Blackbox Live Looping Workflow
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Published 2023-09-30
From page 103 of the version 3.0 manual:
MIDI Note Number - Action
100 (usually E7) - Select Previous Pad
101 (usually F7) - Select the Next pad
102 (usually F#7) - Play the currently selected pad
103 (usually G7) - Record to currently selected pad (must be empty)
104 (usually G#7) - Clear the currently selected pad
All Comments (21)
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Always worth looking at work flows on different equipment. I loop on an RC505 but this still gave me some ideas to try out other midi controller work flows.
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Thank you so much for this. I have a Blackbox I've never really gotten along with in my "should sell" -pile, but as I was just looking for a looping solution I think this may have given it a new lease on life :)
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Holy cow- extremely helpful. And a big thanks for explaining it so thoroughly… appreciate the clarity!
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Thanks for sharing! Awesome 👏
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Nice to see your workflow explained, thanks.
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I've done this on mine, controlling with a Beatstep. Can't wait to get a MIDI foot controller. Fun for guitar loops or recording live synth parts for sure.
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Great explanation of your workflow and logical MIDI pad layout
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thanks for this! great method and useful explanation
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Omg that thing absolutely wrecks the other live loopers available right now… and it has so many other functions! I’m having ideas 💡😁
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Great! I needed this video to use my Blackbox again. It is such a creative powerful machine, very easy to understand. Thanks.
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This is really helpful, thanks!
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Thanks for sharing, this is really helpful. I have had a BB for a while, got frustrated and keep thinking i would sell it, but trying to go back to it now and it helps to see others' workflows. I feel like it's really easy to overlook a crucial setting that makes it seem like it just doesn't work. For example I'm shocked you could monitor input when not actively recording, i thought it just wouldn't do that. Now I need to look closer at that pad setting
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this video single handedly sold me on a blackbox. i've been looking a portable sampler or a guitar looper that has pre set loop lengths AND could be controlled by a footswitch. i originally had a digitakt, live sampling is not its best aspect, then i got a octatrack, its great at live looping, but a little too big for what i want and setup of things can be tricky (its a hugely deep machine) now, to find a good price on one of these monsters. thank you mate, thank you
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Thanks for this video. Im actually looking at the eurorack version(bitbox mk2) of this right now, (at least I think thats the case) and was curious if it could do exactly what you demonstrated here. Thanks again, keep it up.
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Muito bom obrigado. Très bien Merci
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Thanks, really good reminder of something else the bb can do :) Hey what sorta power bank u using in the vid? ta
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Thanks for an amazing video For some reason I am unable to set a length per pad in advance as soon as I change one all the others change accordingly
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hi, thanks for the info.. i have s novation launch control.. tried setting it up but apparently the pads do not use the same notes. how would i find out what note to assign each pad. thanks..
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Are you using the latest update on the Blackbox? - tried the mapping that is in the manual and programmed them into a template on my arturia mini 3 pads but couldn’t get it to work even though midi connections were good and would really appreciate a list of the settings in tools and on the pad itself. Tried loads of different ways. Seems so simple but didn’t get it to work! 😂😂😂
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What's that lovely battery you've got there?
