My only dissapointment with the unit is a mushiness of timing. When I sync the unit to a sequencer, it lags behind the rest of the sequence. With samples of vocals this is not noticable but with drum samples it is glaring. Also: when resampling repeatedly, a small amount of silence is prepended each time. After resampling a sound around 4 or 5 times, I have to pause to truncate 1000 or so samples off of the beginning.

As on the EA1, the tempo delay rocks! Set the regeneration to the max and change the delay time as the ES1 is playing and yo've got instant reggae dub!

The pattern mode x0x mode of sequencing is great. It is good to be able to apply separate motion sequences to each part and also to the global delay.

In conclusion: this is a great box for doing 80's stutter dub vocal effects, and great for adding in-tempo sound effects to a mix, but because of the bad sync it can not function a drum machine.

Question for the other reviewers: Can one use a midi sample dump to send samples to the ES1 instead of using a smartmedia card? I've tried it but it doesn't seem to work. The manual hints at a custom sys-ex format but doesn't say what it is. Has anyone done this?

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Heres my question:

Is there a way where I can map the pitch control knowb to keys on a keyboardstyle midi controller? I saw in the manual that came with it the breakdown of tones, but nowhere in the midi implementation section did it talke about being able to control those tones with a keyboard (por anything else for that matter). When korg refers to using the es-1 as a tone generator, I guess this means that you can only map the parts to keys or notes, but is there anyway to the effects, delay, or other parameters in any other way than using the knobs?

If yes, I would really appreciate it if someone could show me or point me in the right direction.

If not, I was wondering if there would be any other way to to process efffects on a smaple, for example, like pitch through an additional effects box (like the Roland ef-305 (3?))? I read somewhere that the KAOSS pad can control the parameter on effects, but the only review I read about this function was on the other electribes and was apparently not too successful.

I am a beginner and don't really have too much technical prowess yet, so I apologize if this message makes absolutley no sense at all. I love the beats to can make with this thing.