Most likely missing something easy on ES2

[RPgrantham]

Haven't had as much time to spend on the unit as I'd have liked to but tell me if I am missing something really obvious with workflow.

I get that there's an easy way (thanks so someone on this forum) to quickly wipe out the factory patterns and samples and therefore five yourself more record time. I also get that you can do a factory reset to bring the deleted ones back so they are burnt onto the ROM some way.

But if you wipe the factory, is there a way of having your own samples autoload when you start the unit up, as quickly as the factory ones do, without the need to go to the Data menu and load them from your SD card. The Volca Sample wrecks my head with some of its quirks but by jove I was easily able to overwrite its memory (all 4mb with my own samples which load immediately on power on. I'm currently getting annoyed with loading patterns I've been working on every time I power on the unit then having to import all the samples from the card again before sounds will play.

Please tell me there's a better way, I feel stuck in 1997

[djkenstone]

This http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=98183 should help you.

[RPgrantham]

Thanks for that link, that's exactly what I was talking about.

Well, I really wanted to like the ES2, I really did. I've owned lots of equipment over the past 20 years so I know that more often than not when you get into using a unit you discover it's quirks but learn to live with them for the greater good. Done it many times. And Korg are my heroes, everything they have done in the past few years blows away Roland and Yamaha (still not sure what the hell Reface was about at that price point) have done IMHO.

That being said sometimes things are just fails, and I think the Es2 is. Same gripes most have had here

- Pads very unresponsive for anything but the most basic playing
- Toughpad just horrible quality, the layer on the top of it doest seem to sit flush so not as responsive as I'd like
- One insert effect per part and one button for effect parameter edit is annoying, especially as the ESX1 seemed to have a better implementation of this.
- Finally and most importantly the load\save process....it is like being back in 1997. Annoying beyond belief for my workflow.

So shipped up and returned this morning before 30 no return policy kicks in.

God, if my Volca Sample just had that export to Ableton function it'd be a gem. I'll miss that.

[djkenstone]

Thanks for that link, that's exactly what I was talking about.

No problem.

[sharps030]

Pads very unresponsive for anything but the most basic playing

By default there's no velocity response. You have to turn it on per-part in the menu. Yes, this is bullshit.

Toughpad just horrible quality, the layer on the top of it doest seem to sit flush

The pads are perfectly flat and aligned with the table the e2 is on. But the top surface slopes upwards - leaving the pads not aligned with the e2 surface.

[RPgrantham]

Sorry my bad on the 'touchpad' explanation. It's the XY pad part I was referring to. It's like there's a thin film almost fabric layer over the top of it that kinda makes it awkward to use, well for me at least.

On the effects implementation side I just found this and it sums it up well. Really disappointed overall as with a few different approaches in the design and workflow (menu hell) it would have been amazing