Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

>>honestly if i saw someone at a gig and i saw them with an electribe performing i would be like "wuss!".  total cheese, dude.<<

that's rather simplistically judgmental, james, if you don't mind me sticking my opinion into "your thread" :-)

doesn't it depend on how they're using it?

I've used the ES-1 for years now as a live sample playback machine for daft noises (i.e. I hit the pads on the thing & strange noises come out through the minimal lo-fi effects engine). it's smaller than anything else with the same capability, & doesn't need a hard-drive to load from.

+ as I mentioned before, I can load samples into it real quick using the memory card.

I also use it as a tap-tempo clock source to run other sequencers from, because that works best with a real drummer. & sometimes the pedestrian-sounding metronomic sequencer engine makes a rhythm that works /because/ it doesn't swing. if you play other (live) instruments against a rigid, non-swinging beat like that, you can still swing against it.

you probably don't like anything made with the early roland rhythm boxes either then? or the moog 960? just asking.

duncan.