BILL HOLLAND: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. My name is Bill Holland, and in this video, I will be showing you how to take the Korg Electribe ESX and use it to create a basic beat and bass pattern.

Now, notice I have my length set to two here. The way I do that is I hit pattern, go down to my length, see it's set to two, and you'll notice when I do that, I can now go between one and two here. What that is that's two bars, two measures within my pattern. I can have eight here. So as I keep going, let me go up to eight. For now, I'm going with two though, just for ease of use during the video, and then I'm going to make the Blue Monday bass line pattern, or actually, something you might notice, is that I had this set to snare. We want that set to bass. Okay, there we go. Now we see our bass drum.

[BILL HOLLAND CREATING A BASS DRUM SEQUENCE ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Now, I can select another element of the kit. I'm going to make some basic hi-hats.

[BILL HOLLAND CREATING A HI-HAT SEQUENCE ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

And grab my open hi-hat.

[BILL HOLLAND CREATING A HI-HAT SEQUENCE ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

I'm going to hit record. Here's another way that you can import beats.

[BILL HOLLAND CREATING A SNARE DRUM SEQUENCE ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Now, let's say we want to include just a sample of something. We don't want another bass drum in here. I can go over to my sample, and you'll see here are my bass kicks, snare, claps...,

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING DRUM KIT COMPONENTS ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

...hi-hats, rides, congas.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING DRUM KIT AND PERCUSSION COMPONENTS ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

So then it goes up here to your synthesizers. We have hits...,

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING VARIOUS SAMPLES ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

...loops.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING VARIOUS SAMPLES ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

So, let's go back to the very beginning.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING VARIOUS SAMPLES ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

We'll grab a high bongo. We'll go over here and assign this one to also have a bongo but maybe a different bongo entirely.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING VARIOUS SAMPLES ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

And then we can pitch this up a little bit if we think it's too low.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING VARIOUS SAMPLES ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

And record/play.

[BILL HOLLAND RECORDING BONGO SEQUENCE ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Now, let's say we want to add bass.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING ACOUSTIC BASS ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

They have an acoustic bass here. I can go and assign wherever bass I want if I want M1 Bass.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING M1 BASS ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

And remember, I can also arpeggiate this.

[BILL HOLLAND AUDITIONING AN ARPEGGIATED BASS LINE ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

So let's make a quick bass line.

[BILL HOLLAND RECORDING A BASS LINE SEQUENCE ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

If I don't like that, I may actually add to that [INDISCERNIBLE]...

[BILL HOLLAND RECORDING A BASS LINE SEQUENCE ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

...and then add effects and play with my filter.

[BILL HOLLAND RECORDING FILTER AUTOMATION FOR BASS LINE ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Using that, you can add a grain delay, for example.

[BILL HOLLAND APPLYING GRAIN DELAY TO A BASS LINE SEQUENCE ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

I'll urn the line up so I can hear a little bit better. I'm going to add a compressor too. What I'm going to do is I'm going to chain effect one and effect two together, go to two, assign a compressor.

[BILL HOLLAND APPLYING A COMPRESSOR TO BASS LINE SEQUENCE ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Back to [INDISCERNIBLE]

[BILL HOLLAND APPLYING EFFECTS TO BASS LINE SEQUENCE ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

Now, if I want motion sequences, I can hit motion sequence.

[BILL HOLLAND APPLYING EFFECTS TO BASS LINE SEQUENCE ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

And now, you hear it’s playing back the effects. Now what's cool is it allows you to save these movements when you switch the [SOUNDS LIKE] fat.

[BILL HOLLAND CREATING REVISIONS TO ENTIRE SEQUENCE ON THE KORG ELECTRIBE ESX1]

So, it's a pretty simple overview of how to get started here. Remember as well, you can have stretched parts or slices that you can throw in, and these will be the loops that you import via either SmartMedia or recording them directly to the unit. There is some memory in here but I highly recommend, if you have one of these, getting a few SmartMedia cards, loading them up, and then loading your own samples. There's actually a freeware program that if you have a SmartMedia card reader, you can use to throw all your samples in there and organize everything. A lot easier than trying to just throw it in the back here. Something else to keep in mind when using this live, you can process either a mic signal or a line signal into this thing and use all of its filters with that signal, so it's an ideal device for live circuit bending, because you can have a live performance aspect with the circuit bend instruments and still maintain somewhat of a groove.