Bad Gear - The Gold Standard

[@AudioPilz]

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[@russellzauner]

okay - I keep dropping this places but nobody ever picks it up - Metasonix is a company that makes very interesting tube based effects, synths, and drum machines (among other...things). They're the sounds everyone has heard but doesn't really know they heard them, where they are coming from, and/or how they're made. If you've heard NIN or Deadmau5, you've heard Metasonix.

[@skrapadelix]

I’m some random bald guy watching a video from a fellow bald guy but for some reason the video was interrupted at a critical moment before the all-important first jam by a non-skippable advert for shampoo and conditioner. Are we being mocked by the universe for our follicular shortcomings?

[@AudioPilz]

I usually get ads for multi-purpose polish

[@theseaward4613]

Pay the $1 a month to skip all ads!

[@iShredStreets]

Bro, same!!

[@alenarich8878]

It’s the comb filter

[@secretelitemusic]

Still preferable to viagra and "meet sexy octagenarians in your area" spam

[@shinyless]

Florian affer exausting every existing machine: "welcome to gear, the world's most existing tools"

[@sounduser]

Hi and welcome to 'member this gear

[@tbornottb303]

This episode was a home run, standing ovation for me. The EMX-1 is a beloved classic.

[@djkanyon]

Thanks bro. Electribe EMX... absolute legend. I was waiting for literally years to see this. And i was not disappointed. Florian FTW!

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@yoyolebatteur]

Alesis hr-16 in the first album, and 303.

[@alexgrunde6682]

Me: “Hey Korg, it’s been a while since you dropped a new Electribe, really would be an opportune time to release one with the character of the classics but with modern features.” Korg: “Best I can do is an electronic accordion.”

[@AudioPilz]

...and turntables...

[@lesdisquespyjams384]

Which should be uninteresting but, in the absence of any new electribe, might make its way to « slightly desirable » status… But that vinyl player needs to output midi clock for integration. If there’s a will must be a way!

[@hella_hels]

@@AudioPilzi was gonna say turntables look cool but also nobody asked for that. Or did they? Is it that simple? Can we just ask for a new EMX?😅

[@simonburns1055]

Lol

[@dynasoar5]

I was a musician in the 2000s and the emx-1 song mode was how I programmed all my tracks. I would send the midi out to run different synthesizers. People don’t realize that that the emx1 was only made to do one thing well, which is a specific sound of mid to late 80s EBM/industrial. That’s it. Not even the designers of the machine seem to understand this. That’s what it’s excellent for. And that’s what I did with it. Thank you for your time.

[@dynasoar5]

You have to go 100% in on that kind of mentality when programming with it, otherwise it’s going to suck.

[@hella_hels]

Song mode (or pattern chain mode) is very useable on this machine. Add programming mutes and motion recording over chains of 8 bar patterns can lead to a lot more variation than casuals realize.

[@dynasoar5]

@@hella_hels yeah absolutely. You could do a lot of things with motion controls, even did some tempo changes that way for a few tracks

[@LousyFacelift]

You did it! This box is so limited - all synth parts are monophonic and the sequencer is the most basic but still - best workflow ever put in a box and so much fun! Less is more sometimes!

[@raistaparta]

This channel has been a great help in slowly curing my GAS. It’ll probably never go away but it’s much less these days. I’m grateful!

[@Victinfien]

this is the sound of Static X btw, Wayne Used it on "Start a War" onward

[@AudioPilz]

Wow, didn't know. Thanks for posting!

[@cyborgchimpy]

no way!! that is so awesome. May Wayne rest in peace.

[@XAVR_]

Also the sound of Enter Shikari's first two albums

[@iso_brown]

Former electribe user speaking. I agree with everything in this video. I remember I had a lot of fun with these units, used them a bit live but never released a track featuring them. That's a sign. Great machines but also fastly boring sounds. The tracks are 🔥🍾. great episode BTW.

[@TheSilentFool]

Thanks I was just having trouble paying for a vacation and I've got one of these bad boys collecting dust in the studio.

