The powerful yet inexpensive effects pedal that can do it ALL: Sonicake Matribox 

Link to this effects pedal on Amazon: amzn.to/3GBG55K Link to page with documentation and software: www.sonicake.com/products/matribox

Guitar player here. I'll warn you that this could turn in to a very dark and deep rabbit hole Scott. But since you're in to synths, I'm sure you already know the dangers! 😎

The price is really impressive for what it can do. Also an expression pedal and included power supply is a huge bonus.

Hi Scott! Great review. Looks like a fun little pedal. Keep 'em coming! New sub. 😉

This was a well done review

This seems like a great fit for people with modular setups since it's cheap, has a lot of effects, and a tuner.

There is a lot of competition for mono-input floor multi-effects. What there isn't a lot of options for is budget stereo-input floor multi-FX units.

I cannot imagine having all those synths. I would feel overwhelmed with all the options. But it is really cool to see. :)

That type of gear is indeed mostly popular with guitarists. But no reason why it can't be used with synths. - I have a Line6 Pod X3 Live, from back when I was mostly into guitar. Also a multi-effect. - I also have a Boss DR-880, which is technically a drum computer, but has built-in fx too. - And the Boss RC-505 looper is also somewhat similar. Just with more focus on the looper, and less on fx, but also with built-in drums. Fun stuff 😀

I liked what was in the box

Seems reasonably affordable on their website ($129 tax included), but I'm really loving that my MODX doesn't need effects and my VST's don't need effects. One less thing to have to carry to gigs and hookup. I used to use 5 effects pedals in the 80s, 90s and earlier 2000s as a lot of my synths (including analogs) didn't have them built in. It was time consuming to hook them all up at shows. Even with easier ways to keep them all together guitarists use often today, it was another source of potential problems as wires could fail. We almost had to cancel one of our biggest shows because the guitarist had a bad wire in his effects chain and it wasn't easy to troubleshoot the problem. Certainly better with an all in one unit like this however for those that require them.

Thanks for the demo. I just wished you'd of played a couple of Lead sounds through it but, I'm sure it be pretty cool.

Pretty darn hard to not like it at that price! As long as it has a clean signal, I would buy one just for fun.

Thanks for this, Scott. Is it easy to set up to use the stomp buttons for effects (say left one reverb right one delay)? Many thanks.

Hey Scott. That was a great series, really educational and fun to watch. The Kiwi upgrade is impressively featured. So, having watched the recent video about the System-8 update on the 106 model, I'm wondering when you would use the emulation and when you'd use the actual 106? You're lucky to have both options.

As always a great video and you were fair and unbiased....!! As I struggle through laying out my MIDI routings before I wire up my "home studio", I thought man.... Scott could make a good $$$ offering MIDI Routing Design Services, Studio layout design focusing on a synth only studio, etc ...... (Because after watching your videos and experimenting before hookup, I now understand MIDI only USB, and why USB vs DIN, etc..... I would still be clueless in a way because no one explains it like you do......... Just a thought..... (As an example, and I'm not trying to "milk" a free answer out of you but I have 4 external HW drum machines that I want to record in Cubase.... I always want to record audio AND MIDI..... I'm struggling to find the best way using DIN MIDI to hook these up to a single DIN MIDI on my MioXL (or maybe 2 channels?)... I just don't want to dedicate DIN MIDI IN/OUT on my mioXL for every drum machine... I know there's got to be an ideal way to hook DIN MIDI IN/OUT of eacj of the 4 Drum Machines.... I'm just drawing blanks on the best way to do it to ensure I capture all DIN MIDI playback/record to CUBASE... (i.e the HW has to be present and hooked up to play back the sounds.... which is whay I desire for the studio).... I'd be happy to compensate you for any answer to this..... (and you should think about that consulting service thing.... LOL.... I'm too old and not as knowledgeable as you.... but I know I would try this myself with all the new media avenues for the world to see!! :) Thanks Scott!!! Always love your vidoes!!!

Really cool device. Does the device have a pitch wham to go to a different tuning on the guitar?

