Korg ESX Pitch Hack: Up To 13 Keyboard Parts? SnowMetal 2021

[@danieklerr]

For anyone's information, the intro music is from Depeche Mode's 1980 demo cassette, when they were called Composition of Sound. It features the legendary Vince Clarke of Erasure/Yazoo/The Assembly.

[@billysunshine9100]

unbelievable new technique, even more unbelievable performance, the best man on a sampler online, period

[@danieklerr]

Wow, that's really high praise! Thank you so much for the vote of confidence, and thank you for watching. :)

[@billysunshine9100]

I love the craft and most guys on youtube come nowhere close to mastering any of the pieces in their mountain of gear, just collecting electronics and clicks.

[@DmitryPuffin]

Wow. Your videos always get me excited and inspire me to switch on my ESX and play it more.

[@danieklerr]

Hello.. I don't know what my continued fascination is with this machine, lol. It certainly has it's downsides and limitations, but it also has a myriad of undiscovered methods under the surface. I'm glad you get inspired by my videos; it's all I can ask for! Thanks for watching! :)

[@paweldun]

i really apreciate your videos, god bless you man

[@danieklerr]

Hello.. God bless you as well! Richly! Thank you for watching. :)

[@fezzik4692]

glad you didn't give up the ESX1!!!!

[@danieklerr]

Hello.. I've given it up over and over, sometimes for years at a time! Lol.. But this time I'm keeping it. In fact, I'm looking to buy a few more. Thanks for the encouragement, and thanks for watching! :)

[@leonvankammen7499]

Very cool technique. Thanks for sharing the 'fibonacci' of the ESX. Afterwards, the randomize feature could probably create interesting variation-patterns too.

[@danieklerr]

What is this "randomize" feature you speak of?! Do you mean the S&H waveform in the Modulation section?

[@leonvankammen7499]

@@danieklerr iirc you told me about it: shift+2 and then use the dialbutton

[@danieklerr]

@@leonvankammen7499 .. I vaguely remember a discussion about it, and I think that knowledge came from LousyFacelift? Anyway, it's a great tip for combination with this technique, which I haven't explored. Thank you!

[@GreatKukuruzo]

@@danieklerrWhat are you talking about? Could you please explain the randomize feature? How does it work?

[@danieklerr]

@@GreatKukuruzo .. Hello. Load up any pattern. Listen to it. Hold Shift + Pad 2, "Move Data". You can scroll through three options; Move, Repeat or Random. Choose Random by pressing Pad 2 again. Select all tracks you'd like to randomize. It's often fun to randomize everything except the kick and snare. Press Pad 2 one more time to finalize, and listen to your newly created pattern. :) Thanks for watching!

[@ScarPolish]

man, thank you for these videos. i just got an esx and it's great to see someone still putting time into this device. loving it so far

[@danieklerr]

Hello, and welcome! I'm really glad people are finding a renewed interest I this machine. Thank you for watching. :)

[@AepoK-]

okay... ! here we go! I'm going to "sand" your tutorials! your channel and your sounds are excellents. Thank you for sharing techniques, it's still too rare on the net (or maybe I'm bad at research ^^) thank you again !💪

[@danieklerr]

Thank you for the kind words! I appreciate you taking the time to watch. :)

[@GreatKukuruzo]

Bravo! That's all I can say

[@danieklerr]

Thank you! And I appreciate you watching. :)

[@TheStarpy]

I like. You are a genius

[@danieklerr]

Hello.. Thank you! I'm glad you got something out of it. :) Thanks for watching!

[@TheStarpy]

@@danieklerr 👍👌

[@djantix1200]

LOL, you are a mad man! More solid gold tips! Jungle Sky baby!

[@danieklerr]

Thanks again! Also.. Carlos Soulslinger was my headliner at the very first big party I ever threw.