[@AudioPilz]

Always a pleasure;)

[@CarpeDiem-311]

Finally this groovebox that never gets old

[@AudioPilz]

😍

[@ricjenner1120]

This is one of the first bits of “proper” gear I ever bought, after a microkorg and 8 track recorder. I learned this thing inside and out. It can be an inspiring song crafting tool. I’d record live takes, muting and unmuting parts in a continuous 8 bar loop. Some of the synth engines are capable of unique sounds, the delay fx are decent, and the drum samples are very useable esp w a little added grit from the fx section or the tube drive.

[@groovindj]

I went fully bad - I own both the red and the blue!

[@AudioPilz]

Nice!!! I envy you!

[@gordon7478]

I went badder... I sold the red, and I've never stopped regretting it.

[@Wedmer]

Exchanged both of them for Yamaha CS6r with bunch of extension cards little more than a decade ago. Still no regrets.

[@projectnemesi5950]

@@AudioPilz Do you agree that they should have made a white one?

[@gordon7478]

@ What would the white one have been? Like just the same thing but in white? Or a combined red and blue? lol

[@Gainn]

My EMX-1 and ESX-1 are going with me to the grave. How they went from these to the v2 will never be fully explained.

[@H4NDCRAFTED]

Yes it will , two words - cost cutting.

[@carbilicon]

@@Gainn I'm with you. Together these could destroy the universe.

[@Syntox]

It was CRIMINAL.

[@torinofly9638]

aint never selling mi EMX-1 is one of my favourite instruments ever !!!

[@forevershampoo]

I have the red esx for sale for 400 if anyone wants it. Good sampler

[@64north20west]

This channel has hypnotized me into a deep appreciation for bad gear.

[@entropybentwhistle]

2:15 “Comb filtering…” Me: reflexively yells “WE AIN’T FOUND SH*T!!!”

[@AudioPilz]

🤣🤣🤣

[@kierenmoore3236]

My best friend and I spent half of high school quoting this movie …

[@trakilokoo]

I've owned mine for over a year now. What an absolute blast it's been. Crazy that this video dropped today, I'm having my first live set tomorrow.

[@joonglegamer9898]

It has OOMPF, I'll give it that, but here's a little-known KORG secret in a basket: You can tune the well-hidden Equalizer in the effect section in the menu diving hellscape that is ModWave and Wavestate. And you'll have more OOMPF that any tube or solid state amp or speaker will be able to withstand more than 10 seconds before you need to change both your pants, tubes, darlingtons and coils.

[@AudioPilz]

Thanks for the heads up!

[@RivetHead999]

@@AudioPilzalso, for the drums, you can use the 3/4 out, assign whichever drums to outpost 3/4, pan all the way left or right, (ex. Turn panning left to go out 3) then out into the ext input, and then you can use the filters

[@derekthequick]

Please tell me how to do this

[@dakqyri]

Thanks for the jamming! You squeezed some inspiring stuff from this entubated antique. I've got one, bought new in 2003, and it's still the centerpiece of my live set in spite of the MPC one on my studio desk. ❤️

[@blakecasimir]

Peak Electribes. Still fun boxes that have a place in the studio despite their limitations. The biggest problems with them are physical: these groove boxes are two decades old, the button contacts are oxidizing, pots are failing to jitter, and bit rot affects the ROMs.

[@koalemos1679]

Literally all Korg has to do is drop one of these updated for like $800

[@AudioPilz]

True, these are hard to maintain

[@boriscat1999]

@@koalemos1679 None of these big companies seems to be able to remake old products without monkeying with them and ruining them (looking at you Roland). We'll have to wait for Behringer to clone it.

[@nodataavailable]

I completely wore out my first ESX-1, but fortunately when I replaced it they were only about 250

[@DesolateNeon]

Al lot of the silver has worn off my knobs, but I don't think it has affected the sound much.

