1010music Bento

Yeah I think this post is very astute.

I also do think that instruments are a bit different than equipment for the stage in that they are part of the studio phase of the development of work, and therefore one is expected to build an intimate relationship with the instrument as an instrument,

Rather than a piece of equipment that is infrastructural and meant to be used on the day of the gig and mediated by technicians and venues.

However, the stakes are equally high in both cases, and I am of the opinion that the production expectations for the maker should be high in both cases as well. Alas!

Interesting discussion about the different cultures around both due to differing customer base demographics and uses.

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Do we know what kind of cpu the bento is using?

Tradition and the sense of continuity, gotta value those. New fw 1.0.12 is available (“swing control, improved polyphony, bug fixes”) so maybe worth checking as well. Works the same, first you need to burn both bin folders onto your DVD then put the disc in the drive printed side of the DVD facing up etc. Have a nice weekend and tell us EVERYTHING later! :cd: :minidisc: :floppy_disk: Downloads - 1010music LLC

So I’ve managed to get some samples onto it last evening. I only had around ten minutes to play with it and there were several things that stopped and confused me. I’m still looking forward to getting to play more with it - once I had a sample in the slicer, sliced it and played it in with the sequencer, I had a lot of fun and could see the potential over how DT handles these things.

Some things that really bothered me, I hope I just didn’t understand things and will be able to solve that once the manual is out or I dug some more:

  • You don’t have an encoder that’s dedicated to volume. Meaning you’ll have to jump to the track menu to adjust headphone output level.
  • The metronome is ear piercingly loud and doesn’t change when lowering headphone output volume. I found no option to deactivate or change its volume.
  • Once you’ve set what “machine” is on a track, you can’t change it.
  • I miss all of the copy/paste and save/delete/reload functions of my Elektrons