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1010music Nanobox Tangerine Sampler Module

Name: 1010music Nanobox Tangerine Sampler Module
Brand: 1010music
Rating: 4 (6 reviews)

Streaming Sampler Module with Multi-sample Playback/Editing, Looping, Recording, 500 Sample Slots, Touchscreen, 2 Rotary Encoders, 3.5mm TRS-MIDI I/O, 3.5mm Line I/O, Clock In, microSD Slot, and USB-C

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Every entry in 1010music’s Nanobox line challenges musicians to reevaluate the relationships of form and function by jam-packing each instrument with performance, composition, and editing features worthy of a machine two or three times its size. With the Nanobox Tangerine, you get the same treatment and form factor as the rest of the series, engineered for a distinct take on sampling and looping, resulting in an uncompromising pint-sized powerhouse. Like its series siblings, Tangerine boasts a straightforward design: two variable-function rotary encoders, a touchscreen interface, a microSD card slot, and a multimode connectivity suite. You’ve got room for more than 500 samples with deep interoperative capabilities between the 3.5-millimeter TRS-MIDI I/O, clock input, and audio I/O, from live recording and looping to one-shots and complex, multi-sample playback. Production pros at Sweetwater are stunned by the audio fidelity and 4GB sample-streaming file size, loaded straight via microSD card (not included). Edit, slice, compose, and groove, all from scratch, with unbeatable portability, immense power, dynamic interfacing, and near-limitless MIDI interactivity with other devices. Tangerine may be small in size, but its sampling and performance potential are mightier than you can imagine.

1010music Nanobox Tangerine Sampler Module Features:

Versatile sampling includes one-shots, loops, and multi-sample playback for rich, varied composition and performance possibilities
Flexible connectivity suite includes 3.5mm TRS-MIDI I/O, 3.5mm audio I/O, clock input, USB-C connector, and microSD slot for vast interoperative potential, live recording, and more
More than 500 sample slots and premier audio mean extensive sonic shaping and massive sound
Dynamic touchscreen interface allows for clip launching, slicing, looping, and recording
4GB file size means large, high-quality audio samples, preloaded or recorded live

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Tech Specs

Type: Nonbox Mini Sampler Module, Tangerine
Analog/Digital: Digital
Other Controllers: 2" Touchscreen, 2 x Rotary Encoder, 4 x Buttons
Analog Inputs: 1 x 1/8" TRS (line)
Analog Outputs: 1 x 1/8" TRS (line)
MIDI I/O: 2 x 1/8" TRS (in, out)
Other I/O: 1 x 1/8" (clock)
USB: 1 x USB-C
Memory: 1 x microSD Slot (32GB card included)
Features: Includes: 1/8"-to-5-pin DIN Adapter
Power Supply: USB Powered (C-to-A cable included)
Power Usage: 5V/500mA
Height: 1.5"
Width: 3.75"
Depth: 3"
Weight: 4 oz
Manufacturer Part Number: 208

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This sampler is awesome in a tiny footprint. I use this sampler independent of my other keyboards for stage sound effects in reply to our front man entertainment (laughs, giggles, other cartoon effects to help his jokes). I have it on its own MIDI channel so it's always available to my MIDI pads. I also use it to play some synth intros I have mixed, reverse snares at various BPM's, and other song sound effects like swooshes. The 48khz sound quality is awesome.

I just added a velcro pad to the back so it has its place, and I trigger it from the pads on my Arturia Keylab 49 MkII.

It has a lot of looping features great for EDM music, but it's also perfect for my purposes. Even if you have sampling keyboards, I love having the Tangerine so it's always instantly available without having to switch keyboard patches and losing the perfect moment for the effect. It's solid on their new firmware update too. It's perfectly solid for live use.

If you design your kits / multi samples well, this thing can be your entire sound. I like using it for drums. You can put a whole folder of drum samples into a pad and it will assign the samples to midi notes. You can do this for each pad on it's own midi channel. I also really like using this to trigger "tops" loops, and rhythmic percussion loops. You can swap out the sample of a pad you've already set up with no issues. There are choke groups and just enough sound design tools to really customize a project to be a great sound module for a sequencer. You could do an entire set just with a sequencer and this guy. Sampling is very easy and fun, and I love that it streams from the SD card for very long samples. Also great for capturing your synth sounds into a polyphonic sample instrument.

Though the presets are a bit lacking, it does come with one of the best sounding multi-sampled pianos that I've ever heard. 1010 sampled this piano themselves, and it is very very deeply captured. If you used this exclusively as a piano sound module for a full sized midi keyboard, it would be worth the price tag. It comes on the included SD card.

I have resisted using a sampler, but, based on my other Nanoboxes, I decided to give it a whirl. I'm not at all interested in sampling other instruments (although I do appreciate the access to a piano from time to time), but instead on loops and one-shots. I'm not interested in groovebox-style production, although I must say it was fun to play around with the presets. What I really want to do is to record a short sample (usually on one of my other synths) that I can drop in or loop, and the ability to insert real-world sounds (bird cries, wind sounds, thunder etc.) This the Tangerine provides in spades. The slicing capability is very nice for integrating varied sounds (such as multiple individual seagulls.) The one aspect that find it falls flat (for me) on is that the sequencer only records, it is not capable of being edited the way it is on the Razzmatazz. It isn't too much a problem, since I just sequence it on my Keystep Pro.

