What it does
Loads your own songs onto an SP-1 running the original TE firmware.
Before you start
Stock firmware. Nothing to flash.
It overwrites
New stems replace what is on the device when the track list does not match.
Still in beta
v0.3, by Tim Knapen and solderless.
Prepare the file
One file per song. Not one per stem.
The format
24-bit, 48 kHz, 8-channel PCM WAV.
Four stereo stems
Combined into a single file. Separate stems will not load.
Channel order
Pairs in order: 1-2 is stem 1, 3-4 stem 2, 5-6 stem 3, 7-8 stem 4.
Fewer channels
Missing pairs become empty stems. Anything past 8 is ignored.
Check it
Reopen the export. Eight mono tracks, all audible together.
No stems yet
Split with Demucs GUI, then merge with SP-1 merge.
Connect
Boot mode, then transfer mode.
Start from off
The SP-1 must be powered down before you plug in.
Hold while plugging in
hold T1+T4
Keep holding until the track 1 light comes on, then let go.
Connect
Click Connect and pick stem player from the list.
Transfer mode
The loader switches it over and the track 1 light goes out.
Load
Drag, order, label.
Drop the files
Drag your WAVs onto the window.
Reorder
Drag a song by its track number.
Label
Album title, song title, artist and BPM are all editable.
BPM matters
It drives MIDI clock, the gate effect and looping. 30 to 300.
Default is 80
Tempo is not detected. Put 66BPM in the filename and it reads it.
Transfer
Slow. Plan for it.
Ten to one
One minute of audio takes about ten minutes to transfer.
While it runs
The track 1 light blinks and audio is off.
Keep the tab open
Closing it, or letting the machine sleep, fails the transfer.
When it ends
The SP-1 restarts, audio returns, and it comes back in basic mode.
Stop and resume
Interruptions are survivable.
Abort any time
Click Abort transfer.
It remembers
Finished songs carry a green dot and are skipped next time.
Unfinished
A red dot means it will go again from where it stopped.
Re-send one
Click the track number, then Include or Transfer song.
Skip one
Click Skip and the next album transfer leaves it out.
Adding more
Append only.
Add to the end
New songs go last. Transfer album again.
Keep the old ones listed
Remove a transferred song from the list and it gets overwritten.
Reordering costs
Change the order and those songs must all go again.
Deleting shifts
Every song after a removed one is re-transferred.
What it cannot see
The loader is writing blind.
No filesystem
One continuous block of data. Nothing to browse.
No readback
It cannot see, move or delete what is on the device.
It only remembers
The list is what the loader sent, not what the SP-1 holds.
Changed elsewhere
Use another tool and the loader will not know.
Space and speed
Four gigabytes. Twelve megabits.
56 minutes
4 GB of storage. The loader stops you going over.
Always 8 channels
Empty stems are still written, so they still cost time.
Compression will not help
Transfer time tracks song length, not file size.
Why so slow
USB 2.0 Full Speed, and the stock protocol tops out near 135 KB/s.
When it looks dead
It is usually still in transfer mode.
Unresponsive after an interruption
Normal. It is holding transfer mode and cannot play.
Power it down
hold FN
Long press the function button.
Power it up
tap FN
Press it again.
It reconnects
With the tab still open it finds the device and returns to transfer mode.
Re-send the unfinished
A part-written song needs transferring again.
Missing files
A warning about your computer, not the SP-1.
Not missing from the device
The icon says the loader lost the path on your disk.
Why
Browsers cannot keep file handles across reloads.
Fix
Drag the files in again and they relink.
Incognito
A private window keeps no track list at all.
Nothing matches.