[@gxlxn]

Finaly! This episode will shake the secondhand market. I'm so lucky that I allready own EMX and ESX. ufff

[@DJDrue]

Another fantastic video. I have both the blue and the red and your breakdown of the emx was great. Sadly, knob jitter is a thing that both these older models suffer from, so maintenance is now an issue. I so wish that Korg could learn from the success of these devices... you make me want to lock myself in a room to make a vinyl-only techno release! Thanks again for another epic video.

[@bipedal_earth_roamer]

First jam sounded like an Earthbound battle sequence. Loved it.

[@RivetHead999]

FINALLY THE BEAST!!! My absolute favorite synth I own. Bought it feb, 2005, and still use it.

[@RivetHead999]

I just wish you could import samples for the drum parts

[@lastminute3668]

Check out my jam with it kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHa4k3xrfNmJfrcsi=-WP1rMB0dUvYh66x

[@nelson5717]

I was born in feb 2005 and I now own and love my emx and esx

[@fluim0102]

Did you tube roll?

[@nvoid2597]

This lovely electribe has been the centre of my setup for 15 years. Sequences all of my other gear.

[@pbbbht]

The meme at 8:44 with the Korg Monotron just about slayed me 😆 I have one and I absolutely adore running audio through it. That absolutely FILTHY delay is so good.

[@AudioPilz]

Agreed!!!

[@brianyates86]

Love the Jacob's Ladder clip at the end. What a fantastic movie.

[@elissitdesign]

I snuck in this box into a bunch of TV commercial soundtracks in 2012-2016. I still have it. I changed out the tubes.

[@monodux]

The "bear minimum" got me :D This was my first synth and I loved it! It is also when I learned to delete all the factory presets after a day or two...

[@bobz1736]

Had my red one for over 15 years and it's build quality and punchy sound still impress.... me 😎

[@Squirrelsquid]

I still love my EMX and ESX. Those are tools I will never get rid of.

[@metrolynn973]

Didnt expect the hypnospace outlaw at the end lol. Love that game!

[@crnkmnky]

Thank you for explaining what that was! 😎

[@swampflux]

A guy i went to college with I found in the commons room playing with his basically every day. It’s been on my wishlist for a while. Prob can’t afford one now.

[@edwin-zone]

Mine got taken in a break in. I hope that the person who ended up buying it at pawn shop is out there making amazing grooves and finding eternal bliss.

[@AudioPilz]

Stealing gear is NOT COOL!!!

[@Positive_Tea]

Oh no 😢

[@samprock]

@@AudioPilzLet’s admit it. For many of us, synthesizers is the most valuable things in our homes LOL

[@thegreatbigmulp]

Good use of Hypnospace Outlaw gameplay footage in the finale. Nice!

[@desktorp]

I could listen to those stock patterns all day wow.

[@AudioPilz]

Same here!

[@hella_hels]

There are some surprisingly killer stock patterns

[@manuelsteinmair]

I had one years ago and never really missed it until now... nice banger you made there! after aknowledging the fact that I lack the skills to make it spit out decent sounds and music I happily sold it to a young guy that is putting it to good use ;-)

[@thejibsplice]

Memes absolutely on point this week, incredible

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@Toolsquatch]

Finally brought one of these bad boys home a couple of months ago to celebrate my birthday, glad you finally featured it on the channel!

[@pirateradioFPV]

"90s leftovers" . . I swear you just went through every Vengeance sample pack I have 👀

[@AudioPilz]

Nothing personal🤣

[@pirateradioFPV]

@@AudioPilz I bet that's what TE said when they pulled it out 🤭🥲

[@GrantGoddard]

This was my first drum machine. I bought it in high school. Didn’t learn much about synthesis using it but had a great time and used it a lot.

[@noiseloader]

The secret sauce to the Korg EMX lies within its noisy compressor. Put it as the last effect in the chain, max out the sensitivity and smash all the synth and drum parts through it (except sub bass and low kicks). Make sure you turn down all the parts to around 20 volume but it completely opens up the synth engine and you can make the filters scream (with a bit of drive). Some of the oscillators can get absolutely filthy!

