Here's my first impressions with the Roland P-6 I'll be live again Saturday at 11AM pacific to explore what granular can do, sampling some synths and guitar. If you've got questions about the p-6 drop them here and I'll cover them live on the stream. 🔴 Make the most of the Roland P-6 with this easy to reference Cheat Sheet & Quick Start Guide: www.sunwarper.com/product-page/p-6-beatmaking-cheat-sheet-quick-start-guide
Cheers! That's what I suspected but when I tried to rerecord the automation over it wouldnt take it. All good though, the woes of trying to manage a stream and make a beat at the same time haha worked out in the end
Im not sure about no brainer, though it does depend on your other gear and use case(s). While I think the p-6 is dope especially at the cost, for overall uses the SP definitely can do a lot more and has more options in the long run. If you’re looking to just flip samples, do some sound design and then finish tracks in a daw or other hardware, the P-6 is perfect. But if you want a sound generator, a live looper, multiple performance effects, a live performance box, a dj mode and so on, the sp is worth it. If this helps, for me, the p-6 is going to be my portable idea station that I can send samples into, mangle them up, create a pattern idea then elaborate on something else. The SP is my studio Swiss Army knife, that is always at the center of any setup I use.
I really want one aswell, till I read the manual, though I fully understand and get that learning curve, time and patience pays off, as it did for my other equipments, hardwares and softwares, yet that manual for P6 really got me headache and the need for this hardware went down, still I don't know yet if its a challenge to be accepted.
I fell totally the same way. I think the worst thing about a machine like this is if you don't use it for a while, you forget almost everything and have to learn it again
The manual is not the best for sure and considering all of the complexities of this machine it's a bit of a shame. As I do for all of my machines, I've been creating a more digestible cheat sheet that has all of the menu names, and quality of life tips laid out for easy reference. That said, it's really easy to get started on and then get to grips with the more intricate features as you go, at least it's been for me.
The main sample pads are great, the tiny ones are alright but pretty small. They work well enough and it's decent for $200 given what it can do sound design and sequence wise
@@sunwarperI also don’t understand why videos being made don’t utilize the midi out and connect it to a keyboard or even the SP. The keys are tiny but they include a way out of that using MIDI. Just food for thought. Thanks for the video.
Yeah for sure, we talk about that at the end of the stream. Planning to sequence it with the Digitakt in the future, but that wasn’t the point of this video, more to show a quick start workflow for what is actually a bit of a complex machine. Cheers 😄
Here's my first impressions with the Roland P-6
I'll be live again Saturday at 11AM pacific to explore what granular can do, sampling some synths and guitar. If you've got questions about the p-6 drop them here and I'll cover them live on the stream.
🔴 Make the most of the Roland P-6 with this easy to reference Cheat Sheet & Quick Start Guide:
www.sunwarper.com/product-page/p-6-beatmaking-cheat-sheet-quick-start-guide
Been avoiding this because the more I see it the more I want one
17:24 you recorded your knob movements thats why it was doing that. you hit record just before you started tweaking. it recorded your pitch movements.
Cheers! That's what I suspected but when I tried to rerecord the automation over it wouldnt take it. All good though, the woes of trying to manage a stream and make a beat at the same time haha worked out in the end
Would you say the P-6 is a no brainer over the 404ii for my first sampler? Money is tight, any reason to go for the big boy?
Im not sure about no brainer, though it does depend on your other gear and use case(s). While I think the p-6 is dope especially at the cost, for overall uses the SP definitely can do a lot more and has more options in the long run.
If you’re looking to just flip samples, do some sound design and then finish tracks in a daw or other hardware, the P-6 is perfect. But if you want a sound generator, a live looper, multiple performance effects, a live performance box, a dj mode and so on, the sp is worth it.
If this helps, for me, the p-6 is going to be my portable idea station that I can send samples into, mangle them up, create a pattern idea then elaborate on something else. The SP is my studio Swiss Army knife, that is always at the center of any setup I use.
@@sunwarper definitely helpful info ty 🙏
I really want one aswell, till I read the manual, though I fully understand and get that learning curve, time and patience pays off, as it did for my other equipments, hardwares and softwares,
yet that manual for P6 really got me headache and the need for this hardware went down, still I don't know yet if its a challenge to be accepted.
I fell totally the same way. I think the worst thing about a machine like this is if you don't use it for a while, you forget almost everything and have to learn it again
The manual is not the best for sure and considering all of the complexities of this machine it's a bit of a shame. As I do for all of my machines, I've been creating a more digestible cheat sheet that has all of the menu names, and quality of life tips laid out for easy reference. That said, it's really easy to get started on and then get to grips with the more intricate features as you go, at least it's been for me.
How about its a Granular synth that can sample some. Does that make it a better device to everyone that speak on its cons?
a lot of wibble in them tiny keys when you touch them. do they feel solid?
The main sample pads are great, the tiny ones are alright but pretty small. They work well enough and it's decent for $200 given what it can do sound design and sequence wise
@@sunwarperI also don’t understand why videos being made don’t utilize the midi out and connect it to a keyboard or even the SP. The keys are tiny but they include a way out of that using MIDI. Just food for thought. Thanks for the video.
Yeah for sure, we talk about that at the end of the stream. Planning to sequence it with the Digitakt in the future, but that wasn’t the point of this video, more to show a quick start workflow for what is actually a bit of a complex machine. Cheers 😄
Sent mine back to sweet water. Easier to work with samples in Zenbeats than on the P6
I get that, it's got quite the complicated workflow to learn
@@sunwarper it does indeed
Yeah, my sampler work-flow is much simpler....Audacity then upload to the MC-101.
Are the slices independent? As in independent start point, trigger mode, pitch ect thx!
Will cover this on Saturday’s streams! Cheers 🍻
It's more SP-like than the MkII is.
Right? SP-6
I agree. I feel like it mixes the workflow of an Elektron Sequencer with a sp404/SX/A
I'm here for it.
I'm guessing I'll like that sequencer better.
The sequencer goes deep! I’ll be going way more in depth with it on some future videos/streams