I once attended an after party at SXSW and this dude was tearing it up inside playing a house set only with the SP-404. As a DJ who had no idea of people who actually performed without a laptop, it opened my world to hardware music gear and it's been so much fun learning how powerful these machines are!
@breadstickzzzzzzz Should have rephrased, I usually see laptops at popup afterparties for the ease of setup. I knew CDJ's existed and I've performed on them before, but seeing this small device on the table playing a killer house set was eye opening. Was the first time I've seen an SP404 anywhere
To the younger people on here, I know it's an automatic reaction for the mind/ears to shut off when a TH-cam creator says to visit their website for merchandise, etc. But really consider doing so because all this stuff they do is time-consuming. And music doesn't exactly pay much, as we all know. So spend $20 or whatever to support a TH-cam person like Ricky. It's really not much - the cost of a patch cable or a couple of beers at a bar etc. - but makes such a difference for content creators.
I live in Perth, Australia and Rickys videos always come out sunday morning aha i actually get so excited for my day off early inspiration. Today when i saw compact creations in the title 😀😍😀
This video made me realize why people are always remarking how the 404 "feels" better than so many modern samplers. They're thinking it's something inherent in the 404 but it's not the 404 at all... it's them. Admittedly, part of the reason for their assertion about "feel" is a direct result of the quantize function not being technically capable of quantizing anything Nevertheless, a lot of talented 404 users aren't giving themselves the credit they've earned. This is actually the best "tutorial" for the 404 that I've watched (and I've watched a lot lately). It's a "practical" walk-through.
Man, you can't help but groove when Ricky's groovin! Hope to see you live some day. In the mean time...time for me to play with the Xpander sample pack!
At 14:00 man I love that feeling when you hear something work and you say okay I figured out the next thing I'm gonna add to this track. Super dope video hugely informative for all the SP users out there. I had literally no idea you could change the attack to release on the compressor shame on me! I wanna try it out right now haha
Been jamming with the 404 since Christmas, I feel like I've gotten pretty fast with it. I think using a metronome on my phone really helps when I'm laying down hip-hop beats with those seasick kick patterns, but I also came across that looping trick to get a steady 4 on the floor kick pattern for house when I was looking for ways to be more locked in. Great minds think alike! Having rock-solid loops and steady tempo on the 404 are crucial if you plan on finishing or rearranging your tracks in a DAW, even if it has good time stretching like Ableton. The first few beats I made were freeform as fuck, everything looped perfectly in the 404, but there was so much drift in between bars that it was a huge hassle getting everything locked in with Ableton.
Just once again I want to say how much love I have for you, I can in no way understand how you get this much atmosphere into your videos (that are just videos!) and it is so good that this is here in this world. I love it so much.
So good. My last 4 modular purchases have all come from watching your videos. you make everything sound great. taken the interesting route down the noise engineering stuff after seeing what they can do. great videos. thanks
You know those guys that can finish a rubik’s cube in under 4 seconds? This is like watching that but with an SP404😅 Seriously though, I am always amazed at how quickly your mind and hands work when you get in the zone dude, you’re IQ must be off the charts lol. Got my GAS fired up for the SP again(stupidly sold mine a few months ago). Awesome content as always, you are a youtube treasure bro, Peace and love✌🏻 PD; if you ever get the time, could you tell me what picture profile do you use on your sony camera? Been struggling with the colors on my videos lately, thanks🤟🏻
Would love to see a video about what happens next. Like the mpc3000 video where you show us your workflow from the mpc into ableton. How do you get the loop from the hardware to a multitrack in to ableton..... you do multitrack into ableton to mix it right? Makes me wonder, do people release tracks straight from hardware like this🤔 I mean, I get you would from an mpc with all the eq compression and fx build in. But something like this?
Hey Ricky! You should do a compact lofi jam with the 404 and the Octatrack. Slave the 4040 to the Octa and route the audio between the two. The possibilities are endless.
