Now that the ES2 is out; where's the E2 firmware update.

dutchcow · Post by **dutchcow** » Fri May 29, 2015 9:43 am

How much longer for this super duper swappable firmware update that sorts outs the clicking, popping and anti aliasing, gives us control over more than one FX parameter, lets notes play out and carries over decay and fx trails to the next pattern?

It's been over 5 months since the E2 was released.

SMK · Post by **SMK** » Fri May 29, 2015 10:26 am

The update won't happen till July.

Swapable capability is not in the update.

The main feature of this new update is to end ALL clicks and glitches including the ones heard when switching patterns.

That is all we know about the new update.

Frenzies · Post by **Frenzies** » Fri May 29, 2015 10:39 am

I hope an update can get rid of the amp pops, I'm not holding my breath for a fix for things heard when changing patterns, as this requires fx tails to carry over, and I don't see that coming.
I'm actually hoping for not big changes to workflow as I know the current one pretty well now.

roblabs · Post by **roblabs** » Fri May 29, 2015 4:47 pm

Likewise. All I care about is getting the clicks removed.

1 more month, then...

captain johnson · Post by **captain johnson** » Fri May 29, 2015 5:55 pm

roblabs wrote:Likewise. All I care about is getting the clicks removed.

1 more month, then...

Yup sounds good to me. Need a year of seem less functionality. Then mad new features

ElectribeNut · Post by **ElectribeNut** » Tue Jun 02, 2015 9:50 am

Has anyone brave loaded the ES2 firmware onto the E2?

disconnector · Post by **disconnector** » Tue Jun 02, 2015 1:53 pm

I tried - doesn't work. The device gives an error that the file is not readable.

ElectribeNut · Post by **ElectribeNut** » Tue Jun 02, 2015 9:28 pm

disconnector wrote:I tried - doesn't work. The device gives an error that the file is not readable.

Thanks for the attempt.

thesigma · Post by **thesigma** » Tue Jun 02, 2015 9:34 pm

did you try the file someone modified, it was posted in a thread somewhere in this forum....along with a warning that the modifier has no idea if it will brick your device or not. no one was willing to try and find out...

Edit: It's this thread:

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpbb2/ ... highlight=

dutchcow · Post by **dutchcow** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 12:23 am

So it seems there will only be one firmware update, a/the final update. Does this mean Korg sees the E2 as EOL?

roblabs · Post by **roblabs** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 2:41 am

dutchcow wrote:So it seems there will only be one firmware update, a/the final update. Does this mean Korg sees the E2 as EOL?

I think its *extremely* early to think this. Korg did acknowledge that a firmware update would be coming approximately the same time as the sampler release, but they themselves never said this would be the final one. That's more internet rumors for you.

dutchcow · Post by **dutchcow** » Thu Jun 04, 2015 7:23 am

I hope it is just another rumour. Still no firmware released though.

SlopingCompanion · Post by **SlopingCompanion** » Thu Jun 04, 2015 12:28 pm

SMK wrote:The update won't happen till July.

Swapable capability is not in the update.

The main feature of this new update is to end ALL clicks and glitches including the ones heard when switching patterns.

That is all we know about the new update.

Not in anyway doubting you, but how do you know these things are 100% definite? Just curious if you have some insider info that we don't.

thesigma · Post by **thesigma** » Thu Jun 04, 2015 3:59 pm

SlopingCompanion wrote:
SMK wrote:The update won't happen till July.

Swapable capability is not in the update.

The main feature of this new update is to end ALL clicks and glitches including the ones heard when switching patterns.

That is all we know about the new update.
Not in anyway doubting you, but how do you know these things are 100% definite? Just curious if you have some insider info that we don't.

Didn't James Pullen (Mistabishi) Say that the update was going to fix all the clicks/glitches? but he also said the E2S would be a super looper, or something to that effect soo......

dutchcow · Post by **dutchcow** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 9:36 am

I think we can conclude that James Pullen is full of it. He can claim whatever he wants. Korg has been silent since last year. It wouldn't surprise me if there will be no more firmware updates after one more try from Korg to sort it out.

It either bad coding on a device with promising hardware. Or it's good coding on subpar hardware. Or a bit of both. All these "DSP not powerful enough" excuses from the fanbois are amusing. It's 2015 guys, embedded chips have never been more powerful and cheap as today. Korg could've used a DSP thats twice as fast by spending a few cents more per unit.

But instead they just raised the unit price with ~40 pounds in the whole of Europe without any reasons at all. It tells me more about Korg that Korg does. Korg does't say anything, at the very least they could've posted something on their website about all the bugs and omissions and told us they are aware of this and that'd will fix this and that. But no, Korg remains 100% silent.

So much fail.