[@justins-d9825]

The compressor is truly awful, and I love it! Also, keeping the volume of your tracks low is important for using the reverb.

[@AudioPilz]

LOVED the comp on the EM-1!!!

[@MikeMico-g2i]

Can you make a video on how to do this?!

[@waynesilverman3048]

Could u do similar thing with e2 ?

[@nelson5717]

thanks 🙏🏻

[@freethinker79]

Great video! I bought my first Electribe, an ES-1, way back in 1999 brand new for about 300 dollars. It was my first serious sampler with a nice built in sequencer and decent built in effects. The thing is built like a tank and I still use it to this day mostly because I prefer hardware over software and you can put songs/beats together on it really quick and its just plain old fun to use. Later (2008/2009), I added an ESX-1 and EMX-1 to my rig. Quite often I'll use all three together MIDI'd up, and its a blast! Like the first generation Tribes, the ESX and EMX are also built very solid. I've tried to take very good care of all three since the first day I bought them, and they work just as good now as they did then. I never had any issues with knob jitters or any of the other things that people commonly report, thank goodness. One thing is for sure, I love them and will never sell mine!

[@MarcusWerner13]

Turns out, this was a great week for me to pick one of these up for $250. Really enjoyed hearing what you did with it.

[@AudioPilz]

Wow, great find!!!

[@MarcusWerner13]

@AudioPilz It needs new tubes and a pretty thorough cleaning, but seems to otherwise work fine. I agree though, it was a really good deal.

[@fluim0102]

@@MarcusWerner13 Don;t skimp on the tubes! there is a guy on KZbin who shows you how to switch them (need calibrating) and that better tubes actually made it sound a great deal better

[@charleswerbick2154]

I have and love the ESX-1 (the red one) and it’s arpeggiator is still my favorite of any out there. That generation of Electribe was really something special.

[@5imian]

My industrial band had the green and red one. Never could make purple sounds, only yellow.

[@AudioPilz]

Nice!!!

[@Positive_Tea]

Lmao 😂

[@crnkmnky]

I think Coldplay wrote a song about your band…

[@FatSynthDude]

If they came back down to their old prices, I'd buy one of these and the ESX again in a heartbeat, even forsaking my first-gen Electribes and my E2's. There were two very productive points in my life where I was cranking out albums with old-school cheap gear, and the EMX, ESX, MPC1000, and SH32 were at the center of all of the tracks. I miss those halcyon days more than a little bit.

[@MGoolas]

One of the best looking piece of hardware. Peak grooveboxing

[@AudioPilz]

Agreed!!!

[@GUNJACKOFFICIAL]

The jazz preset SLAPS tho

[@AudioPilz]

True that!!!

[@MistabishiTV]

Omg you finally did it... 😮

[@joefoe2329]

All you need now is a pair of skii goggles 😊

[@screamingstrings76]

My brain was too small to use it properly when I had one, and now they're too expensive to justify. I do miss that old blue beast. Thank the synth gods for Digitone II!

[@danieklerr]

I love my Electribe family, of course! I must say, though, that you can "speed dial" 128 patterns, actually. Eight banks of eight Pattern Set slots. Also, if you hold down Shift+Pattern Set, you can select any number of the 16 visible slots for instant pattern chaining. Furthermore, if you mangle your pattern beyond all recognition, you can hold Shift+Pattern to toggle between the new mutated version and the original, saved pattern in real time.

[@nelson5717]

yup I commented that but glad to see someone did it better

[@RobyUanKeRoby]

I performed with this machine only for 7 years straight. You can't understand how many times the song mode saved my liveset, whenever the mute or solo button got stuck....

[@Grooveboxin]

THE BEST GROOVEBOX EVER MADE

[@DmitryPuffin]

I had red one, ESX, and its survived my countless sweaty techno live shows, being 20 years old. I sold it recently since its no longer part of my setup, but man this was one of the best grooveboxes I tried. Korg, just add a sprinkle of more modern sequencer features, and make contemporary config/backup/upgrade connectivity and it will be perfect groovebox.