Hot ziggity. Enrique drops the knowledge and passion, love seeing how into the entire workflow you are smiling and excited about the creation, lotsa background noises gave us all some relation to the struggle is real, thanks synth bro
2:45 Been running into that little slope in the attack of a note ahead of the grid heaps in Ableton. I was thinking surely I don't have to cater for this everywhere? Apparently I do.
I have much machines (akai force, sp 606, mc 101, tr 8s, hydrasynth and more) but i don't know why my fav is the 404 lol She is like a swiss knive, i love it.
I used to think watching Ricky use the MPC was the most complicated thing until I finally got one and saw it's not too bad. But the SP.... nope... that's some whole other level of wtf. Sounds awesome in the end though!
A little anecdote: I've got a 404 and MPC 1000. While I absolutely love the MPC, I was one of the unfortunate people to get the faulty pads that barely worked. While waiting to afford the pad replacement, the 404 became my sole sampler and therefore super intuitive for me. So I kinda find it funny seeing people call it crazy difficult because I was stuck with it until it made sense!
The sequencers on all the SP series pretty much suck and it's easier to bounce everything down to stems & parts for payback instead of having the sequencer do it. And also because the sequencer is locked in time you might run into issues with sampled loops i.e. 120 BPM sequence, but the loop is something like 119.48 BPM because you did it by ear and it sounded close enough, but then you start hearing gaps or the first beat coming in too early when retriggering. You can play two loops back to back that aren't entirely matched up in BPM and it won't sound too bad, but if you have a sequencer triggering them, you're gonna hear the difference. It's easier to make loops of approximate BPM and trigger them manually instead of trying to get every sample loop the exact same BPM and triggering it on a sequencer.
I've always wanted one of these so much but I know I'd have to trial and error out the wazo, which I don't have a problem with but this machine scares the living crap outta me lol. I mainly want one for the effects to link with my MPC but I'd love to learn this thing in and out so I could solo it as well.
Wish Roland would make a flagship sampler like the SP-808ex I would welcome back a D-beam and the phonograph effects or a vinyl sim. They could always put that in the mc-707 as an update though.
video request!!! so I make music with a more typical hardware midi setup, but I am fascinated by the sp404 as a kind of hybrid dj/live type device, where people do long sets on them. I would love for you do a video about live performance on the sp404 because it has so much potential to be a standalone/hybrid dj/live set type device. And there are a zillion vids where people do lofi hip hop sets on them, but I think house or techno could also really work because of that really cool sound it has (I sold mine a few years ago but I always think about picking one up again to do this kind of thing)
Watching this on my PC via a cable out of the headphone socket into a headphone splitter in the other input of the splitter I have a cable running from my PO-12, the splitter plugged into the input of my PO-133 with my Grado headphones plugged into that. Getting a little tangled up here. 😂
Rad video! So with the resample method, do you not end up running out of pads/slots hella fast over time since you're using them for both samples and completed "sequences?"
The cricket is so beautiful in the mix
ASMR cricket
The night noises make the track!
lol I first thought that cricket is actually at my place ...
@@pkmehard9565 while editing the video later i thought the same thing until i hit pause haha
Then you got to listen to Light on the Land by nujabes
I once attended an after party at SXSW and this dude was tearing it up inside playing a house set only with the SP-404. As a DJ who had no idea of people who actually performed without a laptop, it opened my world to hardware music gear and it's been so much fun learning how powerful these machines are!
Yo Taylor! I remember that night haha, what a small world
@@RickyTinez Would be fun to learn how you can mix house with the SP series. Do you put interludes and stuff like that?
