SP404MKII: is it any good for making reggae? WILL IT...? Ep. 8
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🚨🚨🚨 I MESSED UP! PLEASE READ:
at 2:43 and later on in the video I say that there are no ways to play polyphonically or legato in chromatic mode. THAT IS NOT TRUE!!!
as @hahaihaveahandlenow points out, pressing "REMAIN" will open up both modes. this is awesome to realise, but obviously makes this video a bit flawed. thank you @hahaihaveahandlenow for setting the record straight!
I apologise. I promised I did read the manual (twice lol) but must've skipped or forgotten about this part. hopefully the rest of the techniques shown in ths video will still inspire you and make it enjoyable!
oh and btw... this changes the vote of course... from a 4 to a 7! my bad @roland!
thank you and again, sorry about the slipup...
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and we all know the roland S404MKII is great for hip hop, but… will it reggae? today, we’re covering a genre that, maybe with good reason, I don’t see being produced on hardware all that much, and that’s reggae.
reggae, especially the old school kind, like rocksteady, roots and dub, is not necessarily an easy genre to produce on a groovebox. Ideally, you would need live musicians and a DAW and possibly a desk if you want to achieve that authentic sound. So maybe a more recent subgenre like raggamuffin would’ve been easier to achieve on this machine… but eh, i love the old school stuff, what can I say. maybe I’ll tackle the whole ragga subgenre in a future episode.
anyway, you'd be surprised with some of the sounds the sp404MKII is capable of... but at what cost lol
00:00 intro
00:39 drums
02:17 keys & playing chords
05:45 guitar & bass
07:05 the envelope problem
07:44 creative mixing & resampling
10:05 using all 4 buses to get the most out of the 404
11:09 time to jam
13:46 let's vote!