MTribe: New Korg Monotribe Editor & Control Surface

june74 · Post by **june74** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:37 pm

For all Monotribe owners,

If you already did a MIDI mod to the Monotribe, have a look to MTribe, and editor and control surface for the little Korg wonder.

Website:
http://fabriziopoce.com/MTribe.html

On Synthopia:
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2012/ ... ce-mtribe/

Cheers
Fabrizio (aka june74)

renegade · Post by **renegade** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:47 am

Looks nice, but no support for drums?

I notice you endorse the miditribe, but will it work with other interfaces as the miditribe is the most expensive one.

Can you back up patterns into the editor then load them back into the monotribe?

june74 · Post by **june74** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:19 am

1) About drums/patterns: Interesting you think about them for the editor. The drums on the Monotribe do not have any tweak possible via MIDI just the trigger with fixed velocity (on channel 10). There is a hardware mod for the drums, but this cannot MIDI map them anyway. So it is a bit pointless to have just a trigger knob on the editor and about the patterns, any sequencer/DAW is far a better place to have drums be sequenced and stored. To have a sequencer built in in MTribe (surely possible - as I made a number of sequencers myself) will only make it more complicated, less reliable and therefore more expensive (now it is just 5 USD, not even a cappuccino and croissant where I live....). MTribe, anyway, is transparent on its MIDI IN input: if you send MIDI triggers for the drums on channel 10 via you DAW/sequencer on MTribe MIDI IN (where I supposed you sequence the synth part through MTribe as well, on channel 1), the drums will be triggered.

2) I endorsed the Miditribe from Amazing Machine because of its quality and the fact anyone with a screwdriver can install it (therefore its higher price). But, as you rightly supposed, MTribe will work with any MIDI mod. Be able to get the MIDI data in the Monotribe, and MTribe will work.

Cheers
Fabrizio