BILL HOLLAND: Now, the effects are arranged in a chain. You can select which patch to edit here, so like right now I’m editing effects 1. Effects 1 is selected and I have my effects send on. If I select number 2, it’s going to decide that effects 2 is controlling the signal I’m sending through. So, for example, here effects 2 I want a flanger.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING AN ARPEGGIATED PATTERN WITH FLANGER USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Now, let’s say I want to combine effects 1 and 2, I can actually hit effects chain and it gives me different options. So, here you’ll see effects 1 is being routed to effects 2, and straight out. If I choose this one, it means it’s going straight to effects 2 and effects 3 and then out. Here, I get all three and here I just have the one that’s selected which would be effects 2.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING AN ARPEGGIATED PATTERN WITH EFFECTS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

So, let’s save it, 1 and 2, we have...

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING AN ARPEGGIATED PATTERN WITH EFFECTS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

...one is set for a ring modulator.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING AN ARPEGGIATED PATTERN WITH EFFECTS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Something to keep in mind, this can also be applied to any external sequence and you can record your movement over the filters by using motion sequence, and the applying that to the track. Over here, you’ll see motion sequence settings and then you can turn it on and off from smooth to trigger hold which are two different ways to apply a motion sequence.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING AN ARPEGGIATED PATTERN WITH EFFECTS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

We also have part common. This controls your part. Let’s go back to a drum kick for this.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A KICK DRUM SAMPLE USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Pitch glide allows us to either with the keyboard control glide or with the individual drum kit control the set, the setting of the drum. Let’s turn the effects off here.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING AND MIXING A KICK DRUM SAMPLE USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

So, that’s pitch. EG time is envelope gain time.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING AND EDITING A KICK DRUM SAMPLE USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Start time is when the actual sample starts.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING AND EDITING A KICK DRUM SAMPLE USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Pan is left and right, and level is the overall level of the patch.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING AND EDITING A KICK DRUM SAMPLE USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

And the envelope gain controls how that patch is played. In the case of the kick drum, you most likely want to use this. It just means a solid attack and a solid release. If you set it this way, it’s going to put a tail on there. That’s more useful for keyboards. Let me switch over to that real quick.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD SOUNDS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Switch it back over to here.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD SOUNDS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

And now we can control the release...

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD SOUNDS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

...and the glide.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD SOUNDS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

So, switching over to a keyboard part, I’ll sign it. That’s just a straight pattern, but if I do it with curve here, this allows me to add release...

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD SOUNDS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

...and use my glide...

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD SOUNDS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

..and my pan. Now, I can also again change the start point of this. I can also do a roll, which if I switch over to the drums again.

[BILL HOLLAND PERFORMING "MACHINE GUN" DRUM ROLLS WITH THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

And you can set it to reverse.

[BILL HOLLAND PERFORMING REVERSED "MACHINE GUN" DRUM ROLLS WITH THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Again, a really cool option for that. Switching back to keyboard, I have my modulation control.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD SOUNDS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

I can set the waveform...,

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD SOUNDS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

...tell it to go to my pitch, control, cutoff, amp, or pan control.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD SOUNDS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

I can set my filter, cutoff resonance, and envelope gain out here...,

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD SOUNDS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

...change up the type, low pass, high pass...

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD SOUNDS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

...or band pass.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD SOUNDS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Or band pass filter plus.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD SOUNDS USING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

One more thing, we also have an accent control. So, if I'm playing my drums, for example.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING PROJECT IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

I can hit accent and tell it where to accent my drum kit or where to not accent my drum kit. Now, one thing I've heard from people who own this unit is the accent control actually does distort the drums digitally so you might want to actually never use the accent control, but I've heard of other people who've gotten positive results from this, so it just depends on what it sounds like. From what I've noticed, the bass kicks are fine if you keep the accent off. I wouldn't recommend using the accent on for a bass kick. But for something like a snare or a clap or you need a little more high-end oomph to it, it's fine. If you want to crank the bass drums, use the tubes that got here. There's actually tube gain control, and then you get that kind of that heavier.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING PROJECT IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

All right. Well, that is the Korg ESX Electribe. I'll be back in the next video to show you how to make a loop with this and how to work with bass lines, but for now this is Gearwire.Com, and my name is Bill Holland.