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.

[MrTomaat]

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

[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.

[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.

[ltfringr]

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

[jevogroni]

finally the algorithim shows me something I want to see

[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

[superguitarras]

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

[joseph]

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 👍

[travistouchdown]

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

[vittoriodentis]

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

[joelherbert]

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.

[davidmoore]

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

[ThatKid]

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?