It was you wasn’t it? It was totally you getting told to read the manual? 
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You caught me lol
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Fun fact, I work on music almost exclusively in bed. That’s a big part of why I use a laptop for music. I had a desk only briefly and it was covered in synths the whole time, so yeah. That includes all the mastering I’ve done too.
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And it’s Perfect Circuit’s St. Patrick’s Day sale. As per usual, 10% anything not on the list with the code LUCKY10
I know I plug their sales a lot, but fwiw I have no affiliation; I live halfway across the US from them XD.
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Does your bedroom have a monitoring rig?
Headphones. LCD-X the last few years.
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Brilliant feature of the under rated SP-16 Toraiz…it accepts large format USB stick drives, at least up to 256mb. You can also just leave the onboard memory blank, load samples from the USB stick into your project and it just auto saves the sample to the internal memory AND it mimics the file structure. So if you load USB Drive: Kick Samples > Cool Kick Sample 1, it creates the Kick Samples folder and saves that sample to it.
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I’ve never trusted headphones for anything critical. Just me tho.
Big “to each their own” type of guy.
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I don’t understand what you are going on about here. Are the USB ports spaced well? 256mb?? o.O
I just meant large as in the amount of storage space. In my experience samplers etc that will read USB external storage devices won’t read ones w a ton of storage space. Don’t know why or I just don’t have much experience lol
I think the Octatrack stops at 64GB CF cards but I could be wrong on that. The modern MPCs can use pretty much anything you can cram into them up to 1TB and maybe more (SATA HDD or SSD, SD card, USB drives), so can the Maschine+ (mine has a 256GB SD card because NI installs everything to the SD card, and a smol-framed 256GB USB drive on the back for user stuff because the SD card gets slow as shit when it gets loaded up). The S2400 has been tested with up to 1TB SD cards, too. I’m willing to bet the SP-404mk2 can use 1TB SD cards as well.
256mb USB drives would be a pittance of storage space lol. I think I actually used to have one 15 or so years ago for documents.
Not that anyone sane needs massive amounts of storage for these things imo, though I give Maschine+ and Octatrack passes. Maschine+ can load a lot of Kontakt libraries, and OT has Machines made to stream from the CF card vs the ones that load to RAM. Maybe the SP-16 can, too, I dunno. I imagine the streaming thing is why the OT came with CF storage.
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I definitely have some stuff translate wrong now and then. But, I use Acustica Sienna now and it’s a huge help. Not just the headphone correction, but the room sim and being able to swap out various rooms, it’s a big step in the right direction.
I wrote a whole review about the LCD-X and at the end of the day, I got them because if I spent a comparable amount of money on speakers and room treatment (which is about the minimum I’d want to spend on that part of my setup) and got comparable results, I’d still have the issue of living with my parents, having to worry about noise bothering other people, and the fact that I plan to move more than once in the next few years, so spending all that money to tie my ability to mix/master to a specific room isn’t ideal in the near future. But yeah, it’s totally a compromise.
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The Soviet Space Bass made it to Lviv, 13h+ from Dnipro, and there’s an international airport there. I actually just might get this bass o.O
The Ukrainian post needs to get to work moving refugees if they can get a package out of there…
“As of 24 February 2022, all passenger flights have been suspended indefinitely.”
That’s cool all that new gear does accepts large storage devices. I’ve not owned an Octa, but I am pretty sure you are correct about the limit of a 64MB CF card.
I also just realized I meant to type 256 GB not MB…because yea…256MB is absurd lmao. No wonder you thought I was nuts.
I also googled around and found out that if I use a 3rd party app to format the USB stick I can theoretically use any size storage device as long as it doesn’t draw more power than 500mA. I keep seeing that formatting in Windows somehow imposes an “artificial limit” on how big of a device the SP-16 can read–I don’t understand it, but that sounds like Windows lol.
Where I want to get is to have my entire sample library on an external memory device and leave the internal memory of the SP-16 blank. Then when I’m working only the samples I’m actually using will get stored on the internal memory.
if I had to guess it has to do with sector sizes, or… block sizes? Also, if I had to guess, it might be due to using “quick format” as it defaults to certain specs for the format. I really don’t see windows itself being a limiting factor here, it doesn’t make sense to me, but I don’t know the specifics so I can’t really say.
As for power, yeah, I used to have an external hard drive enclosure that needed me to use 2 USB ports to power up a drive using a special cable. But 500mA should be enough for something flash-based? I can basically guarantee if it uses a built-in USB connector to plug into a port, it will use 500mA or less. If it’s say, a 2.5" drive meant to be installed into a computer and now it’s in an enclosure, it could go either way on power needs.
iirc USB 3 supplies 900mA (blue plastic on the plug vs black) and 3.1 or something might even be higher. And then some computers will do a “high power USB” thing for one device to supply 1000mA+ on a single port. MacBooks, for example, used to do this to charge iPhones and/or iPads at a decent rate. I think by now many/most Windows-based laptops feature the same thing.
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Yea, at the moment I don’t have any details on the technical aspects of the “artificial limit” that happens when formatting using Windows. Quick format could certainly be an issue. As long as I can get a larger USB stick to work I’m not sure I’ll be digging much further. I don’t need to know why something doesn’t work in some cases as long as it DOES work for me.
I’m going to check the power specks on WD Passport drives. Hoping I can find something like that which runs on 500mA.
I swear…this 60GB flash drive better fucking load on my SP-16…I’ve waited two hours this afternoon on making music hoping I can finally make storage work how I want it to…lol fingers crossed! 98% of file transfer finished…
Well I didn’t yell fuck words nor did I throw anything out a window. SUCCESS.
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Behringer had a product called the… Sonic Ultramizer.
I don’t feel like searching for if BBE threw a fit at them over it.
Windows memory limits are usually to do with 32 bit limitations because of what is able to be addressed when limited by 32 bits. 2GB generally but there’s a frig that can take it to 3GB in older Windows OS’s. Not really a Windows limit but a limit of the size that anything 32bit addressing can handle. Arguably there are limits to 64bit but they are so huge that in the modern arena its generally irrelevant. For storage it depends on how the disk/media is formatted. 2TB if NTFS, 32GB if FAT32. Again not really a limit of Windows itself but of how ‘stuff’ is addressed. There are frigs by different companies including MS to make variations on FAT32 work on larger partitions, usually for removable media but they aren’t always compatible with proprietary systems.
Not read the posts properly so prolly got what people are talking about wrong. Its late and had a few beers 
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What the ever-loving fuck happened to Roland D-05 (boutique) prices? o.O $650? $850? Have people just lost their fucking minds these days when a product is discontinued? It’s like the past five years the used gear market has gone batshit crazy for things that get discontinued.