no, power only
Thanks. I was hoping I was missing something.
Yeah, we donât do Roland-style TR-REC sequencing.
Itâs either live recording, or by drawing stuff in.
TR-REC style sequencingâs a good idea. I donât know that itâs been brought up before.
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Even if it needed an external keyboard/controller to do it, I think it would be a bonus.
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It wouldnât need it, thanks to the existing KEYS mode.
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Step recording where encoder acts like i playhead that can go back and forth would be very convinient for me. So that you can enter notes without step advancing for easy chord construction. Gate length can also be tied to the playhead: hold notes, advance 3 steps, those notes are now 3 steps long.
Recent huge updates make me so excited for a possible note/velocity entry overhaul!!
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Thatâs the kind of thing Iâm thinking ⌠not auto-advance.
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Just a fixed zoom option would be so much nicer to use instead of pinch/enlarge. Tap which track/lane you want to punch in sample, that then explodes to show a 16-step gridâŚsimples.
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I just donât get why he uploaded that video.
If youâre that populair online the least you could do is do some preparation like checking the latest firmware when you encounter bugs. You not just simply upload that video. This all feels like real amateurish which he isnât so that makes me wonder why he did it anyway.
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These are good sequencer suggestions!
Thank you!
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Well, of course. Bug fixes arenât separate from OS updates though. Iâm just airing my grievances like an old dude does! The Blackbox is amazzzzzzzing as a live playback instrument, so any gripes I have are really just superficial.
Itâs been brought up many, many times on the 1010 forums.
You guys even have the UI halfway ready to go, just look at the Scales screen.
Your typical scale layout is an 8x4 grid of notes. Big, fat, finger friendly virtual buttons. This is basically a 32 step (16ths) step sequencer. 8 pages of 32 steps equals your 256 step sequence. Add in nudging via the encoders, copy/paste etc.
It would be way better for me at least for drums/ percussion, although my stylus skills are pretty honed.
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Oh, thatâs right. Honestly, it had slipped my mind â apologies. I was thinking more about the TR-REC case, too (too much time in the Roland camp lately).
I checked, and it is on our backlog.
Thanks for the reminder!
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yes
Would the Blackbox with pad controller be suited for finger drumming?
It can handle multi sampling with velocity layers right? How many?
And can it handle large sampled libraries fast enough?
It can load multi samples but there are limitations to the number of samples it can load at once. You wonât get the fidelity of kontakt.
For instance you canât load an instrument that has multiple samples per key for velocity, that also has samples assigned to every key (no interpolation), over multiple octaves. It canât load that many samples.
With a bit of old school sampler trickery though you can work around these limitations, and itâs a very competent sampler.
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you can load multisamples with velocty layers.
You can reliably play 24 voices across all pads simultaneously.
80 total samples per project, 64 per pad.
set those 16 pads however you like, machine is very flexible.
it can either be 5 layers deep velocity on each pad, or some pads have layers while others host different hits.
if you run out of space, glue samples together and use slice mode (which is 2 voice polyphony btw so its not hard choke)
once you set up your project loading is fast and generally takes under 5 seconds even if all pads are filled to the brim.
theres also several mute groups and plenty of modulation fun. so id say the device can handle finger drumming setups, especially if you pair it with something like a launchpad that can send midi on different channels at the same time.
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Are there any videos online that showcase finger drumming on the blackbox. (with a pad controller connected of course) I canât find a single one.
Iâm looking for videos where someone uses sampled acoustic drumkits that sounds convincing.
In short would David Haynes and other finger drummers approve the Blackbox? 
as you said, its the drumkits that sound convincing, so its hardly about the device at that point.
i dont see any reason why you wouldnt be able to use such drumkits on a blackbox, as it provides all the needed tools to use those kits.
Example: take a high hat sample with 50 different hits, use slicer pad in walk mode (semi random forward advance), use LFO to slightly offset playback start, add a touch of built in reverb (which sounds great), modulate release with velocity, add it to mute group with a closed hat.
In other words, very flexible, but you gotta take some time to build those kits 
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Can anyone try this combo out on the latest/recent firmware for me please? Specifically when using a powerbank to power Blackbox.
I keep finding conflicting information about this.