what's a groovebox? 

Revisionist History: The 1986 Sequential Circuits Studio 440 had sequencing (both internal and external), and the sampling system from their Prophet 2000 with a filter basically an entire decade before Roland's entry into the market place with the MC-303. Also, the Akai MPC3000 came out in 94. So while Roland does bring a lot to the scene they aren't always first. 🎹🥁🎶

Hey this rules! Really appreciate the more generalized approach to thinking about making music with hardware. Excited for the next one

Love the model cycles. Great low end on it . Great video too, super cute and very nice for beginners wondering what a groove box is.

Your voice sounds so soothing!

Love your content ✨

Nice intro to grooveboxxxxx!!! Now I need to buy one:)

Awesome so about a year ago I purchased a MC 707 I try and work with it when I can but I like videos like this to view people's techniques... thanx 4 sharing...will subscribe to see more!

You are doing extremely good tutorial videos🎉 Actually Tracks + Cycles is really interesting combo.

Grooveboxes are awesome! I hope you can get your hands on a digitone or digitakt or syntakt. For me the workflows on those machines are unparalleled. Good video, this will be helpful for a lot of people!

Thank you so much for making these! I can’t wait for more of your videos. I really want to get more grooveboxes and make music that way but I’m confused about some of the features like how to use multiple groove boxes at the same time! Itd be great to have a video on that!

holy shit, the algorithm has blessed me with a great video for once lmao. keep it up!

This is very educational and helpful! Thank you! Great video!

this is so sick cant wait to learn more from you!! i always felt like im too dumb to try out grooveboxes LMAO but you reminded me how neat they are i really wanna re-visit the idea sometime soon

Hey, slight nitpic: the synth you've shown is the Roland TB-303 and not the MC-303 (sorry, inner synth nerd acting up) Great video though! I ope your channel grows quickly. Your'e one of the few cool synth people on tik-tok that aren't already big on yt

Awesome

grooveboxes is life ❤ Nice video. Could be longer. I wouldn't mind 😄 Also you raised another topic: what's the difference between groovebox and workstation? That would make another cool video.

So many variations of groove boxes out now. My main one is the Synthstrom Deluge as it does everything and more. The elektron boxes are very good too. The stand alone Ableton Push 3 is about to set higher standards as well

Grooveboxes are life

Thanks friend. Also, nice voice.

sick video!!

I started with a Circuita few years ago and now I have a Maschine Plus with a couple synths, and now my daughter just got a blipbox, DAWless changed my life!! And I love your channel and just found it😊

I really appreciate that you included some history here. I remember seeing a kid at my college playing a 505 and being really jealous as I wanted to make Jungle/D&B (around 97 I think) This is a great video, a key area for me is that I don’t want to involve a computer in any way, so no uploading samples etc

I love my mc 101 for travel

Yaaaay RM1X stealing the spotlight for a second!🙌🙌🙌🙌

The novation circuit is amazing

I still have my MC 303, MC 505, and SP 808 Groove sampler hardware ...don’t ever turn them on anymore thanks to Push 2 and Maschine Mk3 but can’t seem to part with them either

Hey, you have a nice channel here, with exactly the kind of content I'm looking for. Hands on, DAWless, electronic, I have to subscribe! Also, I saw you're covering the Behringer Neutron. I've been thinking a lot on whether or not to buy it, because I think it's something that can really add to my sound. Keep the good videos coming, please! 😊

you’ll be around for a while keep it upppp

I bought my MC303 back in 1998 to go with my DX7 and the Prophet One. I have really only ever used it as a drum machine though.

model cycles is absolutely a powerhouse. also, if you push the feedback of the delay you can get it to do very nasty things. at first the LFO seems limited also, but you figure out that it's actually got some amazing flexibility

Awesome video, I know the video is about groove boxes, but what would you recommend as a first synth, for a beginner to learn on? I was considering the minifreak. thnkx

You're so cute! I love that you like groove boxes as well. I bought the MPC Live 2 in 2020 and started learning music production and its been a really fun ride so far. Have you messed with the MPC at all so amazing how far Akai MPC has come. Having a built in speaker and up to 999 tracks and 2TB worth of sounds and on the fly sampeling from my phone, I have an endless amout of music with out ever having to hear the same thing twice. having a 6hr battery is magic. If you ever get one I am sure you will be as mind blown as I am its like an all in one portable daw.

I feel like that's the missing piece of the puzzle for me. I love my DAW and MIDI controllers, and I have too many VSTS, but the ability to have a tactile controller to program ... Ahh, that's where I think I want to go next.

