my archive will come in useful 👍
this is helpful and good for my mental health 😁 thank you!
Glad to hear that 👌
Great content!
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SP’s in the mail! Can’t wait! 🙌🏾
Nice 🔥
Great vid. I feel confident making many genres now, but have a real mental block using the pattern sequencer still. Fine on my 707 but need to put in the time do get my head round all the steps on the 404mk2
I never used to use it on the SX but I forced myself on the MK2 and now its my go to. Like you say it just takes a bit of time, maybe try a small project where you only use the PS!
thx bro
🖤❤️💛💚got my 404mk2 finally, yes this device goes deep. I selected it as I know it will give me years of fun, thnx fa this tips video. I am starting out🖤❤️💛💚
Welcome to the gang! Hope the vids help your journey 🙌
@@spvidz I'm watching them ...they are brilliant thank you...I'm learning a lot from your simple , good paced videos....it can be so hard to follow other videos as they move from one button to the next quikly ...il be in contact...blessings 🖤❤️💛💚
Heavy on tip 4 and tip 5. I just got this machine, and I’m already facing a ton of roadblocks in this machine. Best way to keep myself motivated is to just remember that Madlib made Madvilliany on this thing and JPEGMAFIA made STH on it. Great vid as always, love ur content
The learning curve is tough at first yeah. Even I’m still learning stuff about the mk2! Keep grinding 🙌
Oh my god thank you so much dude. I have never been a 404 person and I so appreciate you doing the lords work for us all
Glad to help bro! 🙌
Asking what someone else likes is also cool. Being curious and listening, it can lead to you finding new music or appreciating music you wouldn't listen to and can help build a connection. Save the weirdest stuff for a third date. My last partner showed me Arca. I showed them Sunn. Both outside our usual comfort areas. But we didn't start there.
I think the dark side of tip 3 is that it's not just about learning the features, it's just as much about getting to grips with the entire workflow paradigm. Things like accepting that you have to commit to the effects and be prepared to go back more than a number of steps if it turns out you applied a bit too much reverb on that hi hat that you already resampled and printed as a stem because you had to free up the FX buses for other stuff. I find this to be the hardest part coming from the MPC and DAW workflow of working with inserts and sends. I'm not sure the SP is for me no matter how fast I get at navigating the features to be honest.
yes, after you learn what "non destructive" is, you want to keep it separable! yet perhaps it's a reason to return to a simpler, minimal era. (infinite tracks, etc. ask to be filled, if they are there)
I think the honest answer is that the SP wasn't isn't and won't be a real beatmaking device. It is a sound creator, a fast sampler. Stop trying to make songs on this, try to make simple beats that sound freaky ... and then export it to a sequencer.
@@bakerman3039 I agree, that's how you need to think about the SP to remain sane. Yet, Roland seems to work so hard on turning it into a (miserable) groovebox.
@@bakerman3039 tell that to those making songs and beats on it. ; - ) but your point is well taken, it is intended as a minimal device. I just wish that the resources within were better allocated so it would be easier to use, because I believe that really was their intent! hopefully more firmware updates could improve this, but if not, consider how the mark 3 might be better designed control wise.
@@VJFranzK I would say the nice things about the Sp MK2 are the effects which really nicely emulate the older Sps, the good polyphony and the Bus effects. You shall sample your own sounds, mangle it through the effects and at the end you could build a nice loop with the little pattern sequencer (not Tr mode). That's it. That's the machine. I was very dissapointed that the 3.0 didn't get us new effects. The effects are the main reason to buy this machine.
bra, the tip 4 beat..... hecticccc
love the hat! love your videos man, I don't have anything but a laptop but I can dream can't I?
Always gotta dream 🙌
Bro Roland should pay u thanks again 🙏💯🔥
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Very cool vid my man! I am just getting in to this whole world. I would love some kind of dictionary of the vocabulary that is the language of this art. Is there any good sources?
Not that I’m aware of sorry bro 😩
Hello SPVIDZ! I have the following problem. Can I play the samples across the board so that they can go from one pattern to the next pattern?
I just got mine very first ever SP-404MKII.
Dope 🙌🥳🤩
Good vid. My alternative tip 2, for me anyway, is don't spend hours building up a massive library of sounds 😂 I find this claustrophobic and feel a small carefully curated library is much better. But I guess it maybe depends on what genre you work with
If it works for you thats dope. I am realising that having a resource pool of sounds is really useful to have to hand rather than having to load up youtube etc when i want something, personal thing for me and it stops me getting distracted. I agree though quality can be better than quantity!
How do you label all the sounds and samples? I’d like to curate my own but I would like to avoid what happened to De La Soul in 1988 where they got sued for forgetting to clear one small sample.
@@ogcidman911 you could always use royalty free samples, or sample packs that happen to be royalty free. The only problem with that is that a ton of people might have used those loops. I try to avoid splice sometimes, and if I use it, it’s mainly for one shots
any tips on how to make multiple pads that are "rolling" turn off all at once? like not just pressing exit 4 times but maybe 1 pad triggering them to all turn off?
Sorry this is so late but for future readers, holding SHIFT and pressing EXIT mutes all sounds on the SP
I just got my 404 mk2 I really wanna learn to chop and such so I’m excited for this journey and this video helps with that
Got plenty of vids in the archive bro, I'm sure you can learn a lot! Coincidentally I am going to do some more chopping videos soon too!
