{"id":10896,"date":"2016-07-27T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=10896"},"modified":"2016-07-27T13:57:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T13:57:23","slug":"this-digital-sampling-music-box-creates-a-totally-unique-way-to-make-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/this-digital-sampling-music-box-creates-a-totally-unique-way-to-make-music\/","title":{"rendered":"This digital, sampling Music Box creates a totally unique way to make music"},"content":{"rendered":"

XOXX is a music box that uses samples and magnets to create sounds in a whole new method of sampling and looping.<\/h4>\n

XOXX Composer is the name of this digital music box that connects up to your computer. Created by Royal Academy of the Arts student Axel\u00a0Bluhme, XOXX allows you to apply samples and sounds to it’s 8 rotating discs and then through magnets add balls onto any of each disc’s 16 beats. This is a music box for the adults.<\/p>\n

It may be fairly simple to use but the XOXX Composer features sophisticated technology that opens up whole new avenues to music making, and it looks pretty fun. It acts like a sequencer as you add the magnets on the specific step of your desire and choose the sounds you want from each disc.<\/p>\n

Each disc has it’s own interface\u00a0featuring a slider for volume and a knob which alters the pitch tuning. Interestingly the pitch tuning is the only built in “effect” of the XOXX. However as it connects to your computer via MIDI, so you can plug it into DAWs, you can of course control the sounds in more depth from your computer.<\/p>\n