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ELLIOT: Hey everybody. My name is Elliot. I’m the product manager for the Black Box at M-Audio. We recently reloaded the Black Box with more features and I can tell you a little bit about those now. The original Black Box had 12 amp models. We are now up to 40. It had less than a hundred effects I believe before, and now we’re over 120 effects. It’s also a USB audio interface which is compatible with Pro Tools M-Powered. So, currently it’s the only guitar-centric audio interface that will get you into Pro Tools.

We’re announcing at the show a bundle with Pro Tools software and plugin packages. They’re called the Guitar Box and the Guitar Box Pro. They retail for $695 and $495 respectively, and each bundle comes with over $1,000 of plugins, so for $695 or $495 you can get either bundle that comes with the Black Box hardware and the Pro Tools M-Powered software along with a pretty great suite of plugins.

So, if anybody is totally unfamiliar with the Black Box so I can tell you some of the great features of it. The main feature that I really like is that it is -- it has beat synced effects. It means that any time-based effect that you play can be synced to the tempo. There’s an internal drum machine which can work as a metronome for you to hear the effects actually working in time. It’ll also accept MIDI beat clock, so upon working on Pro Tools and I push play the MIDI beat clock will be sent over to the Black Box and it will synced up and everything will be great.

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You can hear the delay.

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If I start the drum machine, you’ll be able to hear the delays are syncing up with the drums.

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Here, the repeats of the delay are totally gone...

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...and I can make it anywhere between two measures and 30-second note triplets, so there’s a lot of different opportunities to sync your effects to...

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...to the beat with different kinds of delays. Not only are there delays but there’s all kinds of modulating effects too.

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We’ll go for tremolo. The tremolos have always been really difficult to sync to a drummer or a drum machine.

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You can hear [PLAYS A CHORD] the tremolos completely syncing up with the drum machine.

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You can do triplets...,

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...sixteenth notes...,

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...sixteenth note triplets.

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It will go all the way up to two measures depending on the tempo. That’s a really cool feature. It’s also got some really interesting effects like the arpeggiator that’s in there. I’ll show you. So, a lot of you have probably heard this on the John Mayer song that’s on the radio that you couldn’t get away form recently. It’s also got a tap tempo so I can actually just tap something in and get a faster tempo.

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Creating an effect that you won’t find anywhere else.

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SO, you get all the cool beat-synced effects, it’s in a great M-Audio interface. It’s the only thing for guitar players that will get you into Pro Tools software. That’s the Black Box.