[@djantix1200]

@@danieklerr AH nice! We are cut from the same clothe. I grew up in Long Island NY and used to go to all the raves back in the day. Also, used to shop at the Liquid Sky record shop. Soul Slinger is the true Jungle OG. I have many old Liquid Sky cuts on vinyl to this day. ODI, 1.8.7. and the like... big up man. Miss those old warehouse rave days.

[@danieklerr]

@@djantix1200 .. Amazing! 30 years ago, I was friends with Frankie Bones and Heather Heart (and Adam, too, before the drama). I doubt they would know me now, except maybe if they saw me face-to-face, lol. But it was an amazing time in my life, and shaped the nature of my adulthood forever.

[@carbilicon]

Yeah. I do that all the time.

[@danieklerr]

Very nice! Thank you for watching!

[@ezequiel587]

you are de boss man... great! a hold from argentina. Why do you touch the ribbon at minute 4:58 when choosing the slice part?

[@danieklerr]

Hello.. Thank you! At that moment, I was entering note information for closed hi-hats. During real-time recording, I find the arp ribbon to be a quick way to lay down 1/8 notes or 1/16 notes, especially for hats. Thanks for watching! :)

[@argonkrypton808]

Just commentined on ur mc808....but my partner has a mx and a esx ...which are by far the best boxs for live sets....they are both hear now waiting on two full rebuild kits.. it's to easy to beat the hell out of em in a big show...which we did for 10 years as the electro duo OortCloud....also released 4 records under the label militant science.. Basic point...no matter what you use ...if it works that's all that matters....every song we recorded was always a live take. 4 hands can get the gear moving...I've never arranged a song but he has a family and we can't party forever...but I can do alot more than I had to with the mc808 back in our duo ...i mastered the mc808 only after we stopped playing together..just takes time. The stuff u were playing sounds good..dark breaks... we did really dark electro bass mostly Miami bass and Detroit technobass... Cheers....we have a couple videos on here I think from our label militant science

[@danieklerr]

Cool, I'll look for your Militant Science releases. As far as the SX/MX units go, I definitely wish Korg would have truly updated them for the newest Electribe versions. I think sound quality definitely suffers from the tubes' starved-plate design (Google that term; it's an eye-opener). I started to design a "false tube" which actually houses another circuit, a limiter/maximizer, the controls of which would be fastened onto a plate where the current tube-window is. Also, the sample-time is horrendous. I would pay $1500+ for a real ESX v2, with disk streaming from SD card, 128-voice poly, 6 outs and stereo ins, a proper slice engine, upgraded insert effects, master channel processing, elastic audio time stretch (a la Octatrack), 1+gb RAM and the same old ESX sequencer. Thanks again for watching. :)

[@matejv2840]

hey Daniel, so how many distinct midi outs can you get out of this machine? Just 2, or is there a way to have more? (even single notes would be ok). Do you have any experiences using an external synth with esx? that would be a good subject to address. Many thanks and keep up the good energy :)

[@danieklerr]

Hello.. You can get three MIDI channels out on the ESX. One for each of the two keyboard parts and one for all other parts. I'm actually planning already to do a video on sequencing external keys with the ESX. Thanks for watching! :)

[@matejv2840]

@@danieklerr perfect looking forward

[@wetwork6553]

Please oh please design the Electribe 3. Korg should be begging for your input!

[@danieklerr]

Yes! I would love to work with Korg on R&D, but so far they haven't been on board. I appreciate the kind words, and I appreciate you taking the time to watch. :)

[@matejv2840]

or perhaps Behringer will make it happen sooner who knows hehe

[@danieklerr]

@@matejv2840 .. I've been hoping for a Behringer analog groovebox! Send Uli a message and vouch for me as a tester/designer. :)

[@ingaziorodriguez5735]

isn t D♯ 12 ?

[@danieklerr]

Apparently, yes. When using the tuner to get the values right, there was an issue finding the perfect D#, which required finagling. I just turned on the unit and tested it, and a +12 value is indeed a perfect D#. One of the best kind of Mandela Effects, lol. Thanks for sharing and thank you for watching :)