The new Electribes

Tarekith

Yes, as Alecs said, it's not that you can't copy a pattern, you can't copy parts from one pattern to another. Seems like an obvious thing to add soon since all the other electribes could do this.

alecsbuga

But it encourages you to be creative and come up with different sounds every time. I guess it was a deliberate decision.
Otherwise you would've settled for a bass preset and all of your beats would sound the same

Will

Ah, ok thank you. Thank heavens. So at least you could save-as from your pattern with the nice house lead and then delete/recreate the other parts around it. But if you've already started a pattern and want to import that lead, your out of luck. I can't imagine that'll be true for too long.

If the sound wasn't too hard to recreate, maybe you can record the MIDI for that part to an iOS sequencer and record it back into your next pattern.

Tarekith

@alecsbuga said:

But it encourages you to be creative and come up with different sounds every time. I guess it was a deliberate decision.
Otherwise you would've settled for a bass preset and all of your beats would sound the same

If you're working just in one pattern, sure it's definitely a way to start fresh each time, which I normally perfer. It's an issue for people playing live who want to do seemless sets though, there's no way to transition from one pattern to the next, and now we can't combine two patterns to make a transitional one.

Again, not a huge problem, more of an annoyance.

alecsbuga

Here's my full quality first jam

Non dance btw

WMWM

Very smooth, I was wondering from those who have used these new electribes, do you feel this is the tool for the next ten years or a reflection of the last?

alecsbuga

For the next ten... At the current pace of tech, I don't know, but it's definitely not a reflection of the past.

As someone said. At the price of chips these days the should've made bigger polyphony, more memory on the sampler than 240 mono seconds... Etc. but I'm ok with this for the moment.

It's light, battery powered, pretty powerful.

blakecasimir

Tarekith: Can you get Gadget and the EMX2 to sync well together? One poster here wasn't able to at all.

This and the 4-bar limit are staving off my interest so far...

Tarekith

I haven't had any issues so far, but I've only done it for 5-6 minutes at a time and not for a live set for instance.

Tarekith

I ran some sync tests with the new electribe and Gadget today:

alecsbuga

So ... there we have it. The sampler version has PCM waves. No realtime oscillators. Good enough, but limited.

@alexbuga no synth isc just pcm

— MISTABISHI (@MistabishiMusic) January 6, 2015

Goozoon

asked about 4bar limitation:

this is how we designed Electribe. There r many requests 4 additional features which we monitor closely all of which r considered

alecsbuga

I'd prefer higher polyphony and Unison effect (like on the MicroKorg) instead of 8 bar
I mean... I'd love 8 bars also, but it's not my 1st place request.

Goozoon

and looks like emx1 costs the ~same as new electribe, now

klangsulfat

Maybe you can ask Mr. Pullen about the exchangeable firmware rumour he started in Reddit some months ago ;-)

alecsbuga

Don't think he'll answer, and don't think he tried, and honestly, don't think it works.

alecsbuga

I remember dual booting my MPC 1000 with different versions of JJOS.

klangsulfat

If both units have the identical hardware (which is what I believe), a firmware exchange will be possible sooner or later.

alecsbuga

We all think the same, BUT the sampler might have some memory chips which the synth maybe doesn't have.

I will try opening mine, because you can't void the warranty. There's no seal. And I'll look for memory chips

Tarekith

Already done with tons of pics:

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=94641

klangsulfat

@alecsbuga said:

We all think the same, BUT the sampler might have some memory chips which the synth maybe doesn't have.

I will try opening mine, because you can't void the warranty. There's no seal. And I'll look for memory chips

Because of the low sampling capacity of the Electribe Sampler I'm sure the memory size of both units is identical. All the PCM stuff seems inside the flash memory. On both machines. With the Electribe Sampler you can officially change the PCM stuff with your own samples, in the EMX 2 not. That's at least my theory after looking into the OS update file using an hex editor ;-)

alecsbuga

I've looked too. I guess well have to wait and see.

alecsbuga

Second non-dance beat I'm starting to love this thing like a brother )

kobamoto

@papertiger said:

^ now imagine this with electribe sampler...? :O

doing just that

kobamoto

Tarekith is it possible to play unquantized or is everything gridded?

klangsulfat

Everything is quantized which is usual with grooveboxes like the Electribes. But you can modify the micro timing using groove templates.

Oblique

I've caved in and ordered one. I was going to hang on to see the initial reviews of the sampler, but UK stock for those isn't due until March!

kobamoto

@klangsulfat said:

Everything is quantized which is usual with grooveboxes like the Electribes. But you can modify the micro timing using groove templates.

hi klang, what do you mean by micro timing/groove templates?

klangsulfat

You can select between 25 grooves/accent styles , e.g. for laid back feelings etc. You can also set the amount of the groove.

Goozoon

volca sample