so i eventually decided the friction of trying to work around those limitations – compared to essentially unlimited tracks and sample banks per function on MPC – Blackbox wasn’t going to be robust enough for my uses. in theory, the “least” efficient mapping of Blackbox pads to Hapax tracks means it’s a 1:1 ratio and no tracks left on Hapax to sequence anything (in practice, you probably wouldn’t use that many discrete MIDI channels for each Blackbox pad BUT my experience was the more you want Blackbox to do different tasks – sliced clips, looped clips, multisamples, one shots – the more pads and MIDI channels you’re going to eat up keeping each task on a separate channel). I tried to make Blackbox work with Pyramid for me but ultimately sold it to upgrade to MPC One for a few reasons, both of which might be more relevant to Hapax (with only 16 total MIDI tracks available and having dual-project architecture)Īlthough there are some workarounds you can juggle with different pad modes on Blackbox, e.g., loading up a bunch of one-shots chromatically on a single pad to dedicate it to an entire drum kit, at the end of the day it’s still 16 pads only for everything you want to trigger from Hapax.
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