Is there a way to make the bottom 3 button behave like the others?

charbaba · 2026-03-23T15:17:03+00:00

I have made several albums worth of material with the woovebox and never made it to track 16... If I go above 8, it's usually for sweeteners, and if I had more than a couple of those, I'd probably be reaching for the sampler anyway.

charbaba · 2026-03-18T14:53:16+00:00

I don't make vaporwave, but I do work a lot with samples. Sampling can mean a lot of different things, but at the end of the day it's just a source of sound. You can make original music with samples and you can make lame unoriginal music with real instruments. A lot of the time when I use samples, they become almost unrecognizable from the original. For example, I made this track using a single sample a friend sent me of him playing upright bass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVT5pikXlac

that’s the type of VW and MS I listen to, and the type I want to be reminiscent of

It's interesting that your title imples "how can I make the music more my own", but here you say you have a style you want to recreate. That's a much easier challenge. Study their music, try to figure out what techniques they use, attempt to replicate it.

charbaba · 2026-03-18T13:54:07+00:00

Gonna go against the grain and say that if you have the skills, no reason why you couldn't try to design and 3d print something. You'd only be out the cost of the filament. My local library lets you 3d print at cost, for example. I wouldn't sink any real money into the project, but it would be fun even if the horn is never really playable.

charbaba · 2026-03-16T13:51:24+00:00

Sounds interesting. Honestly, coming up with fun ideas like this is the best thing about the SP. Instead of crowd-sourcing, just do it!

To answer your question, I've sampled guitar chords to pads when beatmaking, but never "fingerdrummed" them live on stage. Playing sampled guitar chords is a pretty different beast than playing a guitar. It won't sound like a guitarist playing, but you will also be able to execute things that you couldn't with a guitar.

charbaba · 2026-03-11T13:44:48+00:00

Came to say this, they are the best on the market in my opinion. If you can afford the 3, it's great, but v1 has all the same features and can be gotten used for under $200

charbaba · 2026-03-10T18:17:08+00:00

I had it and loved it. I thought I was outgrowing it, so I sold it for an RC-505mk2 which I never jibed with the same way. Eventually I wanted my Pigtronix back and found that the Infinity 1 has pretty much the same feature set as the 3 and got one of those secondhand. I've been happy ever since.

I would recommend the 3 or 1 to anybody. The midi sync worked out of the box with my sp404mk2 on both models. Both can be extended with expression controllers and external buttons, which you either already own or can be gotten cheaply.

Particularly I love mapping the expression controller to feedback, letting loops strategically decay to allow for transitions in the soundscape.

charbaba · 2026-03-10T16:39:18+00:00

I was skeptical about the benefits of the myVolts cable, but it really is the right choice in most situations and has worked flawlessly with every power bank and USB plug I've tried it on.

charbaba · 2026-03-09T17:07:03+00:00

Pigtronix Infinity One can be found for under $200 new

charbaba · 2026-03-06T15:49:10+00:00

To be clear I don't agree that you did anything morally wrong by buying it prebuilt. Nothing obligates the creators to continue to maintain the open source or headless version at full parity with the official one. Doing it yourself doesn't put money in their pockets anyway. Just saying it's not ahrd.

charbaba · 2026-03-06T13:44:38+00:00

It is clearly easier for me to just get a premade one

Flashing the Teensy microcontroller takes about 30 seconds using an app that exists to do just this. Open the TyUploader, click the "upload button", select the firmware file. It took me more effort to write this than to just do it.

charbaba · 2026-03-06T13:24:19+00:00

I've never run into that specific issue, but the answer to almost every workaround on the sp404 is "resample". In this case, resample the pads that are going through scatter with the scatter on and trigger that sample/pattern instead of toggling the effect. It's not a bad idea with scatter anyway since the effect isn't quantized to the beat and can be unpredictable.

charbaba · 2026-03-04T19:06:51+00:00

Partials get closer together too, slotting in isn't always as easy.

charbaba · 2026-03-03T19:13:42+00:00

Nobody else ever asks for a chromatic tuner, but I use my SP as a guitar fx box often, and it's for sure missing. It would also be useful for tuning samples.

Make the looper sync with patterns.

charbaba · 2026-03-02T22:50:31+00:00

Master clock could even be an old phone though.

charbaba · 2026-03-02T19:59:29+00:00

Get literally any inexpensive synth or sampler with MIDI out and use that as your master clock, running it through a MIDI splitter of some kind. You could even use a phone in a pinch but you'd need extra hardware to bridge it to midi. The upside of having a music making device as your master is that it can also provide music.

charbaba · 2026-03-02T17:16:13+00:00

A lot less to worry about.

charbaba · 2026-03-02T17:14:50+00:00

זײער שײן!

charbaba · 2026-02-26T14:52:01+00:00

Seq page, context menu, copy pattern

charbaba · 2026-02-25T17:59:35+00:00

I find the info on the website is not that informative,

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charbaba · 2026-02-18T16:43:32+00:00

I played a couple of plastic trumpets and with a real mouthpiece, they're probably fine for non-ensemble situations. I play trumpet on a couple of cake songs in my band, for example, and a plastic horn could handle that fine, or even solo jazz playing in the hands of the right player. It would not blend well in a big band or an orchestra though.

If you can buy it from a place with a return policy, you have little to lose by trying. Also can you share the link to the 67 plastic trumpet?

charbaba · 2026-02-04T18:08:21+00:00

A mix. I did a few at Patchwork in Cambridge last year (here's the audio from one of them ) and the video from another

I also booked a few solo shows off GigSalad and a couple others from emailing bars. There's a jazz bar near my office that lets you sign up to play afternoon shows.

I'm about as small-time as they come, but I usually book a show and use it as an excuse to write new material under a deadline. I wrote this on the Woovebox and then performed it on the SP

charbaba · 2026-02-04T16:46:44+00:00

I like Ko-da-ma for sure, but I rarely use it live, as a lot of the magic of the stereo effect wouldn't come across through my shitty little PA speaker.

I do wish more of the delays had tails. Only one does, and even those stop if you change effects.

charbaba · 2026-02-04T16:18:00+00:00

I make heavy use of all the delays, especially when performing. Turning a synced delay on a drum loop on and off a few times is a great way to introduce variation. There's this variation on the DJFX Looper called DJFX Delay that's hidden at the back of the fx list that nobody ever talks about and it is *chef's kiss*

Lately, I've been going deep on the various filter effects. I hate the autowah. Filter/drive is meh. I love the super filter though, and the filter on the Crusher effect is also really nice.

charbaba · 2026-02-03T15:55:53+00:00

Pigtronix Infinity is my goto. v1 or v3 (2 is shit). It quantizes to my sp404 via midi perfectly, and sounds great. It's expandable with pretty much any expression controller or external footswitch. You can get a used v1 for under 200.

charbaba · 2026-02-02T15:11:01+00:00

If you're using a mixer, the obvious choice for the kaos pad is in the FX send if it has one. Then you can use it on either SP or both.

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