Question: would it be possible to record each pad separately as a wav when jamming (now or maybe after a future update)? Or are there other easy ways to export individual pads/channels to a DAW?
That works. If you got a bunch of Ins, the Blackbox has three stereo outs. And if you got only the stereo pair in, you can easily mute pads as you play back or perform your music from the Blackbox.
Itâs old school multitrack style but itâs perfectly doable.
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Hopefully someone can give you an answer here. I just live record (PLAY + REC) without lead/metronome so Iâm not a heavy piano roll user. Wish I could help
Thx! I was hoping for something less old school 
. Would be so cool to be able to jam and record at the same time in the blackbox. So that in the end you have sixteen wavs you could export to a DAW.
But I imagine that would require a much larger amount of dsp/processing power.
Multitracking with the OT I always found rather cumbersome.
I donât think so. I think you move it up and down with your finger, touch screen style.
Overall, the piano roll is functionally effective but in practice, a bit cumbersome to use. You should consider it a way to edit stuff that you really want to get right, not a way to generally work with you rmusic in the Blackbox. Especially if youâve been on a grid controller and know how effective a grid system can be for piano roll workflow. This is like looking at its potential but not being able to access it 
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Well, internally, you can. The sample slots can act as loopers, so as long as youâre in the box, you can totally do this, like you can with the Octatrack, but only much more convenient. As soon as you wanna export, though, stuff gets old school.
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Arenât samples you record saved as wav files though? Or you mean like, if you make a drum part from kick and snare samples, you canât just export the whole pattern without resampling?
Thanks! Iâm getting my Blackbox on Monday, canât wait 
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Itâs really fun. Just a few questions to ask and everything else is pretty much intuitive.
Seems others use the piano roll for editing more so than making.
In the beginning I used it to make basic 4 on the floor beats to keep me in time, but the quantization on live recording made that method obsolete real quick!
Now I just barely use it to add a note so never really explored using the encoders.
I use it primarily for arranging long ambient tracks so usually just 4 or so inputs to get a minute or two of ambience haha.
Stoked for ya!
Yep, samples are wav files, including resampled ones. So exporting stuff can be done, as long as youâre aware itâs one file per sound or recording, however you choose to divide it after that.
What I mean: say I jam for 10 minutes using all 16 pads. I would like to record everything per pad, so I have 16x10 mn of wavs. Then export to Ableton and have 16 tracks with wavs I can line up easily and eq/filter/add fx etc.
And if the blackbox cannot do that, is there another sampler that can do that?
Blackbox cannot do this. It can sequence/mangle WAV files live and sample sounds into a WAV. The only thing that comes close (that I can think of) is an Analogue Rytm/Digitakt with Overbridge but you would have to record all channels (not 16) into Ableton while jamming.
For me it would be an absolute game changer to be able to do that. Works like a charm with Korg Gadget on iOS. Jam, record every track and then export them as wavs to Live. Would be cool if there would be hardware that can do that.
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Yea so far I just sample what I deem âgoodâ into my DT/OT for FX/Mangling but i can totally see the appeal. I donât think it has the CPU to do this unfortunately.
That would be a cool feature for any new sampler in the future.
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Not to pollute the BB thread anymore but check out MPC Live explode/exploding tracks. Had a hunch so i googled a lil bit. I would assume this applies to the MPC One but not sure⌠Seems that it is maybe close (not exactlyâŚ) to what you are looking for!
Thx, I will
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At the risk of stating the obvious why not just pull the card from BB insert into computer and copy the files that way?
Or do you mean the samples and the sequences?
Yea I think itâs an ask of: âRecord what I am doing (FX/Granular/Clip/Sequence/Live Keys/Grid) for each pad as a track WAV while I jam without a songmode being needed into separate WAV files under the hoodâ
Which would be pretty ballerâŚ
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Exactly that!
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Ah I see, I donât know of any hardware sampler that could do that unfortunately.
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