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Hi Phil, some comments/questions below:
Korg ESX / EMX .... PERFECT to use live in realtime...the only thing you cant do live is deep pattern editing and recording and adding that content into a loop...however it isIs my understanding correct that the ESX/EMX is the second generation in the "Electribe" product line, of which the ES-1 and ER-1 (?) were the first generation?
And the ESX is sampler-based, while the EMX is synthesizer-based?
EMU command Station....... wow this is the most over specced beast ever....again its almost TOO powerful to understand...but if you trim away and disable all the stuff you dont need, write yourself some blank patched with common values such as 4 bars, bars 16 bars 32 bars.... you can use these as a time base to fill in up to 16 tracks of sounds...the logic behind their approach to drums is momumentally counter intuative..but for melodic instruments you can have a whole host of sounds that can be input live through either the onboard pads, external controllers or by turning on the steps live and then tuning them in a separate step..again all whilst running.Heard a lot of good things about the E-mu already. By "counter-intuitive", do you mean it doesn't work to program drums, or it just takes some time to get used to it? I don't understand your description after "a whole host of sounds" - can you be more specific?
The MC series are counter intuative and not useful for live from scratch music creaton...they are definatly more aimed at the " build before remix live " brigade.Agree. I have a MC505 myself, which, in many respects, is a cool thing, but I can't even remember how to program/record new patterns, because I never really used it. Their workflow to remix/combine different multi--part patterns is cool, though.
in the meantime, I would say give it a go if you have access to the tools...its imense fun and the possibilities for not just building a piece but building then dropping some parts then changing others then adding in some more sounds then replacing tiny fragments...its a really good way to play.Yup, also an important aspect - fun! And different than audio-looping tools (unless you play your instrument and your effects and your looper really really well), the approach is much more microsurgery-like.
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