That one feature you desire

circuitghost · Post by **circuitghost** » Sat May 23, 2015 10:01 am

Friends at the forum,

If you can have only one additional feature or major improvement on the tribe, what would it be?

And let's assume we're all here because we like Korg's little grey box, and what's in there is good enough to make solid music. So nothing like "Oh, the envelopes suck so bad, what's up with those developers anyway, they're on pot, yeah that's it, so okay, that's my feature, FIX THE DAMN ENVELOPES KORG."

That's a no no. If you're that person, move along. You want to be here because you like the Electribe.

Good. With that out of the way - here's mine.

Consistency of settings between patterns
I usually build something from 5-10 patterns, using the same set. But when I do the tweaking of legendary awesome on one pattern, I want that to work on all my patterns. Like kits in Elektron's machines, for example.

I'd be fine with just being able to copy settings from one pattern to another. A little manual labour never hurt anyone. But replicating my tweaks from pattern to pattern is just not an acceptable solution.

Now, your turn. What's your one feature you most desire?

apapdop · Post by **apapdop** » Sat May 23, 2015 11:18 am

Editing of motion sequence data. This is so useful on EMX-1/ESX-1.

Ted3000 · Post by **Ted3000** » Sat May 23, 2015 11:58 am

People are going to have lots of good suggestions about patterns and how they work.

I've mentioned this a dozen times before. If I could only change one thing it would be to improve the anti-aliasing on the filter resonance. It's way too steep.

It cuts the volume and lowpasses the overtones the higher it goes. It does it well within your hearing range, where a real filter would still have a audible high-pitched whistle. I'm not talking about extreme mosquito ranges - I'm talking about musically relevant frequencies.

Watch it on a scope or a spectrum visualizer. The cutoff peak keeps dipping lower and lower.

This makes something like the Acid filter completely useless for the job is was designed for - it can't hit the high sweet spots of a real 303. It just vanishes. All the res is in the honky upper midrange. Then it dies.

Filtered signal also attenuates as resonance increases, just like a typical cheap VA. That is, until cutoff passes some threshold, then signal comes back to full volume. Even if resonance is at 127. Weird.

So why make the cutoff knob go higher than the electribe can deliver?

I'd rather have aliasing than resonance that is shaved down to silence way before it should.

For a paraphonic synth it sure seems to be struggling to deliver even 1 filter instance per voice.

jbvdb493 · Post by **jbvdb493** » Sun May 24, 2015 12:17 am

Saving patches or at least being able to copy individual patches between paterns

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Sun May 24, 2015 6:11 am

Being able to select a different part directly, no matter what pad mode you're using.

dutchcow · Post by **dutchcow** » Sun May 24, 2015 9:54 am

Controlling more than one IFX parameter.

MaartenNl · Post by **MaartenNl** » Sun May 24, 2015 4:05 pm

A masterfx lock: it should work the same way as the tempo lock, so it Will be easyer to change the masterfx on the fly without having the Effects cut off when going to next pattern [/b]

Neon Seizure · Post by **Neon Seizure** » Sun May 24, 2015 7:37 pm

I would like some kind of warning when I am editing a pattern and accidentally move the mystery knob instead of the Oscillator knob, wiping out whatever changes I’ve made.

“Are you sure you want to change patterns without writing changes, you moron?”

That would help as I am running out of hair to pull out of my head.

Ted3000 · Post by **Ted3000** » Sun May 24, 2015 11:22 pm

Neon Seizure wrote:I would like some kind of warning when I am editing a pattern and accidentally move the mystery knob instead of the Oscillator knob, wiping out whatever changes I’ve made.

“Are you sure you want to change patterns without writing changes, you moron?”

That would help as I am running out of hair to pull out of my head.

There's no way for the e2 to tell when you're editing a pattern or simply tweaking one.

With that "Are You Sure?" warning comes another click. Something as simple as a filter adjustment has "changed" the pattern, so for live playback that's not workable. You can to go to the next one, sometimes at the last second, without more fumbling for a button in dim stage lighting.

Maybe as an optional protection setting - set it on for editing, turn off for performance.

stlkr · Post by **stlkr** » Mon May 25, 2015 12:15 pm

i want some kind of organizer so i can move between sounds instead of overwriting them.

scum · Post by **scum** » Thu May 28, 2015 3:40 am

- Insert FX - REVERB/Reverbs! This is basic for a drum machine..
- Real arpeggiator, with melodies and scales, not this fake one..

sonicbaz · Post by **sonicbaz** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 11:06 am

Very simple and not sure why it's not already implemented, but is essential for live performance. I need the selected pad to be saved with the patch I don't want to have to change selected pad with each patch change.

atb1983 · Post by **atb1983** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:08 pm

Render event recorder performances as wav files. I'm sure I'm in the minority... but yeah, if I had to pick one thing...

bladuck · Post by **bladuck** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:49 pm

xy kaoss should work more as XY on kaossialor it should be programmable on part level, you should be able to control much more things than you can do now

gizmoismogwai · Post by **gizmoismogwai** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 3:00 pm

I would love if Korg would put out a simple sample manager application that would let you create custom .all files for the ES2. Something like the program OpenElectribe Editor someone built for creating custom .esx files on the ESX-1.

+100 points if they make it work directly through USB. But I wouldn't mind having to load and unload the card if it meant setting up my samples didn't have to be a one-at-a-time process on the device itself.

+1000 points if they are somehow able to make an iOS/Android version of the app that also works through USB.