Amazeing sample mangler and mutli effects unit.

I own 2 of these and over the years I've bought four of them and I would buy more if I was not broke.

Lets start off with the good, two slots for saving samples, eight effects and you can power it off usb. the bad however is that the touch pads for the samples and the drums seem to be prone to failing with high use with no easy way to fix them, 3.5 mm ins and outs and the price is going up on these things.

I use these things a ton, I use them in two main ways and effect pedal and a sample mangler. When running signals through them they get a nice low bit mp3 kind of quality with a minor amount low end and highs rolled off, the echo on them is Karaoke like but its super nice, Iv used it on live dubbing a horror movie and it fits right into that genre. The stepped flanger is an interesting sound that i haven't seen anywhere else and the regular flanger can get you into Vaporwave territory quick. The filter is nice for sweeps but there are much better things that you could use for that. The rest of the effects other then the two ill be talking about in the next section are nice but nothing to write home about.

For sample mangling you can save up to two long loops in its memory. they sound a little bit better then if you were just running something through it as an effect but its not a huge difference. With the samples you can change the pitch/speed (not independent) and it can get nice and crunchy. The two effects that are the most useful for sample mangling is the stutter and "pitch shift" which is more of a pitch shifting stuttering looper. The pitch shifter is amazing it takes a short bit of what ever is playing into it (external input or the sample or both ). and you can pitch it down to diggital mush or reverse it. A thing i love to do is hit the effect on/off button a few times to load the pitch shifters memory with different parts of the sample, making a glitchy wonderful loop.

It is just a toy so admittedly a lot of it is limited but for what it is, its amazing. If you see one for cheep and you think it could fit in your work flow buy it.