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I own the Korg Electribe EM-1. I love the sounds, the pattern editing, and the real-time and sequencable parameters (filter, res, pitch, etc.). Peeves, with respect to live applications (I have no idea if the same is true of the dedicated Electribe drum machines, but I suspect it is, since the design appears to be very, very similar - btw, the EM-1 is a combo drum/synth box, with 2 mono analog-style synth voices and 8 drum parts): - the act of selecting a sound seems to triggers the sound, as audio, when you push the button to select it. For example, if I just got done arranging a kick drum part, and I want to now arrange a snare drum part to go with it, when I select the snare drum part with the button assigned to that sound, pushing this button actually triggers the snare drum sound to play back, just like it would if you had a keyboard key or drum pad mapped via midi to that sound, and you hit the key/pad. Handy for auditioning sounds, but an extra consideration when using live. - many of the deeper pattern/sequence editing parameters (swing, beats/measure, arrangment of patterns into songs, # of measures per pattern, etc.) cannot be modified while the unit is playing back a sequence, you must stop playback to change these values. - you can't filter out everything but the midi clock FROM the EM-1 unit itself. For example, when I'm synching my Repeater to the EM-1, if I hit any of the transport controls (play, stop, etc.), this triggers the associated transport on the Repeater. You can filter out other types of MIDI messages (notes, cc's, etc.) but not the transport controls. Handy for some things, annoying for others. I'm actually going to try using the midi clock from my MPX-1 as the master clock so that I can operate the EM-1 more independently of my Repeater. But otherwise, I love this little box, it sounds good, very big, albeit a tad noisy, and has a lot of tweakability for it's size/price. For whipping up some arrangements at home or studio, it's a lot of fun. Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: sine@zerocrossing.net [mailto:sine@zerocrossing.net] > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:25 PM > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: Re: live looping drum machine? > > > All the Roland drum machines do this. > > Mark Sottilaro > > Neil Goldstein wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matthias Grob [mailto:matthias@grob.org] > > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 9:51 AM > > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > > Subject: live looping drum machine? > > > > The HR16 and the QY20 cannot be programmed when they are slaved to > > the loopers MIDIclock and playing > > I find this essencial though, to be able to change the drum pattern > > just as we change the loops while playing! > > > > So, please, which are the machines that can do it? > > -- > > > > ================================================= > > > > I just confirmed my Zoom RhythmTrak 323 will do that (going for > > $150-$250 on Ebay). Great sounding machine, with its > biggest weakness > > being it has an LCD screen with no backlight. I think there's a > > downloadable manual at the Zoom site if you're curious. > > > > Neil >