Youre a fine presenter - and im deff. subbing your channel , and i also like the zoom-podcast thing you got going with your pals - (i really liked the - was it the Korg rep. dude ? or Roland ? ... i dont remember , but it was a fun show " ;-) Thanks for a good review ,- 👍

Great review and very fair! I have tons of effects for my instruments and almost a rackmount effect museum lol I would definitely give one of these a shot to keep on hand. I have learned that some effects work best with certain synths or instruments better an others and it helps to have a grab bag of them to try out to see what fits best. I do very little in the line of plug ins as I like to jam with the pc off. Great video Scott!

Hi Scott, thank you. It seems the downside of this box for synth application is the mono input. Personally, I'm using the Zoom MS70CDR which is a bit cheaper but really powerful. Do you know it? More than 130 different effects in it, you can organize in up to 6 fx algorithms. There are some well done pc editors. You can even import adding fx from other Zoom stomp boxes. We can find many beautiful reverbs in it (to my opinion) like Eventide Black Hole simulation. I'd be great if you could try it in one video.

Thank you very much for the video! Two questions: 1) is it possible to loop over running drums 2) is it possibile to overdub multiple times?

Amazing how far your dollar goes these days. Recently received the Nux MG30 amazing interface with mic and effects positioning, a plethora of great sounds for guitar and synth too. Goodbye Helix etc.

It's competing pretty well with the Zoom MS pedals and I'm not sure which one is better.

Thanks.. i want to watch only that kind of vidéo ‼️‼️

But can i put overdrive and fuzz after my reverb and delay?

Wish it had midi in for synching to a clock.

Oooff id stick with the zoom cdr70 for the same price, the led is nice tho

Good overview. FFWDed thru unboxing (don't care). Fair warning on website; probably could have used a guide on how you got through that.

how did you set it to bypass ?

Isn't that a "wallwart"?

Mono input only!

This FX pedal has plenty of capacity to do some amazing stuff. However the spin dial select seems to have random hypey names that virtually no one would use (as is), and the names are very silly. I would love to see more equipment that just gave you all the control for parameters, in straight forward understandable layout, like say the early Yamaha analog delay E 105. that gave You control of length of the delay before it looped how much output feeds back into input, damping etc. Admittedly You would have to do a lot of screens to do that for each effect, but better to use the spin wheel to select specific definable processes,: like delay effects , (reverb, chorus, flange, etc), and the next select be: Overdrive, or amp emulation, or EQ settings, would make so much more sense. On this one virtually every amp select choice was just some inscrutable title thought up by a sales team ! You would have to try them all out, and do a lot of reading between the lines, to figure out what those silly names actually refer to . Great review! It is quite amazing what the capabilities of modern equipment is for $129.... but it is also such a formidable problem to have too many choices, and no way to think outside the box to do exactly what YOU YOURSELF have in mind to do with a device, and what to do with IT when some function (more like the whole unit) ceases to function, in what, 5 years,.. tops?

Looks like it would replace the Zoom MS50 and MS60, but not the MS70 (and MS100).

Too bad it doesn't have routing options like parallel and serial feedback.

No Bypass? Just use the footswitches to turn on / off. There you have it, Bypass. You can always use a Reverb IR in the cabinet - mode. I mean an IR is an IR...

I like the hardware, but if I need software to run it I am out.

Are you following what's going on at NAMM? There is NO new Montage!!?? Can you make a video on that? I'm so disappointed.

Oops whole lot of menu diving, laptop controls, nice for music programmers and daw freaks, not for peope who make music and want direct control i guess…

Software is the ONLY way to have complete control of this pedal? Why would people buy hardware that requires software to program it? What happens when your new operating system doesn't allow the matribox software to function because of no updates? My studio is 100% hardware including recording, I buy hardware so computers are not in the way of my creative process requiring constant updates and troubleshooting before I can begin my song writing/performing/recording workflow. An audio creation and recording workflow perfected over the last 40 years. *(I have used computers since 1988 for my graphic design business, and I repair and maintain my own and for clients)