will use this for playing long background loops, for midi looping, for running basic midi sequences, for grabbing audio & looping it.Winding back a little, I’ll admit I make life generally more difficult for myself because I don’t involve a computer in my music‑making - and also because I clog up when presented with too many choices.
maybe make the audio looping a bit more like an electrix repeater, with an overdub/undo mode. if I could change one thing, I would give it an internal battery. essentially what we have here is a baby octatrack, & then some. you can run up to 16 sequences at once, or chain groups of sequences into songs, with loopable sections. many outputs, & these are dc coupled so you can use them as controllers or audio. delay (syncable) & reverb, basic but useful. no multisample support, but you could spread an instrument over two or more pads if you badly needed to use the box this way. so it's possible to get a useable range out of (say) a single piano sample. looping, pitch shift, basic filtering, adsr. there are many options within the setup for each pad.
there are sixteen pads available in each "preset" (which are sets of samples & sequences that can be regarded as a high-level 'state' of the machine) each pad can be loaded with a single-hit sample that can be played with the keys or triggered from the pad or the sequencer, or with a 'clip', which can be automatically time-stretched to fit your master tempo. it will drive external synths &c at the expense of one or more of the pads. there's piano roll editing for triggers & polyphonic note playback. the "keys" screen is useable, bit smaller than most you'd find on ipads, but the box will 'host' a usb keyboard, so no real worries there. getting your head round the architecture is a breeze, even with convoluted workflows. load one of the factory presets & it brings with it a load of samples, sequences & even a song structure. This thing is easy to use, right out of the box.
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