Portable Sampling Production Lab

1010music, creators of sampling instruments and grooveboxes like bitbox, blackbox, and razzamatazz, have announced a new flagship music production lab, bento. They say that, as the centerpiece of a desktop or mobile music studio, this powerful standalone device lets musicians create, perform, and control external gear all without a laptop.

Aaron Higgins, founder of 1010music, told us, "Bento is everything our users have been asking for in a flagship sampler--more power, more control, and more performance tools, all in a portable package. It's designed to replace your laptop and become the brain of your setup."

Here's the details direct from the company...

Sample every flavor...
Bento provides advanced sampling with recording and playback at pristine 24-bit quality. It covers all the sampler bases from chromatic, multi-sampled instruments playable from a keyboard  to pad-based drum racks to cradle your fave one-shots and loops.  Plus you get an intuitive beat slicer for loop editing and a granular synth similar to the wildly-popular lemondrop.

Immediate realtime control ...
Tactile, real time, control is the deal with bento's 7" touchscreen, 16 velocity + pressure-sensitive pads, and 8 endless encoders. The pads feel great and controller response is immediate with no laptop buffer settings to fuss with! Trigger samples,  scenes, mix tracks, tweak filters and effects, and more. Bento is perfect for DAWless jams and recording.

Create, edit, control, perform...
Sequence clips using real time or step recording and a vast collection of sampled instruments and loops. Create and edit fast with touch input and a piano roll or use new probability tools. Eight tracks with four sequences each let you launch complete arrangements or clips on the fly.

Plays well with others...
Bento is a great sequencer and control center for other MIDI devices too. With generous I/O--including three stereo inputs, three stereo outputs, dual TRS MIDI I/O, USB-C host/device ports, and an internal 3-hour battery and mixer with effects – it's the core of a powerful DAWless setup.

Features

• 7" diagonal color touchscreen
• 16 velocity and pressure-sensitive pads plus 8 endless encoders
• 8 flexible tracks for sampled instruments, slicer, loops, granular or external MIDI
• Scene-based sequencing with real time, step, piano roll and probability tools
• Over 5 GB of samples and 165 patches of fresh new sounds including deeply multi-sampled instruments from pianos to classic synths by Samples from Mars, Soundtrack Loops and Drew Neumann
• FX engine with per-track delay, reverb, chorus, flanger, and phaser with automation
• Extensive modulation system with LFOs, envelopes, and step sequencers
• 3 stereo inputs, 3 stereo outputs, headphone out, USB-C host/device, dual MIDI I/O
• Internal 24-bit resampling, sample streaming from microSD
• Compact and battery-powered for up to 3 hours of portable creativity

Pricing and Availability:
$899.00 USD

More information:

• 1010music

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