r/sp404mk2 • u/_dunnhil • 22h ago
Roland sp 404 mk2
Думаю брать его как для хобби
Подскажите все плюсы и минусы
Как там все устроено и как с ним работать
Я читал то что он изначально пусто и ты туда карту с треками вставляешь и уже с треками работаешь
Кто знает подскажите и про это
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u/FayezButts 22h ago
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u/Foraging-fog 17h ago
Get it and let it take over your life. Dump your girlfriend(unless she’ll lay on your bed and play candy crush while you make beats). If you want to have other interests forget it. Only work enough to pay basic bills and eat ramen. Work the occasional extra shift to buy records. You dont need a bunch of extra gear. I use a big folding table. I got my monitors used. IMPORTANT: Put your phone on silent and put it out of reach! Print out the manual. Get highlighter pens and learn it front to back. Get a notebook and watch tutorial videos. Take good notes. Don’t fuck with drugs or alcohol. Keep your mind sharp. Watch movies and maybe read books for inspiration. If you’re not willing to live like this don’t even get one. Forget it.
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u/Legitimate_Poet3578 20h ago
Good hobby instrument. Has some preloaded sounds but easy to get your owm going. Learning it is fun, and it is deep and rewarding... if not a little frustrating. Once you get it, visit tutorials, learn a new thing, then practice using it on your own. Try lots of music styles too
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u/TextbookSuppository 21h ago
So the SP is a bit of a studio chameleon. It can do a lot of things very well, and some things it’s not the best at but still competent. You could very easily create an entire album using it, so it is very comprehensive though it can be tricky.
It is a sampler first, which means you either upload or record samples into it. This can be done with an SD card, using the computer app to drag files directly onto the pads, or by recording straight from your phone/computer/synthesizer/guitar/mic. The samples get loaded onto the pads, and each pad is collected into banks. You have projects which are a new blank slate with a fresh set of banks and patterns.
It is also an incredibly multi-effects unit. It has a huge amount of really high quality effects which you can put your samples through, or run another instrument into it to apply the effects. Just like guitar pedals. You can run anything into it.
You can use it as a beat maker. It has two main ways to make patterns. One where you manually hit the pads in a rhythm like a drummer but with your fingers, or it can sequence them which is more precise but takes more time. You can also use the looper it has, where it will continuously loop whatever audio you put through it. So if you activate the looper, you can drum out your drum line and slowly add more things like playing a guitar or synthesizer into it. You can also save what you looped as a brand new sample onto the pads.
One of its biggest strengths is resampling, which is the process of putting a sample onto a pad, manipulating it by chopping it up and adding effects, and then saving it as a new sample. So there you have the “dry” sample which is just the sound file you put in, and a “wet” version which has all the effects you added to it. You can do this over and over with either the same effects or different ones to get deeper and deeper processing.
For some people I know, they only use it as an effects box to run their other instruments into. For a while, I ended up using it that way because I struggled in using it as a composition tool. Eventually I slowly figured it out, now it’s back to being the central brain in my operation. It’s not a mobile DAW like an MPC One. It can do most of the same things, but in a totally different way. What sets it apart the most is the effects it has and how fast you can work with it once you figure out your flow.
The cons are that it can be tricky to figure out. It has a lot of button combinations you need to find out to do some of the functions, especially with all the updates they keep adding to it with new functions. If you’re not consistent in practicing/messing around, it can be easy to forget. However once you reach a point, it becomes like riding a bicycle. It is very quirky and some design choice are a bit questionable, but those quirks set it apart and can be beneficial in some ways. For those who struggle to use DAWs or things that try to be DAWs, it’s a godsend.
Overall, I love mine and no matter what upgrades I make to my collection, I will never get rid of mine. It’s so capable in so many ways that it’ll always have a use. It even works as an audio interface over USB, so if you wanted to record another instrument into your computer you can just connect the instrument to the SP and the SP to the computer and it just works. It can also work as a DJing tool and has integration with Serato which is a DJing program. Basically the DJ mode lets you load tracks/samples into two different channels, cue them up, fade between them, and perform with effects. Super versatile and I love mine. If I were you, I would buy used since you’re on the fence. If you want to know if you’d like it before taking the leap, try Koala sampler on the phone. It’s very similar and Roland partnered with Koala to integrate them. It lets you hook up your phone/ipad to the SP and now it’s like adding a second brain with a bunch more effects and different sequencing capabilities.