[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING WITH THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

BILL HOLLAND: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. My name is Bill Holland, and this is the Korg Electribe SX, part one of two videos, mainly because it’s a pretty complicated interface. There’s a lot here and I want to go through the ins and outs of how this works. First of all, you’ll notice we have our transport controls here, a reverse, record, control, stop, and play.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING WITH THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Tap tempo.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING WITH THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

And I can hold down that tempo and use the knob and send the tempo back up.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING WITH THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Now, we also have our drum parts right here.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING DRUM PARTS IN THE THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Here I have a basic 909 kit laid out, and what I can do is I can preview it here and then I can actually sequence my drum down here, so like right now I have.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A PROJECT IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

If I go up to the next pattern, see I select my drum.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING DRUMS IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

And what I can do is select those patches individually. There’s also the keyboard part. These are selected by 1 and 2.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD PART IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Now, unlike the MX -- normally in the MX I have a lot more key options. Here I only have two. Keep that in mind.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD PART IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

These can either be the synths that are already in the machine or you can bring your own in. You can bring your own samples.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD PART IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Notice how I can play it here like a keyboard or I can play a chord and then hit the arpeggiator.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING KEYBOARD PART WITH ARPEGGIATOR IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Now, on the drum parts, we also have a stretch part. This is a loop or a sample that you put in and then you can time stretch it.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING LOOPS IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Okay. Now, my slice is a lot like a REX file.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING LOOP SLICE IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

And I can actually set the slices for that by going here and deciding what from that is let through.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

You’ll see I have part, mute, and solo up here. I can solo that real quick.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING LOOP SLICES THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

And then I can also decide the decay time...

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING LOOP SLICES THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

...and the start time.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING LOOP SLICES THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Then we have our effects. You’ll notice we have a range of things including a ring modulator...,

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING ARPEGGIATION WITH A RING MODULATOR IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

...talking modulator...,

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING ARPEGGIATION WITH A TALKING MODULATOR IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

...a decimator...,

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING ARPEGGIATION WITH A DECIMATOR IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

...regular distortion...,

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING ARPEGGIATION WITH DISTORTION IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

...high pass filter...,

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING ARPEGGIATION WITH A HIGH PASS FILTER IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

...a series of delays...,

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING ARPEGGIATION WITH A DELAY IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

...and grain shifter.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING ARPEGGIATION WITH A GRAIN SHIFTER IN THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]