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i think the electribe is a great toy - the gameboy of the musician. unfortunately there is no way to sample live with it. also i find the groove/quantize fonctions disturbing: not possible to turn them off. but very intuitive! stéphane > I think I will try that Electribe. So many swear by > it, and as it is a sampler it won't duplicate anything > in my studio. I tried an SP-303 a while ago and > didn't like it... I wanted to be able to manipulate > the sample as one would do with a vinyl record... so I > use a Numark CDX now (great piece of kit) > > but I digress... > > Mostly I want something that's intuitive to work with. > When I had my Roland MC-307 I was really prolific in > the beat dept. Upon getting an E-MU Planetearth > module, I was in love with the sound (thanks Mark > Hamburg!) so I ditched the 307 for the E-MU XL-7. > > Don't get me wrong, in some ways the XL-7 is brilliant > and I'd recommend it. It's cheap and VERY powerful > with tons of expansion capability. (It now houses the > ROM from my Planetearth) but in some ways it's very > frustraiting... especially when dealing with it's > effects section. It reminds me a tiny bit of my first > sequencer, a retarded device made by Brother. It did > a lot, but was so badly designed it was almost > impossible to do anything with it. I hate when gear > is trying to be all things to all people and while > you're making be one thing to you, you feel like you > are fighting it. In the end I'll trade off some sound > quality and features for something intuitive any day. > I think that's why I love the Repeater as well. I've > owned EDPs and never liked them. The interface never > really inspired me. > > Mark > > --- John Wayne <holzkoppwayne@web.de> wrote: >> Mark, >> >> I own a Korg Electribe S MKII and love it! Really >> easy to learn and use, >> small in size, good fx and smart media slot. (you >> can even copy .wav >> files directly onto the card and load them into the >> Electribe) >> Best to use it as drum sampler because the memory is >> about 3 MB only. >> >> For sequencing I use the Yamaha RM1x which is cheap >> (about 300 EUR) but >> a bit more complicated. Additionally it has a >> synthesizer with effect >> unit onboard. No killer sounds but you'll always >> find something >> interesting. >> The Yamaha RS-7000 is the follow-up to the RM1x and >> has increased memory >> and a sampler onboard. (price about 800 EUR). >> >> >> Scherer >> >> >> >> mark sottilaro wrote: >> >> >Hey >> > >> >I find my E-MU XL-7 kind of cumbesome to work with, >> >although I do love a lot of it's flexibility and >> >soundset (it takes all the proteus cards). I find >> >myself using it more as a soundbank for Digital >> >Performer than for it's sequencing. >> > >> >I'm hoping to find something that's more user >> friendly >> >and fun to work with. I like gear that's QUICK to >> >learn yet deep and good sounding. What are people >> >using with success? On my list are the Korg >> Electribe >> >EX (the ROM or the sampler, not sure which one but >> I'm >> >leaning toward the sampler) or a used Roland >> MC-505. >> >(I miss my 307!) >> > >> >I'd love to hear your thoughts. My Repeater's >> MIDI >> >sync awaits your messages... >> > >> >Mark >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> > >