[@valuemastery]

This box is legend. I bought one that was discounted 50% when Korg stopped production. It's what got me into groove boxes. Solid metal, valves, and everything clearly layed out. Love it.

[@Eugensson]

I loved feeding the output to one of the inputs to apply extra effects

[@AudioPilz]

Wow, great find!!!

[@Sandelec-gm2cl]

I selled a lot of gear in my life but the MX and SX are still in my studio from 2007..✌🏻😏 Without scratches...

[@revel8or]

I always appreciate your enthusiasm! Thanks!!

[@FTNomad]

@1:30 "and of course, toooobs!" That killed me!

[@AudioPilz]

😃

[@vecvan]

should I get a brand noo NuBass? Can't decide, must rewatch the episode and those choones!

[@adammercysystem6450]

Ooof good "woooooorlds" on this Florian. Nice one.

[@Grooveboxwoody]

Quickest I've ever clicked on a Bad Gear video ever Emx is my problematic fav 💕💕

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️

[@TALA-lu5ck]

one of my favourite pieces of gear, and mine comes w an extra fun story. It was a surprise birthday gift by my parents about 12 years ago. (I just started making music but only babysteps in ableton) when my dad happened to see this blue shiny beast abandoned on top of a container at the scrapheap. He thought it looked as an interesting piece of hardware and good to just throw away. He's an electrical engineer so made his own power adapter (it has a pretty non-standard power supply connection) for it and the beast was alive. It did have the well-known jitter issue but I fixed it w/ the bakingsheet trick I found online. No issues since then (3 years already). I sequence it with digitakt and one of my fave things to do is using the percussion pcm sample patch in the synth section - lots of fun to work with the filter/drive/glide functions on perc. One thing I still need to figure out, is to properly send program changes from the DT to the EMX1. It's really annoying as it always does the 4 3 2 1 countdown after it received a program change and before actually changing to a diff pattern. Doing so the emx is always a bar too late w the right pattern, while already playing the new sequence. If anyone knows a workaround lemme know!

[@hella_hels]

The workaround is to try sequencing the digitakt with the EMX. Bonus your patterns can be 8 bars if you want. But I get it. Im getting deeper into syntakt so I understand if you can flow in the elektron sequencer. I wanna know how to “see” notes playback in keyboard mode on my syntakt the way you have easy visual feedback on the EMX of which notes are actually playing.

[@boptillyouflop]

I'm triggered as when faced the two synthesis paths (at 3:23) I took the dark path on the right towards FM, Physical Modelling, Additive and Granular rather than the light path on left towards subtractive and wavetable. 😅

[@AudioPilz]

[@vaisnava]

This is one of those pieces of gear that I have sold and bought multiple times. There is something about it that is always fun even if it has terrible reverb and no poly synths.

[@OrionB1498]

I love any box i can get useful noise from. 😌

[@AudioPilz]

Same here!!!

[@roguefeugen9738]

Finally brought these out!Nice review! I have 2 emx's and 3 esx's and there Midi THRU to an 8 channel in and out there still great for sequencing several consoles .Thx for the show

[@wetwater90]

That's good gear, my bro. I want one so bad.

[@AudioPilz]

I want one too!!!

[@DetroitMicroSound]

I had the ER-1 mk2 for a while. It was really fun, and actually pretty bonkers at times with all the parameter sequencing.

[@krustykillomatik]

This one paired with the ESX are THE Tekno boxes, still played nowadays :D

[@AudioPilz]

Agreed!!!

