<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://1010music.com/product/bluebox" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">https://1010music.com/product/bluebox</a></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Blue box. It seems to have fewer features overall (no synth, but it records to SD card...) but at $549 I think its a better value. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></p></div></blockquote><div>Yup. Bloody great mixer. Best thing ever to set up for a jam, press RECORD and get the stems at the end of the night.</div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">I have a black box, and while I wish it had a few more synth-like processing features it's one of the best samplers I've used. It has some quirks for sure, but given that I also have a kurzweil and now an A4K, I don't worry about the flaws so much. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></p></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Yeah I have one too, definitely a versatile little machine and the new granular synth engine is very fun.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I want a Bitbox now though, got my Rackbrute set up today, and for sure I need a Bitbox. And a Decards Voice. Damn, so now I have Eurorack GAS disease ..</div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">I'm not sure I'd see the need for the blue box either, although as I collect more desktop gear I'm seeing how much portable flexibility it could offer while working with the blackbox and some other bits of gear.</p></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>I use my Blackbox, Bluebox, UNO PRO, Microfreak, Microvolt and Zynthian together in a jam suitcase, its great fun .. so now I want all the same functionality in a portable Eurorack case .. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This Teenage Engineering thing? Meh: coz, Price. Nice design, but a bit too minimal for the money. The Bluebox kicks its ass, imho. (12 channels vs. 6, better FX, etc.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is for folks for whom design is primary and functionality secondary, imho ..</div><div class=""><div class=""><div><br class="">j.<br class="">—<br class="">Jay Vaughan<br class=""><a href="mailto:ibisum@gmail.com" class="">ibisum@gmail.com</a><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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