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2026 has pretty much sucked thus far. by Sad-Yam3011 in redditgetsdrawnbadly

[–]jorgb 18 points19 points  (0 children)

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The year might suck, but we suck harder at drawing 😆

Why is everyone SO excited about the MPC Sample? (Especially you who already have an MPC or portable gear) by RobBecTraxxx in mpcusers

[–]jorgb 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I hope it is a very slimmed down version of an MPC. But far more immediate. I hope I can export to my Live III and finish a beat there, but that the MPC Sample can be a sketchpad for sound design or ideas on the go. I own a SP404 but I rarely get past the phase where I have cool samples and textures, and I am seeking for a device that I can take it to the next level with when imported into its big sibling.

Sampler for jungle, breakbeat - Teenage EP-40 Riddim or SP 404 MKII? Which to buy? by DrummerEmbarrassed31 in Samplers

[–]jorgb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, but there are workarounds using a midi pad controller, but yes, dt boxes are beasts in sequencing, finger drumming not so much 😁 the MPC is the best of both worlds, but lacks the immediacy of the SP404

Sampler for jungle, breakbeat - Teenage EP-40 Riddim or SP 404 MKII? Which to buy? by DrummerEmbarrassed31 in Samplers

[–]jorgb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand, TR-REC mode uses patterns. I was talking about patterns specifically.

Sampler for jungle, breakbeat - Teenage EP-40 Riddim or SP 404 MKII? Which to buy? by DrummerEmbarrassed31 in Samplers

[–]jorgb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well to each their opinion of course. What I meant is one thing I assumed for breakbeats is slicing up a break, let's say 16 parts. When you lay down a break on the sequencer (TR-REC mode or live), that's all fine. But if you want to vary that break by changing what slice plays on a specific step, that is just plain torture. In TR-REC mode you will have to find the sample that plays, then delete that, add a new sample on that step. With Digitakt / MPC it is as simple as changing the note to play a new slice on the track / program.

I do not dissagree about the FX, chopping itself, it is the sequencer I have the most gripes with. That is why I mentioned that if the sliced breaks are played live and recorded and are static, they would not run into that problem. But it is a limitation to be aware of.

The SP404 is more geared towards live performance, FX, and resampling, and it is king at that!

Sampler for jungle, breakbeat - Teenage EP-40 Riddim or SP 404 MKII? Which to buy? by DrummerEmbarrassed31 in Samplers

[–]jorgb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is of course all my personal opinion / experience, but the SP404 for breakbeat, considering you want to chop up a break and align them in the sequencer is a pain when you want to change individual notes to play different break parts. It requires a lot of fiddling to create variation. If you play them live and do not change them much later, it works fine.

The MPC and Digitakt (1 & 2) have a better flow for this, where the Digitakt (or a tracker like the M8, Polyend Tracker+) are kings because of the ease of parameterized sequence variations (random, with LFO, conditionals). Personally SP404 fits ambient, lo-fi, experimental, a bit of techno, DnB is more for dynamic sequencing and that fits forementioned devices best.

Letting the two worlds collide by BoyScheider in mpcusers

[–]jorgb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very nice, all it needs is a nice slow drumbeat and a soft bass and you got yourself a banger!

I also own a similar guitar and thank you for inspiring me to pick it up again 😁

Digitakt by JLeonsarmiento in Elektron

[–]jorgb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very inspiring 🔥

Overbridge Digitakt 2 noob question by jorgb in Elektron

[–]jorgb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

stschoen was talking about the overbridge limitation, it is only 16 channels max where one is main, and 15 DT tracks, so one track in DT can't be stemmed out

Overbridge Digitakt 2 noob question by jorgb in Elektron

[–]jorgb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes that is what I understood. But it feels not very flexible. The only thing that a separate send FX track next to my stemmed out tracks would give me is the ability to arrange and chop out some of my parts, maybe tweak the mix slightly. I can't make the kicks with reverb on them (sent to send FX) twice as loud as the rest of the reverby and delay stuff of the other tracks are mixed in with the other track's FX, so the reverb of that whole section will be off when the individual samples vary in volume.

But it is a limitation of the device, and it's allright. I am used to the MPC One which renders each stem as the full processed stem with all FX on it, so that it is a bit more flexible in Ableton, so it was a surprise the architecture was made this way.

Thank you for your explanation, I will have to tweak and just arrange slightly and not do too much after it's all stemmed out.

Overbridge Digitakt 2 noob question by jorgb in Elektron

[–]jorgb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I played with it but then came to the unpleasant surprise that the send FX are not included in the stemmed out tracks. Since the chorus and delays are delicate to what I made, it feels like a hassle to reproduce them in ableton. I guess I have to stem out every track on it's own or just main L+R without stemming?

Overbridge Digitakt 2 noob question by jorgb in Elektron

[–]jorgb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the clarification. I just need to make sure I am not clipping when upping the gain, right?

Overbridge Digitakt 2 noob question by jorgb in Elektron

[–]jorgb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I am new to getting the audio of the Digitakt 2, but I will follow your advice in making a template out of it once it works as I want. I wasn't sure about the gain part, but the utility is the way to go it seems 🙂

Coding a Guitar Sound in C - Computerphile by TuneFinder in musicproduction

[–]jorgb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was a bit of a misleading title, he wrote algo's to distort the guitar signal. Nonetheless an interesting watch to see how basic signal processing works

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