ElectribeS OS

wasstof · Post by **wasstof** » Fri May 22, 2015 2:17 pm

Maybe the S#*t Button is a New Function that allows you to mangle your samples in New and unheard of ways?

Poumtschak · Post by **Poumtschak** » Fri May 22, 2015 2:43 pm

dschroeter wrote:Also, there are tons of misspellings in the samples: so far I've found "Paino" (four times), "Comp Nien" and my personal favorite, "RotalyOrgan."

ROFL

Had it been Made in Germany, everything 909 would have made much more sense as "Comp nein", "Ride nein", "Crash nein"...

Makes you wonder about the level of attention taken to details before building the OS though.

dschroeter · Post by **dschroeter** » Fri May 22, 2015 6:07 pm

Poumtschak wrote:Had it been Made in Germany, everything 909 would have made much more sense as "Comp nein", "Ride nein", "Crash nein"...

I thought about that, but there are a bunch of other Eight and Nine samples.

Poumtschak wrote:Makes you wonder about the level of attention taken to details before building the OS though.

No doubt.

For those interested, I made a list of the samples here.

rowf · Post by **rowf** » Fri May 22, 2015 7:17 pm

Hey! I have tried it but I dont know how to use the hex editor, someone help me with that and I try it again!

dschroeter · Post by **dschroeter** » Fri May 22, 2015 9:39 pm

rowf wrote:Hey! I have tried it but I dont know how to use the hex editor, someone help me with that and I try it again!

If you'd like, here's the VSB with the single edit:

SYSTEM-edited.VSB

You'll want to remove the -edited portion from the filename.

Thanks if you try it!

Re-Member · Post by **Re-Member** » Fri May 22, 2015 11:43 pm

dschroeter wrote:Yep! But still neat to see this info for the sampler. Also, there are tons of misspellings in the samples: so far I've found "Paino" (two times), "Comp Nien" and my personal favorite, "RotalyOrgan."

Rotally awesome!

I think you've just pointed me toward the name of a new music side-project:

PAINO PAINO

Poumtschak · Post by **Poumtschak** » Sun May 24, 2015 11:49 am

dschroeter wrote:If you'd like, here's the VSB with the single edit:

Thanks if you try it!

So, nobody took the plunge yet? Chicken! Chicken! Chicken!

Korg sure did their homeworks, and have implemented checksums or system certificate preventing this kind of hack to be done so easily.

dutchcow · Post by **dutchcow** » Sun May 24, 2015 12:05 pm

My E2 bricked when I tried to apply a badly copied firmware file. The unit didn't check the file/checksum, it just flashed it and I was stuck with a bright white display and there's no mention of a restoration option, which I'm sure exists. Some kind of key combo to boot it in recovery mode and flash a new firmware.

So, I would say you can flash any modified 1.03 firmware but you may brick your device with no way to recover it in a normal way. I'm not sure if there are any serial/jtag options on the board. But I can confirm that a firmware thats been badly copied or modified will be flashed by the E2. At least mine did.

Hugo · Post by **Hugo** » Sun May 24, 2015 12:23 pm

dutchcow wrote:My E2 bricked when I tried to apply a badly copied firmware file. The unit didn't check the file/checksum, it just flashed it and I was stuck with a bright white display and there's no mention of a restoration option, which I'm sure exists. Some kind of key combo to boot it in recovery mode and flash a new firmware.

So, I would say you can flash any modified 1.03 firmware but you may brick your device with no way to recover it in a normal way. I'm not sure if there are any serial/jtag options on the board. But I can confirm that a firmware thats been badly copied or modified will be flashed by the E2. At least mine did.

So now your unit is non-working?

Telengard · Post by **Telengard** » Sun May 24, 2015 3:55 pm

dutchcow wrote:My E2 bricked when I tried to apply a badly copied firmware file. The unit didn't check the file/checksum, it just flashed it and I was stuck with a bright white display and there's no mention of a restoration option, which I'm sure exists. Some kind of key combo to boot it in recovery mode and flash a new firmware.

So, I would say you can flash any modified 1.03 firmware but you may brick your device with no way to recover it in a normal way. I'm not sure if there are any serial/jtag options on the board. But I can confirm that a firmware thats been badly copied or modified will be flashed by the E2. At least mine did.

I would image they must have a key combination you hold down while turning it on to reset it.

dutchcow · Post by **dutchcow** » Sun May 24, 2015 5:08 pm

I no longer have it, it was returned and since no fixes were announced from Korg I decided to get my money back. Will buy one again once they sort out the bugs, issues and shortcomings. Especially the clicks/pops.

I did try some boot-combinations but there are too many to figure it out/or I lack patience

Ideally there should be something on the website about recovering from a bad flash. Like holding down power + 3rd pad with a firmware in the root of an sd card.

Tom 62 · Post by **Tom 62** » Thu May 28, 2015 4:32 pm

No volunteers here?

alexbuga · Post by **alexbuga** » Fri May 29, 2015 8:14 am

someone who has both should disassemble the back lid and see if there's anything different hardware wise. Maybe it has some different chips though.

I repeat, I'd give a decent amount of money to KORG, or whoever manages to do that so I can boot the 2 firmwares just like JJOS. I've paid quite some cash for JJOS when I had my MPC1000 so I don't see a reason not to pay for this one.

I wanted the sampler when I bought my E2, but couldn't wait. Now I still want the sampler, but I hate that Korg PadKOntrol look. It's ugly and looks cheap. The E2 gray looks more "premium" to me.

Modular Grey · Post by **Modular Grey** » Sat Jun 13, 2015 12:40 am

So I went to see if my e2 needed updating and it says it has 1.05 on it? Isn't 1.03 the latest?

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Sat Jun 13, 2015 6:15 am

No, some units have 1.05, though as far as we can tell there's no changes from 1.03.

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