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[Buska]

I pre-ordered, spent some solid time with it as I was travelling and it was my only music device other than an ipad.

It was fun and interesting but the synth engines are lackluster, and the terrible pcm sounds started to annoy me. All that wasted space that could have had more useful sounds put in.

Finally the 4 bar limit ended the fun. I got bored of using it at half bpm and using delays to make the drums more interesting.

I don't see anything in the new update that's even remotely got me interested getting another.

I waited many years for a new electribe and had such high hopes for this but it ended up really like a dsp vst in a box, clean and anaemic in character, lacking synth programming depth.
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Korg gear : EMX1SD, Volca Sample, DS-10
iOS: Gadget, iM1, iElectribe, iMs20, iPolysix, iKaossilator
History : Korg E2, Mini KP, Kaossilator Mini, R3

[Pygmy]

I've (also) got a Roland TR8, and the difference between how Roland interacts with its customers and how Korg does is enormous.
First of all, the Roland (Aira) products seem to have been thought out very well; it seems they've really checked with their customers what they actually want. Their new Boutique line is, again, amazing for the money.

Then - they have an Aira Users group on facebook, and an Aira Crew group for members of the Aira team - *that other people can also join*. Stuff is discussed, people communicate and in general everyone is very happy.

Now compare this to the Korg facebook "support" sites, where no one from Korg ever shows up to say anything useful, everyone is disgruntled and the only person with less than 7 degrees of separation from Korg has left the group because he was pissed off about a hack that people used to make their Electribes slightly less useless.

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[thesigma]

The EMX, far from being an advanced synthesizer, has way more knobs, that should be a clue how they...um....simplified things on the e2. Yes it was DSP in a box, but the point of putting it in a box is to have knobs on that box....
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Korg gear I own:
electribes EA-1,ER-1,2x ES-1, EMX-1SD, ESX-1SD
DW 8000, Wavestation SR, KP3, Volca Beats, Keys MS 2000 R

Korg gear I've used extensively:
M1, Triton Pro-x 88, SG-1D, NanoPad, NanoKontrol

[Telengard]

[captain johnson]

What do people think about the possibility of further firmware updates??
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[thesigma]

[Poumtschak]

[thesigma]

I'm not sure that they were ASIC, but regardless they were updatable. Also we have no idea how much reserved space there was in the old ones.

As for those updates, weren't only two or three of them anything that actually changed something? And I say changed not fixed because people have complained about things being worse after the update, like the touchpad response or the noise in sleep mode or something's like that. And then there was the update that basically just blocked the hack. All of the updates thus far have basically only attempted to fix things that should have been done right from the start, there aren't any new features, unless you count a few shift+button shortcuts as new features, or they snuck one in I missed...

I think they must have fired all their good coders or they retired or something, because this whole thing has been really sloppy.
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Korg gear I own:
electribes EA-1,ER-1,2x ES-1, EMX-1SD, ESX-1SD
DW 8000, Wavestation SR, KP3, Volca Beats, Keys MS 2000 R

Korg gear I've used extensively:
M1, Triton Pro-x 88, SG-1D, NanoPad, NanoKontrol

[jbvdb493]

[musicmagus]

My old rm1x firmware update came on a new chip that had to be installed. So, yes, i guess everything is upgrade-able, but maybe not through software methods.

[musicmagus]

I've also got an adrenalinn 1 pedal I've been contemplating ordering the new firmware chip for. Why can't I update it through the interwebs? Because according to this one guy on the internet everything is upgradeable.... Damn you roger linn!!!

[Poumtschak]