@@RickyTinez Small world indeed! Amazing how things come full circle, keep up the amazing videos my man
SxSW pre 2015 were 🔥🔥🔥 but glad to hear it still has pockets of funkiness
@breadstickzzzzzzz Should have rephrased, I usually see laptops at popup afterparties for the ease of setup. I knew CDJ's existed and I've performed on them before, but seeing this small device on the table playing a killer house set was eye opening. Was the first time I've seen an SP404 anywhere
To the younger people on here, I know it's an automatic reaction for the mind/ears to shut off when a TH-cam creator says to visit their website for merchandise, etc. But really consider doing so because all this stuff they do is time-consuming. And music doesn't exactly pay much, as we all know. So spend $20 or whatever to support a TH-cam person like Ricky. It's really not much - the cost of a patch cable or a couple of beers at a bar etc. - but makes such a difference for content creators.
True, and his merch looks nice as well. Man I miss beers at a bar
@TX 3 Thanks so much for the support!!
Wow, thank you @deroden !! i really appreciate you saying that :)
YES Compact Creations is back!
8 minutes into the video:
Ricky: you hear that cricket outside?
Me: thought that cricket was a sample all along lol
Crickets, Cars, and Ghetto Birds, the next Ambient House album by Ricky Tinez
😂🤣
I bought an SP404 to make lofi boombap but I can't stop using it to make house instead, love how it sound on this music style
I live in Perth, Australia and Rickys videos always come out sunday morning aha i actually get so excited for my day off early inspiration. Today when i saw compact creations in the title 😀😍😀
I love that cricket sound!
That accidental scratch sound from the effect, that breaks the last loop, actually works well
cicada and house music in - frozen, locked down europe gone. thx ricky!
Much respect for sharing your creativity...you have a new subscriber
Made a lot of sense. Thanks.
All of the urban ambience (and the damn crickets) really give this whole video a vibe
Thaaanks for this one it was so much fun, i really missed the compact creation thing !
Dude it's so nice to see a workflow in full like this. Thank you for doing these! I had no clue about the compressor switch either
This video made me realize why people are always remarking how the 404 "feels" better than so many modern samplers. They're thinking it's something inherent in the 404 but it's not the 404 at all... it's them. Admittedly, part of the reason for their assertion about "feel" is a direct result of the quantize function not being technically capable of quantizing anything Nevertheless, a lot of talented 404 users aren't giving themselves the credit they've earned.
This is actually the best "tutorial" for the 404 that I've watched (and I've watched a lot lately). It's a "practical" walk-through.
Takes me right back to FlyLo and cosmogramma with that jam at the end!
crickets are the organic texture sound I didn't know I needed. 😁
“Peace” along with that glitch at the end was so dope ✌️
Amazing workflow man, inspiring and fun!
Got my SP-404 in the mail yesterday. You make it look too easy! lol
Man, you can't help but groove when Ricky's groovin! Hope to see you live some day. In the mean time...time for me to play with the Xpander sample pack!
At 14:00 man I love that feeling when you hear something work and you say okay I figured out the next thing I'm gonna add to this track.
Super dope video hugely informative for all the SP users out there. I had literally no idea you could change the attack to release on the compressor shame on me! I wanna try it out right now haha
Ask and I shall receive...
thanks for more of the compact creations, awesome as always, true inspiration
Chill video, I love the atmosphere!! Thanks!
Been jamming with the 404 since Christmas, I feel like I've gotten pretty fast with it. I think using a metronome on my phone really helps when I'm laying down hip-hop beats with those seasick kick patterns, but I also came across that looping trick to get a steady 4 on the floor kick pattern for house when I was looking for ways to be more locked in. Great minds think alike!
Having rock-solid loops and steady tempo on the 404 are crucial if you plan on finishing or rearranging your tracks in a DAW, even if it has good time stretching like Ableton. The first few beats I made were freeform as fuck, everything looped perfectly in the 404, but there was so much drift in between bars that it was a huge hassle getting everything locked in with Ableton.
Dude where did you get that MPC 3000 toy its sweet...always been a fan of your work💯👍
I don't really listen to house but I would watch you make it for hours lol
Nice 1 fella. I think most reasonable people would agree that it is fun to play with yourself.
An inspiring journey through your amazing creative process...thank you man!
