![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nevertheless with instant tweaks and compression available you can easily home in on the sound you are after. Overall, these effects not only vastly extend the palette of sounds available to you, but can really inspire you to take your playing and composing into new areas.Įverything is easily tweaked, with the four soft buttons under the large, clear display - a press of the amp, FX or delay buttons assigns the relevant parameters to the display and soft knobs.Īs well as the esoteric stuff, the Black Box also does straight amp simulation and covers most popular amps, albeit without cabinet modelling and detailed parameter access. This is where a single guitar note or chord is repeated rhythmically while the pitch or tone is transformed. This means that delay time, tremolo pulse and flanger sweep are always exactly in time and mesh neatly into any track.Īs well as rhythmic versions of conventional guitar effects there are also sequencing and arpeggiation programs. The effects are synchronised to the internal drum machine or to an incoming MIDI clock pulse. Looking at the Black Box first in a standalone mode without a computer, its most obvious attribute is the range of unique guitar effects and textures that you won't find outside the Adrenalinn II. M-Audio's dedicated three-function pedal will do the job. Using the Black Box in a live situation is also an option, as sockets to connect an expression pedal and two footswitches are present. Sounds are collected into 100 fully editable programs, each of which is constructed from three components in a chain - amp simulation, effects and delay/reverb. The Black Box shares this and the effects are always sync'd - either to MIDI clock, so that they're in time with the tempos set in your recording software, or to one of its 100 preset drum rhythms. The major feature of that machine was the beat-synced effects that were automatically set to a specific tempo. Soundwise, the Black Box has been designed in conjunction with Roger Linn and has similar sounds to the innovative Adrenalinn II. Monitoring is via front panel headphone socket and left and right output jacks.Ī mix knob lets you set a monitoring balance between the direct sound and any pre-recorded tracks coming back from the computer, so you can hear what you're playing instantly with no monitoring delay. In the audio interface role you can record guitar through the dedicated guitar input or use a dynamic microphone into the XLR mic input to record vocals and acoustic guitar.Ī USB connection allows four tracks of audio (left and right effects, dry guitar, dry mic signal) to be sent to the computer so you can record the dry guitar sound on a separate track in case you want to treat it to different amp simulations later. This version will works with several different M-Audio audio interfaces, the Black Box being one of them. Pro Tools used to only work with one of Digidesign's own audio interfaces, but with Digidesign's purchase of M-Audio they've brought out a version of Pro Tools known as 'M-Powered'. Perhaps more importantly, though, while it can still be used as a standard USB audio interface, it can now be used with Digidesign's Pro Tools. The Black Box has had a firmware revision for the Guitar Box and is now the 'Black Box Reloaded' with 40 amp models instead of the previous 12 as well as more effects. The Black Box might just be the perfect interface between guitar and computer, as well as being a really good practice tool in its own right - with onboard amp sims, tempo-synced effects and drum rhythms. ![]()
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