1010 Music's Bitbox Micro vs MK2: a detailed review and comparison
Added 2020-04-30 12:18:58 +0000 UTCHi!
1010music just released a new hardware version of Bitbox ($600) as well as the little "mini-me" Bitbox Micro ($400). Both use the same processor, but Micro is a slimmed down version of MK2 with only 8 pads (sample slots) instead of 16, and fewer inputs.
That said, Micro has a few features that MK2 does not - including MIDI out and 6 audio outputs instead of just four.
Both support a new feature: velocity sensitive multisample playback, and multisampling directly from the hardware (similar to MPC One's autosample feature). Bitbox MK2 doesn't have a MIDI output jack, and can only sample using pitch CV and gate, but Micro works over MIDI, and can easily bring a great representation of any software (or hardware) instrument into your eurorack setup.
These modules also received many of the recent playback feature updates to Blackbox - though they do not have a built-in sequencer.
Anyway, all the details are in my video, but bottom line is, if you're looking for the most flexible and powerful way to bring samples into your eurorack case, I'm not aware of anything better.
... and of course, I took the opportunity to phase-loop on this one as well - thanks to Julia Gjertsen for providing the samples and inspiration.
All my best,
Ziv
