Erica Synths LXR02 // Firmware Update // Review and Demo

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The Erica Synths LXR02 Drum Machine has had a recent firmware update V1.2 that brings some extra functionality, including being able to edit the sounds in performance mode so you can trigger them with the buttons. Its also got flams, microtiming and more PPQ options for clock in and out.
This isn't a full walkthrough as there are plenty of other videos demoing thew main functions. Just my take on the update and why its sooooo good! including some sound and sound editing demos :)
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►ClubbingTV From the Studio:
• From The Studio
0:00 Intro
0:30 Some Sounds #1
1:28 Firmware V1.2
5:06 FM Bass
6:17 MIDI Control
7:55 Kicks
9:22 Transient Clicks
11:13 Hats
12:50 Some Sounds #2
13:45 Final Thoughts
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[@magicseadog8674]

Thanks for the vid great review.

[@xisotopex]

oh man do I really need one of these.... it would pair so well with my quadrantid swarm...

[@lesterfalcon1350]

I'm quite keen on this , seems to had escaped my radar. I think it will compliment the samples of my MPC really well. All my synths route though the MPC and it's fx. So I could run 2 main from the LXR into the MPC to play alongside everything else, and the extra 2 outs alongside the main mix. Then run a groove through the LXR extra 2 outs, when I'm having to pause everything else when the MPC needs to load up new material, instead of just having a little intermission. And it sounds so inspiring too, coming up with some new beats that have some movement, as well as capable of melodic ideas. My Only wish was that it had 2 spare tracks for sequencing external gear, but we always wish for more

[@lesterfalcon1350]

I had this a few weeks. I love this little monster.

[@asantecarter7013]

Quality review!

[@StarskyCarr]

Thanks

[@asantecarter7013]

@@StarskyCarr Would love to see a demo/review of LXR 02 being used as six voice mono synth with chromatic keyboard play.

[@freejazzbone]

always on the cutting edge Starsky...

[@StarskyCarr]

Haha.. I’m wondering if this is ironic now there’s another firmware version 1.3! 😂🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@dinogoldie9716]

After much Umming and Ahhing on my part, I at last decided to get an LXR02. I've only had it a week and I'm still very much at the reading/memorising the manual stage but here's my first impressions: PROS: Solid build and good feel. Amazing sound design possibilities - and you can play each drum voice as a chromatic monosynth from an external controller. The drum voices lie somewhere between the Volca Drum and the Model Cycles/Syntakt. CONS: Button layout makes no sense. The developers should have used the same UI for loading/saving projects/kits/songs as the patterns mode (i.e. using the steps and bar buttons). I look forward to the implementation of "Performance mode" because, at present, it's kinda empty/crap. There's no stepjump or live stutter control. The live "roll" feature is gridlocked to 16 steps per measure (there is a flamm feature in step record though).

[@saardean4481]

what a fantastic kick sound in the demo starting at 30sec! I need a sample

[@StarskyCarr]

Haha… I put them on my Patreon page. It’s made from a kick plus a short click.

[@saardean4481]

@@StarskyCarr so you`re patreonizing me now?! Shaaaaame!

[@StarskyCarr]

@@saardean4481 haha… if you enter the fold - there’ll be no escape!

[@falangistavaleroso9689]

It´s as bad as the digital kick on the VIRUS C i returned 20 years ago to the shop, how any likes those digital kicks? bad machine, sorry, get a vintage Pearl, those are good drums.

[@saardean4481]

@@falangistavaleroso9689 you are right. So digital. Would be better if it sounded like a Ludwig kickdrum ! What can I say my friend. Different taste

[@herbertdruschke503]

thank you for the video, sir. interesting features microtiming and editing in the performance mode is what i was missing. top. and, yeah, i totally agree with your "niggling" about the storing procedures. i find it unclear and confusing. at the end of the day i just store everything i can reach with the "save" button in some routine order. regardless of that the LXR02 is an excellent drum machine which sounds absolutely awesome, is super versatile and great fun. top hardware quality and inspiration through the roof. erica knows exactly what she is doing ;-)

[@StarskyCarr]

I love it and can well live with the confusing saves - I always manage to get what I was doing back - as you say - save it all.

[@happyjessus]

Is any of its sound engines capable of sounding like a chord? I'm interested in dub chords in particular. Nice demo and commenting btw!

[@JohnMcGFrance]

Nice to see something different to the usual tr808 and 909 clones. The ability to edit in performance mode was essential. Not sure why it wasn’t there before. However, while different I just don’t like the sounds. Too metallic for my taste, but I can see others liking it. Maybe if I heard it in a mix with other gear going I’d like it more. It would certainly cut through. Great demo as ever. At ,east this time I’m not going to be spending money unlike your Behringer Odessey review which saw me considerably poorer. Thanks again for the great videos you post. Much appreciated.

[@user-gv8vv2id7t]

i pair mine with my moog dfam, sounds incredible

[@JohnMcGFrance]

@@user-gv8vv2id7t I have the dfam too. It’s great.

[@Blackhoodie85]

It definitely shines when used with other gear. I used mine with an Elektron Model: Samples for awhile. Organic sounds from the sampler (vocal samples, "real" drum hits, etc) blended with the raw digital sound of the LXR made a great-sounding combo.

[@JohnMcGFrance]

@@Blackhoodie85 Thank you. That’s good to know. I always feel reviews should try and put gear into a full song mix. It helps so much. Glad you’re enjoying it.

[@Matt-zp1jn]

I thought the LXR-02 has an SD card slot to load some samples or one shots etc onto it? So you can play /perform samples on it too right?

