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Average rating:
4.5 out of 5
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Hey Just bought the EMX-1, really great unit so far! Rocks with the other Electribes too! I love this thing really easy to use and the effect sound great I cant belive there are three effects part to this thing that can be chained in any way! I have no complaints about this one. It's has its own sound to it very digital but turn up the tubes and it gets nasty! sythisizer sounds like the moss board in a triton!
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People, Please. This is a realy step forward for music production. It does not sound cheap IMO. It can really stand up to other more costly beat boxes. Why would anyone talk crap about a product they don't even own. It has good and bad points I am sure. It is not meant to do everything. I own a Waldorf Q and the step sequencer is great. I have used them together, with the EMX1 as the master and the Q playing back it's polyphonic step sequencer! Sure it has some bad points. Even the Waldorf has bad points about it. I think the EMX1 sounds great and adds allot to my sonic array of syth's. I just had to have a few hours with it to realize how great this thing is.
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The LFO has no effect on drum sections! That really SUKS! Most electronic styles of today are stagnant, in a drum sense. If you want that "Cyber-Electro" groove, you'll have to use one of the onboard effects (which by the way isn't as organic-sounding as an LFO or BPM syncd). The knobs are small and made of cheap plastic. The Yamaha DX-200, for example has fat/rugged rubber knobs.
The Sounds are toyish. A typical drawback on a post 90s instrument. A real 808/909/Linn Drum, or real vintage synths etc. does'nt sound like toys to me. Digital Technology sounds airy and flat no matter how much knob ajustment you try. To me, analog still crushes digital. Companies of today try to emulate the classic legendary machines, but only succeed in doing so with a unit that costs over $1900 US. Forget it period. Korg, Roland and Yamaha put out Cheap sounding stuff for the A-typical idiot American consumers who keep buying this garbage. Just my two cents.
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It can't do everything like a full on liner sequencer like Tritons or a computer based one but it's not meant to anyways.
Build quality 5 Overall sound 5 Synth sound 4 Sequencer 4
Value = 4
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Had mine for two weeks now so I thought I would write a little review. So far it is the best all around groove machine I have laid my hands on in this price range. The other one which I would put this up against is the "Elektron Machine drum SPS-1" Although each one has a different idea behind it the are both patter based sequencers and the EMX-1 for sure holds it's own. The motion sequencing on the Machine Drum is a little bit better than the EMX-1. And has much better control over external gear. This is only due to the fact that when you assign different Midi controllers to the knobs on the EMX-1 they are not saved in its global memory. So if you use it as your main sequencer you will have to reassign your controllers each time you turn it on. This is not a problem but Korg should of let you have the option to save you settings that way. Otherwise the syth parts sound great and are very tight on the VA side of it. A little bit better sounding than I thought it would sound like. The drums are what could be expected for samples, but being that you are spending allot more on this than the first Electribe models Korg opted to give a hell of allot more drum samples to you being 207 total different drum samples. The bass drums and HiHats are the best as the EMX-1 is geared towards dance and modern beat sounds. The sytn section does lake allot of the old school controls over the sound like a ADSR filter, but the EG control is great sounding and applies diffrent EG algorithms to the syth type selected. On of which being additive that sounds really gritty and very FAT sounding. Also another syth feature that stands out is the unison up to four detuned voices per synth part! That�s 20 detuned voices altogether. But remember that each syth part can only play one note at a time (mono) Which really is not a problem in my honest opinion because most modern "electronic" music uses one voice at a time for each part (i.e. track) If you ever do need to use Chords of two or more you can just assign the syth parts to the same Midi channel for instant chord programming. I have owned a Machine Drumm, Em-1 and an Emu command station. If your looking for something to play Midi files don't buy this, get a Emu Command station or an MPC 1000, both do real time recording and have swing, but can also do step recording etc. But I have really enjoyed working with the EMX-1 just do to its interface. I get allot of inspiration from it for cranking out harsh electronic sounds and for controlling my other gear. Build quality 5, Sounds I give an honest 5, because it really sounds great and lively. Synth I give a 4 do to lack of sound control. Sequencer I give a 4 because the synth parts are monophonic but the motion sequencer is dead on. Overall I would have to say 4 out of five for this one. Great value for the money. It can't do everything like a full on liner sequencer like triton or computer based. But it does get you in touch with getting your beats and melodies out in a very easy and quick way. Lets just say if you have other synths and you like electronic music this could be all you need for producing great sounding songs.
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