Korg Electribe Synth In Emx Blue with V2.0 Software ELECTRIBE2BL

Amazing sound and study build. Really excited to keep using it for more songs.

FANTASTICO INTERFACE PARA CREACIÓN DE SONIDOS EN MUSICA ELECTRONICA, ES COMPLEJO DE UTILIZAR, HAY QUE LEER EXTREMADAMENTE EL MANUAL VER VIDEOS PARA ENTENDER SU USO, PERO AUN ASI LO RECOMIENDO PARA LOS AMANTES DE LA MUSICA ELECTRONICA ES OTRO NIVEL, CALIDAD DE SONIDO EXTRAORDINARIA.

To start with; if your concept of making music is to sit down on the couch and tap pads, changing sounds and making short patterns to chain together; this is the device for you. If instead you also enjoy playing a regular midi keyboard, you can work with this device too; although you start to loose portability in that way, and start to add cables and a midi keyboard to the setup. This is more of a portable travel "idea maker" device. You drop beats on it, maybe a few synth patterns and then move to the next. There is no concept of track here; there are "parts". Each pad is a part, and you can assign a different sound to it. When you tap the pad, the sound play at C3 I believe. You can make variations in various ways: you can use the touchpad, to move up and down a scale you set in the preferences, you can use the keyboard mode, which transform the 16 pads in a sequence of notes (using the same scale you set in preferences; each row is an octave, so can't use the upper row for black keys). or you plug a midi keyboard in. Each part can be either a synth part, a sample or a rhythm part, like drums, percussion or what else; you have no limitations, except that some samples or instruments takes more than one "voice", and the device support 24 voices max at the same time. But there is a gotcha: when you use effects, this steal a voice, so while you think you can play 24 concurrent notes, that may not be true if you use effects on each of the parts. The variety of sounds is OK; the main problem is that you can't add sounds, synth engines, samples or anything else. Everything is set in stone, so you may want to hear the sounds included in the ROM of the device, to get an idea if this is what you want. There is a variant of this device that is called "sampler"; which allow you to use your own samples; but you cannot add more synth presets, so the sampler is more for musicians that need a sampler box, more than a synth. You don't have songs per se, you make a pattern, which is 4 bars at most. This is huge as limitation, considering that you can only slow down tempo to get more notes, but the notes are quantized by default, so you have very little room for anything that is not the canonical 4 step beat. You can work around this limitation by chaining different patterns, and make longer patterns, but there is no way to make a song per se. You can chain pattern A to B, but if you want to add pattern C, you have to chain it to pattern B, and so on. If you have 10 patterns, each of them has to chain to the next, and this means to chain each one singularly. I hope you won't change your mind later, because then you have to change the assignment for the chained patters! This kill productivity, unless you always worked with patterns in such way; I use a DAW most of the time so for me, this is quite the mood killer, when putting together a fully fledged song. Not sure why they didn't put a chain sequence mode, where you put patterns in a chain and save it as song; but sadly Korg is well known for abandoning early the development of the software for their devices, so unless you can get the firmware unlocked and deciphered, the last update you get is from 2016 Synth sounds are OK; you get the basic sound shapes, plus mix of different types of shapes with effects and such; there are some digital instruments too like brass and piano, but nothing to write home about. As synth, this device is not worth much to be honest. The sound can be changed a bit, but all you get is pitch variation and a wave morph dial. The rest of the work has to be done on filters, which are pretty nice with 3 different categories of filters, then you have envelopes and effects; which can give you some good results, at the cost of voice stealing though, since some if not most of the effects, take voices. In short, if you get this for its synth capabilities, you are better off getting a minilogue XD to be honest. this is not what this device was made for. Of course this does not mean that you can't make great music, but you have to be creative, and work around the limitations of the device. Portability is great, and with 6 AA batteries and a pair of headphones you are good to go. The SD card slot allow you to save and load patterns, but not sounds. The sampler model can load samples from the SD card. The USB port allow you to connect your electribe to the computer, to use it as midi device if you like. You can get 16 channels output and play each part separately from the device, via midi, but keep in mind that USB does not transmit audio, so you still need to connect the stereo L R cables to your computer to grab the audio signal. If that's your thing, then this device is a great alternative to more expensive and less portable grooveboxes (the Roland for example is a much better device but it cost also much more than this); but if you want to use this connected to the computer as module, for its sounds, then you can get probably much better modules with much better sounds on other products. This device is mainly for the person on the go that makes very specific type of music.

Showed up in great shape, every finger drummers dream. But if a learning curve with the vast capabilities; only day two and having loads of fun tough.

Misinformation by the Questions about sampling. The questions and answer section include a person saying they could record their burps etc... but there is no mention of that being only the sampler device. This cost me over 360 dollars. I feel hurt by the pitfall. I could have simply selected the option pertaining to that conversation but no. It did not say.

Super awesome!

100% best buy Keep it real-loud! Wazrom!

Excellent quality

Coming from the original EMX, this was a serious disappointment. The workflow has clearly declined instead of improved: more menu diving, less hands-on control, and it constantly gets in the way of making music. What used to be fast and intuitive now feels clunky and uninspiring. Sound quality is another major letdown. The engine sounds thinner and more sterile, lacking the punch and character that made the original EMX special. Drums and synths just don’t hit the same, especially if you’re used to older Korg grooveboxes. If you’re expecting an upgrade from the original EMX, this isn’t it. Feels like a step backwards in both sound and usability. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who loved the original.

Poco que decir que no se sepa de este clásico de Kotg, sin una una de sus mejores versiones, con una muy amplia variedad de osciladores y controles de síntesis análoga virtual para crear sonidos únicos y ricos en matices, sin requerir demasiado conocimiento en diseño de sonido. A diferencia de la versión Sampler, no es posible cargarle sonidos personalizados, pero la versatilidad para modificar los existentes le dan un abanico inmenso de posibilistas, incluso si en algún deseas decides convertir esta version en la sampler, es posible mediante un custom firmware. En definitiva una de las máquinas de ritmos más versátiles y divertidas del mercado.

Takes a bit of getting your head around this , a steep learning curve in other words because it can do so much with endless possibilities , A great addition to my music studio.

J'ai comencer avec la volca sample en suite un td3 et j'ai acheter l'eletribe très polyvalent convient au débutent comme aux pro beaucoup de fonction possibilité de faire des mélo et ligne de drums ce qui est ouf une machine super fiable et avec pour un des meilleur rapports qualité prix du marché je recommende.

こういうものだと割り切って遊べば楽しい。