The crickets are such a vibe
Missed compact creations so much! moooreeee MOOOOOREEE
Pure inspiration, thanx🔥👍
this beat so good wow and u did that so effortlessly
I think this guy only entertains himself. Films it. And then monetizes off of it. I gotta respect that.
we just chillin out here! Always welcome James :)
People learn a shitton from it too. Me, for example
@@RickyTinez Thanks, G. I watch/listen as much as I can. Respect.
Ricky got that cabin in the wood vibes going.
The final piece is so sick dude!
This is gold! Great vid and thanks for sharing the process. Peace.
So killer! Luv when you break out the sp
Loving those cricket sounds, I've 404sx, Ambient soundscape
Ocean sounds at the beach and streams my dude ✌️
Fun watching you work on the SP. I always get a new insight on ways to use these samplers from your channel.
6:55 Ricky knows more about cars than I know about music production
you use the SP in the most unique ways.
Compact Creations! I am sooo excited and i haven't watched the whole thing yet! Please do more this year
Just once again I want to say how much love I have for you, I can in no way understand how you get this much atmosphere into your videos (that are just videos!) and it is so good that this is here in this world. I love it so much.
Yo, you are the beat maker's Bob Ross! Thank you for the knowledge fam. Bows respectfully*
also, Dibia$e is a God 🙏
Damn good!! Thx for this one.
It's sometimes good to hear good music on YT ;)
Tricky sampler, you said it. I'll fix mine with a 12 gauge one of these days
Seriously. I love the chopping functions and effects. But no proper way of pitching samples? Come on lol
So good man, keep up the love
So good. My last 4 modular purchases have all come from watching your videos. you make everything sound great. taken the interesting route down the noise engineering stuff after seeing what they can do. great videos. thanks
Man, you make really good house! 🙏
my brain hurts, I thought the Octatrack was intense. BUT!!!! this sounds Amazing!!!! :)
This is beautiful
You know those guys that can finish a rubik’s cube in under 4 seconds? This is like watching that but with an SP404😅 Seriously though, I am always amazed at how quickly your mind and hands work when you get in the zone dude, you’re IQ must be off the charts lol. Got my GAS fired up for the SP again(stupidly sold mine a few months ago).
Awesome content as always, you are a youtube treasure bro, Peace and love✌🏻
PD; if you ever get the time, could you tell me what picture profile do you use on your sony camera? Been struggling with the colors on my videos lately, thanks🤟🏻
Ricky secretly already has a whole set ready with the new circuits. Can’t wait for them to come out!!! Great video🔥
What new circuits 😯 as in new novation circuit??!!
🤔
It’s amazing how the background noise is in sync with the jam 😅 (BTW what is it!?)
little frogs
crickets
@DATA OHMZ Heard. See what you did there.
looooove vids like this! something is super fun about watching someone riff out a track on a sampler.
good stuff again and again! thanks!
new SP404, like the vibes.
I have both,.. a po-28 and a sp 404,.. great to see some cool content on it,.
WOuld love to see another compact creations MPC1000 vid, or a combination of samplers with the MPC
Would love to see a video about what happens next. Like the mpc3000 video where you show us your workflow from the mpc into ableton.
How do you get the loop from the hardware to a multitrack in to ableton..... you do multitrack into ableton to mix it right?
Makes me wonder, do people release tracks straight from hardware like this🤔
I mean, I get you would from an mpc with all the eq compression and fx build in. But something like this?
Hey Ricky! You should do a compact lofi jam with the 404 and the Octatrack. Slave the 4040 to the Octa and route the audio between the two. The possibilities are endless.
lol the crickets in the background were throwing me off
Hot ziggity. Enrique drops the knowledge and passion, love seeing how into the entire workflow you are smiling and excited about the creation, lotsa background noises gave us all some relation to the struggle is real, thanks synth bro
THANK YOU!!
16:43 Just a car mechanic doin' some dope beats...
man gets me so hyped
inspiring as always, appreciate you Ricky !
