The New Electribes

[BeatMangler]

Seems like I'm reading everywhere (ppl comments) that the new electribe is using KingKorgs synth engine which confuses me since Korg themselves state that the thing borrowed from KingKorg are it's filter algorithms. Comments?

[DrHoo]

It shouldn't be confused with the King Korg. I think they say it is based on the King Korg engine ! There's no way that anyone should expect the power of a recent £1000 synth in a groovebox costing £329. I think what is fair to say though is that for the price you do get a hell of a lot. A sequencer capable of running 16 sounds at once is worth that money alone, no messing.
These electribes always have depended on the ability of the user. They take some time & consideeration getting to know them which is good (We can't know everything at once) & there have always been a few shortcomings differing from one user type to another. My esx1, i always wanted more keyboard parts & now we get those & we get chords on top.
I always wanted extra outputs for drums but i adapted to the box, looks like that'll be the case again.
These boxes are extremely good when viewed on their own qualities but as ever there are compromises when packing so much into 1 stand-alone unit. A wealth of experience has gone into these & tons of consideration for what they should do before being released. Unlike a d.a.w which can be completely rewritten or substantially updated with extras etc.. The electribe has to be very good at what it was intended for because it's pretty much gonna stay the way it is. For me that is part of the charm & i always knew what to expect when i powered up my last one, a solid but limited platform which needed a lot of input from me before it produced anything worth recording & never a true stand-alone, i always needed external gear to compliment it.
It'll be interesting as these arrive to see how people feel about them & perhaps in six months a more realistic conclusion can be drawn then. What does excite me is that there might just be a community of electribe nuts again & with new users on board too. I feel lucky to have used the older ones because i could probably take one of thes out of its box & just get in there without reading the book.

[BeatMangler]

It shouldn't be confused with the King Korg. I think they say it is based on the King Korg engine ! There's no way that anyone should expect the power of a recent £1000 synth in a groovebox costing £329. I think what is fair to say though is that for the price you do get a hell of a lot. A sequencer capable of running 16 sounds at once is worth that money alone, no messing.
These electribes always have depended on the ability of the user. They take some time & consideeration getting to know them which is good (We can't know everything at once) & there have always been a few shortcomings differing from one user type to another. My esx1, i always wanted more keyboard parts & now we get those & we get chords on top.
I always wanted extra outputs for drums but i adapted to the box, looks like that'll be the case again.
These boxes are extremely good when viewed on their own qualities but as ever there are compromises when packing so much into 1 stand-alone unit. A wealth of experience has gone into these & tons of consideration for what they should do before being released. Unlike a d.a.w which can be completely rewritten or substantially updated with extras etc.. The electribe has to be very good at what it was intended for because it's pretty much gonna stay the way it is. For me that is part of the charm & i always knew what to expect when i powered up my last one, a solid but limited platform which needed a lot of input from me before it produced anything worth recording & never a true stand-alone, i always needed external gear to compliment it.
It'll be interesting as these arrive to see how people feel about them & perhaps in six months a more realistic conclusion can be drawn then. What does excite me is that there might just be a community of electribe nuts again & with new users on board too. I feel lucky to have used the older ones because i could probably take one of thes out of its box & just get in there without reading the book.

Well, I am one of those new users coming from the world of DAWs and plugins and I am really excited about the fact that I don't even have to hook it up to a computer! I had Native Instruments Maschine but the fact that I always Had to hook it to my pc was kind of a turn off after a while. I so look forward to experiment with and knowing this piece of equipment inside and out! At least inside my head..In theory I like the idea about limitations which requires more from me in the form of creativity.

[bingkingbo]

another video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjrteCZaAVc

[Olivander12]

Talking about using an electribe on its own:

There is a guy on youtube doing some nice techno live sets with just one monotribe. Also, there are plenty of great tracks done entirely on an Er-1, not talking about Mistabishi's EMX perfomances.

That is the reason why the question about using the new electribe stand alone in general has already been answered. The more important question is whether you can/will/want to use it stand alone. Theoratically, the electribe offers almost unlimtied variations. Just one simple kick drum can be modified in thousands ways, plus an insert fx and plus a master fx. And there are hundreds of samples and synth sounds. So the possibilites are there.

[robosardine]

Electribes always need some time so people get into it. Just try it out for yourself.

