1010music's Razzmatazz: beats that fit in your pocket

1010music’s Razzmatazz: beats that fit in your pocket

By Connor EdneyOctober 11, 20226 mins read

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1010music’s new Razzmatazz drum machine joins the Lemondrop and Fireball groove boxes in the brand’s Nanobox range of mini music devices.

Powered via a USB-C connection, the Razzmatazz drum machine offers eight drum voices with a 64-step sequencer to perform drum loops with.

You can curate tracks with the help of eight drum and percussion pads available on the screen too. In fact, you can play any pad on the two-inch touchscreen or you can control them with a MIDI device.

The Razzmatazz also features two knobs and four buttons in addition to the touchscreen.

Moreover, 1010music says that beatmakers can tap or swipe with the Super Stepper visual sequencer and compose new rhythms with all eight pads across 16 steps.

Or you can create long drum sequences of up to 64 steps which can last as long as eight bars.

Every voice of the Razzmatazz has two FM oscillators coupled with a WAV sample layer. You can record audio into the device with a line-in jack, making the Razzmatazz a sampler, or import audio files onto the device using a microSD card!

And a clock input keeps the unit synchronized with the rest of your signal chain.

As a result, you can get as creative as you like and blend organic sounds, acoustic instruments, and digital samples and write interesting percussion lines.

Alternatively, you could load up one of the Razzmatazz’s 120 preset kits and sequences and jump right in!

A couple of playback modes allow you to play back loops and sample slices. However, there is no option to slice samples up on the device itself.

As for effects, you can apply filters, resonators, bit-crushers, delay, reverb, and four types of distortion to your sounds.