Korg Electribe Sample Challenge Number 2

apapdop · Post by **apapdop** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:42 pm

Korg Electribe Forum Sampler Challenge Number 2

RAINY DAY SAMPLES

Ok, here is a sample set i put together a long time ago but have never used. Somehow, it became my rainy day sample set, to be loaded up only when inspiration never came. Time to give them an airing...

https://soundcloud.com/apapdop/sounds-f ... -morning-1

They are in mono and if you import them into a DAW or audio editor and set the BPM to 120, the start point of each individual sample will be on a bar division.

Rules (...because what is the point of having fun if there are no rules...)

1. Closing date for entries is August 24th 2015

2. A poll will be set up on August 25th and will run until August 31st, when the winner will be announced.

3. Please create your entries on ONE machine only (any flavour of Electribe sampler or Volca Sample).

4. Use as few or many samples from the download, but no other material.

5. No applying mastering/turd polish to finished tracks before uploading, only a normalize of the recorded audio (this applies to Electribe Sampler audio exports into Ableton as well).

6. Tracks must be no longer than 4 minutes in duration (...demonic laughter...)

7. Please post links to your tracks on this thread, maybe with some info on what machine you used etc.

8. I think it would be a good idea if competitors also prepare some samples themselves, as the winner of this challenge has the HONOUR of setting up September's challenge (ohhhhhhhhh....)

Have fun people...

Andreas (aka apapdop)

gizmoismogwai · Post by **gizmoismogwai** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:41 pm

Yes! I'm going to start messing with this tonight! Very nice samples too - a good range and it means we should hear very different things from people.

Apapdop, can I sequence my track in Ableton or must this be a live performance? As you may know now that you own an e2s, the whole sounds getting cut off when changing patterns thing would be somewhat of a bummer. It's your contest, your rules though. What do you think?

apapdop · Post by **apapdop** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 9:35 pm

gizmoismogwai wrote:Yes! I'm going to start messing with this tonight! Very nice samples too - a good range and it means we should hear very different things from people.

Apapdop, can I sequence my track in Ableton or must this be a live performance? As you may know now that you own an e2s, the whole sounds getting cut off when changing patterns thing would be somewhat of a bummer. It's your contest, your rules though. What do you think?

Hey, that's fine by me.

(I've yet to use the new sampler, i'm hoping this will be it's first outing!!)

7zark7 · Post by **7zark7** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 1:15 am

I am confused by this request to not adhere to the third rule. Sequencing does not need to be done live on the Korg samplers.
It's none of my business I suppose, but isn't the point of the contest
to use one of the Korg samplers, and not a DAW?

-7zark7

aquifer_music · Post by **aquifer_music** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 2:37 am

7zark7 wrote: I am confused by this request to not adhere to the third rule. Sequencing does not need to be done live on the Korg samplers.
It's none of my business I suppose, but isn't the point of the contest
to use one of the Korg samplers, and not a DAW?

-7zark7

Same. Can I chop the samples initially in an mpc then? Sequence with the mpc? If I'm getting this correct, the samples can only be treated and held in the electribe? But sequenced with whatever?

thesigma · Post by **thesigma** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 5:35 am

I think the term arranging would be a better word choice than sequencing. There was a discussion about using the E2S export wave feature and arranging the loops in a daw to get around the pattern change glitches on the machine. Which I have no problem with, as the actual programming would be done in the electribe.

Think of it like instead of recording the whole song in one take, you record each pattern as separate audio and then put the audio together in a DAW, as long as no further edits and effects are applied, the end result is the essentially the same.

aquifer_music · Post by **aquifer_music** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 5:45 am

thesigma wrote:I think the term arranging would be a better word choice than sequencing. There was a discussion about using the E2S export wave feature and arranging the loops in a daw to get around the pattern change glitches on the machine. Which I have no problem with, as the actual programming would be done in the electribe.

Think of it like instead of recording the whole song in one take, you record each pattern as separate audio and then put the audio together in a DAW, as long as no further edits and effects are applied, the end result is the essentially the same.

Gotcha! Thanks for the clarification!

apapdop · Post by **apapdop** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 6:27 am

Just to clarify...

Ableton Lite is intended to be tightly integrated with the new Electribes. Some folks use it to create a final audio file out of a chain of 4-bar patterns created on the Electribes. Others just record the audio straight out of the back into a DAW or whatever. As long as no post processing is carried out (like limiting/compression/eq) other than a simple normalize.

Chopping up the samples in a DAW before loading them into the sampler is fine too.

musicmagus · Post by **musicmagus** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 12:32 pm

It's raining here.. Count me in.

colulizard · Post by **colulizard** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 1:40 pm

Nice samples... it will be a tough one and some unusual music will come out of it I think

roblabs · Post by **roblabs** » Mon Aug 03, 2015 5:54 pm

I'm in!

apapdop · Post by **apapdop** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 9:00 pm

Hello sampleheads, hope you're having fun with the sample challenge!!

Remember folks, closing date is August 24th... Post links to your tracks in this thread, poll will start August 25th for 1 week.

Here is my entry, my first track with the new sampler. As per the no post processing rule (other than a simple normalize), this is recorded straight from the audio outs into an ipad.

https://soundcloud.com/apapdop/sounds-f ... ay-evening

picab · Post by **picab** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 8:33 pm

Thank you for the challenge and your samples.
I made a little thing with 8 samples on 8 parts just with 1 pattern of 64 steps (because of the gap and the impossibility to "drone" between patterns).
No real-time tweak, no resampling, no motion-recording... boring ?
Recorded with an Olympus LS-11, normalized and flac converted on pc.

http://dl.free.fr/ul4IBWIku

apapdop · Post by **apapdop** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 8:58 am

picab wrote:Thank you for the challenge and your samples.
I made a little thing with 8 samples on 8 parts just with 1 pattern of 64 steps (because of the gap and the impossibility to "drone" between patterns).
No real-time tweak, no resampling, no motion-recording... boring ?
Recorded with an Olympus LS-11, normalized and flac converted on pc.

http://dl.free.fr/ul4IBWIku

Thanks for posting, but i couldn't find anything to download or play when i clicked the link on my ipad!! Do you have a Soundcloud page? Or YouTube?

gizmoismogwai · Post by **gizmoismogwai** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 12:56 am

apapdop, your track is awesome. You're really good at making those delays work for you. I was really excited for the chance to participate in someone else's sample battle so thanks for putting this together.

I decided to challenge myself and instead of exporting anything to ableton I'd make a track by performing live on a couple of filled up patterns. It was really interesting because the voice stealing ended up giving me unpredictable results depending on what was muted so it was almost like the electribe sampler was playing along with me. Happy accidents along the way.

Anyway, here's my entry: https://soundcloud.com/gizmoismogwai/protocols

Per the battle rules this was performed live on my electribe sampler with only the samples apapdop provided. Audio out to an ipad running Audioshare. Audioshare then normalized my recording and I uploaded to Soundcloud. No other audio processing was used.

Looking forward to hearing everyone's entries!