[@sentokan]

Great! Can I load individual drums , each from another kit?

[@xisotopex]

hopefully the s3equencer is 64 steps? or can be chained multiple times?

[@StarskyCarr]

Yes it’s 64 steps

[@saardean4481]

Here I am again. About to pull a trigger on one of those. Now as I type you are mentioning the Saving issue. Oh gee, I wish there was a way to "simply save everything" like I do in my Daw. I have the same issue only my Elektron Samples . Like you say 2i am never sure what I saved somehow" Cant be that hard or is it so hard to implement in a machine like this? Then I could save the whole damn session-project and later worry about deciding if I wanted to save a kit , a pattern , a whatever etc etc ....

[@Klocaine237]

I got one of these and absolutely love it. The only thing I don't like is the save features. Very confusing

[@djktron]

I hear ya, I thought it saved then…nada

[@rickmorty4921]

they fix the sync?

[@pantov]

i updated to v1.2, but still have sync out problems when the lxr gets a external midi clock..

[@StarskyCarr]

I must admit I've never tried that.

[@Bivius82]

I am struggling with same issues, got an electron rytm II and db-01, i cannot sync all 3 together!

[@pantov]

My lxr02 gets midi clock from erm multiclock' and sends analog sync to tb03. Tbo3 sounds sloppy with this setup. Now tb03 gets sync from tr8s, so problem for me is fixed. But issue in lxr still exists.

[@Matt4star]

I have one of these. were you using the controller to play one sound and have it change tone?

[@StarskyCarr]

Its the sort of thing I do all the time so quite possibly but I can’t remember tbh. On the first demo where the image swaps to negative it was definitely all done on the LXR02 - the video shows me tweaking live. I think I may have just demo’d tweaking with a controller in the vid. But it’s easily done and opens up loads of possibilities.

[@Matt4star]

@@StarskyCarr I figured it out thanks.

[@kevinvotaw2916]

15:00 if you save the patton then the kit and the patton then the kit project and patton for the patton then patton the kit patton and patton oswald project for the kit on the kit for when you're pattin your ol kit patton or pattin your mate patton depending on the project and if you save that first then you're good

[@StarskyCarr]

Aaah got it now!! 😂

[@TheJorkiller]

like so much this video, i already bought one and like it but i don´t understand why it hasn´t reverb FX

[@StarskyCarr]

I think it’s the processing required for decent reverb. But maybe it’s habit to program it! I agree it would be a nice addition.

[@sub-jec-tiv]

People are a bit entitled these days, they expect every piece of hardware to do everything, and cost the same as a Behringer. Sorry to say, small companies just can’t create a product with the kind of insane features like reverb, compressor, etc, that companies like Behringer or Roland can do with their huge economy of scale. Gear from smaller companies is bound to be weirder / capable of more unusual stuff. But you might not get those niceties like reverb. Personally, i love to run a great quality reverb on a send anyway. So that’s never a deal-breaker for me.

[@randydarklight]

I have the LXR02 but the new FW doesn´t make the snare section any better

[@substance90]

I can get decent snares out of mine but you really have to add a lot of mlsulation including LFOs from other voices. I'd go as far as to say I like my LXR snares much better than my hats. I really dislike the LXR hats I always seem to end up with.

[@dinogoldie9716]

Is anybody sharing custom kit files for the LXR02? If so, where?

[@b__wenner]

The KZbin channel 'Another Machines' seems to be releasing kits and patterns specifically for techno

[@pyrox2518]

the flam effect sounds kind of terrible. i don't get why they didn't add it to the hi hat instead.

[@zilcross]

Hi i've just bough your sample but i doesn't work. I sent you a mail about this problem . Please let me know

[@markkilley2683]

Some things are as clear as mud.

[@StarskyCarr]

Sorry about that - what’s confusing?

[@markkilley2683]

@@StarskyCarr When you were having trouble? saving patterns etc, and it wasn't straightforward.

[@StarskyCarr]

Oh yeah… that’s still confuses me! 😂

[@StarskyCarr]

@@markkilley2683 it’s straightforward enough to save anything, but you have to take into consideration what you’ve edited. So if you have a pattern playing a certain kit and edit that kit you need to save the edited kit not just the pattern or project, and also need to load the new edited kit into the pattern and the. save the patter. otherwise the pattern thinks it should be playing the previous kit which you edited. It makes sense once you get your head round it but it’s not as simple as ‘save all’ and ever setting is automatically saved. … I didn’t go into too much detail in the video as it starts to make it sound more complicated than it actually is… but at first you need to get your head around it.

[@ztkspace5885]

Are you on chuffin Higsons?

[@sebp400]

damn you, I thought there was a new firmware!

[@MIDERA]

Totally thought the same thing, although I don't have one - it did seem like there was a new firmware based on the title.

[@StarskyCarr]

Sorry for any confusion. The v1.2 is new compared to the original demos and reviews - all of which complained about not being able to trigger and edit sounds at the same time. I thought I’d try to make it clear that the 1.2 is new compared to other demos you might have seen. Again, apologies it wasn’t meant to mislead in any way.

[@livefromtheglampad]

I had this machine for 4 months and still can’t safe anything, I just recorder to tape Every time I use it .

[@StarskyCarr]

haha... I know how you feel. I've managed to get used to it.. by saving everything in every order!

[@VJFranzK]

Let me buy a LXR and trade it for a Tempest! B - D ...but then buy another LXR also

[@StarskyCarr]

😂😂