RE: Electribe

["Goddard, Duncan" <goddard.duncan@mtvne.com>]

> if you're talking the greenish sampler-electribe:
> why wouldya wanna use that...?
> i remember painful programming, horrible sound.
> - nice little lightshow though...

I liked the ES-1 so much I bought two of them. 
the EA-1 & the ER-1, on the other hand, languish in the
unused-pedal-cupboards of my guitarist & drummer respectively. 

your mileage, as they say.....

I didn't find the sampler too much grief because I bought a memory card
which I filled with pre-cut noises of one stripe or another on a PC. 

these can then be copied into the onboard memory quite quickly. 
assign them to a pattern &, whether you use the simple grid-based
pattern editor or not, you have a quick way of accessing half-a-dozen or
so samples by midi PC up the thing's input. 
so, an ideal companion to a set of drum-pads like the roland spd-11 (or
spd-8, in my case). 

added to that, you have a midi-controllable gate-effect on incoming
audio, a cheesy but useful selection of basic digital effects (the
ring-mod is a favourite of mine) 

& 

the tempo-locked delay, which is worth the price of admission on it's
own (in fact, I have lamented on this very list that this delay effect
with midi clocking & tap-tempo isn't a standalone effect).

as I say, very far from being a piece of shite around here, but once
again, y'r mileage may be less than what I get.

d.



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