Introducing bento – Portable Sampling Production Lab
If you’re in the market for a new standalone sampler, you might want to consider the 1010music Bento. It’s very much a Swiss army knife of a device with multisampling, sequencing, slicing, mixing, and all the FX you could need.
Tech specs
- 7” touchscreen
- 16 pads
- 8 knobs
- 8 tracks with support for sample banks, loops, and external MIDI
- LFOs, envelopes, and step sequencers on board
- 2 MIDI in + 2 out
- Resampling!
- microSD storage
- Up to 4 hours of recording
- 3 stereo inputs, 3 stereo outputs, and headphone output
- Dimensions: 20.4 cm x 21.8 cm x 5.1 cm
- Weight: 0.936 kg
The Bento will cost $899 (with no news on any tariff changes) and that’s enough to put me off looking at this for myself. Maybe I’m fatigued from all the new standalone samplers out now and I’m not the target demographic but I’m wondering how popular this’ll be and how that popularity will be sustained. It looks pretty nice so I’m sure it’ll do well.
I reckon a popular producer could sell this to more people a la Jonwayne and the Elektron Octatrack or Ricky Tinez and pretty much any sampler.