korg ESX Time/beat slicing

[noobnr39]

Hi Fellow Korg Users !

Ive been having an ESX for over 2 years now, but its been catching dust for a while, not so long ago i started picking it up and messing around with it, finding it to be a really powerful sounding workstation and whenever i worked out most of the functions, its pretty easy to use as well.

Now recently ive been working with amen, think & apache breaks, loading them in the Korg, resampling them to Mono, slicing them up and started making beats/breaks with them.

Now, when i was still working with DAW's like Fruity Loops and Presonus,

there was this function to time/beat slice samples and loops. ( Slice in fourths, sixteenths etc etc )

i was wondering if there is a supported functionality of this in the ESX or some way to work around this,

i've read about a post/tutorial that you could load up a 128step loop bladiebla , ( i really dont seem to get this working, if someone could do me some proper explaining about this it would be really helpful. )
and afterwards editing the EG start time.

thus so far i hoped to have explained to what im looking for.

any kind of help or advice will be greatly appreciated ! cause id love to keep working on my EMX and ESX !

thanks in forward !

thanks for reading !

best regards !!!

[DrHoo]

Look in the manual under 'truncate' , in global i think. I used to chop mine in a daw first but yeah, can be done in the machine.

[1_inch_punch]

I've been doing that exercise of pasting hits into single files then importing to ESX1 and doing the slice thing - it's great.

You need follow Hot Sauce's youtube - unless there is another tut. I don't know how it works but it does work and I am glad for that.

The only thing I didnt get at first was the slicing across a hit and you mute the button between to make it the one hit/slice. If you follow the vid you will see what I mean.

As per Sauce's instructions you don't need to have each hit properly measured across an ehigth or whatever.. butt each one up against the tail of the last one - the ESX seems to locate the start of the next hit and the point is it's all about saving space on the file anyway.

You just reminded me I have yet to finish my file of my fav Open hats as that's the only one I haven't gotten around to yet.

These files also work out well on my sp404 except you don't have the luxury of the machine finding and slicing the slices for you and you have to mark them in yrself.

[sauce]

there was this function to time/beat slice samples and loops. ( Slice in fourths, sixteenths etc etc )

Hey guys.. Thanks for the plugs for my tutorials. =)

Anyway, I am not sure that's what the OP was looking for.. If you want to take a properly edited and trimmed sample, say a breakbeat, and chop it according to a time grid, you will have to do it by hand. In sample menu, hold shift and pad 13 to slice, tap the slice pad to initiate.. When it gives you the proposed time, make sure it is correct 16/16, 32/16, 64/16, 128/16 etc.. Then, after it tries to detect where the transients ("hits") are, hold down shift and erase them or enter them one-by-one. For 1/8 notes, enter every other one on every page, for 1/4 notes enter every fourth, 16th notes every pad and so on. Many years-long users don't even know that they can enter their own slice locations, because it isn't properly covered in the manual.

I hope this helps.

PS.. In anticipation of the new Electribes, I purchased another ESX. I will be recording more tutorials, right where I left off.

[noobnr39]

is there perhaps a video tutorial on the manual slicing ??

[noobnr39]

also, the correct time, is that based on preparing samples in my DAW ?

as for now I got some think, apache and amen breaks, which I "edit" by manually entering the Start parameter.

I don't really understand in which ways I can prepare a sample for the ESX.