Top dust attractors

mschenkel.it

@brambos said:

@Ribbon said:

@Qmishery said:

@dendy said:
Korg Electribe .. was a massive disappointment for me because of many reasons..

Oh.
At first i was "what?!" but than i realized you mean new Korg Electribe, i suppose?
While old ones were pretty good for what they were and still respected and used by people (ERmk2, ESmk2, EMX, ESX etc.)

Mine was the EM1. On paper it had everything I was looking for but I hated using it. I suppose the metallic ones were a bit better but I probably wouldn't have geled with them either. Reminds me I also had an ER1 mk1 at some point and didn't like it either.

Oohhh.. I love the EM1. I had to search for almost 6 months to find one, they’re getting really rare. Obviously they’re incredibly dated and limited by today’s standards, but it’s like a timecapsule to the most fun time of my life - musicwise.

And they have an amazingly fast workflow. If I had to name its biggest flaw it would be that ‘global delay effect’ which is quite useless.

I always liked how, at minimum delay length, it becomes a bass booster

dendy

whole electribes serie before new crap is awesome..

supadom

@mschenkel.it said:

@brambos said:

@Ribbon said:

@Qmishery said:

@dendy said:
Korg Electribe .. was a massive disappointment for me because of many reasons..

Oh.
At first i was "what?!" but than i realized you mean new Korg Electribe, i suppose?
While old ones were pretty good for what they were and still respected and used by people (ERmk2, ESmk2, EMX, ESX etc.)

Mine was the EM1. On paper it had everything I was looking for but I hated using it. I suppose the metallic ones were a bit better but I probably wouldn't have geled with them either. Reminds me I also had an ER1 mk1 at some point and didn't like it either.

Oohhh.. I love the EM1. I had to search for almost 6 months to find one, they’re getting really rare. Obviously they’re incredibly dated and limited by today’s standards, but it’s like a timecapsule to the most fun time of my life - musicwise.

And they have an amazingly fast workflow. If I had to name its biggest flaw it would be that ‘global delay effect’ which is quite useless.

I always liked how, at minimum delay length, it becomes a bass booster

I've been always surprised how keeping the delay's time at minimum for longer periods doesn't break the machine.

enc

@u0421793 said:

@enc said:
TR-8 and Microbrute

Ooh - why?

The Microbrute ..despite producing some fairly unique sounds I find it's overall pallet a bit limited.

The TR-8 ...i know it's meant as a 'performance' machine but I find the absence of a proper song mode i.e. Not being able to string more than a few bars together.. frustrating.

rs2000

Most used: Clavia nord Lead 3, Roland XP-80, Moog Sub37, Korg EMX (the blue tank , Zoom MS-100BT, Kaoss Pad 2

Least used: Korg "ih" vocal harmonizer, Roland MC-303 (now sold), cheap chinese Midi USB interfaces, Alesis Air Synth and Boss VT-1 (kept for children's fun), Yamaha A5000 (fantastic machine but you need time and patience to create good stuff on it), Rm1x (great sequencer but the iPad has great sequencers too

rs2000

@brambos said:
Oohhh.. I love the EM1. I had to search for almost 6 months to find one, they’re getting really rare. Obviously they’re incredibly dated and limited by today’s standards, but it’s like a timecapsule to the most fun time of my life - musicwise.

And they have an amazingly fast workflow. If I had to name its biggest flaw it would be that ‘global delay effect’ which is quite useless.

If you love the EM1, you'd be outa site with the EMX1. Enhanced PCM set, even better haptic feel, 5 synth parts great for layering and 3 FX you can use how and where you like. If the SmartMedia version is much cheaper than the SD version, just get it, you won't need much storage anyway as it's no sampler, and backups can be done over Sysex anyway, to a file you can store with your DAW project.

@syrupcore said:
Top would have to the Roland VS-2480 I bought a year or so ago, hoping it would provide me with the computerless recording life I was after and let me sell my too-large-for-my-space mixer.

Indeed, it's a great and absurdly powerful multitracker and a very capable mixer but it totally fails for me in two key ways.

1) it takes about 4 minutes to boot.
2) it has no concept of templates and save as tricks are all problematic in some way or other (a few minutes to "save" an empty project, for example)

Put together it means ~10 minutes of fucking about until you can arm a track to record. And you can't hear anything until it's booted.

When I got my 8ch class-compliant USB interface the first thing I wanted to know is how well the iPad Mini 2 was able to record 8 audio tracks simultaneously.
Went to the App Store, did a qick search for "Multitrack Audio Recorder" and found the free Audio Evolution Mobile. Recording 3 tracks worked well, so I got the Pro IAP and what can I say, I was a little bit surprised that recording 8 tracks worked just as flawlessly and easily.
Apart from being a real Power-on-and-record solution, you also have 8 tracks with waveform displays instantly available, and needless to say that editing/cutting/fading/automation/EQing/Compression etc are done practically as fast as on a desktop.
I recently added the top-notch ToneBoosters EQ and "brusfri" to clean up some noisy tracks, so I'd say I'm set now.

brambos

@rs2000 said:

@brambos said:
Oohhh.. I love the EM1. I had to search for almost 6 months to find one, they’re getting really rare. Obviously they’re incredibly dated and limited by today’s standards, but it’s like a timecapsule to the most fun time of my life - musicwise.

