Korg Forums

[SMK]

It really is a shame that this is only for iPad considering that the iPad is just a "not so useful" version of a touch screen computer. HP will be coming out with their "Slate" which is just a full on computer that is just touch screen based as well as many other PC manufacturers. Also It would have been nice to see this on the Google Droid phones. Even more, this should have been usable on ANY and ALL Mac computers.

Dedication to the over sized iTouch AKA iPad is very short sited.
_________________
Korg PX5d
Korg Quad
Korg KP3
Korg DS-10
Korg PadKontrol
Korg K25
Korg Monotron
Korg Electribe 2
Korg Electribe Sampler 2
Roland GK-3A
Roland GI-20
Fishman Triple Play
BC Rich Guitar

My Music

[bog]

[plosive]

[bog]

[plosive]

I agree with the obvious point and intent of the OP that it would be nice to see them spread their wings with the virtual electribes to other platforms, not the useless degrading remark regarding the ipad itself.

[bog]

[MikeScuba5]

Korg,
Please make an app like this for Android! I am a huge fan of your products and software variations of them. I even bought a used Nintendo DS just because of the awesome DS-10 software (MS-10 emulator) that set the standard for ultra portable soft synths. The iPad is a great product no doubt but Android users are rising rapidly and it would be unwise not to tap into this market. Plus Korg would be the first to offer a decent synth for Android market and I'm sure would sell many products with ease as they would have little competition. I'd easily pay twice what your offering the iElectribe for iPad if it were for Android OS. Lead the way Korg! Don't disappoint!

[profgerbik]

@plosive, lol i agree with the 2nd post above, someone actually knows what they are talking about, i found it hilarious bashing android so hard like it wouldnt be capable. its very capable in every way to run any of these programs korg has offered, they just dont offer them to this platform yet which is odd considering they make vst's for both mac and pc.

@bog, i own several electribes, the actual hardware sequencers. i can tell you first hand that you almost never use 2 hands with the actual hardware so what on earth would make you assume you need multitouch. im glad you own every apple product available but to me it doesnt seem like you know what your talking about at all really.

personally i think Korg has become mediocre and a overall cheap company thus this is a main reason they work so slowly now and provide mediocre products and instances such as this, in the 1960's they had a lot more passion and actually spent money to produce amazing products, now everything is made out of plastic, its no longer true analogue and they try to bring back the classics in the cheapest of ways.. when id gladly pay thousands of dollars for a new model of the MS-20 and MS-10, they also made a analogue vocoder also the VC-10, these are real synths and korg refuses for some reason to bring something back that did so well and people still die to have today. its truly sad that the only company that keeps it real these days in Moog, they have never cheapened there products just for mass production. im still waiting for the day Korg grows their balls back and gets back into the market with real analogue gear.
this digital age has really gone to far, analogue will and always has been the best sound period, nothing sounds better than actual sound being generated from circuits and not some simple preinstalled digital sound bank... god why korg why...

so i say seconds, thirds and fourths to this, i own a android and happened to come on this forum, me loving korg i had to say something the korg MS-20 the literally machine has been my favorite synth ever since i laid eyes on it and heard ladytron rock it hard.

so please korg make this for android, you know you want to and bring back analogue! the real deal knobs and all!!! i want to see crazy patch bays and get lost in my synth!! i shouldnt need a time machine to do so.

[bog]

[profgerbik]

im talking about their keyboards in general blow now. the microkorg wasnt half bad but since then they have gotten cheaper and smaller by the year. i havent wanted to buy anything by korg other than kaoss pads in forever and that just sucks they really dont have anything else more interesting. so no, moog is still keeping it real as hell, nice try though and completely missing the point of my rant.

im not bashing either or of these OS's like you are, im simply saying its possible and i know for a fact that it is and can work but because of product and contract limitations they just wont make them for android.

mostly everyone even on youtube would gladly tell you they spend more time thinking of a sequence and that really doesnt need 2 hands and i never said you dont use 2 hands. you barely use 2 hands ever, unless all you do is make music on this one machine which i dont really suggest any serious musician to stick to one instrument, i only use these as sampling and percussive tools the effects are sub par and i can easily get on my computer and open cubase or pro tools and get a lot better sound.

your logic behind it was far fetched and self centered, your basing everything off apple products regardless i think you wouldve mentioned that earlier if you owned electribe hardware.

2 times you had the chance to be like "i would know i own the hardware and use 2 hands and that would make more sense but sure you own them and obviously as some sort of 2 handed genius and act like its completely necessary for MULTITOUCH you literally say it so much like it builds these apps when it doesnt. if i lost one of my arms i could easily work any electribe just the same so i still dont understand your point. there are audio apps for the android that are actually quite impressive oh and guess what they are multitouch and work fine.

also what your claiming which makes no sense again considering you sound like you literally created the android OS yourself from the way you talk down about it, is that iOS has never had any problems with any of these apps, which is complete bull, they have run into problems just the same and just because it came out years ago they have much more time to think about how to make it work better when it failed at first, the huge difference between android and apple is android has many devices and can be put into anything that can handle it, its not just limited to one device which of course would make it easier, thats why its easier people release this for apple because its simply been around longer, by now android devices can handle and have proven they can easily, any of these apps offered that just arent offered yet.

its truly no different than Windows and Mac, multitouch doesnt build a app or make it good, a tool is a tool one hand or 2 doesnt really make it sound any different unless your using effects which unless your some dj like i said who uses nothing other than a electribe to make and produce all the music in your life than have at it with your 2 handed effects whoopty doo. Logic Pro is a perfect example of apple just being stupid, you know how much more money they would make off of that program if it was for windows also, and it clearly could be, so let me guess are you going to say windows isnt capable either to handle logic pro because it is and has been able to since the day logic came out, thats just stupid business and contracts that cause great musicians to miss out on some products just because people want to be so specific and want you to buy their product only.