Why do i get latency on song mode only going between patterns?
Thanks!! I really need a sp cheat sheet. Is there any out there?
Not that I know of sorry
@@spvidz no problem brutha, your content Helps tremendously. Thanks for all you do🤙🤙
I really need to spend more time with the sp. there are 2 things that I find discouraging though. 1 is that I truly love having an actual written manual to refer to. ( I understand with updates, new features are added). And 2, i loaded the dd card with about a 1000 samples and loops. But when I scroll through the sounds to load one from the sd card, only about 200 of them show up in the list. I’m wondering if the sp is recognizing one of the samples as corrupt and not displaying the rest? When I put the sd in the pc to view the samples they are all there and work fine. I don’t know what the problem is
Hmm not heard of that. I’m slowly loading mine up but I’m no where near that full yet so can’t really comment personally 🤔
There is a limit of 256 files per folder
that lofi is dead hat is so hard haha
Thanks haha! its in my shop if you fancy owning one yourself spvidz.com/collections/merch/products/lid-washed-dad-cap
I’d happily pay for a sp404mk2 master class
I would like to do a full course one day 🙌
#3. cost nothing to do. Great tip.
100%. Its got all the answers, just take a bit of time but well worth it!
With tip 3, is there a manual? Mine just came with a QR code that lead to a one page document
Yeah there's a full manual on the Roland website
How do you feel this pair up with a mpc one?
Would be fun! I’m going to do some videos pairing mine with the live 2 soon! 🙌
Is the 3.01 update out now!!! And can u do a video on it please if it is!!
Got it installed yeah. I had already filmed this video though 🫠
@@spvidz ok bro
I watch it from start to finish but I’m still suck making beats
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You should go live with people and help them learn it more like help people get ideas for their set ups and etc... i always think that woukd be helpful when listeningto a few filk your one
How long does the battery last?
Only about 2hrs which isn’t great. It’s better to use a power bank
@@spvidz ok thx
Is that a Brewdog glass?
It might be Beavertown 👍
I think 3.01 of the firmware is already out...
Yup I’ve got it. Video was already recorded before I noticed 👍
i’m on version 3.01 …. said it had bug fixes.
Yeah same. Always worth being on the latest version 👍
3.01 is available, mate....
Yup I have it installed. I had already recorded this video though
I havent played with an SP since the 303 because evrything in between seemed like early 2000s quickly outdated technology.. it seems like this may be the end all be all of the SP series for years to come.
What do you think about the tone/warmth of the MK2 vs the original 404/404sx? I've heard the compressor on the og 404 is warmer and fatter than the SX. But I haven't seen many talk about how the MK2 compares.
I picked up a MK2 in a trade but I'm thinking of selling for an og404 bc the simplicity and warmth is more important to me than extra features. I overcomplicate things with the gear I already have, so I was thinking a 404 would work well as something to record to besides my DAW, I'd hope that the fx (og404 comp especially) would help glue everything together too.
Do you think this would be a good use of original 404?
@@afk_hesh I've had this exact thought. I'm trying to sell my mk2 right now, but I'm gonna get the new DIGITAKT 2. I'm way more comfortable with th Elektron workflow, and it seemslike it just makes more sense. with the mk2, I can't get a workflow down as it seems like a bunch of awesome functions thrown into the machine, but no real intuitive workflow to where I find myself doing some stuff but never really being able to use it just to trigger samples in my music, most of the time just by pressing the pad. at least the Digitakt I can use as a main brain an program samples in songs where I need them to play.
@totalSLACK yeah the elektron stuff looks really cool, been watching Jon Wayne's Octatrack vids and I love the creativity you can put into the workflow with it. I've been on the fence about getting a model cycles/samples but I haven't looked into them enough tbh
Also I just realized you mentioned the 303 not the 404 in your first comment so literally all my questions were irrelevant lmao
*UPDATE: he absolutely did NOT do such a silly thing as I originally suspected. I just misunderstood. but I've enjoyed our exchange here, so I don't wanna delete my comment.
sorry... honestly not trying to be a dick here, but... did you just try to take credit for the idea of reviewing musical gear here on youtube? did I misunderstand that, or...? maybe I did.
I don't know where abouts in the video you are referencing but it doesn't sound like anything I'd say 😂. I don't even understand how you would take credit for that! Worst case scenario I was probably joking
@@spvidz I think it was either a dry joke, or I just completely misheard you. honestly, I could tell, by all the genuine praise you get in the comments, that you aren't the type of dude to say some silly shizz like that & be serious. so, my apologies.
@@spvidz all that said, this vid was helpful. I'm still torn on the sp404 mk2. there seem to be so many mixed feelings about this piece of gear.
All good bro! Yeah it’s a tricky one. A few of my recent videos outline some of its flaws if you wanted to check those out. Hell of a machine but it does have limitations 👍
@@spvidz thanks, man. yeah... I will check those... I actually don't mind limitations. in fact, things that can do everything are usually a pain in the arse. but some folks--maybe most folks--are actually struck by how much of a pain the sp404 mk2 is alongside its limitations.
coming thick and fast... wtf
Just got my SP MKii yesterday and can’t wait to start making magic 🪄.
Great stuff! Welcome to the gang!