I can't..... mine hasn't come home yet.. he's squashed into a distant corner of a massive dark warehouse in Japan.. with nobody looking for him.... he could be there for ages unnoticed. I'm hoping if he thinks to set off his metronome squeaking- it might act as a distress call.

[Olivander12]

Electribes always need some time so people get into it. Just try it out for yourself.

I can't..... mine hasn't come home yet.. he's squashed into a distant corner of a massive dark warehouse in Japan.. with nobody looking for him.... he could be there for ages unnoticed. I'm hoping if he thinks to set off his metronome squeaking- it might act as a distress call.

Maybe "he" is a "she". Did you ever thought about that?

[Olivander12]

Another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4YAp055YMo

[Buska]

another video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjrteCZaAVc

Nice!!

[robosardine]

Electribes always need some time so people get into it. Just try it out for yourself.

I can't..... mine hasn't come home yet.. he's squashed into a distant corner of a massive dark warehouse in Japan.. with nobody looking for him.... he could be there for ages unnoticed. I'm hoping if he thinks to set off his metronome squeaking- it might act as a distress call.

Maybe "he" is a "she". Did you ever thought about that?

As it happens I did give it a passing thought- it was a fairly transient one though....... em...... I'm a little curious to know why you felt moved to ask?... I'm not quite sure if you thought I was making a moderately sexist assumption which may end up causing offence to my little electribe (and perhaps some others) or were simply attempting to add to the humour provided?

[Blue Monster 65]

Slightly OT: Kick.S Live is another guy who does a lot of music with just his EMX. Sometimes he'll add other instruments (Miami, Xoxobox) or run two EMXes (sp?) side-by-side, too. I think he's great.

EDIT: Here's his latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYmdhzjjyKo

[MSix_Anthony]

And another video: http://youtu.be/PX777UFViCY

This one covers Ableton export

[DrHoo]

It shouldn't be confused with the King Korg. I think they say it is based on the King Korg engine ! There's no way that anyone should expect the power of a recent £1000 synth in a groovebox costing £329. I think what is fair to say though is that for the price you do get a hell of a lot. A sequencer capable of running 16 sounds at once is worth that money alone, no messing.
These electribes always have depended on the ability of the user. They take some time & consideeration getting to know them which is good (We can't know everything at once) & there have always been a few shortcomings differing from one user type to another. My esx1, i always wanted more keyboard parts & now we get those & we get chords on top.
I always wanted extra outputs for drums but i adapted to the box, looks like that'll be the case again.
These boxes are extremely good when viewed on their own qualities but as ever there are compromises when packing so much into 1 stand-alone unit. A wealth of experience has gone into these & tons of consideration for what they should do before being released. Unlike a d.a.w which can be completely rewritten or substantially updated with extras etc.. The electribe has to be very good at what it was intended for because it's pretty much gonna stay the way it is. For me that is part of the charm & i always knew what to expect when i powered up my last one, a solid but limited platform which needed a lot of input from me before it produced anything worth recording & never a true stand-alone, i always needed external gear to compliment it.
It'll be interesting as these arrive to see how people feel about them & perhaps in six months a more realistic conclusion can be drawn then. What does excite me is that there might just be a community of electribe nuts again & with new users on board too. I feel lucky to have used the older ones because i could probably take one of thes out of its box & just get in there without reading the book.

Well, I am one of those new users coming from the world of DAWs and plugins and I am really excited about the fact that I don't even have to hook it up to a computer! I had Native Instruments Maschine but the fact that I always Had to hook it to my pc was kind of a turn off after a while. I so look forward to experiment with and knowing this piece of equipment inside and out! At least inside my head..In theory I like the idea about limitations which requires more from me in the form of creativity.

Cool . Get one box, sit between two monitors & it can be a very wicked experience creating your own sounds, hands on & immidiette. You can get drawn in for an age !

[MSix_Anthony]

A few electribe videos appeared on instagram:
http://instagram.com/p/vLdR1kNqAS/ (16 NightRace - seems like it's a factory pattern)
http://instagram.com/p/vG0RV4gebt/

[JulNC]

And another video: http://youtu.be/PX777UFViCY

This one covers Ableton export

Thanks for posting this one. At the end of the video we can see that when exporting a Live Set, you only get the audio tracks and NO MIDI! WTF? Is there another option to export that MIDI into Ableton? Also makes me wonder about sequencing external gear on 16 MIDI channels...