This device keeps suprising me.
I don’t know if this is a well known trick or not, or if i’m missing some other obvious option to do this without the workaround.
I like the velocity sensitive pads and the simplicity of the pattern sequencer in the SP. So as an experiment I wanted to see if I could use the mk2 as a MIDI sequencer/controller for my external synth.
First I configured midi mode B in settings, and set the channel to where my synth was listening.
Banks A through E then output Midi note data when you press a Pad. I have the output of the synth connected to the SP in, so i can hear the notes with EXT-IN.
Then I tried to record a phrase in the pattern sequencer on bank C. That didn’t work since there are no samples assigned to the pads.
Now this is the trick: … I just sampled a bit of silence and copied it to all the pads in bank C. Retried recording the sequence, and it works like a charm! Resampled a few iterations of the phrase while wiggling knobs on my synth. (banks F-J)
So yes i’m giving up a couple of banks for the note ranges where i want to record MIDI phrases, but I actually think it’s kind of worth it! If anyone knows how to do this in another way, without sacrificing the pads let me know!