Bad Gear - Black Box

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Published 2024-04-26
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Bad Gear - This BOX is not BLACK

Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most-hated audio tools. There is no lack of compact, costly and multitalented touchscreen devices in our lives and usually we want to get away from them - especially when making music.

Today we are going to talk about 1010music blackbox. This 2019 “thing” not only threw down the gauntlet to its competitors in the crowded field of sampler / sequencer combos with an acute fit of feature-based megalomania, it also wants to take on the big Berlin Excel of DAWs.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
00:50 Overview 1010 music black box
01:17 Concept (Pads, Loops , Slicer , Granular Synth )
02:04 Sampling , Multisampling , Recording , Looper
02:14 Sample Playback Functionality, Engine
02:41 File Management, Polyphony
02:53 What to do with it?
03:09 Sequencer, Limitations
03:51 Controlling External Instruments
04:00 Is this a Bug???
04:10 I'll Skip Song Mode
04:14 FX Section
04:24 Mixer, Connectivity, Midi Host , Multiple Outputs
04:44 Eurorack Integration
04:53 What else? (Clock, Midi , Thanks)
05:19 Hate
05:42 Jam 1 ( House )
06:35 Jam 2 ( Drum'n'Bass )
07:37 Finale ( Granular Electronica )
08:08 Verdict
09:15 Patreon Vocoder Shoutout (more of a granular one ;))

All Comments (21)
  • @pirateradioFPV
    Lets hear it for the man who told us to sell our Digitakts 3 weeks before the release of the mk2 👏😁😂
  • @XHALE303
    What's still missing is a full album of bad gear jams. 👍
  • I had to wait a very long time for the BB to show up here. Now my collection is almost 100% Bad Gear.
  • I have a few samplers, but the Blackbox is more intuitive, and easier to get going on than the others. It also is more like a Swiss army knife, being able to do lots of different things, like multi track recorder/player, effects for external input, sequencer, and control voltage record/playback. And it has a small form factor that I really like, and the build quality is excellent, with just the right amount of encoders, and buttons + touch screen, that work together very well. I even installed a battery inside mine, to make it even more portable, and convenient to use. Thanks for the show, and have a great day 😻
  • @RobertFisher1969
    If you did get an iPad, I’d look forward to your new series: Bad App.
  • @harveytherobot
    Keep going ... you've almost covered my entire gear collection!
  • @dolo747
    Been using blackbox for years. Love it.
  • Bro you got me playing the spacebar game hard today. Anticipatory spacebar push but the meme hasnt even hit yet
  • That last jam is crazy good. A slightly bigger and more powerful version of this would be perfection. Thanks for keeping music fresh! :D
  • @Burn_The_Elastic
    Thanks again for increasing the price of a bit of kit I already own!
  • @nkozi
    He's gonna do the Octatrack soon. I can feel it.
  • I owned one and it's very fetish-worthy. It's a really powerful setup. After a while trying to touch screen arrange midi notes and even worse edit them with the knobs wears you down. I loved the endless sample lengths, I hated trying to use the knobs to control sample editing. I hated fighting to remember how to assign lfos to things.. the fx was great but considering they have a sister box that does fx in the modular world, it feels like a cheat that it only has basic fx. My last gripe was it felt like an endless wait for that, "final update" that made it a real tool. I sold it reluctantly because I truly loved it despite all its flaws. Love/hate vibes all the way.
  • @VIRALBEATS360
    I love the 1010blackbox. It is especially great for traveling and has a nice sound. I thought that hitting tiny screen pads would be an issue, but it is surprisingly comfortable. That said, I only found it practical for traveling, and think it is the best production device to bring on a plane.
  • @dekonildo
    I wasn’t ready for the smirking during the patreon names. This has made me want to subscribe more than ever.
  • @23jackleeder
    Altogether awesome episode. Black box is the best for dawless dub stems. Love it Joy. So much gear, so little time, so glad you featured this.