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Korg Drum Machine (ELECTRIBE2BL)

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Style: Korg ELECTRIBE2BL electribe Synth in EMX Blue with V2.0 Software


Features

  • Pattern chaining: String patterns together to create full songs. Users can chain with nearly no limitation, which means that you can also create entire SETS of music!
  • One-level undo: Dont like what you just recorded? You now have an undo available with the press of a couple of buttons.
  • Original value indicator: Users can now see the original position of any knob on the panel for any part onscreen.Insert Effects: 38 types. Master Effects: 32 types
  • Complete tools for the creation and performance of any genre of electronic music - with Ableton export!

Item Weight: 5.61 pounds


Product Dimensions: 18.78 x 9.44 x 2.87 inches


Item model number: ELECTRIBE2BL


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No


Date First Available: July 1, 2016


Color Name: Metallic Blue


Hardware Interface: Micro USB 2.0 Type B


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  • Interesting drumbox/synth with limitations
Style: Korg ELECTRIBE2BL electribe Synth in EMX...
To start with; if your concept of making music is to sit down on the couch and tap pads, changing sounds and making short patterns to chain together; this is the device for you. If instead you also enjoy playing a regular midi keyboard, you can work with this device too; although you start to loose portability in that way, and start to add cables and a midi keyboard to the setup. This is more of a portable travel "idea maker" device. You drop beats on it, maybe a few synth patterns and then move to the next. There is no concept of track here; there are "parts". Each pad is a part, and you can assign a different sound to it. When you tap the pad, the sound play at C3 I believe. You can make variations in various ways: you can use the touchpad, to move up and down a scale you set in the preferences, you can use the keyboard mode, which transform the 16 pads in a sequence of notes (using the same scale you set in preferences; each row is an octave, so can't use the upper row for black keys). or you plug a midi keyboard in. Each part can be either a synth part, a sample or a rhythm part, like drums, percussion or what else; you have no limitations, except that some samples or instruments takes more than one "voice", and the device support 24 voices max at the same time. But there is a gotcha: when you use effects, this steal a voice, so while you think you can play 24 concurrent notes, that may not be true if you use effects on each of the parts. The variety of sounds is OK; the main problem is that you can't add sounds, synth engines, samples or anything else. Everything is set in stone, so you may want to hear the sounds included in the ROM of the device, to get an idea if this is what you want. There is a variant of this device that is called "sampler"; which allow you to use your own samples; but you cannot add more synth presets, so the sampler is more for musicians that need a sampler box, more than a synth. You don't have songs per se, you make a pattern, which is 4 bars at most. This is huge as limitation, considering that you can only slow down tempo to get more notes, but the notes are quantized by default, so you have very little room for anything that is not the canonical 4 step beat. You can work around this limitation by chaining different patterns, and make longer patterns, but there is no way to make a song per se. You can chain pattern A to B, but if you want to add pattern C, you have to chain it to pattern B, and so on. If you have 10 patterns, each of them has to chain to the next, and this means to chain each one singularly. I hope you won't change your mind later, because then you have to change the assignment for the chained patters! This kill productivity, unless you always worked with patterns in such way; I use a DAW most of the time so for me, this is quite the mood killer, when putting together a fully fledged song. Not sure why they didn't put a chain sequence mode, where you put patterns in a chain and save it as song; but sadly Korg is well known for abandoning early the development of the software for their devices, so unless you can get the firmware unlocked and deciphered, the last update you get is from 2016 Synth sounds are OK; you get the basic sound shapes, plus mix of different types of shapes with effects and such; there are some digital instruments too like brass and piano, but nothing to write home about. As synth, this device is not worth much to be honest. The sound can be changed a bit, but all you get is pitch variation and a wave morph dial. The rest of the work has to be done on filters, which are pretty nice with 3 different categories of filters, then you have envelopes and effects; which can give you some good results, at the cost of voice stealing though, since some if not most of the effects, take voices. In short, if you get this for its synth capabilities, you are better off getting a minilogue XD to be honest. this is not what this device was made for. Of course this does not mean that you can't make great music, but you have to be creative, and work around the limitations of the device. Portability is great, and with 6 AA batteries and a pair of headphones you are good to go. The SD card slot allow you to save and load patterns, but not sounds. The sampler model can load samples from the SD card. The USB port allow you to connect your electribe to the computer, to use it as midi device if you like. You can get 16 channels output and play each part separately from the device, via midi, but keep in mind that USB does not transmit audio, so you still need to connect the stereo L R cables to your computer to grab the audio signal. If that's your thing, then this device is a great alternative to more expensive and less portable grooveboxes (the Roland for example is a much better device but it cost also much more than this); but if you want to use this connected to the computer as module, for its sounds, then you can get probably much better modules with much better sounds on other products. This device is mainly for the person on the go that makes very specific type of music. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2019 by CF

