the features, one by one: oscillator section-5. amazing and simple, 3 knobs for finding just the right sound. filter-4. cutoff and resonance are fantastic but the EG int is just useless and the decay does next to nothing amp-psh...u call that distortion? i'll take a RAT pedal any day. 2 effects-5. good god the delay rocks. the chorus/flanger thing has me confused but if tweaked right you get some freaky shit. the sequencer is as easy as pie to use, the interfaceis absolutely straightforward. i never had a manual and the first time i sat down with it it was like an old friend. memory-256 patterns of up to 4 bars a pattern, 2 part patterns so really up to 512 patterns. thats pretty f-ing good.

and the motion sequence part is just useful as hell. i wish that you could stack the tweaks indefinitely though.

anyone who's thinking about getting one, you probably won't be disappointed assuming that you're looking for something that can make wicked sounds. it has that Korg growl to it. roland pumps out lame groove products while korg continues to innovate...i'm impressed.

considering that they're dirt cheap right now, i got mine for 150 but you can easily get one for 200 or 175 even, i have to give it my highest approval.

Well anyways, after delete all preset patterns I have 256 fresh banks to play with! While playing with it, I found it kinda undesireable to have 2 seperate sequences per pattern, (Not that this is a bad thing!), So what I did was make both parts (1 and 2) the same exact sequence with same sound, with part two being alternate of 1 (intro,outro, whatever) This way I make my electribe a monosynth with 512 patterns. I find it more convienent controling one sound with 512 patterns than 2 sounds seperately with 256 patterns. Soundwise? This is an excelent monosynth with its own sound. Yes you can make psudo-303 patterns and psudo-moog sounds, but this thing has its own Electribe sound, witch is a good thing.

Inside you got 2 oscilators with ring, sync, and decimator modulation. There are no pulce width knobs, but you can fake PWM by ring modulating two squarewaves togeather, and move the pitch of osc 2 off just a bit up and down. Decimator is a digital distortion feature that crunches oscilator 1. Works good on Tri and sawtooth waves--> then you get a DX7 bass sound!

I like the filter, it delivers a 4 pole LPF with self oscilation. Well I dont think selfoscilation is the right term here, see it sounds to me like there is a fixed sinewave with the resonance, and resonance acts like a balance between the filtered signal and a sine wave. But other than that filter has some bite!

there is a distortion Switch witch is fun to transform your sound,I typicly use it to emphasize differnt parts of a pattern, sorta like a mute switch, or tapping the sidt switch to the tempo.

Then there is a chorus/flanger that you can use to flange or doble up your sound, chorus make more string like texture for progressive trance stuff. While delay is sync to tempo, you can also use delay to fake a release in the envilope section.

I just wish there was a tri/saw LFO assignable to filter and pitch, then this thing would dominate!, but you cant ahve everything...

-- Miek

doesn't do much, but does it well.