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Average rating:
4.5 out of 5
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Bought it, love it, sound is good but tubes bring out the flavor.... Best for dance, electronic, or rap types.... If I lost it I would for sure buy another and the best part is that it has a smart media card slot for back ups!
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Great machine! this sounds great, it really pushes the limit for groove boxes etc. Synth sounds are great and easy to work with, but you can take the sound programming deep as well. Not as deep as a stand alone syth of course. But it does great. Drums sounds are great as well but I wish you could load your own, but thats what the ESX1 is for. This is for sure one of the most power packed boxes ever and the step sequencer is easy to use! To bad its only mono in....
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I use a roland 307, and wanted a groovebox with a way to get the sounds off onto cards or discs or somwthing because i was frustrated that i filled the memory. This groovebox is good in that it has MUCH more space, and you can delete the presets and put your stuff on over it, but it doenst have a smart media card slot or a disc drive. The sounds are great, but It was a little suprised to find that its monophonic! the sounds you make with the oscillators can only be one note at a time, chords are available only for the piano- organ, strings- electric piano sounds and then its like, maj min maj7 min7, up the keyboard. that was pretty disapointing. Soft, pretty sounds are hard to get with this machine, there are SO many ways to get nasty PHAT Bwaap synth sounds and hardly any ways to get the hums and string effects. It works as a midi controller, but like i said I am accustomed to a Roland MC groovebox which has a part select and a part mute button. this has only a part mute button, to unmute a drum track it also SOUNDS the drum part- so you better do it on the rhythm (thats annoying) and the. the part select is just pushing the key- and it doesnt automatically change the midi channel to the part you select, so if you want to play patch 1 and then patch 2 during the same performance with the same midi controller you have to manually change the midi channel- i dont remember if you CAN do that during performance, but i am spoiled with that part select button that lets me change between patches instantly.
now to say some good things about it- I love having all the parameters to tweaking the sound RIGHT there on the synth as Dials- that kicks ass, the filter was great, the effects were unique and its nice that you can use up to three (you cant do that on the MC307- just use reverb, delay and then your choice of distortion, compression etc) I liked the effect that grabbed a sound and played it over and over again fast- some Aphex twin inspired s#it there! the sounds were good and the thing looked great. it was a shame it wasnt polyphonic and had a part select button- I would have kept it! I tried it for a week at home and mailed it back- it wasnt what I wanted, im sure it could make some great sounds- but i was frustrated by these limitations, and for that price i wanted a machine that improved on the irritations i had with my MC.
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Great machine, and it even doubles as a MIDI controler, you can assign any MIDI CC: to any knob and record its motion into the sequencer and have it automate your other synths! Some of these reviews are really weak and pathetic stabs at a machine that has a very specific marketing target. Also the machine has a very specific use in mind and the sequencer by far is just a breeze to use. I use logic audio for sequencing, and it is by far better and more powerful to use than the EMX. But IMO you lose out on working with hardware. I have opted to really take a chance with this thing because of how my music sounds using it! I have been looking for a "stream lined" hardware sequencer with usable automation. And this one is great just for sequencing alone! As for the onboard sounds its great as well, sure you are a bit limeted with drum pcm sounds but you can use the syths for drums as well, or you can just trigger your other syths with the drum parts, this IMO is friking kewl has hell and easy, If you enjoy electronic music like Industrial, or IDM/EDM this machine could really make some history. But for users who feel that the onboard sounds get boring than they could of bought the ESX version, but by far the EMX is a do it all XOX box and I have switched back from a computer running logic to a machine that has totally "stream lined" my track writting proccess, you can even program the tracks on a computer and then just record them all at once onto the EMX for a easy as hell computer editing interface! The onboard sounds are great to me and users who feel that they get tired of using the same hihats or bassdrumms must not be doing something right because how many diffrent hihats or bassdrumms do they need to be happy? this machine has more than enough for any electronic based music! If you have to switch drum sounds all the time you are just cought up in that clich` of people who feel that they need to have every sample of drumms out there! they are never satisfied. To bad because they could make some great music with the EMX.
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Clearly, the electribes are a great line of beat boxes. And the new esx-1 and emx-1 are no diffrent. The pattern based sequencer has been totally upgraded, and automation "motion" has been maxed out to 24 diffrent controls! The old electribes had just 3! I had a chance to play with it in a store and so far the sound is good, although I have to listen to it without the tube gain on to hear the real voice of the machine. The MMT technology is Korgs new baby and the amount of synth types is sort of amazing because korg has been going with sample based stuff for so long now. But times hav changed and more and more people want virtual analog because they get sick of samples etc. Now the synth side of it is good sounding but it really lacks allot of standard syth paramaters like a simple ADSR filter! Sort of weird I think, but again not a huge draw back as there are other parameters that can be ajusted to almost give the same effect as a ADSR filter. All in all sounds really good and I might buy it just for the sequencer side of it. The tubes are really nice and don't worry about finding replacement tubes for it when they burn out because they are one of the most common tubes on the market. The value is amazing with the synth, effects and sequencer. Well worth the money. Only complaint is that the input is mono. But thats is, I would say this could give the machine drum a run for it's money, because it's 1. cheaper 2. easy to use (if you can't make a good beat with this you are hopless period) 3. sounds just as good. Machine drum is great sounding, but the sequencer in the electribe emx1 and esx1 is much more powerful and has more bars per pattern and larger pattern memory! 5 out of 5
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