ES-1 hi-hat choke groups possible.... but how?

plinkplink · Post by **plinkplink** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 12:30 am

Hey guys, just got my ES-1 today from ebay. Great shape except the bar 2 green light is dead (if you're doing a 4-bar pattern). Other than that, works great and is a LOT of fun.

I dug through the samples and two that I found, choke each other off. 16 (closed hi hat) and 17 (open hi hat).

How is this possible?

Nothing else on the ES-1 can choke anything else, except these two samples. If they are simply 32khz 16-bit .wav files, why can they choke each other?

I noticed that no one else has mentioned or discovered this in the forum (I did use the search).

Interesting find, for sure.

My main thing is.... I want to just have a couple chord hits, to go along with my drum pattern (I do hip-hop and glitch stuff). One chord hit, I want at a certain pitch, the other I want at a pitch two semitones lower. I want them to choke themselves in the same way these hi-hat samples do.

I could drop $600 and get an MPC-500 (I owned a 1000 before a few months back, which was cool but in my opinion, overrated), and have total control over choke groups, etc... (and I also use Ableton with an MPD32 so that's always lots of fun and easy)... but, the Electribe is so easy to program and I LOVE step-sequencers (especially hardware versions)....

So, any idea how they got these two samples to choke each other?

Furthermore, I wonder if I recorded two samples and stored them at 16 and 17.... would they automatically choke each other?

Thanks for any and all help!

-Chris

plinkplink · Post by **plinkplink** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 2:21 am

Ah, I see now.

I don't think this is covered in the manual (I didn't see it at all, and I did read the whole thing).

Sample buttons/triggers 6A and 6B choke each other, and so do 7A and 7B.... they don't all choke each other... 6A can be played at the same time 7A or 7B can, but not 6A and 6B, etc.

Seems like common knowledge, but it took me a while to figure out what was going on.

Hope this tip helps some of you out there!

-Chris

borg elite · Post by **borg elite** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:18 pm

Funny you mention one of your LEDs being dead. I got my EMX second hand in March and the No. 4 step key LED stopped working the day after. Then yesterday it sprang into life. I had to pinch myself to check I wasn't dreaming. Nothing life changing in the great scheme of things but it made me smile when I saw it light up. Maybe it was the heavy unison sound I was playing around with that woke it up