Thank you so much, as a 60yr old getting into this, your video is really helpful. However, how come some of your top comments aren't about your awesome "Moomin" fabrics? Really... thank you.

look into those big ass rackmount samplers next. Those things were a godsend for 90s Techno/DnB/Rave/etc. AKAI S3000XL, E-MU Emulator IV/E64/E5000, Yamaha A5000, and a few other weird creations.

nice!😎 yep, we used grooveboxes. we still use a roland mc-303. we used to also have a yamaha rm-1-x and a roland mc-505.

I would really like to hear your perspective on what makes a good groovebox interface. I’ve been wanting to DIY one for awhile, and I feel like we have good technology now to make a good open source piece of gear.

Getting away from the computer is great for creativity in all kinds of domains. I do some non-fiction writing, and after switching to pen and paper I found I became much more productive and inspired.

it's a box that grooves

What groove box would you recommend in 2024? I’m inspired to get one after watching your vid

You’re so pretty! 🥰

I have purchased one groove box in the 54 years I have been buying gear. Today I use the most powerful groove boxes made, an arranger keyboard. If you are willing to learn how to create your own styles from a blank program, arrangers are more powerful than any groove box made, ever. 8 tracks of any instrument, up to 32 measures long (512 steps@16divisions), then 10 variations of those 8 tracks...then...play a chord and the entire 8 tracks change pitch to match the chord. Yes, I agree arrangers' presets are very cheesy, very unusable for composers, but program your own and your entire world changes. Most new arrangers today come with phrase sequencers in addition to the powerful pattern sequencer making for many more variations of your composed song. MIDI out on some arrangers allow external synths to be included in your sequences; like on my rig, a Minilogue, a MinilogueXD, and a MicroBrute all controlled from my arranger. Powerful stuff :)

When you start acquiring more gear and hooking up all these standalone devices into a table full of hardware and cables I can't stop helping thinking: isn't this defeating the purpose of these simple grooveboxes? So in order to simplify and bring it back to a single device again I bought a groovebox that can don it all and if anything, is more of a DAW-in-a-box: The MPC Live 2.

Hello nice video, i have one groovebox in 1997 and in the picture you take for illustrate the mc 303, is a td 303 bass line from roland aivable 10 years ago. The mc 303 is an incredible machine and i love is sound ❤❤❤

Yamaha rm1x king of millennium dawn grooveboxes

The Circuit Tracks got marketed completely wrong. It's an OK groovebox. It has two good internal synth engines that are super easy to work with using the web app. But you're missing out on the most interesting features of the Tracks if you're just using it standalone. The Tracks is like having two KeySteps and a TR-8S - since that's the only drum machine I can think of that can sidechain external instruments. It can control two synths, and sidechain them to the internal drum tracks, and it's really easy to remap the encoders to whatever you want (plus they have templates for most synths already). And it has a built-in mixer and can apply FX to two external synths plus the six internal tracks.

Oh hi! I was looking for more info on this and found your video ☺️ subbed!

Prefer hardware sequencers over daw because I have total control over my sound. Computers have latency issues I use a vintage Yamaha Rs7000 with a Modx6 both sound great together.

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Can you add sound to a groove box? For example: I have some sample packs and I like to use them and manipulate them with a groove box..

1996 MC 303? I was doing this on a Yamaha QY10 in 1989

omg! i follow you on the tok! i dind´t know you have a YT

if anyone knows where i can buy that blanket/quilt pls let me know!

I watched some of your music videos …. he did a really good job on songs…. If only you sing!!!! you have a lot of potential to be a big pop star if you have the right music and lyrics… if you were interested to collaborate on something with vocals, let me know

How does this thing called in the thumbnail?

novation circuit = best sequencer/groovebox

can someone tell me what else i need if i buy a groovebox? like a pc, 2.1 speaker system, other equipment? i assume some, but cant find any info anywhere..

If only Roland released updated versions of their classics...

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I honestly thought this had 736k views and then only after watching did I realize that there was no "k" in there XD really well-made video

Sonicware has boxes that play well together.

ur so pretty

I’m a weirdo too. Hello, fellow weirdos!

I don't use daws only groove box samples synths drum machines and multitrack recorder I hate daws

I have a solton programmer 24 it's a italio disco synth. IT's an analog groove box but it was made in the 80s

Hey, can I make a suggestion? Take care of 'plosives in your dialog by adding a low shelf eq after recording and moving it up until the 'plosives disappear. Listening on a good pair of headphones or speakers is difficult with 'plosives in the mix. Another way to handle it would be to make sure your breath never hits the capsule on the microphone. This only happens when you are doing the handheld work.

Flat and lifeless, monotonous and devoid of expression.

You don't PLAY music ... you're making arbitrary sound, which sometimes sounds great

Get a guitar 😁

Hey is that Circuit a sampler?