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Average rating:
4.4 out of 5
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I've had the ER-1 for nearly a year now and i just think it plain rocks very punchy i get a great 909 Kick, PCM sounds claps,hi hat are tweakable too so you can create very funky danceable trax add in the synth section which is limited to 4 parts but is amazingly organic and fresh i've recently bought a TB-303 and this box is ideal for adding blips and bleeps to the action. saying that though the EA is a wicked companion for this beatbox too .... all in all i highly rate the ER-1 as a exciting, different, easy to use versatile piece of gear highy recommended
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I think the ER-1 is more an Electro/Minimal Add-on-drummachine. Good to add some squeaky bleeps and beeps to elekto-tracks (not my kind of musik). With the ES-1 you can do lots of stuff, since you can load yor own stuff from the PC and have effects and can motion sequence them - but i use it for vocal-samples only. If you want a really good drummachine for techno, try the Quasimidi Rave-o-Lution309 or the Raven. These are my Favorite machines. Even if they are old, and Quasimidi dont exist no more (so no support, but I never needed it anyways), i get the best results out of these Boxes. The 309 you can get on ebay very cheap. If i could effort it, i would get an Elektron machinedrum, but its very expensive (that wasnt meant to be compared to the ER). I'm looking forward to the new Electribe MX-1, then i'll sell my R, S and A -Tribes and get the MX (maby 2), since they have lots of new features that I'm missing till now.
Back to the Topic, the ER sounds like wiered fruity-loops stuff or ... how to say, just not very impressive. lacks punch (maby you can get over that with external effects, but thats not the sense of a drummachine i think), and somehow not very original to me. But go and get youself a picture of it before you buy it, maby you like it.
However, enjoy making music. Tom
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if u want real drum sounds go get an early 1990's machine, like a boss dr-550. most new drum machines are either analog or analong wannabe's. or you can get an ES-1 like ted said, that way you can sample in ANY drum sound you want. i have the ES-1 it's ok for me right now, but it lacks a few things that i need desperately, like if im trying to do a drum roll with a bass drum really fast it cuts itself off and loses all the "punch". these electribes are NOT good for HARD techno like gabber where high bpm speed and lots of bass drum rolls are needed, i also dont like the cunstruction quality, VERY cheep feeling. if korg spent more time on the sequencer and less time on the worthless built in effects i'd b happy.
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I bought the Electribe ER-1 when it was released way back in 1999 and still love it. It won't produce real-drums (try the Electribe ES-1 instead) but has the best bass drum ever plus really cool noizy bleeps of all kinds... (^_^)
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i got one of these some time ago.. i mean when i tried it out at guitar center it was the greatest thing since sliced bread so to speak. i mean .. holy shit it was really really good. i was "freakin it like a plane" real awesome stuff i thought. and so i slept on it went back to guitar center a couple days later and tried it again.. still the greatest thing i had ever used. i run home and buy one on ebay. wait wait and it comes and then i realize.. holy shit this cant do anything original! and then i weep as i lost a lot of money.. it is a horrible drum machine.. the sequencer though 909-esque, is horrible for todays (as i see it) need to be totally different than everything that is popular. i dont make a living at music, and if i ever were to it would have to be with something new something that isnt.. schneider tm. something that isnt kid 606. and if you wanna be that then i give this machine more than 5, because that is all it can do really.. nothing. i almost tricked myself into forgiving this machine as it does do interesting things if you put one of the drums in random pitch mode and turn the decay all the way up. you can coax deep raver bass out of it and i thought that was neat-o but really not anything that i havnt heard on a record before. and i know that there is that idea of.. there is nothing you can do that isnt already on some other record. and im cool with that but really.. maybe i want to do something thats maybe on a little bit rare record. i think i may have gotten a little off topic.. pros: (as some people can see it) is that it can do reall good 909 emulation (except for the snare) and good 808 and even like cr8000 type stuff. i do have a soft spot for the roland cr machines so that was the one thing that i thought was real cool.. but not worth really the dough as those machines really didnt have tweakable sounds and i had the samples downloaded already.. another pro is that you can do those gabber kicks and it is quite fun to program in a piano roll from a computer (though terribly time consuming) i was real happy for some nights that it was velocity sensitive programming somewhat of a gabber type drum n bass but.. cons: all sounds have been "totally played out" in popular records
so.. i reccomend this machine to people who want to do like.. house music, and for people that might like to make electronic music with lots of digital sounding drums (read: totally bassy, but in no way sounding like they were played on a real drum kit) i realize now while im sitting here writing this (this was all written with no plan in mind, which explains the random nonsense) that im going to sell all of my musical equiptment. writing this has given me somewhat of a.. i dont know if its an epiphany or what but im not doing what i want to be and i cant do it with what i have. im going to sell them thats it. on ebay. and i hope that you buy them because you find they might let you be able to realize your musical calling, so to speak. korg er 1 digital drum machine though interesting, is not for me. i would stress to you that you think long and hard about what you want to be doing musically, before throwing the money down for this box. i hope that you find what you are looking for. thanks, mike.
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