1010music blackbox

This is could have been a great IDEA but at the moment it is just a missed opportunity .

it is not a groove box because is not performative like a groove box and the step sequencer is a disaster far more primitive even compared to the groove boxes of the 90s

you can not record live unquantised sequences ,
you can not perform basic features like note repeat ,
there is no swing ,
there are massive bugs on time stratching, launching clips is a total disaster only clips that are perfectly 1 bar l, 2 bar etc long will play in time ,
Black Box will not detect automatically the pitch of a sample and everything that is not in C will be distributed wrongly through the octave of the keyboard , so you will need to put only samples that are in C differently it will be a nightmare tuning everything in than saving on a PC than bringing it back to the blackbox , the company doesn't have a customer service , the customer service is managed by avarage users of the forum that very often answer without having tested the issues .

to reassume at the moment with so many bugs and the lack of basic features this is just another amateur bedroom fun device not a professional one, may be a firmware upgrade can fix the issues but I m not sure the company behind is interested to do that!

The idea and form-factor — perfect. Feels sturdy. But...

My expectations were that it'll replace my oldy trusty MPC1000 with JJ OS XL. Don't even think about it! It's a toy compared even to the stock OS of these old MPCs. Can't say the same about the new ones — they are also toys, just with more bells and whistles.

So... You can use it for very basic sampling. Considering the price... it's ridiculous. Want sequencing? Forget it, it's rudimentary.

Now that they have Bento, I doubt this thing will be updated and refined. Wish they've at least open-sourced the OS.