Exporting your beats from the SP404 MKII [Includes quick Import + Export walkthrough]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video I walk you through in import area of the SP404 MKII and explain how to export your beats once you have finished making them.
I've had a lot of questions in the comment areas about this recently so hopefully it makes things a bit more understandable!
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most important video i found on the issue so far..thanks
nice one, well covered video
Thank you so much this is a great tutorial
Glad to hear that, thanks for the comment!
Thanks a lot. cheers
I can’t wait to get mine! On the way…I hope they update being able to export the way akai does. Other than that, it’s def my fav sampler right now.
Yeah that would be a dope update. You can resample down to one pad and export the WAV. thats probably the best work around for now
@@spvidz sounds good!
I have been recording my pattern sequence into my daw then exporting it to mp3. Maybe there is a better way? Thanks for everything you do for us. You have really made an impact on all of us beat makers!
That works fine and it is something I would most likely do myself but you can create a pattern chain and then just resample that down to a pad if you wanted to. Might be useful if you aren't at your computer!
@@spvidz good idea I will give it a try!
Whenever mines arrives, I’ll export tracks out to my digital recorder (Denon DN-300R). Convenient, as it can record to SD or USB cards. Keep up the great vids. 👍🏾✌🏾✊🏾
Dope idea man yeah I used to use my Zoom H5 quite a bit to record sessions into. I enjoyed the completely dawless workflow
@@spvidz Indeed, I always forget my DR40. Too many options, too little time. 😂🤣😂
Let’s goooooo
the most annoying feature is to export. Just tried today using usb c cable and record from sp 404. Alot of noise and quality of the sound in my Studio One DAW is different from what i hear in my headphones from sp 404 mk2 :(
Hi Mn thanks very much for your tutos where did you buy your cover very nice
It’s from cremacaffee. They are on Instagram 👍
@SPVIDS i have a very particular question: I have samples on project 9 and project 10, and these samples have really fine tuned start/end points and loop markers that I need to preserve - is there any way to move samples and keep their time/pitch/loop settings when moving them? when i export i only get the raw wav and i need the sample as it plays in the current project, not just the raw audio i started with
Hope you can help! thanks for your contributions
I don't believe you can do that unless you resample them before exporting. You might want to check the app though that might be able to do it. I don't really use the app so not sure myself!
still havent recieved my 404 mkii and I'm wondering if you could sync with a computer daw via midi and use mute pads to bounce independent pads and groups
you can use it as a midi controller I know that much. I'm not sure if it goes much further than that though. Might be worth peeping the online manual
Just got my SP-403 Mk2 and I’m super excited to learn. The problem I’m having right now is when I put sample packs on my SD card It’s not showing up on my SP when I put it the device , even after the card has been formatted. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a certain way you have to set it up the SD card for the SP to read it?
That’s odd. You definitely putting them in the right folder? You shouldn’t have to do anything accept format the card and then dump them in the ‘Import’ folder
What would be an aproach to have cards with differents projects? In the sx i have cards for beatmaking, others for live sets, but on the mkii i havent figure it out, as the projects are in the internal memory and there are only 16. I t will be nice to have a video about project management on the mkii.
Its a good point - this set-up isn't as good for multiple card workflows. The SD card is now more of just an 'external hard-drive' for importing/exporting. Basically for different set-ups you are going to have to do a lot of exporting/importing to get things set up!
@@spvidz and is there a way to do a full backup load for all the projects on the 16 pads? So if i am in a live set situation could just add the card and load everything instead of project by projects that is so time consuming. It have been so dificult to stay organized in the mkii for me, as i used to just change cards with tags. Now i have to test project by project to remember what i was working on each pad.
Or what about recording into the Tascam 12?
You are fine to record into whatever you like, whatever workflow works for you! I frequently record into my tape deck as well for some extra grit! :)
hey..thanks for Video tut...question- wanna export my samples but devise showed Unsuported FILE.....and cant find the answer -why?
uhhh i get it- has a problem this SD Card))))
shouldn't the USB-C be able to export multiple tracks live? Ableton file export would be nice too...
I'm not aware if it can do that or not but that would be dope!
how do you go from sp404 to posting a full beat to soundcloud or youtube
Try this - How to export your SP404sx/SP404A Beats!
th-cam.com/video/1wYGDXigE2c/w-d-xo.html
How to add effects to a wav file with a Roland SP 404MK2.
How to export a modified sample to SD card to save with BUS FX effects?
Resample first with MFX, then export
I wish we could have a better option to export the final song to master in a computer. It's like I need to perform whole song in sp and record it in Logic thru stereo outs? Thanks for the video! I might order mk2.
Yeah the final stages of beat making leave a lot to be desired. Sadly thats always been the case with all the SPs up until now. I've changed to just using mine as an FX processing unit now and do pretty much all my arrangement in ableton
@@spvidz Would you still recommend it to compose lofi beats? I mean what's the best approach to export? I wanna compose inside the sp and realease my music on platforms. Music we got in this unit still needs to be mixed and mastered?
