The Addictive workflow of the 1010Music Blackbox

Today I'm going to show you why the Blackbox is so special. It excels in the exact space I need its to. And that's Live Looping, and stem playback. It's FAST, easy, and I can quickly take those samples and loops that I've recorded and put them into other machines or a DAW using the samplers SD card. So let's quickly make a track from scratch and see how it all comes together!

I DO NOT HAVE A TELEGRAM ACCOUNT & I DO NOT DO GIVEAWAYS

00:00 What's good!
00:37 My Dream Looper Wants and Needs
02:45 Looping the Chords
03:20 Bassline time
04:44 First Vocals!
05:44 Second Vocals! Me "Singing" ish
06:48 Shaker Time 07:15 Third Vocals! Dropping hot fire
09:03 Getting Samples off the Blackbox into other devices or the DAW
10:32 Why I care about the Perfect Start and Perfect End points
11:57 Another way to get perfect loops onto Digitakt II
14:20 Trying to find my lost chords

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[RickyTinez]

How are you using you Blackcbox?? For me it's a fun device that's pretty straight-forward if you're looking to play sync'd longer stems/backing tracks during a live performance. Or use it the way I like, as a live looper but in a studio setting :)

[krazywabbit]

Me: Don’t need the Blackbox
Ricky: “Dance with me”

[MANNYLATE]

Great video, thanks for making, one question. What is that mic you used?

[panacea.palace]

anybody know if the new looper function on the 404mk2 can do something like this?

[MyNameJeff..]

I know it’s such a cliche thing to say nowadays, but I wish the 1010 had an internal battery. Super cool device regardless.

[christinehiggins]

The longer sample stopped playing because it needed to stream from the microSD card that you removed. Shorter samples can play from memory. The best practice is to save your preset before you pull the microSD card out. Then reload the preset to reconnect the file.
Thanks for showing us how you use the blackbox. It’s always great to see different approaches.

[Katchaco]

What mic are you using to track on Blackbox?

[Canadianblaken]

I wish there were more BlackBox videos on YouTube!!!!

[bojusmusic]

Great that you‘re using your voice more and more in your tracks - nothing weird about at all! ❤️

[onosendai]

Nice, what mic are you using please ?

[P-S-T]

Thanks! Got Digitakt 2 and Blackbox. 😊 What’s the brand of the mic? 😊

[T.R.S..]

So many toys available now. It's overwhelming.

[scratchsystem]

What a cool microphone, what is the name of the product???

[joaehun]

In case one day you dive more into iOS music production, loopy pro can also do something like this and a lot more configurable possibilities. Big love from Portugal!

[dreamSTATEmusic]

Haven’t read all the comments but… I think if a sample is too long for the ram, then it’s read off the sd card - hence your disappearing chords.

[TheLordcasio]

So weird...I was up half the night trying to sort out looping on my 1010BlkBox and here you are the next day. Thank you for confirming the right settings for getting a tight loop...the manual is great but it can be tricky to understand sometimes.

[youtubeaccount]

I genuinely love how much you seem to love what you do.

[aholder]

headrush makes one called the looper board. It will let you decide if your first loop you record sets the length of the loop, or if you want it predetermined length, you can set that up, or a third option it will just let you freewheel loops in case you want your loops to easily go off the rails and get out of sync, lol. It has 4 different loop channels and has some very clever stuff going on with loop length and quantization type of stuff. It is a pedal board that is probably geared more towards guitarists, but I think anyone could use it. The new Roland desktop looper will do that too. But sometimes you might have to do some trickery, like start out with a 4 bar drum loop pre recorded so that it sets the loop length automatically (which was a trick I used on the older Roland sometimes) One nice thing I think I remember about the Looper Board is that not all the loops have to be the same length, so even if you start out with a 4 bar drum loop, if you record a 32 bar bass loop over top of it, it has no problem with that. Which used to be way more of a problem in the early days of loopers. I'm glad to see more coming out. I always wanted one that had 4 or more separate tracks that I could assign each to a separate output, which we are finally seeing. Thank the stars. I even looked at using Ableton Live as a live looper to achieve this. There was some smaller more proprietary software loopers that popped up, but none really spoke to me. I think my mind aligns with the concept of the Looper Board more than most others, but this is my first time seeing this one and I really like the smaller desktop (or micstand mounted) form factor. Cool. I'm willing to bet you can hook up some midi control pedals to it and get foot control if you wanted that. I can't imagine they didn't think of that.

[fablesofsilence]

Check check. Love it. I am using Push 3 Standalone for this workflow. I also feed 5 stereo channels out of the push into a model 1 mixer to mix loops on the go and record them back into the Push as new loops or tracks etc. But the Blackbox is intriguing, especially because it is small.

[aguycalledbunny]

Traded mine for an Octatrack. I loved it though.