And they have an amazingly fast workflow. If I had to name its biggest flaw it would be that ‘global delay effect’ which is quite useless.

If you love the EM1, you'd be outa site with the EMX1.

I own the ESX1SD... actually I think all the Electribes except the latest ones are worth owning for one reason or another. I just don't have to space to put them all, so I've reduced my Electribe collection to ESX1SD, ER1 and EM1. Together that's a pretty powerful Electribe combo

Qmishery

@brambos

how in your eyes iElectribe compares to ER? still wonder where are iEMX/iESX
I forgot that video where somebody played "idm" like groove using some tecnnique.. pattern ???? something crazy

brambos

@Qmishery said:
@brambos

how in your eyes iElectribe compares to ER? still wonder where are iEMX/iESX
I forgot that video where somebody played "idm" like groove using some tecnnique.. pattern ???? something crazy

I honestly can't say as I don't own iElectribe. I know that there's a certain "dirtyness" to the hardware ER1 which may not be accurately reproduced in the app? Perhaps someone who has both can fill us in?

Qmishery

Yeah, app doesnt have tube, after all

I only have iElectribe and never had "real ones"... Though i remember being impressed using EMX samples in my roland sp404sx (which is on-topic currently, and i mostly used it more for effects and recording) - they sounded pretty "powerful" for whatever reason. (hey remember when people were getting iMPC for cool samples and then went back to beatmaker or smth?)

supadom

@Qmishery said:
Yeah, app doesnt have tube, after all

I only have iElectribe and never had "real ones"... Though i remember being impressed using EMX samples in my roland sp404sx (which is on-topic currently, and i mostly used it more for effects and recording) - they sounded pretty "powerful" for whatever reason. (hey remember when people were getting iMPC for cool samples and then went back to beatmaker or smth?)

ER 1 doesn’t have a tube either as far as can remember.

rs2000

@brambos said:
I own the ESX1SD... actually I think all the Electribes except the latest ones are worth owning for one reason or another. I just don't have to space to put them all, so I've reduced my Electribe collection to ESX1SD, ER1 and EM1. Together that's a pretty powerful Electribe combo

Absolutely!
But space ... oh yeah, space. You name it

@Qmishery: Lack of tubes is only a minor shortcoming. EMS/ESX require a swap for better ones anyway in order to really add useful "mojo" to their sound.
iElectribe and the "real deal" are so different that I would not even start to compare them.
The iElectribe is fun for toying around, do some first steps and to find out if the Electribe concept is your thing, but as soon as you go a bit deeper (including the automation in Korg's demo songs that is almost impossible to get properly for yourself except much trial and error tweaking the fiddly knobs on a tablet), there's no comparison to hardware knobs and the much, much deeper engines of EMX and ESX. Example: To play different pitches, you have to constantly turn the "Pitch" knob in realtime (or reserve each of the synth parts for one note only) while on the Hardware box you can play the pitches easily on the chromatic rubber keyboard. I see iElectribe more as Korg's first proof of concept of what was possible on an iPad 1, and that was an eye-opener indeed.
Well, that was in 2010, more than 7 years ago.

Redo1

Mc-303. On the shelf. Limitations.

Qmishery

@rs2000
I don't understand your comparison with ESX/EMX. iElectribe is ERmk2 replica...

rs2000

@Qmishery said:
@rs2000
I don't understand your comparison with ESX/EMX. iElectribe is ERmk2 replica...

Sorry, I was skipping a few years of development and sorry for not exactly answering your question. You mentioned the EMX/"iEMX" in your posts so I felt like sharing my experiences with these.

Qmishery

I mean it sounded not only like disregarding app, but previous generations of hardware electribes as well.

and i know emx/esx were superior thats why i wished to see them too perhaps

Kühl

Boss Stompbox Tuner for guitars...
I found I had a more perfect pitch than the box

gkillmaster

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@u0421793 said:
Ah, I can add one – I’d forgotten I even own it, that’s how unused it is. My Keith McMillen K-board. Bought a couple of years ago about this time of year, but really never got on with it. The hassle of plugging it into the ipad via usb adaptor and the cable dangling across everything, the strange insensitivity on most notes but not on some, and the slight camber or curve across it resulting on it rocking when put on a table. I thought it’d increase my productivity because I didn’t like the ipad keyboard in general, but it seems I’d rather avoid the K-board altogether. Ironically, half the reason I bought the circuit was to use that as an alternative controller to supplant the unused K-board. Funny how things go.

