I’ve been thinking about getting a new groovebox for a while now… Actually I didn’t know what they were called until I saw that first post on this community then it all clicked! (Thanks btw!!)
I’ve played around with an old kaossilator and it was pretty fun but I’d like something I can maybe put my own sounds in? If that’s generally a really exorbitantly priced feature then I can skip it.
Any suggestions on where I should get started?
Thanks in advance!!
I’m no expert when it comes to hardware, but maybe the OP-1 by Teenage Engineering is something that might interest you? You can put in your own samples, I believe you can even sample from radio stations with a built in feature, and it also has built in synths. There’s a YouTube channel called Red Means Recording that does a lot of cool stuff with it. From what I can tell, it’s pretty much a stand-alone tiny workstation.
I was kinda looking at those a little bit actually! Like an aside while I was looking at their OP-Z. Looks really cool. A little bit out of my price range but it’s definitely something I would consider saving my pennies for.
If you don’t need something portable, you could also get a midi controller and hook it up to any DAW and play around that way. At least with ableton (and surely others), you could put in different samples and trigger them on the controller and have access to all the synths. It’s not exactly “out of the box fun” as a groovebox would be, as you’d need to build it yourself, but once it’s put together you can jusy load it as a template and chug away.
That might be the way to go actually.