Electribe Update 1.17

picab · Post by **picab** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:13 am

Both Electribe have been updated :

http://www.korg.com/us/support/download ... /367/2578/

Frenzies · Post by **Frenzies** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:06 am

Seems brilliant.
Fixes nothing.
Adds nothing.
I'd wager that was worth every day of the wait.

stahlwerk · Post by **stahlwerk** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:17 am

It actually adds one pretty nice thing (and the E2S update also):

The "18/19 PTN. CHANGE LOCK" probably allows blocking pattern change - good when working on a pattern, and not wanting to risk deleting all changes by accidentally switching pattern.

apapdop · Post by **apapdop** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:20 am

Previous to this update, shift+pad 6 was the shortcut to the gate arp pattern select page. So now we have a choice of shortcuts? Or is there an exciting new world awaiting us under shift+pad 6?!?!?

Pygmy · Post by **Pygmy** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:32 am

Wow. Exactly NONE of the wanted features/fixes of the http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpbb2/ ... hp?t=98672 thread have been addressed.

Nice going, Korg.

Release notes

GLOBAL PARAMETER*
- Add ""18/19 PTN. CHANGE LOCK"" page.
- Add ""19/19 XY CALIBRATION"" page.

Shortcut Keys*
- [shift] + [touch scale]: scale selection page
- [shift] + [gate arp]: gate arp pattern selection page

*Please see ""electribe Parameter Guide"" for more information.

STEP EDIT
- Tied notes editing feature has been improved.

Others and Bug fixes
- XY-pad behavior has been improved.
- Fixed scale mode ""On"" behavior on specific scales (Major Blues,minor Blues, Diminished, Combination Diminished, Gypsy, Pelog, Japanese).

Frenzies · Post by **Frenzies** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 11:09 am

apapdop wrote:Previous to this update, shift+pad 6 was the shortcut to the gate arp pattern select page. So now we have a choice of shortcuts? Or is there an exciting new world awaiting us under shift+pad 6?!?!?

Nope. It's still on pad 6 too. Awesome.

I think they may have changed the default step in note length in step edit to 10, but I don't really use step edit so I'm not sure if it was like that before.

So that's 4 months to add 2 pointless shortcuts and possibly do a fix on the scale mode. The crack team of coders must be working on something else.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not really bothered, I like mine as is, but I'd rather they didn't dangle the carrot of update in front of us and then give us this.

Frenzies · Post by **Frenzies** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 11:16 am

stahlwerk wrote:It actually adds one pretty nice thing (and the E2S update also):

The "18/19 PTN. CHANGE LOCK" probably allows blocking pattern change - good when working on a pattern, and not wanting to risk deleting all changes by accidentally switching pattern.

That is what it does.

wasstof · Post by **wasstof** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 11:19 am

Frenzies wrote:
stahlwerk wrote:It actually adds one pretty nice thing (and the E2S update also):

The "18/19 PTN. CHANGE LOCK" probably allows blocking pattern change - good when working on a pattern, and not wanting to risk deleting all changes by accidentally switching pattern.
That is what it does.

We'll at least THAT'S useful!

_INTER_ · Post by **_INTER_** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 12:04 pm

We'll at least THAT'S useful!

As if you'd need that once you learn how to handle the machine. It's just going to slow you down.
Noob feature.

Automageddon · Post by **Automageddon** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 12:11 pm

"STEP EDIT
- Tied notes editing feature has been improved. :

What does it do exactly?

apapdop · Post by **apapdop** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 12:38 pm

Anybody notice anything different on the touchpad behaviour? It would be good if it quantized your first touch in line with the sequencer (I'm at work right now sans electribe)...

From first impressions though, that is one embarrassing upgrade...

Pygmy · Post by **Pygmy** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 1:14 pm

Waiting to see if the firmware hack still works with this firmware version.

It could be they just released a firmware with bullshit fixes/features like these and something to block OS switching..

Frenzies · Post by **Frenzies** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:26 pm

Automageddon wrote:"STEP EDIT
- Tied notes editing feature has been improved. :

What does it do exactly?

The only thing I can think, and I don't really use step edit, is that the gate length changes by a default 10 and by 1 when you press shift.

Frenzies · Post by **Frenzies** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:31 pm

apapdop wrote:Anybody notice anything different on the touchpad behaviour? It would be good if it quantized your first touch in line with the sequencer (I'm at work right now sans electribe)...

From first impressions though, that is one embarrassing upgrade...

Seems to be really hard to get a gate arp to play out of time on the touch pad.
Also a bit of a bigger gap between notes in a scale, maybe.

colulizard · Post by **colulizard** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:37 pm

Pygmy wrote:Waiting to see if the firmware hack still works with this firmware version.

It could be they just released a firmware with bullshit fixes/features like these and something to block OS switching..

Risky.... in case the firmware hack block introduces other performance issues.
I wonder how bothered they are about the hack? I'm not sure how many people this will dissuade from buying a synth and sampler? It may be that a certain proportion of people going ahead with the hack would actually never buy the two machines anyway and so just because they've hacked a machine doesn't mean Korg lost any money.
Just speculating anyway - i haven't got a clue. I've got no real urge to hack my sampler to a synth... i have enough synths anyway (hardware and software) but had no sampler.