SC Live 4 in combination with drum/sample

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Fairly new Denon user here, but I’ve been a DJ for over 40 years. Now I bought a SC-4 recently and am totally ecstatic about it. I watch a lot of YT and am quite intrigued by drumpads/samplers to enhance the DJ-ing even more. Is there a way to use these in the stand-alone mode with the SC-4. Or what are your recommendations on using with the SC-4? Do I need Ableton, or other software to run these? Cheers,

Ruud

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Hello @Ruud_Stam , Welcome to the forum. You have a one shot sample player in the SC Live 4 - details here:

Or You can use AKAI MPC one/live/X or AKAI Force running Ableton link in the same network as your SC Live 4 - they will sync together.

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There’s a new mini sampler from Roland called the Aira Compact P-6 which (although it doesn’t have Ableton Link) is under 200 Euros.

TBH the onboard EngineOS “sampler” is extremely limited. No looping, no sync…

Also consider running a sampler app on your phone or tablet. Some of those will have Ableton Link and are probably the cheapest option.

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Ah, that sounds great, thanks!

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I think I will go for the Ableton link solution… Thanks anyways!

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Let us know what solution you choose, whether app, hardware etc. :+1:

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OK, I’ve been looking into this a bit, but some things aren’t really clear to me. I like the Native Instruments Maschine Mikro MK3 a tlot, but could that be connected to the SC Live4 in stand-alone mode? Or do I have to use Ableton link always?

sorry for being so ignorant, just struggling to get my head around this all…

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Ableton link works only in stand alone mode.

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The Mikro is only a controller, so you’ll have to connect it to a computer running Maschine, which could then sync to the SC Live via Ableton Link.

Also bear in mind that using Ableton Link doesn’t mean you have to run (Ableton) Live.

Link is a protocol that allows things to sync together, but it’s an open thing, so will work without using Live.

Using an app on a tablet or smartphone is the cheapest option to have something that will sync to the SC Live. Next up would be an Akai MPC.

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Ok, that makes it a lot clearer… I was looking to install it…

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When the SC Live is standalone, it would be using Link via the onboard system. If you connected the SC Live to a computer with DJ software, you could still use Link - but it would be the DJ software that was doing the syncing.

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