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Review: 1010music nanoboxes

Features

Ultra compact synthesizer

Granular or wavetable

4 or 8 voices

Multimode filter

Modulation sequencer

Sample import via

microSD

Touch screen

Fully MIDI controllable

Over 100 presets

Facts

Manufacture: 1010music

Web: 1010music.com

Distrib: Tomeso

Price: 449 Euro

▲ Very good sound
▲ Complex options
▲ Good Touch Display
▲ Sample import
▲ Good sounding effects
▲ Ultra compact
▼ No battery option
▼ Mini jacks only

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Alternatives

Bastl Instruments MicroGranny 197 Euro bastl-instruments.com

Modal Cobalt5S/Argon8 ab 449 Euro modalelectronics.com

ASM Hydrasynth Explorer 549 Euro ashunsoundmachines.com

hese small boxes come in bright yellow and red, and the names were chosen to match. Lemondrop is a 4-voice polyphonic granular synthesizer: WAV files can be loaded via microSD card, which can then be processed with the granular engine. Fireball, on the other hand, relies on 8-voice wavetable synthesis. For post-processing there are multimode filters, LFOs, modulation sequencers and two multi-effects. The operation is done via two encoders,

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