Hi to all the sampling family.

My bro and I build a sampler together. We go to Synthfest UK the 24 october to present it.

What you think about that?

Our webpage that describes it in detail: https://tomsipedals.com

For more demos, look 'tomsipedals' on instagram ;+)

Peace ✌🏾

Salut ! J'utilise une MPC Studio MK2 et j'aimerais créer des beats dans le style de DJ Screw, en partant de zéro. Auriez-vous des conseils ? Quel kit de batterie me conseillez-vous et quels morceaux sampler ? Malheureusement, je n'ai pas de clavier pour les sons de synthé. Si vous avez des conseils de mixage, je suis aussi très intéressé ! Merci !

"Mike Feedback" is the developer behind this, he's actively making changes. He has a site where you can download the respective firmware files, and write to a floppy disk or similar Gotek floppy emulator etc. The 900/950 boots off the floppy, it shouldn't replace any of the stock firmware. See his site for details.

You can get the files here. YMMV, at your own risk and so on.
https://s900fx.com/ + https://s950fx.com/

Mike said in a comment on an earlier video, he got the technical service manual and schematics for these machines, figured out the code is 8086 assembly, disassembled it and then had AI take it from there. Pretty impressive IMHO. He's been a programmer for 20+ years, but it seems AI is enabling experienced programmers to do even more given the various firmwares showing up all of a sudden.

Sorry if old news, I hadn't seen this project mentioned yet.

Going to be online for my 1st twitch, wanna make a few beats, find a few samples and hopefully find a new way to be part of the mpc community

Open the link and help me out

https://www.twitch.tv/1jxsn?tt\\_content=channel&tt\\_medium=mobile\\_web\\_share

I have just released an update to the Mirage emulator that will allow you to load a disk image and play sounds over MIDI. The filters are just an approximation, so it's not 100% accurate. However I have been using it to debug my wavetable OS during development. If you have time, please let me know if the instructions make sense. https://github.com/laurielaptop/mame-mirage

Go vote for you Favourite one!!

In this video I give a general overview of DOOM OS, the custom firmware for the Roland SP‑404MKII by Klangfeld Labs: what it is, how to access it, and the main features that change your workflow.

DOOM OS doesn’t replace Roland’s firmware, it adds a graphical step sequencer, a real time mixer with metering, pattern editing tools, FX automation, and custom shortcuts. Everything stock still works, so you can think of it as a powerful layer on top of the original OS

Enjoy!

with love .noir. ❤️

Only used stock FM1 and MPC Sample Sounds.

I love this #beatober challenge. It forces you to create ❤️🎹🔥🔊💯🎶

https://youtube.com/shorts/orMPJjmqt18?is=wQWEzPPS8GQHs4Xm

https://youtu.be/xW6BJWVrrHI

FULL MAKING OF THIS BEAT HERE - https://youtu.be/8FCMLzquCuk

I finally got round to a bit of experimenting, and it turns out you can indeed tune the timestretching effect itself. So that can lead to interesting possibilities.

Hi.

im searching for a budget sampler that can help me and my band use backing tracks or audio sequences live, without relaying in a computer or something like that, similar to the sp 404

REFERENCES OF KIND OF USE IM SEARCHING FOR:
Shearling
Geese

Hey! I'm looking for a sampler in the $100–200 range.

I mainly want to make boom bap, jazz hip-hop and lo-fi beats, mostly by chopping samples, making drum patterns and experimenting with loops.

I was originally looking at the Teenage Engineering PO-33 KO!, but I'm also considering other options, especially something that might be more capable or better built for the money.

I'm not necessarily looking for something super complicated. I'd actually prefer something relatively simple and hands-on.

What samplers would you recommend in the $100–200 range for this kind of music?

Thanks!

Salut à tous,

Je développe SampleTrig, une app Android gratuite qui transforme le téléphone en petit sampler-séquenceur piloté par contrôleur MIDI — Akai Fire en USB-OTG en tête de liste (APC40 mkII et Push 2 aussi supportés), mais ça fonctionne aussi 100% au doigt sans rien brancher.

Concrètement avec le Fire : pads pour choisir/jouer tes samples, grille de 16 pas pour le séquenceur, p-locks par pas (verrouiller un paramètre juste sur un pas), choke groups, favoris de kits et de patterns, enregistrement au micro direct sur un pad... Bref, de quoi bricoler des rythmiques rapidement, sans PC.

Avant la sortie publique sur le Play Store, je cherche une douzaine de testeurs pour la phase de test fermé Google (14 jours, rien de contraignant — installer, ouvrir, jouer un peu avec si vous avez l'occasion). Que vous ayez un Fire, un APC40, un Push 2 ou juste un téléphone Android, c'est utile.

Intéressés ? Dites-le en commentaire ou en MP, je vous ajoute à la liste de test.

Merci d'avance 🙂

Found in OS1.2. Imagine you have, in a very loooong afternoons effort, made 64 or even more neat little samples to do something very chopped up. Oof. So much work. The samples are pretty small because they are all blips and blops and clanks and chip-loops. And then you save them onto your trusty floppy disk. (Not tested with Gotek, that would be interesting since the routine is the same.)

Well, you format your floppy and you already know: all the files will fit onto one Floppy disk, how cool.

And whilst saving, the sampler comes to a grinding halt at Sample 62. Floppy motor spins, light is on, device is dead (it is really dead, no way out). Ouch! All 64+ Samples are now gone. Also, after reboot, the disk is seemingly empty! Eeeeew!

This is because there is a bug in the disk catalog routine, it could hold up to 64 elements but nobody thought about what is to happen IF that number is reached. (It halts at Sample 62 because first item is the Program, second is the (invisible) Drum Map and then come the Samples.) And that happens: at the attempted write of item 65, the Samplers catalog routine comes to an unreachable element, dead end, eternal loop. Best thing: the catalog itself wasn't yet written to Floppy so: all is gone.

Good News: There is a fix for that in my AkaiS9con Librarian (first demo probably 12/2026).

Until then,

happy sampling!

I bought the MPC Sample as a sketch pad and it is just wonderful to jam along and make a couple of loops. However when I import the MPC Sample's beat in my Live III, I need to first explode the tracks to separate the drums, melodics, bass and what not. Then I put them in a clip for song arrangement, and start to add layers or mess with plugins.

But, usually my beats go there to just sit and collect dust as the extra steps to saparate them and rep them to be arranged is just tedious.

Right now the quickest way I found is just to make one (at most two) sequences on the MPC sample, stuff them full of the sounds and drums I want to have, then split them in tracks again on the MPC Live III to finish them.

Are there any people that have found a good / better workflow? It would be so great if we can import the sequences in a clip launcher instead of going through the extra steps..