The entire Nanobox Line are (nearly) perfect little synths to supplement your setup.
The heart of my setup is a Hydrasynth Explorer a Drumbrute Impact, and a Keystep Pro. For live jamming I often use an RC-505 mk II looper, and for recording I use one of a variety of too many digital recorders. I go almost entirely DAWless, with the exception of using Audacity for final assembly of tracks.
All of the Nanoboxes are just plain fun to use – they are small, brightly colored, portable (especially with the battery pack add on.) When I have insomnia, or will be waiting somewhere, I grab one and a headset and listen to presets, start building my own patches etc. I have fairly fat fingers, but find that for just noodling around (and building patches) the controls are perfectly usable. Although there is a moderate amount of menu diving, it is very logical.

First off I love this little guy. It is a great asset to compliment my nanobox razmataz. But here is my future update wishlist. 1. A real sequencer (step sequencer). 2. Better ui 3. Way better midi and cv options. I've got gear from the early 80's with better midi. And last but not least4. Drop the price at least $ it realistically should cost a little more than a volca. Otherwise an essential piece of gear.im a groovebox lover and this is a G.A.S. reliever for sure

I've had the Nanobox Tangerine for a few weeks now. I picked it up because it seemed perfect for my needs; I make a lot of my sounds with a modular synth, which means I can't easily recreate patches after I've unpatched them, and I typically am only making monophonic sounds. The magic of the Nanobox is that it allows me to capture those patches and play them back later (albeit in sampled form).

The Tangerine has one major benefit over most other hardware samplers. Firstly, it has an autosample functionality which allows it to sample a MIDI instrument automatically. Secondly, it records multi-samples which can record samples at multiple pitches and velocity layers, which makes the samples pitch perfectly, preserves time-based modulation, and velocity-sensitive parameters.

It's wonderful to record a monophonic patch and then be able to play a copy of it polyphonically. No, it's not the same as playing the original the original instrument, but it's darn close.

In addition to saving/polyphonizing my modular patches, I also have been using it in tandem with a Korg SQ-64 as a sort of portable groovebox that plays patches from all the other synths in my studio in a non-editable form. It pairs really well with the more capable sequencer of the SQ-64 and it's great to be able to bring a miniaturized version of all my other instruments with me to play and compose while away from the studio.

I want to shout out to 1010 for implementing the TRS MIDI so that it works both ways. This is so obvious, you'd think other manufacturers would be doing this already. A simple setting in the menus lets you flip the connection from A to B. TRS MIDI isn't magic, and the only difference between A and B is which wires carry which signals, so this is a trivial thing to implement but most manufacturers don't do it.

The MIDI control implementation is really top-notch also. It's very flexible and lets you use it in any configuration you want.

While I have really enjoyed using it, it's not perfect (yet-- many of these issues may be addressed in firmware updates)

Things I don't like:
1. The modulation options are pretty limited (only one envelope, for velocity only, for example)
2. The product support is weirdly locked down? You need to make a 1010 music account even to download the firmware. That's just bizarre.
3. The onboard sequencer is not very usable. You won't want to use this as a standalone groovebox. But that's not really what this product is for anyway; it pairs great with a midi controller or external sequencer.
4. USB power can be noisy-- I originally had issues with noise, but if you power it on its own outlet/battery bank, you can eliminate most of the noise
5. The auto sampling is not really usable for sampling physical instruments. This seems like it may be addressed in future firmware versions, but it's missing two really key things that would make it possible to multisample physical instruments. Firstly, it doesn't actually display the velocity layer/note being recorded or the time elapsed for the recording, so you have no idea what note to play if you forget which note you're on, nor how long to play it. Secondly, it needs a way to undo a single recording in a multisample and redo it. There is a workaround for this: you can record a bunch of individual samples and load them as a multisample. But that's very tedious. It's 90% of the way there, and I have done some multisamples of physical instruments, but it's too easy to lose your place, mess up one note, or play the notes too long/short for the recording, so it just doesn't work very well for that.
6. I haven't really gotten the resampling to work well. This is no biggie for me but if your main goal is to use it as a looper, I've noticed that when it syncs to external MIDI, the resampling seems to be offset by a bit, and doesn't loop nicely.
7. Creating a set of sounds from pre-recorded instruments is tedious. You have to load a "preset" (which is just 8 pads/multisamples), copy a pad, load your new "preset", paste, SAVE your preset, and repeat. The load times are sometimes pretty long, and if you forget to save the preset, you have to do it all again. A way to quickly assemble a preset from pads stored in other presets would be nice.
8. If you're using it as a drum machine, or for other one-shot type samples, you run out of pads way before you ever get close to running out of polyphony, so 8 pads just seems like a pointless limitation, especially if you're using MIDI to trigger the sounds. You can work around this by loading your drums as a multisample, but that just reinforces the fact that this is a pointless limitation.
9. I don't think it has USB MIDI, and you also can't load samples over USB. As far as I can tell, the USB is just for power. That's fine for me but might not be for you.

Those are all pretty nitpicky points, and a lot of them might be fixed by firmware updates. I also haven't really delved into a lot of the features like tempo syncing clips or slicer-type pads, mostly because I'm using it for melodic multi-samples or one-shot drums, and haven't needed to use those features much.

For my specific use case, it's great, but depending on which features you want to use, it may not be quite right for some.