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Average rating:
4.5 out of 5
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The spectralis cost 2500 $$$, the electron sfx cost 1310 $$$, the emx cost 590 $$$, on the site www.novamusik.com, DREAMSOFLOVE, you can think the electribe is cheap, but have a good sound for her price!!! For me a groovebox is a ''big toys'' is not a real complete instruments for professional use, the electribe is a good groovebox because is cheap and have a good sound, and play it is fun!!!
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I agree with the previous user. This thing (em1x) looks damn good, but its sounds are less than impressive, similar to the other 'big' two - the roland mc909 and rs7k. All these 3 'big' companies are now trying to spurt out stuff with improper designing -- too much aliasing, thin sound samples, less polyphony, cheap sample rate (32k == for the esx1).
for real quality, i would suggest getting something european made - such as the elektron drum machine or the spectralis hybrid groovebox. These groovebox/drum machines are killer in sound comparison (there is no comparison).
if only we could get these european stuff for cheaper. www.novamusik.com sells them.
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1 note polyphony per part is not exactly my cup of tea. I dont really know what to make of this synth, one would say it is unusually odd. The presets sound much better than of any i have heard from any other synth, very well put together, drum n bass gets down to the point. However, i'm baffled. Just totally baffled. I'm not sure what to do with it, or how it could possibly fit in. Using it as a sound module could be interesting but of course if your looking to play more than one note at a time, your stuck. Hmmm very odd. I can't understand korgs intension of doing that. I find it very interesting to thing that you are not presented with a keyboard apart from a 1 scale push button key pad, which in my view would be redicusly hard to create anything unique on. Unless you have a midi synth i think this bit of gear woulden't go very far. As i keep saying, odd, but interesting.
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Well judging from specifications one would think this it has a severely crippled synth engine, but I think expecting an Access Virus engine in this is really not sensible. It's not a machine that you would approach with a complex sound in your mind and proceed to look for it. This is more of a "happy accident generator". You can get it to sound great, but not necessarily how you planned it to. It has few parameters that can change the sound *a lot* and allow you to make many useful sounds.
Tubes can be useful for individual sounds but the whole mix can sound crappy if you turn them past 20%. I'd rather have payed $100 less. In my opinion they're like chrome on your car. Looks nice, but ultimately it's there for the looks, not the performance or "birdshit proofing".
I think this Electribe follows the philosophy of "make things as simple as possible, but no simpler". With some chrome added ;)
The sequencer is almost the same as in the old Electribes: simple, fast and fun. Don't expect micro editing - dump your patterns elsewhere for that. I think combining the MX (for fast development of ideas) with a more sophisticated sequencer is the way to go.
My nags: -no knob pickup mode - if you turn the knob after switching parts the parameter jumps to where the knob is. *Bad* for any live work. -effect send per part is only on/off! dry/wet mix is determined in the effect parameters, for all parts that are sent to it -LFO can modulate only one parameter at a time (per part) -NO FILTERs for the drum parts. You have to dedicate an FX to filter if you want that or use a synth part for a drum sound/kit.
I'd say it's a unique combination of a simple to use sequencer and synths. It reminds me *a lot* of Quasimidi 309 (knobbed aluminum box with five synths and a step seq), but Korg is ages ahead of it in all aspects.
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Made 3/4s of my new CD going to be released soon in the Tri-State area on just the Emx and Esx. And it came out beyond my liking. Simply amazing what these bright little gadgets can do with some creativity and skill.
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