Effects and improved live resampling capabilities for sure. I’m prob buying an SP404 to get these features on my S2400. Which I guess is a workaround but given talk of a daughter board it would be a sick upgrade to include high quality fx.
Yea SAME here! The SP-404 mk2 looks so dope. Been messing with sp-808, for a couple weeks and I’m in love with effects. I never really got that deep into them. BUT NOW I’m like I want MORE! More hardware effects. I feel like they sound different than plugins. I’ve always been a plug-in guy.
Tbh my favourite FX by a mile are Valhalla and I wish they were in a hardware box. I prefer anything for sound design to be in hardware, EQ/mastering not fussed and in most cases prefer a DAW.
My favourites are Valhalla Ubermod, Valhalla Retroverb, Valhalla Shimmer and Valhalla Supermassive. Supermassive is free and in many ways is the best of the bunch as it can do huge cloud reverbs, standard echos and delays, etc. Ubermod I got more recently and love it’s chorus, dim d and delays. Retroverb is my default choiceas a reverb send / return and is perfect for classic sounds and drums. Shimmer sounds better than my Eventide did to my ears. Seriously the dev is a genius - amazing plugins and super cheap.
Wishful thinking is so strong that your sane input has been cancelled by the community
I’m pretty sure all of us would love to have those effects including those Akai MFC filters, etc. I’m honestly surprised to see that the floppy thing is coming together
More thank likely your probably right. I’m looking forward to the effects card. I just hope it’s not some lame bread and butter effects.
I never had the AKAI Filter or even played with one. But some more filters would be sick, digital and analog. I’ve been messing with the Formant filter in the ASR-X lately. That shit is fucking DOPE! You can arrange the formats. So you have like agh owe ee ya yo O A E ext and you can arrange them in different orders how ever you want. So you can kinda make words.
why can’t the character of a vintage machine be emulated and the algorithm put inside the S2400? See that sort of thing all the time in the software world, no? Or have I got the wrong end of the stick
I wouldn’t consider in an effect. But rather a sample editing feature. But the more sample editing features the better IMO!
An easy work around would be to use your amp / volume envelopes and then resample. If you hadn’t thought of that. Attack for fade in, and decay for fade out.
Yep the filter envelopes, AND the pitch envelops. You can do a lot with those. When synthesizing drum sounds the pitch envelope is key. The work around is using a saw lfo to modulate the pitch. If your synth doesn’t have a pitch envelope. But the s2400 does.
If they ever add bank layering or laying samples. That alone would make this a beast! In theory you would then be able to synthesizer a kick drum or snare ect. With a wave table. Then add a sample layer. Maybe a dirt or noise layer, a second sample or another synthesized drum sound.
But then what if it had some analog oscillators, on the expansion card!
I have some drum samples I made that I’m going to run through the envelopes when I get in tonight! That fade idea you put me on is going to be the first thing I try. Also, I’m going to try to mess with the transients of the samples to make them knock, crackle and pop! I haven’t really messed with the enevelopes at all on the S2400.
the envelopes are pretty sick tbf if a little clunky to edit with the faders. shouldnt be clunky but i think they seem scaled weird - occasionally confusing to dial in shapes im used to on a normal synth envelope. but i am happy they are there, and its great there are two. if they were made loopable then you pretty much have an lfo style modulation. sep LFOs would be better - perhaps even available in the same section whereby 3rd and 4th option = lfo 1 and lfo2.
Yup. It works wonderfully for me. I actually want to see if I can fade out a portion of a sample now. I think I can, but I haven’t fully explored the volume envelope yet to really know.
