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

Maybe this will affect everyone's opinion. Originally years ago I used to play with reason a bit. then I got out of making music and played guitar for a couple years even though I'm horrible. I used to play with an electribe ea-1 with a roland tr-505. I did not know how to write my own sequences or save with the electribe, but I would slow the stock sequences down and tweak them out while playing drums sequenced with live parts on top. This got boring. I bought a sp-808ex. This was fun to hook a cheesy 80s keyboard up to and make a couple tracks, but I felt that it was difficult to play live. Then I bought the CS. The cs is freaking awesome. I currently play mostly with the CS and possibly with a kaoss pad kp3 hooked up in sync. Occasionally I invite other musicians to come jam and I loop them with the kp3. I heard things about rs-7k and had some money to burn 6 months ago so i watched the mailing list and so i bought one with all the accessories for a good price. I have no idea how to work this monster and the 4 inch thick manual I recieved with it is completely overwhelming.

So far I really love the CS but it is huge to bring out to all shows. Sometimes I don't want to bring a ton of gear especially if i'm not getting paid and taking the bus or bike. I am hoping for something I can use live with or without the cs and not to subject cs to going all around gigging.

That said i dig the esx arpeggio feature but find it difficult to program. I love the cs and wish it was 10 lbs lighter.

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:28 AM, 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, "Szőnyi 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