Super Pads helps manage samples on a SP-404SX.
Super Pads helps manage samples on a SP-404SX.
This is the last version with this UI. The next version will have all the pad banks available at once. Check the releases page for the latest version.
Pick Folder
Write SD Card
to save your changed and convert files.Some super kind folks have made videos showing how to use Super Pads:
Tempo Mode
is another name for the Time Modify
/ Time Adjust
settings when adjusting the BPM, where turning the knob all the way to the left is Off oFF
, so the sample will play at its original length.
Turning the knob all the way to the right is Pattern Ptn
and will set the sample to play at the tempo of the pattern. The BPM can be between 40
and 200
, and User
will use the custom value.
The BPM can only be adjusted to any value from 0.5 to ~1.3 times the original BPM on the machine.
See page 30 of the manual.
To disable and remove the dot files from your SD Cards and free up some space, run these commands in your Terminal of choice where <FS NAME>
is your SD Card, by default on the name of card that came with the SP-404SX is SP-404SX
, so you would access it like /Volumes/SP-404SX/
:
# Prevent the OS from using DS files on USB drives
sudo defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteUSBStores -bool true
# Disable Spotlifht from index this drive
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/<FS NAME>
# Remove existing cruft
cd /Volumes/<FS NAME>
sudo rm -rf .{DS_Store,fseventsd,Spotlight-V*,Trashes}
# If this has been used on a Windows OS, you can remove the `System Volume Information` as well
sudo rm -rf System\ Volume\ Information/
Super Pads makes use of two libraries I wrote to play with my own SP-404SX, uttori-audio-padinfo for parsing and writing the PAD_INFO.BIN
file and uttori-audio-wave for adding the RLND
header to the Wave files out of FFmpeg, and an Electron wrapper to make it easier to use.
Note: I do not have an OG SP-404 or SP-404A but this could easily support those if someone is willing to help debug issues.
If you would like to suggest something or have found an issue please file a bug or message me on Twitter @superfamicom.
If you would like to support development, listen to my songs, follow me, or playlist my songs 😏
Features I have planned to work on as time permits, roughly in order: