This shuffle / flam thing, I just can't seem to notice it doing anything - maybe it's knackered on my 909?

I can access it, and understand that 1 - 8 is for shuffle and 9 - 16 for flam, but even when both are up to their limit it doesn't seem to make any difference to the output!

What should I be listening for?

And Debroglie, thanks for the tips about recording in the patterns with compression etc - it took a while for it to sink it but I think I'm finally getting there. But I'm not entirely sure what you meant about how you go back to the 909 and make mutes and delete bits - so you run these against the samples you've got set up in the 'puter? It would be cool if you could expand on that a little for me…thanks.