Bassline DB-01 : Great, but not perfect

It's a great piece of kit, but it's not perfect.

It's very fiddly and not very intuitive to access some of the functions.

Since they went for a more vintage aesthetic, the tiny screen often isn't very useful to know what you are doing. So you have to spend some time with the manual.

It can be a little hard to visually tell what's entered in the sequencer, I'm sometimes squinting and wondering if it's a trigger or parameter change.

But overall, it has a lot of features packed into it, many of which are great for live performance, and invite to playing around.

The sequencer is more advanced than you might think, at first glance.

And it sounds really, really good, with some unique character.