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

The electribes DO have LFO's with selectable waveshapes, and swing. Yes, it is limited, but it's fast and fun, and can sound great with some work. A lot depends a lot on the style of music you are making and how much hands-on you want.

I have a Korg esx-1 and it compliments the CS nicely. It can be used as a sound module sequenced from the CS, with all the associated benefits, and they do respond to velocity from midi-in. Load-up your samples and you have an enormous amount of hands-on control straight away. Fast, and great fun. You can still use it's crappy sequencer to lay-down motion sequences. This guy seems to sequence all his flash gear from an esx - with pretty decent results - http://www.youtube.com/user/muzik4machines

You can even bus a CS stereo output into the electribe and go haywire on it. 

Oh, and that little arpeggiator strip is really nice - it even sends midi out. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DzHBhPrxhJo

More than the sum of it's parts. I'm sure the ASRx is nice too (but where are all the knobs?) :)

 

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, James Ulibarri <jamesulibarri@...> wrote:
>
> Matt,
> 
> dude.. you already know my thoughts on the korg electribes and ensoniq
> stuff.   honestly if i saw someone at a gig and i saw them with an electribe
> performing i would be like "wuss!".  total cheese, dude.  first of all the
> sequencer blows on the es-1.  no swing, and no quantization, no shuffle.
> not sure if you're using any of those facilities but that's a big no no for
> me. how boring sounding.   plus no real filters or LFO's.   big deal if it
> says "filter".  gee thanks.  what kind of filter?  lp/bp/hp at the very
> minimum let alone all the esoteric types in between must be implemented.  no
> LFO's and no selectable waveshapes for those LFO's for the filter, pitch,
> etc.  the ASR-X would allow you individual outs too if you bought the 8
> output board.  you can add a scsi board too for $100 from thesoniq.com
> also the electribe effects are absolute cheese.  that's not an effect
> engine... not sure what that is.  but ASR has the same chip in the DP4 for
> the most part.  that's a real effects mainframe.  one is a workstation and
> one is a toy.  you can make music with the korg but it's really really
> limited.
> 
> don't waste your money bro on an electribe.  get the ASR-X.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Matt <somatt@...> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Did u get it and how do u like it? I am thinking of asr-x from ebay or of
> > electribe esx. I already have rs7000 sampler too but thinking of selling
> > since it sits in the corner  for difficulty of use and also I can't seem to
> > program it on the fly.  Or maybe I just need to spend more time with the
> > manual.
> > On Jan 12, 2011 2:06 PM, "SzÅ`nyi András" <andras@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sorry for a new non-E-MU question but I've just found an old machine for
> > a
> > > reasonable price.
> > > Does anyone know the Ensoniq ASR-X Pro? - btw it looks like a prototype
> > of
> > > the E-MU Command Stations. :)
> > > (http://www.vintagesynth.com/ensoniq/asrxpro.php)
> > >
> > > I'm especially curious about the sound of that, not the sequencer
> > > capabilities. (The CS's sequencer or a DAW is good enough for me.)
> > >
> > > I know it is difficult to objectively talk about the sounds,
> > > I try to give an example what kind of sound I'm looking for:
> > > Until now I owned two samplers: E-MU ESI32 and an AKAI MPC 4000,
> > > to be honest I felt the ESI has a much better sample playback.
> > > (Unfortunately both machine had to be sold...)
> > >
> > > Do I think right the ASR-X Pro has an ESI32-like sound or better?
> > >
> > >
> > > Andrew
> >  
> >
>