Review: BlackBox 2 // Or is it a Bento Mini? // Tutorial for 1010Music’s new lineup

BlackBox 2 is about as big as the original BlackBox sampler, but in many ways, it’s a Bento Mini as opposed to a second-generation BlackBox. It shares the overall workflow with Bento and many, but not all, of its features.

In this video, I take a look at BlackBox 2 in detail and compare it to both the original BlackBox and Bento, as well as cover the pros and cons compared to the competition:

0:00 Intro

1:10 Overview

4:35 vs Bento

7:15 I/O

8:35 vs OG Blackbox

10:00 In common

11:00 Making music

11:30 Tracks page

11:50 Inst page

12:30 Patches

13:00 Track config

13:20 Sampling

14:25 Multi tracks

15:15 Modulation

16:00 One-shots

17:30 Loop tracks

17:50 Timestretch?

19:45 Live looping

20:55 Slicer

22:40 Shredder

23:55 Sequencing

25:45 Step seq

27:05 Launch!

28:40 Scenes

29:30 Song

31:00 Loop seq

32:20 Mixer

33:20 FX

34:50 Pros & cons

39:00 Outro

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