Second day, too hot and unpleasant to do very much. I went through a few of the demo projects to checkout clip launching, which seems fine except I’ve heard way too many unintelligible vocal hits. Had a bit more of a dig into Hype, which still sounds impressive.
The demo projects were reassuring in terms of CPU / storage use, at least. It looks like the early stages of a project fill up between 10-15% of both quite quickly, but after that the amount used by new tracks and clips drops.
I had my frst crash and recovery, which I suspect was Hype-related - happened when I was selecting a track, and took everything with it. Not a disaster as I was just fooling around, but the lesson to save often was delivered. A bit disturbing to have a system crash on day two, but maybe I’ve just been unlucky.
Disappointed that the envelope follower LFOs don’t have a sync option, which seems like an obvious feature (like the Polyend Tracker, you might expect them to only have a sync option). You can convert BPM to Hz and it generally works, just seems like an oversight.
Had an issue with the Filter Gate Air effect - it seems to drift in and out of sync, which I never encountered on the MPC One. Testing it, I put a basic synth sound on every other step of a two bar pattern - same note every time - and then applied the Filter Gate at 1/16. It’s on the beat for the first couple of loops, then goes slightly off, then comes back, and repeats. Seems to be consistent.
Macros are great, though - the pad matrix brings one of my favourite features of the Rytm over - though unexpectedly I think the generally unlikeable Rytm Mk1 pads are better suited to this role, because they’re less sensitive. Having 64 of them rather than 12 is decent compensation, though, and I’ve already got a list of stuff I want to try out there.
I want to get it hooked up to some other gear and test sampling next, but I really need the sun to go away first.