Name: 8 MUST KNOW shortcuts for the SP404-MK2
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What is up guys and welcome back to the channel. In today's video I am back on the SP-404 Mark II.

Now, one of the problems with hardware, and I think in particular the 404 series, is that we don't have access to much menu diving.

This is the first device, really, where you can actually go into menus and select different options, but it's still very limited.

So, what that means is that we have a lot of different key combinations and button combinations that we need to know in order to complete day-to-day activities and in order to help us make beats.

So, it's really difficult remembering a lot of these, and also it can even be difficult discovering them in the first place.

So, in this video what I've done is rounded up some of my absolute favorites.

I use these pretty much all the time now in my day-to-day beat making.

So, if you haven't seen these, you're definitely going to want to integrate them.

It makes beat making faster and it just cures so many headaches that you may have with this device.

So, let's get set up on the table and I'll talk you through these shortcuts.

Right guys, so here we are down at the SP-404 Mark II, and this is my custom skin.

Thank you so much to the people that picked those up.

If you want to grab those, be quick because they do seem to be selling well these, and I probably won't have new stock till the new year now.

So, if you want to grab one of these before the end of the year, that would be really appreciated.

All the links are in the description below.

Really, really nice skins that were built in collaboration with Crema Cafe.

And the first one is the Cross Zero Finder.

Now, if you're not aware of what this is, I have already done a video about this, but I thought I'd include it anyway.

And this is for when you're cutting samples.

Now, I'm going to go to the start point, and I'm going to zoom right in.

And you can hopefully see the dotted line along the center of the screen.

You'll be able to see this if you're on your device.

And what that is, is that's the zero cross point, and that is basically where there is absolute silence.

So, you can see where mine is actually cut.

And what you risk doing by chopping your samples there, is having those annoying little click noises at the start of your samples.

So, using a zero cross point feature means that you can get rid of all these very, very quickly.

And all you have to do is be on the point that you want to put the zero cross point on, and hit Resample.

If I do that, you can see there it's found the nearest possible point where it's at absolute zero.

So, that means then I will have absolutely no chance of having that annoying crackle at the start of my samples.

You can also use that at the end of your samples as well, and it just means that everything sounds a lot cleaner, and you don't get those annoying little clicks.

The second one is one I've done a short on recently, and it's related to the one I've just talked about.

Now, this was driving me absolutely crazy, that when I was trying to change between the start and the end point of a sample that I'd already marked, you had to turn the dial, and that moves the start points.

So, if you want a really fine tune, and you just want to change it a little bit, and then you want to get back to the start point, you twist it a bit, and it moves it completely.

If you've been using this device for any amount of time, you'll know exactly what I mean.

So, fortunately, there is a way around this.

So, let's just hypothetically put a start and an end point like this, so that you can see them both.

And let's say I want to adjust the start point now, but I don't want to move that point.

I just want to do a really fine adjustment.

You just hold shift, and what I'm going to do is I'm going to twist the end dial, and you can see it just zooms me in instead.

So, that means I can get to that point without it moving.

And if I want to shift to the start point now, well, sorry, no pun intended by saying shift there, but I hold shift, and I twist the start marking dial, and there we go again.

It's not moving it, it's zooming me in, and then I'm free to be able to move it however I want.

And that has saved me a lot of headaches over the past couple of days when I've been making beats, maybe even weeks actually.

That's probably one of my favorite in the list, to be honest.

Okay, this is another one that came up in the comment section the other day, because I've done an old video about buses, and this feature hadn't actually been released at the time that I recorded that video.

But you can now mute the buses on three and four.

Now, this is super, super handy, because I use my buses for master effects.

And one of the things that you don't want is you don't want them on when you're re-sampling, because you only want them to be on the very last signal.

If you have them on when you re-sample, it will apply those effects, it will burn them into your sample, and then three and four will still be on it.

So, you'll have like a doubled up effect, which is really, really annoying.

So, for example, let's just say three and four are on on this one.

And for whatever reason, let's just say that I don't want that effect on.

I don't want the effects from three and four on.

You just hold the value wheel, so this wheel here, you hold that down and press the bus effects button.

And you can see now it says bus three and four off.

I was doing shift and 16 all the time, and having to scroll this all the way back up to the top to turn it off, and then back on when I wanted to use it again.

It's so, so useful that guys, you'll definitely be using that one if you didn't know about it already.

Okay, you may assume you're using this one already, which I've just been doing, but it's shift and exit to pause samples.

Now, there's a couple of ways you can actually do this.

And one of them is robbed from the SP404SX or A.

It's kind of a little hack that I found out about a long time ago.

That if you want a sound to stop, just hit record and then press exit.

Now, there's also the way you can do it with exit, where you smash it four times, but it's so annoying.

You can see there it's come up saying stop on the screen, but it's just too many buttons to press every time you want to stop all the samples.

Or now, something that Roland have actually caked in to be able to use this as a proper function is shift.

So, there's actually three different ways of stopping the samples there.

But I find shift and exit actually the most intuitive now.

I just find that really, really easy to do and really, really fast as well.

That's so useful if there's a sound playing on one of the banks and you can't find it.

Save you scrambling through all the banks, you can just do shift and exit and it'll stop absolutely every single sound.

Okay, the next tip is clearing all the samples on a bank.

Now, I'm not actually going to go through and do this because I don't want to delete the stuff that's on this bank.

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