event recorder: make-or-break question from potential buyer

Tee-hee · Post by **Tee-hee** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:59 am

i´ve read here in the past that there were problems with the event recorder.
does it work now? i need some kind of song mode. thanks.
regards
lars

apapdop · Post by **apapdop** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 6:54 am

Before the most recent OS update, people (including myself) experienced playback problems with it. You could record a five or six minute performance and the playback would stop after 2 or 3 minutes. This fault was not consistent though.

Since the OS update, the Event Recorder has been rock solid FOR ME. It has never missed a beat... BUT... my tracks are rarely longer than six minutes. Also, I'm not sure if playing back an Event Recording allows for any kind of MIDI sync with external devices (as i use my Electribes on their own...)

Tee-hee · Post by **Tee-hee** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:19 am

apapdop wrote:I'm not sure if playing back an Event Recording allows for any kind of MIDI sync with external devices

a follow up question, if i may. is it possible to play back an event recording with the electribe running as midi beat clock slave? i´d like to use my roland mc-909 as midi master. thank you.

guignol dangereux · Post by **guignol dangereux** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 10:04 am

i can't answer the second question, as for the first time I never experienced any problems and i recorded "events" also for 15 minutes or more.

musicmagus · Post by **musicmagus** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 8:59 pm

The event recorder doesn't work at all unless the E2/E2s is set to internal clock.

sauce · Post by **sauce** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 10:59 pm

musicmagus wrote:The event recorder doesn't work at all unless the E2/E2s is set to internal clock.

This. Also, although I haven't used it at all, I believe it is merely a rendered wav file, so it will likely not adapt to tempo changes.

Tee-hee · Post by **Tee-hee** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:32 am

musimagus wrote:The event recorder doesn't work at all unless the E2/E2s is set to internal clock.

pitiful. is it possible to export one event recording AS A WHOLE into ableton?

apapdop · Post by **apapdop** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:58 am

It's not a rendered .wav file. It's a MIDI sequence. You have control over the synth parameters as it plays back, although these "overdubs" cannot be recorded.

apapdop · Post by **apapdop** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 7:20 am

I should add that muting/unmuting/step jump etc is disabled during playback too. Like many aspects of the new Electribes, the Event Recorder is a "close but no cigar" answer to what people want. But the recording files are much smaller than a rendered .wav file, so they are easier to email/share etc. you can get some fantastic weirdness if you playback a recording with a different sample set to the intended one too!!

Tom 62 · Post by **Tom 62** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 10:26 am

sauce wrote:I believe it is merely a rendered wav file.

I thought the same. But then I analyzed the event recording file with an hex editor. Inside the file you'll find the event data of all the recorded patterns.

Tee-hee · Post by **Tee-hee** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 2:36 pm

from the parameter guide:

EVENT RECORDER
When you record using the Event Recorder, the data is written to the KORG\electribe folder as a file named e_[number].e2ev.

EXPORT P.SET AUDIO
Using this function, patterns that are registered as a pattern set can be exported as WAV files. Specify the range of set numbers for which patterns registered as a pattern set are exported as WAV files. The files are exported to the KORG\electribe\PatternSet Project\Audio folder of the memory card.

so what´s the difference between a pattern set and an event recording when it comes to exporting? am i able to export an event recording at all? thanks.

apapdop · Post by **apapdop** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 3:23 pm

An Event Recording cannot be rendered into a .wav file. It is a MIDI recording of a "performance" (mutes/unmutes/pattern changes/knob tweaks etc).

Tee-hee · Post by **Tee-hee** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 3:39 pm

i see. can i resample an event recording (with the e2s, of course) in order to make a wav file out of it?

Z7A · Post by **Z7A** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:34 pm

Tee-hee wrote:i see. can i resample an event recording (with the e2s, of course) in order to make a wav file out of it?

Maybe if you have no other samples on it and want to record 4.5 minutes in mono. It seems to be built for short one-shot samples.

KORG electribe sampler wrote:There can be up to a total of 999 preset and user samples, and a maximum of 270 seconds of sampling time (calculated as monaural) can be used.

For comparison:

Roland SP-404SX wrote:Samples: 120 (12 samples x 10 banks) (stored on SD card)
The maximum sampling time (size) for a single sample is approximately 180 minutes in stereo (2 GB).
Card capacity 32GB / Approx.48 hours Stereo (96 hours Mono)

apapdop · Post by **apapdop** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 9:34 pm

Tee-hee wrote:i see. can i resample an event recording (with the e2s, of course) in order to make a wav file out of it?

It can resample, i'm not sure if it can resample whilst an Event Recording is playing back though. It's not something i've tried. I haven't access to mine right now. Anybody else?