Bad Gear - Korg MPC ZERO

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Bad Gear - Korg MPC ZERO

Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most-hated audio tools. The evolution of electronic musical instruments is mysterious: while we have seen vast improvements in the fields of design, bling bling per square inch and workflow elitism, the spec sheets are oftentimes outclassed by the feature sets of many vintage instruments.

Today we are going to talk about the Electribe 2 Sampler. This most recent installment of the iconic groove machine range was brought to the market in 2015 and not only combines the aforementioned limitations with the product family’s trademark primitivism, Korg also managed to make it look REALLY bad when compared to its predecessor.

Korg Electribe 2s

Thanks to Klangfarbe for lending me one of their floor models:

Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:00 Overview Electribe 2s
01:36 Stock Sounds
02:00 Sampling, Sample Loading
02:08 High Pitched Tone that will destroy all your Samples
02:23 Synth Engine, Oscillators
02:38 Filter
02:53 Envelope, LFO
03:11 Insert FX
03:17 Master FX
03:36 Touch Scale, Gate Arp
03:50 Multitimbrality, Polyphony
03:56 Sequencer
04:10 Menu, UI
04:20 Polymeter, Groove, Swing
04:30 Pattern & Sample Editing, other Limitations
04:49 Sample Management
04:58 What else??? (Chords, Thanks,...)
05:47 Hate
06:13 Jam 1 ( LoFi House )
07:07 Jam 2 ( Drum'n'Bass )
08:08 Finale ( Downtempo )
08:40 Verdict

[pirateradioFPV]

We are the Korg, you will be Volcanized 👀

[Studio_to]

Bad Gear is my GAS cure. Nothing is safe. Bad Gear is king.

[budkin]

Hey Florian, I'm an old guy but a synth noob and also new to your channel. I just want to say that I absolutely love this series. It makes me literally laugh out loud. I just wanted to say thank you and keep up the great work.

[MARS_]

Best device i ever spend my money for, so much fun, so creative, never had any noise problems and build quailty is amazing.

[thelanavishnuorchestra]

The highlight of pretty much every episode, no matter how crappy the device -- the jams! No exception here.

[ferociousmullet]

Ok well done. The Sine wave into bald head got a genuine lol. *slow clap*

[Screenshot]

Funny how it still has more voices than most elektron gear. Woof.

[PerChristianFrankplads]

I will sue you for false advertising:

This is clearly not a show about music tools. This is a show about how insane all the unrelated/related memes can get. And we love it. Keep it going!

[Syntox]

As a 1st gen Electribe user: This release was a crime. As is the fact that its still be sold new for as much money as they're asking.

[guillermoc]

I was about to sell my Volca Sample 2 to get an Electribe 2S, but this video convinced me to keep my funky VS2; limitations are what give these instruments their character and I "love" the VS2's limitations. Great video as always!!! cheers from southern Chile!

[MrOuija-rrkq]

I’m so glad you reviewed this. I was so shitty when I found out you could not choke samples outside of two samples. That was the first sampler I bought.
I liked the work flow though and that size/features were good for its price.

[mescaLEO]

Florian, you are a staple of my friday evenings (together with Andrea di Giorgio - Zerofriendly):
gym, shower, dinner, beer, joint and Bad Gear <3

[DoctorNemmo]

There's one good thing with these Electribes and it's that you can export the audio stems of your patterns as .wav files that you can easily import into Ableton. That way you don't end up limited by the machine's outputs. Mine, however, gathers dust since I got the Maschine+.

[chrisdavies]

Ah, my first ever hardware sampler and my first dive into electronic music making. I love how it looks, there's plenty of valid criticism (noise, menu diving, polyphony) and I outgrew it eventually and moved to an MPC One and Digitakt but I'll always have fond memories of cutting my teeth with this little box.

[StupidKarenscaught]

Always a pleasure, thank you for all your hard work 🙏

[portikov]

I love the electribe 2s. If you get used to a few menu shortcuts then it is super fun to jam with. I changed the original sounds with the ignition soundbank a few years ago. Very nice!

[DJDrue]

Another fantastic video... I used two of these for a live show several years ago, and your analysis of the limitations is spot on. Now using an MPC and haven't looked back...except to dream about a 4 man super group using nothing but electribes :).

[reggiep]

That sine wave with the heads was visual banger of a treat. You're a twisted genius and I'm glad I'm subbed to this channel to cheer me up in dark and difficult times. 🤟🤗

[MwahMwahProductions]

The sampler that made me realise that I needed an MPC live!

[picoterramusic]

The way you cover over 20 topics in less than 10 minutes is impressive, as it’s really concise and does the work 👏