Take music creation beyond your computer with Blackbox, a compact sampling studio with intuitive touchscreen control. It’s a complete music creation workflow—at your fingertips.

Your Own. Personal. Sampler.

Take music creation beyond your computer with blackbox, a next-generation sampling studio with intuitive touchscreen control. Record hours of audio and loops from your synths, drum machines, and other tabletop studio devices. Arrange sequences using built-in synchronization and slicing, then structure your sequences to create complete songs. Perform your compositions live and trigger one-shot samples on the fly. Blackbox makes it easy to create music anywhere thanks to a compact and nearly indestructible design that fits in the palm of your hand. It’s a complete music creation workflow—at your fingertips.

Reach Out, Touch Beats.

• Record, edit, resample, and sequence using a familiar touchscreen interface.
• Integrate synths, drum machines, and other devices to form your tabletop studio.
• Capture samples, arrange sequences, and create songs without using a computer.
• Get into the groove with a fast, fluid, and intuitive workflow.
• Connect external hardware via USB and MIDI to expand performance and control capabilities.
• Record and play back hours of music with an expandable microSD memory slot.
• Combine loops with different tempos using built-in synchronization and slicing.
• Perform with drum loops and samples using one-shots.
• Use granular mode to create new sounds from your existing WAV files.
• Map up to 80 samples to different key ranges for realistic sounding instruments.
• Mix down samples and route to 3 stereo outputs and the headphone jack.
• Loop samples and clips.
• Create dynamic sounds by controlling level, pitch, ADR, loop points, the granulator, effects and more using MIDI control surfaces and an internal LFO.
• Send the output of your pads through delay and reverb effects to further customize your sound.
• Sequence nuanced rhythms with off grid recording and editing.
• Surprise yourself with per note probability settings in sequences.
• Tap out a tempo to stay in the groove with a jam.
• Polish your final mix with a 4 band global EQ.
• Add live looping to your set with MIDI triggered recording and playback.
• Include other gear in your composition with MIDI out sequences.
• Quickly pack up all of your samples for a preset to move to another device or microSD card.
• Make music anywhere thanks to a compact and nearly indestructible design.

Big Sound. Little Blackbox.

• Streaming support for long samples from the microSD card with a max sample size of 4 GB, which can be many hours
• 1 stereo audio input and 3 stereo audio outputs, plus stereo headphones output
• Shared pool of 16 note polyphony, with user defined polyphony limits per pad.
• 16 samples, 16 sequences and 16 song sections per preset
• Support for 1 and 2 channel WAV files with 16, 24 or 32-bit resolution at any sample rate (48kHz preferred)
• 24-bit ADC and DAC
• USB MIDI Device In and TRS MIDI In can trigger samples, notes and sequences, modulate your sound, and trigger sample recording
• TRS Clock In and Out, and TRS MIDI Out for synchronizing with additional instruments
• USB powered – can run off a USB power block or use the power adapter to plug into a wall outlet
• Dimensions: 5.5″ x 5″ x 1.25″ (14 cm x 13 cm x 3 cm)

This compact sampling studio is lightly used and ships safely and swiftly with all the necessary adaptors and the original box! Feel free to call us with any questions you have about this product.