Korg Electribe

[Andrew Tarpinian]

I agree with Declan these are fun. I got my sampler the other day and immediately starting making stuff, sampled the op1 and Analog Rytm. It looks fantastic, goes with elektron :) Very solid feel, the knobs feel great, zinc is cool, heaver than you would think. The pads are not the best in the world but totally fine. The sound really surprised me, very clean and punchy, has a finished track sound if you catch my drift, the EMX/SX series were very raw sounding. With all the complaints I have heard, forget about it, it’s fine, there is some quirky stuff but have not run into any show stoppers and I don’t even think I am running the latest OS yet. There is some menu diving but there are shortcuts, no viewable waveform, you have to save a lot, master effect has an odd implementation and you can’t re-sequence (out of order) a samples chopped slices with-in one part, it tempo synced linearly with the ability to mute steps. You have to use other parts for each slice if you want to play or sequence the slices out of order.

Good value for the price and a nice vacation when you are tired from other complicated gear. I ordered the regular synth version also (the few synth sounds included with the sampler had me wanted more,) and I can see myself doing whole track on both and individually easy.