Oto Bébé Chérie ?
Interesting, thanks.
TX-6 by teenage engineering
It’s over 2x the price and way smaller, both bad things to me
But if your issue was the lack of audio interface, this has that covered
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Hello! Rn I make music on Octatrack, other Elektron gear plus several other synths and grooveboxes usually 3-4 at a time. I have a Clarett interface and a small Mackie Mix12FX mixer. What do you think is a 1010 Blue Box purchase a good one? My desk space is also limited a bit, but I like the form factor in general.
I have seen many of your YT videos. May I ask what mixer and/or interface do you use for your music production into final DAW processing? I am curious because have similar gear and am kinda lost.
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SSL big six. One of the best gear decisions I’ve made ever. Very flexible in its daw <-> hardware routing. And great headroom and sound
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It’s not a mixer, but the Smpltrek seems like an affordable tool for recording tracks and then playing/recording a new track atop them.
Edit: mentioned because it has the USB class compliance.
Evening. Don’t suppose anyone in the UK is looking to sell a Bluebox…? I think it could be the missing part of my set-up, but I’d be quite keen to buy one second-hand if possible - they don’t seem to come up all that often, which is probably a good sign…
Thanks! Dave.
I didn’t keep track of the bluebox since it came out, any noticeable changes since release?
excuse me for being to lazy to read through this thread:)))
Not selling mine as it’s a little gem. But there is a used one up on a UK auction site just now.
No, nothing has changed since it’s release.
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Ah, thanks for pointing this out - typical, I wait for ages for one to show up on eBay, give up and buy it new, then one turns up straight away…!
Major change since release is the addition of transport controls. So you can now punch in/out play/record at certain time points, which was an essential missing feature. This is accompanied by a rudimentary visual timeline of tracks.
There have been various other smaller improvements and additions and bug fixes in firmware updates. The last update was in April last year.
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As noted in the release notes at the 1010music forums, freely available for all to read.
So this;
…wasn’t/isn’t true. If you can’t be helpful, say nothing maybe? Dodgy sarcasm/comedy doesn’t usually translate to text. 
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I know from getting mine earlier this year (actually, it’s last year now…) and then updating it to the latest FW, I noticed the FX section was much improved and it made them more usable for me.
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thanks for your answer! was looking for something like this. Most reviews address these shortcomings and it’s good to red that they are addressed.
Unlike a few who just use is as a mixer im actually interested in using it as recorder and import stems later into my DAW
This is how I use it all the time and it works great for me - although taking the SD card in and out is fiddly.
I’ve found that it’s crucial to create a new project every time I want to record something, with the tempo in the title, so it’s easy to ensure I get it all matched up in bitwig when I get round to import it all. Also, midi sync makes sure the bluebox starts recording on beat.
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I hate the stupid SD slot on this thing!
It’s a thumb-nail job but Ok really. I just wish it would automatically date/time stamp recordings…first-world problem though. It’s a great little recorder/mixer.
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