If you want to keep it in the box, create patterns and use pattern resample to sample it all down to one pad, then you have a single wav that you can export and use.
Makes sense, thank you!
@spvidz can you export individual samples from one project to another within the SP (sans computer)
Export sample to SD card then import to another project?
@spvidz I just did it, you can export a sample to the SD card then import it into another project without the computer.
Though, got to figure out how to rename.
PS I bought a t-shirt. Thanks for your videos.
Much apprecaited man, thanks for the support! cool that you can do that, I hadn't even thought of trying it! I need to play around more with the SD card and see what can/can't be done
@@spvidz yeah it’s pretty easy…it’s helpful if you get resampled down to one pad and you just want to send it to a blank slate.
I wish you could name it…that’s the only downside…it’s just a generic file…I guess at that point you can rename in the computer.
I noticed that when you export a project, there is a "PTRN' folder with .BIN files of your patterns, and a "SMPL" folder with .SMP files of your samples. .SMP is a Reason NN19 Sampler Patch file. I happen to own Reason 12, so I open it in Reason and alls I get is "bad patch or corrupt" message. I'm thinking it's not actually meant to be opened in Reason's sampler. Too bad, that would have been a real boon for 404 owners who use Reason at least. All 5 of us. 😅 Weird.
That would be have been a dream. I guess its back to exporting all your samples like the rest of us 😭
When I try to export samples it will only open them in reason and then it won't read it. I don't want to open the files in reason anyway...is there a work around here that I don't know about?
also I love your videos. keep it up!
Sounds like you’ve got your computer to open .wav files im reason by default?
Can I just sample my completed SP beat into my mpc and then convert it to WAV??
sounds like you should be able to, that’s what i do with my 404a.
yes but that sounds like adding extra steps to me. Wouldn't it be better to just resample your pattern chain to a pad and then grab the wav off your SD card, or if you are a resampler, resample your full beat down to one pad and export that wav to the SD? Its all personal preference obviously but you don't particularly need another device to have a finished recording
Hi man! I have some questions 'bout sp404(mk1) and mpc's.
What's the difference in sound between those 2 types of samplers?
I have sp404a, and thinking about buying some mpc, but mpc 2000xl is too pricy for me, so I'm thinking 'bout buying the mpc 1000. And if there is a big difference, then which is the best budget mpc (not talking about new ones, like mpc one, live II and X)? And is there any difference in sound between mpc 1000 and 2000xl? Thank you so much!
I've not owned a 1000 so hard to say but with older MPCs it is a completely different workflow. You work on a pattern pretty much permanently and there are a whole bunch of limitations, pros and cons that would take me too long to write. I would recommend just browsing youtube and forums and seeing what you can find out because there is a lot to know about mpcs compared to the SPs they are much different devices.
bruhh🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ i been selecting the sample and putting them on a pad to listen to them... i did not know the sub pad lets you preview without selecting it first 😔😔 it took me so long to look for drums lol
ah man, well glad you got it figured out now!
Wow I'm glad I watched this video before I jumped up and copped this....exporting as an audio file should be standard for a device like this....wow...so basically you would have to play the pattern "live" into a DAW huh....well it's like a being a musician...hopefully it only takes one take....LOL
It depends on how you make your beats but for example, if you build sequences and then 'chain' them in the order you want, you can now 'resample' that down to one pad so you would have your full track as one wav file. Thats the quickest and easiest way to get a full beat made with sequences off the device other than directly recording it into your DAW I guess
Can you resample a chain? I don’t see the option.
in pattern mode you can resample a chain yes
@@spvidz so I went into the chain, and selected the 1st chain. Now I’m sitting in that screen. It’s working fine, via the pad Repeat button. Resample button not lit, on that screen, nor functional. Alternatively, from main pattern mode, if I hit “resample” and choose a destination pad, I cannot subsequently hit “Hold” to open chain mode. So can you shed a little light there, please?
Never mind. I think I found it. Thanks 🙏
its a sample processor, thru and through
its baffling to me that it can't just export to thru USB C, it can export the project SMP files but not the actual wav? really dumb, hopefully they can fix it in an update
Yeah, there will be a lot more processing involved in that but I agree, it needs to be in there!
damn what’s that sax sample from? I’d love to hear the original song.
So once I fill all my pads with sounds I save all the patterns and sounds. Then I have to clear all the pads to make new work?
You have 16 projects to play with as well. Just use shift > sub-pad and you can start all over again
@@spvidz Thank you
am i trippin or did u not explain how to save and re load the patterns and only focused on resample mode
I wish Roland would make it easier to copy a Bank to another Bank. One by one is not fun. Lol.
You can do that - press and hold COPY, then press EXT and it brings up the screen to be able to copy a bank to another