[@SERO2N]

This was my first piece of gear I ever got and at the time the most expensive thing I had ever gotten in my life. I've pretty much had it within arms reach at all times since (even right now lol). It's been like 5~6 years now. Pairs so well with an SP303, pedals for ind.outs, sequencing on a TB303 The bit about coming from newer groovboxes back to this seems about right tho. I love the 'unfortunate routing' on these bc you can use it quite purposefully but it will always have the old gear crunch, tubes help lean into that in a nice way. Picked up a Deluge recently, everything else I owned before it was this era - whatever had a chance of showing up in a pawn shop real cheap. Really loving the deluge so far. God I could still gush about my lil blue boy forever tho. love the vid

[@mycosys]

4am, must sleep, have a comment

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you!!! Sleep well!!!

[@withiddenoise]

You didn't mention the two biggest problems with this unit: encoder jitter - you turn the knob and values randomly go up or down and paramater 'ghosting' - you touch the strip or buttons and the parameters go crazy. I had 2 units that did this. I kept the second one and neglected it for years due to these problems. A couole months ago I finally decided to do something about it and just fixed it myself. For the encoder if you carefully take it apart, just clean it with ipa and put it back together. For the 'ghosting' I tried partchment paper between the circuit boards but that didn't work. I finally had success with a thin silicone cutting matt that I trimmed to fit between the top and bottom of the machine and I have been in beat-making heaven ever since!

[@kevinmortimer1883]

the electribes are cool.. as long as you keep clear of the newer ones. plastic doorstops

[@AudioPilz]

True that!!!

[@leonardoflama4544]

I used to have one. It's the most fun gear I've owned and the easiest to use. When the new Korg Emx came out I was hoping it was better than this one but unfortunately it's not. Great review as always!

[@pepuletrz]

yes! so you are changing to "the best gear"?

[@AudioPilz]

I have no idea what you're talking about;)

[@towerrunner4675]

@@AudioPilz Tuuubes. 😄

[@dustinhodell]

Those high frequency cymbals in the last jam sound great! They cut through the mix so well

[@thermionic3]

the dreaded knob jitter issue is all about the ribbon cable folks

[@AudioPilz]

Thanks for the heads up!

[@nodataavailable]

There was also a manufacturing fault on some models, if I recall. The two circuit boards sometimes touched, and I seem to remember you could 'fix' it by putting paper between them both.

[@TylerWoodisawesome]

yes! I just commented on it - i tried other fixes years ago to no avail, like putting parchment paper between the circult boards, but ultimately I fixed it for good by cleaning the contacts on the ribbon cables and plugging back in tightly (and also trying to smooth out any kinks in the cable). After being sad for years with knob jitter I got excited about it again once it worked

[@Johnsys359]

This review was a long time coming. I had immense fun with the emx back then. I used it specifically to create the snare drum from Depeche mode's world in my eyes. For fun, I recreated Stevie Wonder's Superstition from scratch using all the sounds internal and sequencer.

[@Neuros]

Thomas The Tank Engine by Mistabishi is still the best thing I’ve seen the Electribe do.

[@albee8642]

Mistabishi is the Electribe God. He and Florian are the best cures for GAS on You Tube.

[@PommesMitMayo]

After pausing for every meme the jams are always perfectly timed to prevent carpal tunnel syndrome.

[@RonCavagnaro]

Emx1 korg ruuuules yeaaaa! Note if you get one and the screen is blank but turns on ok there's a well known fuse issue it is very simple i guess i sent mine in to an electrician and it worked great!!!

[@AudioPilz]

Classic!

[@vagifrzayev280]

Nice sound; looking forward to op-xy review!

[@lastminute3668]

After reselling and buying gear the emx1 is my center piece . It rocks

[@AudioPilz]

👍

[@ko83na]

Great badgear and also performance as always. Back in the day I remembered KZbin was randomly recommending me the channel denkitribe and I thought. What are those blue and red boxes… and oh wow, what sound can come out of them… totally fascinating (: in the end, I only got the ancient iPad app of the red one :D

[@autecheee]

0:37. Nahh no sweat and don’t push any of the buttons, let Uli clone them for you!

