This free software update for 1010music's standalone, touchscreen sampling music workstation brings a raft of new capabilities. Here's the details.
Los Angeles, CA, November 17, 2019 - 1010music LLC has announced new 1.3 software for Blackbox - their standalone, touchscreen sampling music workstation. Their third major software release since Blackbox shipped in June, it combines 1010music’s on-going dedication to honoring user input with creative engineering to add new control, sampling, synthesis and workflow enhancements to this well-reviewed desktop music workstation.
Blackbox has received critical acclaim and is used in the studio and onstage by a number of top electronic artists. This major upgrade takes Blackbox to the next-level as your own, personal, sampler.
Control Features
MIDI Controller Learn Mode for Sample Playback Parameters:Level,Pitch,Filter Cutoff, Loop Length with Start and End Position, Slice Selection (Slicer Mode),Playback Speed (Granular Mode), Delay Time and Feedback,Reverb Decay and Damping
Novation LaunchKey Integration: Sync with internal LaunchKey Arpeggiator
Multichannel MIDI operation for simultaneous, multitimbral keyboard and pad control.
SAMPLING and SYNTHESIS FEATURES
Multi-Sampling
Load multiple samples per pad. Navigate to a directory and choose File: Load All
SMPL tag compatibility (as used by Sample Robot ) to allow automatic sample mapping
Basic Granular Synthesis.
An extension to sample mode, control pitch, start, stop, length, loop mode, etc. per voice:
Grain Size: 1024 to 16384 (10ms to about 200ms)
Grain Count: 2-8
Spread Control: Changes the amount of randomization in grain position around the playhead
Speed Control: Alters how quickly the playhead advances through the waveform
NEW SOUND LIBRARY 22 different multi-sampled instruments created by Francis Preve at Symplesound sets that span a number of keyboard instruments: From piano to organ to FM sounds
INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS
MIDI clock output to USB devices for arpeggiator control, etc.
Hollin Jones was classically trained as a piano player but found the lure of blues and jazz too much to resist. Graduating from bands to composition then production, he relishes the chance to play anything with keys.
A sometime lecturer in videographics, music production and photography post production, Hollin has been a freelance writer on music technology and Apple topics for well over a decade, along the way publishing several books on audio software. He has been lead writer at a number of prominent music and technology publications.
As well as consultancy, full-time journalism, video production and professional photography, he occasionally plays Hammond, Rhodes and other keys for people who ask nicely.
Hollin is Contributing Editor at Ask.Audio.
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