More compact creations!! So amazing
2:45 Been running into that little slope in the attack of a note ahead of the grid heaps in Ableton. I was thinking surely I don't have to cater for this everywhere? Apparently I do.
I love your SP-404 stuff.
Oooh, love single sampler house shit. Anything 4/4 really.
I have much machines (akai force, sp 606, mc 101, tr 8s, hydrasynth and more) but i don't know why my fav is the 404 lol
She is like a swiss knive, i love it.
Damn i missed compact creations!
That cricket is dope. Lol
Love your compact creations!!
I used to think watching Ricky use the MPC was the most complicated thing until I finally got one and saw it's not too bad. But the SP.... nope... that's some whole other level of wtf. Sounds awesome in the end though!
I can't see why anyone would like to use the SP-404 over an older MPC. FX are good but the workflow is stuffed.
A little anecdote: I've got a 404 and MPC 1000. While I absolutely love the MPC, I was one of the unfortunate people to get the faulty pads that barely worked. While waiting to afford the pad replacement, the 404 became my sole sampler and therefore super intuitive for me. So I kinda find it funny seeing people call it crazy difficult because I was stuck with it until it made sense!
Lovely. Love the CC series.
Is there a reason you prefer to resample versus using the pattern sequencer? Sounds good!
The sequencers on all the SP series pretty much suck and it's easier to bounce everything down to stems & parts for payback instead of having the sequencer do it. And also because the sequencer is locked in time you might run into issues with sampled loops i.e. 120 BPM sequence, but the loop is something like 119.48 BPM because you did it by ear and it sounded close enough, but then you start hearing gaps or the first beat coming in too early when retriggering. You can play two loops back to back that aren't entirely matched up in BPM and it won't sound too bad, but if you have a sequencer triggering them, you're gonna hear the difference. It's easier to make loops of approximate BPM and trigger them manually instead of trying to get every sample loop the exact same BPM and triggering it on a sequencer.
18:30 is so cool; dope texture. Thumbs up!
8:10 moment of zen
Awesome Cricket Banger 🦗 💥👌🏽🔥🌚
Weird. Was just thinking it’d be good to kick back and watch a RT video before dinner 👍🏻
I got you Sapio 💪
I'd like to see a speedrum community develop surrounding making a beat in one of these.
I've always wanted one of these so much but I know I'd have to trial and error out the wazo, which I don't have a problem with but this machine scares the living crap outta me lol. I mainly want one for the effects to link with my MPC but I'd love to learn this thing in and out so I could solo it as well.
been waiting on this for so long!!!!!
Wish Roland would make a flagship sampler like the SP-808ex I would welcome back a D-beam and the phonograph effects or a vinyl sim. They could always put that in the mc-707 as an update though.
Love your vids....thank you
Crazy this video came like a week after I got my 404A
Someone give that cricket a job!
Jamming with Ricky n Cricky
Super stuff .....That is a tricky little beast .
video request!!! so I make music with a more typical hardware midi setup, but I am fascinated by the sp404 as a kind of hybrid dj/live type device, where people do long sets on them. I would love for you do a video about live performance on the sp404 because it has so much potential to be a standalone/hybrid dj/live set type device. And there are a zillion vids where people do lofi hip hop sets on them, but I think house or techno could also really work because of that really cool sound it has (I sold mine a few years ago but I always think about picking one up again to do this kind of thing)
Hey man where do you get your samples from?
THANK YOU !
Watching this on my PC via a cable out of the headphone socket into a headphone splitter in the other input of the splitter I have a cable running from my PO-12, the splitter plugged into the input of my PO-133 with my Grado headphones plugged into that. Getting a little tangled up here. 😂
16:31 car scared cricket
16:43 cricket is back to jam with song
i would like to see you make a beat on the sp 555. grate vid grate vibes
Rad video! So with the resample method, do you not end up running out of pads/slots hella fast over time since you're using them for both samples and completed "sequences?"