[@AudioPilz]

❤️❤️❤️Uli❤️❤️❤️

[@antons5120]

How Korg went for electribe 2 > drumlogue (from this) is beyond common sense

[@AudioPilz]

Mind-boggling...

[@chrisdoel2778]

Doing their best Roland impression 😂

[@JobimSynthMusic]

six years after replacing this with a digitakt I still haven't been able to make things with the digitakt that I could with the emx. a shame, because I was never able to make good clean sounds on the emx. i guess I sold too soon before developing the skills. i even replaced the tubes with vintage 1970s ones that improved the sound a little bit. the stock tubes distorted in an unpleasant way for me.

[@hella_hels]

Im slowly learning to love syntakt, but there are many ways this EMX does things right in terms of workflow. Like elektron just implementing 8bar patterns? 20 years too late.

[@tweakmygroovebox608]

Entertaining and informative- and I've kinda always wanted the EMX, especially after seeing the legend that is Mister Bishi using one like a boss!

[@AudioPilz]

Thank you so much!!!

[@Rufusdos]

Was just thinking about Mista. He certainly has mastered the korg boxes. Hope he’s moved on from whatever was troubling him when he got kicked off hospital.

[@darkinertia2]

this thing is giving me 2000s boss multi fx processor vibes and i love it

[@antavikta919]

Finally an EMX episode! ❤

[@AudioPilz]

None too soon;)

[@antavikta919]

​​@@AudioPilzalready refurbished 2 with faulty buttons and bit of rust. Possibly the only gear I would never sell... Might buy some more 😂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mX7ElH1od5toe8Usi=1q_yepzcTEPao1lS

[@DSZI.ShyHunterBB]

Ah good to see this is how far we’ve come.

[@AudioPilz]

👍

[@DoorsInTheLabyrinth]

The real fun of this machine is using the ribbon/arp to "hijack" a melodic sequence to add live variations to a lead. And you can out that MIDI-wise to get that performance on a synth with more in depth sound design capability. Also really great for hands on noise/effects performance too. Really miss mine, but sold it for like twice what I paid for it when I needed the cash. oh, and A+++ for the Jacob's Ladder sample at the end of the video!

[@AudioPilz]

Great arp indeed!

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

The EMX1 is one model that did tempt me back in the late 2000s when I lived in the (American) Midwest. Of all things, what made me curious about it was hearing it used in a praise and worship context. This Christian rock band that I auditioned for as a drummer in 2008 had a drummer who was about to make his exit. There was one song on which he activated a sparse drum pattern on this baby and played ambient synth pad tones from its trigger buttons. That momentarily struck my fancy, but I did not go forward with trying to grab one. The indecision of red versus blue got in my way, along with budget matters.

[@karllongden4011]

that's the best sounding intro i've heard for a long time deep and punchy sounds

[@AudioPilz]

Yes, I was surprised too

[@lastminute3668]

Check out my jam with the emx1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHa4k3xrfNmJfrcsi=-WP1rMB0dUvYh66x

[@M0N0KIRA]

My teenage years in a single machine. ❤

[@Divuar]

I own a SmartCard version and still use it. It is a fantastic unit with flawless workflow, super fast and has a unique sound. Love this thing and hope Korg will issue a proper new generation for it one day.

[@Aetila]

Behringer will.... :-)

[@AudioPilz]

Workflow is awesome!

[@Crotekk]

I would like to point out that in East Germany, an entire scene called „Hardtekk“ emerged from the sound of the Korg Electribe series. This scene has existed for a good 20 years and is still alive today. Truly remarkable. 🙏🏼

[@Eigenstates.]

Price 800e, 18 minutes after Bad Gear $1400 on reverb. The economy is working. Sorry still bitter about the TB-3

[@AudioPilz]

Sorry for that❤️

[@Eigenstates.]

@@AudioPilz Hopefully the sarcasm came through but given the world we're in now... all the love. Just poking a bit of fun.

[@niiranen]

Had to stop at 07:30 because the track sounds like it could be from the game: Ridge Racer. NICE!👍🏻 ❤😊