  • A newfound musical partner
Style: Korg ELECTRIBE Synth Based Production St...
I have owned the Electribe-m for a very long time, and it's always been a great box to make grooves. Back in the "day" I'd build multi-part grooves across several patterns then record them with Acid Pro (pre-Sony) and create full width arrangements in software. So I was excited by this new iteration of "electribe" on the horizon, and I waited until after the Christmas 'few and far between' sightings to place my order. The vendor was great by the way (thank you Sam Ash), but this review is of the hardware. I saw that the polyphony was 24 voices -- a far cry better than my trusty old "m" unit, and the engine was reportedly based on the KingKorg engine, which sound pretty good in the demos I've heard. I'm not a DJ, I use my old "m" for composition, and I was thinking I might take this new box live in addition to using it for production, but I have found a few limitations with my workflow context, and found a few solutions which I'll outline below. First, even though I'm only beginning to scratch the surface of the machine, I've already run into voices with longer decay times being cut short by the dynamic voice allocation. I was using intervals (not actual chords) and not at the 16 part limit when I got this odd stutter recording a layer that did not show up when I was playing around on the voice without the pattern playing at the same time. Ok, fair enough, change the voice priority setting and move on. Depending on the complexity of what you are doing you might find this annoying or a non-issue, but it does impact how I now design my sounds resulting in the safest route being shorter sounds with less decay time. Second, I've found a bit of distortion, again with complex patterns, when I've got lots of bass in the headphone out, even if I turn the volume down. This is an artifact of how I monitor when I'm sitting at home (through monitors where my lead is a 3.5mm connector usually plugged in to my laptop) and may not be present in the main out and which I will have to test at some point. This distortion was noticed both with the monitors (which are equipped with a sub) and in various headphones. I'm not taking anything off my rating for this, because I'm not using the main output. The good news is that this distortion is not present in the exported audio, and my workflow does not involve live performance featuring the electribe at this time. Need to test it with the main output -- I suspect it will be clean. Third, while the interface is well designed, some things are buried a bit in the menu system. I'm getting quite adept at adjusting things like note priority, polyphony, variations on note triggering, and so forth, but some things I wish I could just hit shift and crank on some knob as a shortcut. Pattern naming is really annoying, but in theory you really only name something once then just increment a number at the end if you follow Korg's naming conventions (and this makes perfect sense in my opinion). Still, I'd really like to have an editor (which I have not yet found if there is one) to do 'housekeeping' from a computer. The workaround in this case is to know the interface better, and I'm certainly getting faster and faster. Fourth, rendered audio doesn't always loop clean if you have effects, which is an integral part of the "DJ" sound. I found the occasional click on my last project because I didn't take the effects off before I rendered the audio (being lazy). Solution was simple, use an audio editor for a little clean up. Twisted Wave and just a few minutes and I had all 32 files (several patterns that make up the raw material of the composition) clean and sounding great. This is clearly not a problem in 'live' mode. If you decide to get an electribe, make sure you download the "Electribe Parameter's Guide" from Korg and learn what ranges harbor your favorite sounds. While it's great fun to just let inspiration take hold and scroll through all the kicks, or all the snares, it's probably best to know where your go to 'oscillator' sounds are when you're quickly framing up a musical idea. If you're not used to this type of music production, you might also want to create a few custom 'psuedo-init' patterns with sounds close to what you generally use so you can just grab a pattern and go without any setup. Later you can tweak and adjust the sounds to what you have in your head, or what you didn't think of -- this engine can do a lot more than is obvious. On the plus side here are some of the reasons I give this device 5 stars: -Once you're slightly used to it, you can work very rapidly and flesh out your ideas -Plugging in a midi controller makes it a snap to use your mad skilz on the keyboard (or not, but it's easier for most of us). -it's trivial to take a part you've created and throw it on another part-location to double or create tonal variations -the pads can be velocity sensitive or not -- a very nice option for different use cases -depth of playing options-- midi input, step sequencing, trigger style, or pad input 'keyboard,' audio in, even sync jacks -selecting a scale makes staying in key easy when you're making things on the fly -many available parameters make knob twisting easier to control based on your style -battery powering option means I can put this in my backpack and plug in my headphones to create anywhere -Audio export, Ableton aside (it works well in my tests), gives you each part on a track and can be imported into any DAW (I use Logic X) -it's an instrument. If feels good, and that feel encourages you to explore and create -did I mention that it's an instrument? Much better than a control surface tethered to a computer. All in all the new "electribe" is not quite what I was hoping for, but I think I was being unrealistic. What it is, however, is a great way for me to build compositions, and not just dance music, it's equally adept at creating "Berlin school" sequencing and other stylistic sonorities. These days you can create music on your phone or pad when you're on the go, and you can even take these devices live, but I think this new electribe is surely portable enough to be a 'knob twisting' way to make music at home, on the stage, in the studio, or even on the go. At this price, it's a winner. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2015 by MusicoMan

  • Occasional playback issues unlike my other electribe.
Style: Korg ELECTRIBE2SRD electribe Sampler in ...
I really wanted to give this thing five stars but I can't due to a minor issue. It has the newest firmware and seems to to a great job at everything when the unit responds correctly. For $400 it is an amazing unit. But I cannot recommend it for live sound due to timing and playback issues that happen every so often with this unit. No one else to my knowledge has had these problems but I have so I wanted to make people aware of them. When you press play the unit usually plays the song but sometimes it just doesn't feel like listening. There have been several occasions where I had to press play SEVERAL times before it finally worked. Sometimes it would never work and I had to try random songs before I would find one that played and I would have to play a song that I didn't want to play and scroll down to the song that it refused to play before in order to play the correct song. Sometimes none of the songs work and I have to stand there and wait awhile until it decides to work. Summary: This unit is fantastic and is a great value. They did have to cut some corners to keep the price down but nothing major. Just little things like making the bottom of the unit out of ABS plastic. Reliability seems good so far. I have had it for probably about two years now and often use it almost everyday for hours on end. Usually at least two or three, sometimes a lot more. It never overheats or has any major issues. The only minor issue it has is occasional playback issues but no one else seems to have that issue and my other electribe hasn't either so perhaps it is just a fluke. It is rare but does happen from time to time. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2020 by Eric M.

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