Exactly the same here. We are a small dataset, but obviously not their target audience

hah, just goes to show. Its the opposite for me. Only "thing" i bought that I use daily!

AudioGus

@Purpan said:
Circuit for me too. It sits in a desk drawer. I just don't like the sound, unfortunately. Maybe I need to get one of those expansion packs.

If they had an official Novation Circuit editor App with sample uploading and user preset sharing, like Paterning, then I would probably use it more.

AudioGus

Wish I had room to set up my Nord Lead fulltime. Would be nice to just flip it on, plug in the ipad/BM3 in the morning before the commute, record some noodelings and then dash off to the train. Having to store it away doesn’t help.

Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr

@Processaurus said:
Giant dusty homemade modular synth system. I thought it would change my life, but it took hours and too much ingenuity to get anything remotely musical out of it. An hour to get a normal synth set up patched together and debugged. And you're left with this rats nest of wires so that when you come back, you have no idea in the world what is making the sound. When you did get a really cool thing, what do you do with it? you'll never get it back exactly the same. Take pictures? draw it out? Or just keep messing with it, and losing your great sounds, hoping to absorb the machine into your thick skull by osmosis. Analogkit did what I was hoping the modular would do, and more, at about 1/200th of the price.

I thought the knobs and blinky lights and the uncertainty were the whole point of modular?

Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr

@rs2000 said:

@brambos said:
I own the ESX1SD... actually I think all the Electribes except the latest ones are worth owning for one reason or another. I just don't have to space to put them all, so I've reduced my Electribe collection to ESX1SD, ER1 and EM1. Together that's a pretty powerful Electribe combo

Absolutely!
But space ... oh yeah, space. You name it

@Qmishery: Lack of tubes is only a minor shortcoming. EMS/ESX require a swap for better ones anyway in order to really add useful "mojo" to their sound.

Imaginary mojo. Normal tubes run at 12 volts add almost nothing perceptible to the sound. Manufacturers put them in there as a sales gimmick.

rumorazzi

Top dust attractor?
My iPad Air2, since I got Ableton and Push2

Joking aside,
I gotta find which is the hassle-less way to incorporate iOS apps with my DAW workflow.

Well, in my first Ableton experiment I record a little Animoog solo:

Will

@Qmishery said:
@rs2000
I don't understand your comparison with ESX/EMX. iElectribe is ERmk2 replica...

It's a little different actually. iElectribe has the Tube+FX section from the X version. Otherwise, 1:1 with the ERmkII as far as I can tell.

AnimalHeadSpirit

In a literal sense, my top dust attractor is my Herman Miller Aeron chair. The base underneath the seat seems to collect a month worth of dust every few days! ..

I routinely use all my music gear, so nothing to add there. The only gear that no longer gets hardly any use in my home is all my gaming consoles and flight sim gear. Spending all my time with music lately, not leaving time for anything else.

iamspoon

Wonderful/Random ebay purchase. Leslie speaker though sadly the audio input doesn't get routed through it...
Not the only dusty bit of gear in here, but 'top attractor' due to its size.
Honourable mention to my Yamaha EZ-G MIDI guitar which never gets used due to its awful stuck note triggering over MIDI and is currently languishing behind the sofa...

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Will

@iamspoon said:

Wonderful/Random ebay purchase. Leslie speaker though sadly the audio input doesn't get routed through it...
Not the only dusty bit of gear in here, but 'top attractor' due to its size.

I had a dusty Hammond H160 for a while. Bought it for a song on Craigslist and it was a beauty (all tube, two full tonewheel manuals, full pedal set, spring reverb tank... no leslie with it but a few good sounding chorus modes). Played the shit out of it for the first year and then mostly just looked at it with a guilty expression for the next few years.

Wound up giving it to a vet who lost his legs in Iraq. He chopped the legs and speakers off the bottom (sent me a photo along with a couple of fabulously crude legless jokes). Wish I'd kept the bench though because I filled the hole it left with a piano and the bench that came with it blows!

baldguru

@u0421793 said:

@DCJ said:

@oat_phipps said:
Korg Minilogue. I keep it dusted in case of potential buyers. I fear it’s much too late for that though; the secret is out.

I’m shocked to hear this. Always had my eye on it.

Hm. I also.

I couldn't wait to get mine after pre-order @ full price. Such a colossal disappointment. Finally accepted $200 offer from local GuitarCenter for both Minilog AND Roland JD-Xi, sigh...

baldguru

Korg nanoKEYstudio the micro usb jack snapped right off the circuit board. Very cheap component with poor mechanical support. Crappy design. Now I can only use it with bluetooth on battery power. Very frustrating as I hardly used it, and it broke. Grrrr!