Korg Electribe 2 Sampler 2021 Review

Korg Electribe 2 Sampler 2021 Review
This is my review on the korg Electribe 2 sampler.
This is a gem i think.
I've only had this a few days and clearly see the potential..
The onboard songs are incredible and a real testemant to what this machine is capable of.
I will be doing plenty of jams and tutroials for this one no doubt!!
#korg
#novation
#electribe
#dawless
#groovebox
#wearenovation

[@lundsweden]

I have to say I own one of these and I like it, however it took me a while to learn my way around the menu, so to minimise menu diving. I think the best things about it are the rubber pads, which feel pretty good. Pads can be set to velocity sensitivity. I think it also feels nice and solid with the metal chassis, but is light, battery powered by 6x AA batteries (you can just swap in already charged batteries). The unit also has a sound, which I like. Quantised beats can be compensated for with groove templates. File handling could be better though and the effects eat into the 24 note (max) polyphony. I do most audio editing/naming on my PC then load the samples via SD card. I find this is much faster and the audio far cleaner (the built in sample inputs suck). One tip: I use Audacity to edit the samples, and to fit more samples into the Electribe, I do a Frequency Analysis on longer samples, find the highest frequency, then set the sampling rate at double that (Nyquist theory). I have been able to accurately capture the frequency response of some very bassy samples with 8khz vs 44.1khz, which saves heaps of space.

[@TechTronix01]

Great comment and some awesome tips thank you.. one thing I would say is my audio in is clean.. I do have an audio isolator on the output.. so that's cleaning everything up. Gonna pin this as its useful. :)

[@lundsweden]

I just wanted to correct the bit about the audio inputs, when you said you inputs were clean, it made me curious. I used a different cable and voila, now my inputs are clean too!

[@difflocktwo]

Isn't changing the sample rate the same as slowing down a pitched up sample? Won't the 8 kHz sample rate file playback at 48 kHz?

[@lundsweden]

@@difflocktwo Not really. According to the Nyquist Theorem, you need for example a sampling rate of 40,000 Khz to accurately record a waveform of 20,000 Khz. If I do a frequency analysis usin Audacity, and see the highest frequency is, for example 6,000 Khz, I know that I need to set the sampling rate to 12,000 Khz to reproduce this sample. It is true that if you play a sample of 40,000 Khz one octave down, the effective sampling rate will be 20,000 Khz.

[@difflocktwo]

@@lundsweden That last sentence is basically what I was asking. But I wonder if the electribe accepts low sample rate files and simply plays them back at a higher pitch.

[@squishmusic]

Gr8. Lets have more tutorials. I might get my ES2 out again. Make sure you have the last/latest OS. It fixed some bugs like the glitch and yeah quite a few things. 4get tho.

[@TechTronix01]

Will do

[@squishmusic]

Your slice workaround: Do as you suggest and copy the slices to say 8 parts. Then sequence the groove you want...and then...RESAMPLE it back to one part. You could then do the resample trick a few times and say have 4 parts with sequenced slices instead of 8.

[@TechTronix01]

Yeah that way when you've resampled the break back into it. You can chop it again and change the pitch.. just have to make sure your happy with pattern before commiting.. I think there is a method in there somewhere.. more time is needed

[@squishmusic]

@@TechTronix01 theres always a method in my madness. U could also reverse, add more FX and use K-pad too.

[@superguitarras111]

que tal jordi...si tuvieras la oportunidad de comprar el modelo que venia con las dos valvulas y esta . con cual te quedarias ??

[@MrTomaat23]

2:55 "Not to sure about that snare now" 😄One is never fully sure about one's snare.

[@GregDixson]

Good info, cheers. It's a pity there's not a waveform display and sample slicer proper :-s i think that would swing it over the Electribe 2 synth version. That said, looks like a neat box, and holds up feature-wise in 2021

[@TechTronix01]

if it sliced well i would be over the moon. the detection isnt bad its just that you cant play it mpc style :(

[@travistouchdown1812]

@@TechTronix01 Kinda hoping for an electribe 3... upgraded display and waveform editing, multi effects per part, time stretch, more sample memory.

[@ltfringr]

I recently hacktribed mine after not touching it for years, I'm having fun so far

[@jevogroni4829]

finally the algorithim shows me something I want to see

[@polentinn]

27:40 very nice sound!

[@joseph395]

This looks pretty dope, whenever I see the name “korg electribe” I think of techno music cuz when I started out making beats around 2002 I went to GC and got my first piece of gear.. it was the korg electribe em-1 and I was like 13 lol.. I did some dope stuff on there but it was hard because it was aimed towards the techno crown Lol.. stupid GC employee smh.. I wanted something like a mpc but they sold me on the EM-1 Lol.. but this electribe looks dope though I can hear a lot of urban hip hop sounds than the early versions 👍

[@joelherbert3377]

Hopefully, this isn't too dumb of a question, but, if I bounce the stems/sounds/samples of a song out of my DAW, load them onto the SD card, and then insert that SD card, will I be able to play those individual stems/sounds/samples by hitting the drum pads? Sorry, I feel like that's such a dumb question.

[@TechTronix01]

It will just make 16 tracks of audio.. if you want to manipulate it further your going to need to bring the audio into a sampler in the daw

[@BrancoArgenta]

@@TechTronix01 16 tracks is plenty! I wish the sp 404 mark 2 gave me at least 8!

[@VTOLKits]

Great review, thumb up!

[@TechTronix01]

Thanks man I appreciate it

[@waynesilverman3048]

@@TechTronix01 thanks for doing this pal ,i havent mastered the sampling part yet like sampling things from my pc ,you the sticker how do u change the control's on the pads?

[@waynesilverman3048]

Like I have to dive in the menu and I'm gonna buy the sticker tonight but don't know how to get the pads In your order

[@TechTronix01]

@@waynesilverman3048 how do you mean get the pads in my order?

[@waynesilverman3048]

@@TechTronix01 when i do my step sequence i use the dial buttan and the pads light up .but i sense you and others (with the stickers its a short cut and much faster with buttan labled scale ect..) Or a pads in that order anyway the way the stickers show u because i menu dive .a love going in the key of d when i sequence even tho i much prefer makin my fresh own riffs -rec and play

[@arcticgenerator9556]

great video, very clear.

[@TechTronix01]

Cheers man..

[@That125Kid]

Does it have 16 midi tracks to record on because I just brought the sp404mkii and you can only record on midi channel 1 shits crazy?

[@TechTronix01]

Lol yeah all 16

[@That125Kid]

@@TechTronix01 LOL wanna trade

[@TechTronix01]

@@That125Kid I moved on and got a rhythm.. but I'm getting a digitakt.. that's the way forward

[@That125Kid]

@@TechTronix01 ok when you get the digitakt still wanna trade?🤨🤣

[@That125Kid]

@@TechTronix01 Seriously can you chop on the tribe like they do on a mpc?

[@travistouchdown1812]

I didn't know you could turn off the master effect per part! Haha.

[@davidmoore9385]

Seems like you can do pretty much everything if you spend the time , ordering next week , will need my brain updating very soon.

[@TechTronix01]

if you can, try and get a digitakt. its where i ended up.

[@davidmoore9385]

@@TechTronix01 was wondering how good the smpletraks will be

[@vittoriodentis119]

why when i make a project a little more demanding i get stuck loading all the samples and i lose everything? I only have 18 samples left and I have to reset everything to factory settings

[@TechTronix01]

Unfortunately I don't know the answer to that one

[@jevogroni4829]

why do you have to reset? can't you just delete or edit the samples you don't need?