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Average rating:
4.4 out of 5
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the er-1 is great for trance and electro type of drumming. come on mr 'hiphop', the er-1 does not even attempt to sound or feel nothing like 'real' drums and cannot be compared to that at all. i�ve also been drumming for most of my life and i love this piece! lack of shuffle and usable snares but is capable of making killer bassdrumkicks. the audio inputs is also great, cuts your straight pads into little pieces! it�s built in sequencer aren�t that great though... still, i�ll give it a four out of five.
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From working in the retail/profesional music industry, I have seen a lot of garbage come and go. Each factory rep. tells you *this* is the wave of the future, or some similar bullshit. As far as the electribe R-1, this is one of the few cases that is true. 10 minutes at your local retail store will NOT show the power of this module. Unfortunately, it is way to easy to create generic 'rave' drum lines with it. once you start tweaking the module, you will quickly realize that moving one knob 1/2 a mm. will result in drastic sonic chaos. I cannot recomend this module enough. If you want real drum sounds, buy a sampler. If you want an incredible module which will produce unusual sonic beats, go for the ER-1. People have complained about the 4/4 time problem, but they are simply ignorant. If you understand basic musical time signatures, you can do almost anything with this. USE MORE THAN ONE 'MEASURE', MORONS.
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Wow! All I can say is wow! I was weighing the difference among a JoMoX XBase-09, a Novation Drumstation, a Roland DR-202 and this little guy, and he won out! Why? The XBase looks (and probably sounds) really sweet, but it's too expensive and can only play a max of three parts, the Drumstation only has samples and has no sequencer on it, plus it's almost $600, and the DR-202 is the same price as the R, but you don't have easy programming and you can't create sounds on it. So, the bang for the buck is really great for the R, and I'm using it for more synth-pop and experimental stuff, so it doesn't matter if it sounds like a real 909 or can do kicks like the 808. I'm looking forward to driving this bad boy as far as he will go! The shortcomings are easily overlooked. The limitations of the onboard sequencer are surmounted by just plugging an external sequencer into it, and granted the workmanship on the product is not top notch, but I'm careful with my instruments anyway (it will wind up sitting in my dorm room for most of the year anyway until I get good enough to start doing gigs). Did I mention that it sounds great? So, price, (You can pick one of these babies up for $349!) potential for creativity and ease of use makes this an excellent first beat box for me. I'm not saying that it's the be all and end all, but it's really cool.
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Absolutely brilliant machine! Just when I thought Korg stopped making gears that I would be interested in (or, rather, could afford), they come up with this! I just picked my brand new ER-1 up for $350 yesterday, and I'm really happy. (Now if I just had EA-1 and KAOSS, I'd be in heaven)
Sound generation possibilities are really mind-boggling. The machine looks really simple, yet it is capable of so much. The sounds from preset patterns are quite good too. There was this one really awesome sound (hard to really describe it) that I heard from some techno tune, and one of the preset pattern had an exact same sound! From drum sounds to weird noises to even simple arpeggiator-like sounds, this baby can handle it. And from what I could tell, not many of the preset sounds use the ring mod effect, so even more cool sounds are possible, I'd say.
Motion sequence feature is another surprise. Basically, for each part (snare, bass, hi-hat, etc), you can pick one knob (yeah, just one) and twiddle it, and save the knob movement as part of the pattern. The preset patterns use this feature like crazy, and it really adds a LOT to the whole groove. And if you hooked this machine to an external sequencer, you could control ALL of the knobs simultaneously, as they all have their own NPRN control.
I haven't even begun to play with the audio input feature yet, and I'm already so in love with this machine. This is by far the best bang-for-buck machine I have seen.
Lastly, someone below mentioned about changing pitch of the drum sounds when you change tempo. I think he/she was twiddling the delay tempo knob, not the master tempo. The manual says that changing the delay tempo WILL result in the changing pitch of the delayed sound. Changing master tempo during the pattern playback has no effect on the pitch of the sound.
I'd take this machine over MC-303 or 505 or RM1x anyday. Sure, those machines are more all-in-one type dance boxes, but they could never match the sheer personality of this nice little baby. Money well spent!!!
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It has a four-voice drum synthesizer (adjustable parameters are two base waveforms, six modulation envelopes, pitch, mod depth and speed, decay, low boost, level and pan), plus two sample voices (OH/CH and HC/CY, with adjustable decay, level, pan and boost) and two gated inputs.
In all fairness, it should not be judged in terms of its 808/909 emulation capabilities. They are certainly there, and better than on many other contemporary drum boxes, but it is not quite the same thing as the originals. So what - each of the four synth voices has a wider spectrum of possible sounds than an entire 909, and it can record controller changes.
The interface is among the best, too, the step sequencer is far closer to the x0x tradition than all recent Roland attempts. The only major drawback is its inherent limitation to straight beats - even 3/4 is only achievable through the triplet setting.
Overall, it is the first appealing drum box for ages - unique sound with barely any limit, intuitive handling, plus some trash appeal. I'd hazard a guess that it will become a classic of sorts, probably even as big as the 808 and MPC2000.
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