anyways, guys. i'm not being passive aggressive here... but if you like the electribes than more power to you. don't let me wreck your fun. matt brought it up again and he was talking to me directly about the asr-x and the electribe esx-1. i told him my opinion.
me, personally, i feel too many people have them and usually artists who are just getting into electronic music (ie, kids). i'm not talking out of my ass as far as being a back seat driver and just shooting from the hip and not owning them in the past. i've had like 3 of them. the er-1 (the original, not the MK1) has the most amazing rubbery minimal kick. and i know for a fact that they are powerful in the right hands. but just the sight of them makes me cringe tho. is it true that Emu made 100,000 CS's?
>>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.