youre the one who doesnt know what your talking about the reason why its not hitting android and might even never is probably simply due to restrictions made with apple and these apps themselves within a contract. that seems a lot more logical than your multitouch ranting, anyone who used a computer for the past couple years before ipads existed would know you get by just fine with a mouse and 1 click, so no again you dont sound like you know what your talking about musically at all.

music is my life and i know plenty of people also who have these and never use 2 hands unless their using the effects, funny that you can even look all over youtube and see the exact same thing but you go on and on about multitouch like that is the only reason its not being made and thats just stupid im sorry, thats not why.

its clearly extremely hard for developers to create apps for the android, thats why the android has more apps available for it than the iphone, even some apps that will never hit the iphone that are quite useful. makes sense again your point, and its still growing at a very fast pace and oddly the people who know how to program and are tired of companies being so stupid and sticking to one OS, they just make a program thats similar themselves just to show you its even possible.

lol moog filter, wow not even my point at all, the point is korg sucks now, all they have is kaoss pads which is sadly the only thing people buy from them anymore, the last decent keyboard they made were the microkorg and the ms2000, which they both have become replaced with trash substitutes.

they day moog has nothing but digital garbage with almost everyone of their products and synths being just that, then you can throw the filter at me, its a pointless filter on top of that its not like iphones have Line ins so who cares really, again ill just use my moog pedals. my point is simply Korg has always done this, they make a ms-10 emulator for freaking nintendo DS for christ sakes, but my point of all this isnt even vst's or apps or video games, im talking about korgs keyboards are just so lame when they used to be the best around, same thing with yamaha, i own a yamaha cs-30 and 15 and they are some of the most amazing synths yamaha has ever made but sadly they became the corner stone of cheap digital keyboards before korg did.

haha my friend neon indian i literally knew that kid when he lived in austin, such a wierdo and he always knew he sucked, he would always hang out with my friend zach and just sit their silently playing with lil toys for like hours. what a joke he is, i cant believe he is even associated with moog now what a lucky douche, nothing like getting famous off of other peoples music.

another topic ill stay off of this has become long enough.

the only thing i agree with you on, is that apple has been around longer and yes android is newer and evolving every day. that is all.

[profgerbik]

im not bashing cheap things, i own tons of casios and have them circuit bent and of course you can make anything sound amazing but the fact they choose to keep creating such poor products when they have had better is what gets me.

[bog]

[profgerbik]

how stupid does that sound, yea let me record sound through the line input on my iphone or ipad, clearly its a virtual input at that. because the iphone only has a 3.5mm jack so anything being input into it would obviously only be for voice anyway. yea thats professional right there, so you talk about android being lacking, are you honestly going to tell me that would be easy or even efficient, the quality would be horrible.

but yea makes more sense again on your part when you dont even know the specifications of your own tools and what their capabilities and limits are.

the iphones input is a high impedance microphone preamp, a line level input would damage it and on top of that, the frequency response is centred around the voice so it is not flat, any recording would sound horribly tinny.

recording into your iphone or ipad could have some uses but the sound is not going to be as good as if you just used a mixer or pretty much anything more logical and that is made specifically for line input audio. so many low priced things you could use even free, its really not practical being as the iphone and ipad were not meant for recording line in at all.

have fun recording line in into your iphone or ipad, waste of time really, you clrealy need to learn more about sound, actual frequencies that can effect them and how they are processed. im all about technology but this conversation has become a bit too stupid for me to continue.. ill keep stating the facts yet you just come back with a smile on your face like you just got screwed by steve jobbs, while he was whispered the future of apple in your ears, the mans a genius and apple is great dont get me wrong but once again you dont know what your talking about and trust me i hate to say that again but it will be the last time because its become so cliche already.

i dont appear to be in the dark when i shine light to every one of your opinions and perceptions, "its not like" i never fully said they dont, they are not worth using though. i know that much. dont think i havent tried, i dont own a iphone myself but some of my band mates do. even with the audio line out, it still sounds horrible.

yes its pointless filter on the iphone and ipad its nothing more than a toy at that, arturia has had a moog vst for years that is a lot more practical to use than a simple gimmick filter on the iphone, it has advanced pretty far and it can be used as a stand alone effect as well. if you have a mac book pro then viola great quality of sound at the same effort without the gimmick, even windows computers can use arturia vsts so why would use your iphones filter other than to show your music buddies a cool little app on your iphone.

this is getting no where so you can have the last word. cheers.

[bog]

[Mystic38]

I certainly don't know the point of that last post.... The Beatles recorded almost all of their tracks on something that a Tascam 4 track cassette recorder would blow away.
As far as all the fanboy stuff? Reality is that any $500 laptop is by far and away a better platform for recording and sequencing music that an iPad so just move on.. Screen size, horsepower and mouse control wins out over the svelte touchy screeny stuff.

I have an iPad. Big deal. This synth is a $15 app and it's great value for Money and capable of doing good stuff and fun stuff, but let's not pretend that the iPad is a suitable computing platform for studio work.. If you have $500 to spend on a studio computer you would be out of your tree to buy an iPad.

The op asked whether this app could be on the android and PC os.. Well isn't this available as a VST for the PC as the ms20? ..anyway, hopefully at some point it will go to the android os so other musicians can enjoy mucking about on their phones and tablets.