nowaysj wrote:ANYONE that makes beats should have an sp XoX.
Yeah the 303 is durty. But you are talking dinosaur technology, yes, I'd like one. But it is always about sample transfer. Always. I've got an old asr-x pro that is now in pieces after an aborted pad restoration attempt. But that thing had incredible thick sound. I'm a midrange heavy kind of guy and that box was heavy, but fucking hell, scsi file transfers. I'm just not down. Smart media 65mb cards... technology price/value curve is a u. Price is high at introduction, mass production price drops, becomes obsolete, price rises again - often beyond initial prices... Smart Media cards are at that point of absurdity. And one of the problems with smart media, is they are finicky. Some brands work, some don't, different brands at different capacities do and do not work. It is a mess. I've got an mc909 that I really don't use because I've never gotten around to picking up a smart media card.
Now, an old durty machine like that is useful though, an sp 303, a zoom sample track 224, but as a second tier, kind of a specialty item.
And DO NOT GET IT TWISTED: the 404sx is DUUUUURRRTTY as fuck. Yes you can load a perfectly clean 16 bit, 44.1 file on there and play it back and will play back clean... but once you start working in the machine, applying fx and resampling... you are in fucking DDUUUUURRT city. I can't hold down a key long enough for how durty the thing gets. Like imagine a kick hat and snare over some string samples... the kick and snare just smeared, no transient at all left, nothing, just solid mush
it is fucking awesome. But it is so durty, I often have to bring that shit back into the comp and recreate the actual drum lines, and then kind of parallel/side chain the drums back into the beats. Do not be affeared that the good child of the bunch is too clean. He is a duuurrty fucker. Did I say duuurrty enough?
And it can be used to trigger clean shit, in fact, it's memory is quite large, so you could do a full on dj set out of the box.
Check these forums:
http://sp-forums.com/ good people over there. And if you dig a bit, you will find very dope beats.
Excuse my rabid post, but the 404sx is just so dope.
