#102

great thread, more talk about old samplers plzzzzz!zz

#103

Love thisā€¦ Great analogy!

Indeedā€¦ I was only recently recommending the specialist services of ā€˜The Donā€™ to a guy on another forum who has some bits of gear thatā€™s in need of repairs.

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#104

One of my favourite ways to use my SP303 is to run breakbeats through it and to (somewhat) rhythmically mash the reverse and mark button to get edits/glitch effects on the loop.

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#105

Thatā€™s excellent - Iā€™ll definitely give that a try. That mirrors how I work in Koala too, which Iā€™m expecting to find more examples of (given how much the 303 was an inspiration for Marek when he made the app)

#106

YES. If anything breaks on my 303 first itā€™ll be my mark button. i use itā€¦liberally.

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#107

If any of you fellas who are posting in the thread here have links to any music youā€™ve made using the SPā€™s please put them upā€¦Iā€™m always on the look out for new sample based stuff and Iā€™ll be more than happy to take a listen to them!..:slight_smile:

#108

The phono outs on the SP-303 are quite vulnerable, be careful not to walk in to your wires while itā€™s plugged in, or yank it otherwise. They might get damaged.

I owned the SP-303 and also later the SP-606. I wanted to get another SP recently but I went for the Zoom Sampletrak ST-224, which for all intents and purposes could have been part of the SP line. Itā€™s set up the same way. But it has time stretch and chromatic playing of samples. Bit rates 32, 16, 8 which eight is awesome, especialy being able to tune it down for that real grit. Recommended.

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#109

My 303 is alive and stuff with smartmedia cards thanks to an eBay sale of an ancient (1.2 megapixels) digital camera which came with 4 cards for the princely sum of Ā£13. The guy got his sale, I got my cards and in the morning the local charity shop will have an ancient digital camera to tempt buyers with :wink:

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#110

How ancient is it? Sometimes early digital cameras give an interesting quality to their photos. Kind of like old samplers :slight_smile:

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#111

I came close to grabbing one of these myself a little while ago but the guy who was selling it decided to keep it in the end.

Iā€™d definitely be interested in the possibility of adding one to my set up at some stage as Iā€™ve heard good stuff thats been made using these machines by some of the members of another forum Im on and where these things have a bit of a cult following along with samplers like the Roland MS-1, Roland 202 etcetera.

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#112

Itā€™s a Fujifilm MX-1200, if that means anything to you at all. Iā€™d not considered that possibility - Iā€™ll experiment with it!

#113

Matt Rockwell had one for a while and said good things about his, only selling it to feed the effects pedal addiction that he picked up from some dangerous influenceā€¦

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#114

Yeah mineā€™s been broken around that area for about twenty years, phono outs are dodgy and the volume pot is stuck on a medium volume. Probably a few mins with the soldering iron could sort it tbf so thanks for reminding me!

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#115

i bought this pot to replace my volume pot and it worked great. just in case you were lookinā€™ for one! https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/688-RK09K12C0A2S

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#116

Ah awesome thanks for the info - I had 10k in my head for some reasonā€¦

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#117

if youā€™re curious about the range of possibilities
(or how sp production sounds different than mpc-centric strains of electronic music)

observe

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#118

Thanks so much for this - I canā€™t believe Iā€™ve never seen it before!

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#119

Another exhibit

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#120

Me neither! Thanks for sharing it @glia

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#121

Ras G passed away recently, Iā€™ve also been enjoying his stuff lately. Huge talent gone too soon.

Iā€™m blaming this thread for the rising prices of 303sā€¦

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