For those interested, the manual for the non sampling electribe is up
excited !
merging the owner’s manual thread with this one
There are some exciting bits in that electribe manual. It’s cool that you can save and export patterns and pattern chains as wav files. The event recorder sounds really nice,too. I wish they mentioned the actual oscillator, filter, and effect types and settings.
You guys are lucky you can see it. I can’t ever access the Korg website here. Must be blocked for some reason. Bummer. I’m so excited for these products.
For Tribrix; the midi chart is a start, eh!
True that, thank you!
Looking this over I’m reminded of my dilema, I can’t afford both but really want them, so, which Electribe to get?
uploaded the manual to my DropBox and sent you a link @Tribrix 
as for which one, well, the only date I’ve found for the sampler is March 2015 so you’ve got plenty of time to use the synthy one and then sell it if you want. Seen a lot of dates on that, one, though, from October 2nd, November, and December =/
I’m leaning toward the synth one anyway (have samplers a plenty), didn’t that guy in the Sonic State video say it had MS20, Moog and Sem filters? Those would do me fine in a portable.
I didn’t dig through the King Korg’s manual, but Korg does mention the MS-20 filter specifically, and that it models other ones. the synthy one also has 16 filter types, vs 3 the sampler has. Kind of a dick move there, Korg, especially since the sampler gets the synth engine.
I supoose, since it has the synth of the King Korg, one could look there to see all it entails. As to the dick move, they gotta give you some reason to choose both. Otherwise, you could just buy the sampler and be done. Unless I’m mistaken.
I’m sure that’s part of it, like Elektron not allowing the analogs to sequence MIDI gear.
Though I’d prefer an actual incentive to own both, like a more powerful sampler (more sample time, streaming large files from the card, etc) even if it meant no synth engine at all.
I assume the sampler will have your basic lp, hp, and bp filter types while the synthy one gets all the modelled ones.
That Korg rep is the English Amos Gaynes.
A far less confident or knowledgeable Amos Gaines.
The more I think about it, these are really the first time the OP-1 has had any competition. Still can’t beat the OP-1 (there’s no tape,lol). But it’s interesting to think it won’t be so lonely any more. More portable music stations are coming.
A far less confident or knowledgeable Amos Gaines.
You're probably right. I was mearly thinking about the eye contact/movements.
A far less confident or knowledgeable Amos Gaines.
You're probably right. I was mearly thinking about the eye contact/movements.
That guy is mistabishi who is an expert user of the electribe emx1, so I reckon he knows quite a bit more than it seems. I guess he doesn’t like being interviewed too much…
Fair enough I guess.
I suspect as he settles into the role we’ll learn a lot from him.
Couple of things;
- I read the volca sample and the new mini kp2s manuals. Neither can actually sample. This troubles me because obviously korg is now pushing us towards daw or ios sample production. I guess the lack of this keeps prices down. Now the electribe sampler page claims re sampling of output with effects is possible but we also know that the electribe can record performances as a wav file.
- The electribe sampler doesn’t actually seem to have a sampling button onboard. Will it be possible that ableton integration means that there wil not be real time sampling?
- Although I’m excited about this, I bought the microsampler early on only to find out certain limitations existed and these were really just by bad design. The microsampler is a classic, for sure but it ended up dropping in price drastically due to some realistic gripes.
- We’ll have to wait and see but I think this one won’t compare to the op-1 sample engine, synth and tape.
- If they give us true sampling, loop sampling in bars with bpm (like the microsampler), I’ll most likely be in. If we can play samples chromatically, all the better. If they give us a workable midi out sequencer, and I really hope tracks correspond to midi channel, then I’ll buy one for sure.
if the sampler can’t actually sample (that thing with the Volca and iOS app is fucking whack), Korg will never live it down.
we do know that the synthy one is getting PCM multisamples. It’d be sad if the sampler can’t match it. Korg is touting it as a simple sampler though… guess we’ll find out in f’ing March =/