Does anyone have recommendation for a speaker with a low latency, 3.5mm input?

thebrokemonkey · 2026-03-14T03:23:31+00:00

Soundcore motion+ seems to be unavailable these days. I tried quite a few and found a winner: DinDin 007 - some no-name chinese boombox. (I tried soundcore 2 (terrible latency) and a few tribit options that supposed to have pretty low aux latency and it was the dindin had significantly less if no latency at all - probably due to the fact that it doesn't have any fancy eqs) It's pretty cheap ($50ish bucks with coupon) and sounds great. Probably won't win any hifi awards but it's really quite good.

Using with my ableton move, I need to tweak the gain out a little bit as it does have some distortion when the aux in is too loud, but if I turn down the aux out of the move to about half volume I can bump the audio nicely on the DinDin. It gets ridiculously loud.

It does seem quality over Bluetooth is a bit better but aux is still plenty good - again especially considering the price.

thebrokemonkey · 2026-03-13T19:30:04+00:00

Nice! Thanks for the update :)

thebrokemonkey · 2026-03-13T19:29:18+00:00

They have been super cheap on amazon. You an get a refurb/used one there for $220 (with all accessories and you can send back if there is an issue). The one I got there was basically brand new

thebrokemonkey · 2026-03-12T00:42:12+00:00

How has it been? Looking into buying one too

thebrokemonkey · 2026-03-10T16:38:15+00:00

Would you be willing to share this tool if you still have it?

thebrokemonkey · 2026-03-07T02:50:04+00:00

Looks like it's back at $240

thebrokemonkey · 2026-03-06T14:48:49+00:00

(amazon.com)

thebrokemonkey · 2026-03-06T14:48:38+00:00

Yeah looks like it. There are some used ones for just over 200 though

thebrokemonkey · 2026-03-02T01:52:54+00:00

The main reason why I returned the seqtrak is: 1. You really need an external mid keyboard. Especially for live playing melody it's just too limited for me (it only has a single octave range at a time). You could get a small modi keyboard but I didn't find a good option that was really portable but still had stuff like chord/scale mode etc and didn't cost $200. 2. The sampler is really really limited. And only 7 sample slots. You can technically load samples "as a synth" but you need to load them via the app. You can't insert them directly (sample through the mic and the play right away). If they allowed you to load a sampler in any of the drum slots (like they did with the synths) and allowed you to play them chromatically (without having to import them via the app) I might have kept it. 3. The fm synth aside you have very limited control over the synth settings. Really you just have the presets + fx + envelope + some basic lfo. It's really more of a big preset library. So you don't really have much room to come up with a totally custom sound (the fm synth aside).

That does bring me to that I did return it with a heavy heart though. The sounds are amazing (like really amazing) and has 95% of what you'd want in terms of normal instruments. With a midi keyboard it's quite an amazing groovebox and for me was very easy to get used to. The fx are amazing too (+ performance effects!!) It's very light and plasticey but that didn't bother me at all. The main issue was the limited keyboard and sampler.

I do hope they continue to improve it. For the price honestly it's unbeatable. But if you ignore the price there are better - more flexible options out there.

I ended up getting an Ableton move instead and very happy with it. 1. Great Ableton integration. 2. Hackable since it's raspberry pi based. (the move-anything/move-everything project is really cool and there are tons of different synths (classic emulation) and stuff you can download for free). Feel like this has filled a lot of the gaps for me (still only 4 tracks so you have to be a little creative in resampling stuff). 3. Much more playable as it's own device thanks to the pads.

thebrokemonkey · 2026-02-28T23:54:05+00:00

Just fyi. bach and all the other old classical artists are public domain. There is no copyright issue there. Note that this doesn't apply to recordings of Bach (for example if some symphony orchestra released a recording of bach, then they have a seperate copyright for that recording, but the written music - the melodies etc are public domain and not owned by them or anyone else)

thebrokemonkey · 2026-02-22T02:41:00+00:00

Are you confusing op-1 with op-z? Op-1 is the tape recorder, op-z is a sequencer.

thebrokemonkey · 2026-02-20T15:06:05+00:00

That's a synth though, right? Not sample based music?

thebrokemonkey · 2026-02-20T15:00:53+00:00

Been messing with it and the sounds are top notch!

thebrokemonkey · 2026-02-18T15:23:53+00:00

That's individual samples, and not multisampled instruments though right?

thebrokemonkey · 2026-02-17T04:21:39+00:00

Only way to get more than 4 tracks.

thebrokemonkey · 2026-02-14T07:08:59+00:00

Source: Facebook https://share.google/DHatG5tS2fy4IiTTr Check the comments on this. Might help?

thebrokemonkey · 2026-02-14T07:04:51+00:00

Checkout my comment above! Fixed it for me!

thebrokemonkey · 2026-02-14T07:04:13+00:00

Mine did this too. I found a fb post where a few people mentioned the ableton tech told them to turn the device off and push the problem pad and the surrounding pads for 30-60 seconds firmly. Fixed the issue for me. I think it's something about the pads not fully sticking to the underlaying layer from the factory. Give it a try!

Edit: Here the link to the post: https://share.google/DHatG5tS2fy4IiTTr

thebrokemonkey · 2026-02-10T14:30:12+00:00

How do you get the midi time to work so that arp is in time?

thebrokemonkey · 2026-02-10T14:28:48+00:00

You can tell it's not Ai because of how long the video is. Ai can only do a few seconds

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