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Oh shit I hadn't thought to check, wonder if the Neutron, Model D (deserves a spot for the freaking astronomical pitch drift alone), Deepmind or VR09 are in the backlog...
this is the best gear review channel anywhere. he takes instruments that MANY people have panned or outright discarded, and proves time and again that it isnt the tool its the musician... if I was a manufacturer, thats exactly who I would want reviewing or maybe even help designing my products. there are a LOT of gear review youtube channels out there, some with a LOT more views and subscribers, but NONE of them have very good music. or even any music at all....
Well said. Some of them looks really slick, well produced, but they clearly haven't researched the gadgets they're reviewing, often regurgitating the intro section from the manual, or even guessing at functionality. You can tell Florian takes his time to dig into each machine. He's often mentioned features/bugs that only experienced users would know by trial and error (definitely for some of the machines I've got!)
I mean, it's something that's technically possible with modular gear by patching an LFO into the tempo input of a sequencer that already has a swing mode. It's only a matter of time before someone decides to implement it in a non-modular machine.
I love how this episode is basically Florian talking about how much he wants Roland to take the jump and give him a sponsorship with full creative freedom and showing his GAS for the P6 😎🤓
@@AudioPilz I bet they’d start sending them if you put out a banger using only all of the Aira Compacts😆😏 … but you’d have to record it outside in the park, sitting on a blanket with the Aztec style patterns on it… also while wearing a Baja hoodie
Sippin' sizzurp in my ride, like a P-6 Now I'm feelin' so fly like a P-6 Like a P-6, like a P-6 *delay pedal on* Now, now, now, now, now, now I'm feelin' so fly like a P-6 I'm so old...
Finally! One of my absolute favorites on the channel. Your early EA-1 video was my gateway to the channel, because I had one at the time and it was so fun to hear your take on it. Now I also have the ER-1 and ES-1 and I love them both, but you just do not see anyone talk about the ES-1. Even when people are looking for old school samplers for a crunchy feel, it never comes up, and there's very, very little TH-cam content on them. Although I don't want the prices to go up, I'm glad to see at least SOMEONE talking about them and having a go at making some music with them. Even if that person is talking smack.....
@@collapsingruins haha having to process and send-over files instead of recording them directly is one of my bugbears on many others :) thanks for the extra info!
I got a TB-3 because you hyped it up so much. I am not disappointed, it’s got so much going on, and it’s an absolute joy to kill time tinkering with it. Thankyou.
Great video, Ive owned the ES-1 MK2 and sold it years ago. Always regretted it. I ended up picking up an OG ES-1 and its super easy to use and has a decent sequencer. I also have an EA-1 which i use to sequence my Volca Keys and Bass while using thr NTS-1 for effects. Simple, fun, sounds decent especially when using external effects.
You can play melodies, as tune knob is present.I used to use tuner to tune each note and adjust by pitch knob. It's not fast way of creating melodies but at last it is an option.
I owned one of these back then. Only thing i hated was the space and bit rate limitations, but this made me get creative. Those demo songs give me nightmares. I used it just for beats, but Korg made a whole line of these that were supposed to be used together. They even made mk2 versions with tube amps.
😂 4:39 There is a fix… lift off the plastic knob completely, insert “cut up” pieces of tubing/hose that will fill the space between the chassis casing and the metal rod protruding.. put plastic knob back on and BANG! no more wobbly knob.. it’s a little squeaky and chaffy, but gets the job done.. thanks to the person that came up with this idea (read it on a forum years ago).
If the korg knobs are similar to the Roland mc-505’s (in my case) ?..this method works great to fix the wobble. the tube/hose i bought from home depot.. either the type that you would find on a talk box, water pump, or a retractable kitchen sink hose etc.. remove plastic knob, measure depth from bottom off gaping hole to the top. cut tubing to that length, insert the cut piece into hole. it shouldn’t protrude. replace knob. * you’ll know diameter of hose you’ll need once knob is off 🕳.
two of them here- wore the first one out. they really should/could have made the delay into an effects pedal of its own- the way it interacts with midi sync is fabulous, & they dropped it on the later models, the one with the glass in it..... I used mine as a master clock, because of the giant tap-tempo that I needed to hit to follow a real drummer. excellent box. sleeper.
I got my ES1 MKII in 2009 to go along my ER1 and EA1, stubbornly ignoring the laptop-controller live set era of those years. I even used it to play live gigs standalone, parameter-recording the melodies. A year later I got an ESX so they all went to other hands, of course regretting that later. I was an Electriber from 2000 to 2016 when I switched to Elektron.
You forgot to mention its sequencer and that it can sequence other gear. These machines has amazing swing and can sequence 9 miditracks at the same time. I use it only to sequence my Vermona Drm1 mkiii. The Vermona has 2 hihat generators and both have one short and one long trig. witch has its own midichannels. 4 channels for the hihats alone, but it sounds really smooth. So use it as a sequencer guys 🥳
Ooh, this one's going to hurt. I love the ES-1 - an almost perfect balance of features and a surprisingly good interface. The resampling is such a great feature, sculpt a sound with effects and motion automation, then resample it to free up the effects.
I own some amazing gear, and it sits next to my ES mk2. It’s so fast and easy to use. It’s a notepad sampler and a true production device. I run it through two channels on my mixer with effects and inserts. It bangs hard. Gotta put good samples into it. Love it!!!
My favourite way of cleaning rubber buttons is with polish and one of those yellow cloths. You get both to smudge the decals and little bits of yellow lint stuck to everything.
I had one of these. And though it was built a bit like a VHS Casette with gummi bears for buttons, I quite liked it. Wasn't powerful or hi-fi, but had a satisfying sound, and simple workflow
back in my more ambient/noise days, this was a main part of my rig, but more for the external sound processing than as an actual sampler. I still use it from time to time!
Love my es-1, got some really interesting textures out of it using non-standard sounds and longer slices. You forgot to mention its powerful resample feature!!!! That was a game changer, especially if you then turn that resample into a slice, then resample that with another pattern 🤯
it does make me think back to the late 80s when i used to aquire "machines and i never kept them because they nearly all needed a computer or were very hard to programme ,or even get a single noise out of ...i still know the guy who i used to sell stuff to and hes a well known record producer from bristol ..im so glad that they have all gone down in price i can enjoy my mid ''life revival with my choice of electronica
I did have both EM-1 and ES-1 for a while, my ES-1 which I still have went bad, and non-accented notes are now very quiet, which limits it's use. The EM-1 I had to sell a decade or so ago to raise some cash, but I do miss it, as you could knock up a tune on it with no other gear.
this was my first delve into korg electribes way way back when jesus just a budding demi god. it was my drum machine for live gigs and yes i programmed my set with song mode. pain staking
I really like the look of those early Electribes and they're hands-on fun. The P6 is a 'want' but it looks like a Volca stripped of personality in a quest to make it sophisticated.
The Electribes were so much fun! Between my 2 brothers, we had like 3 different versions! I had to get the the iPad version. Made some of my best DnB in a long while with it!!
It really is wild how close this is to the P6. Interesting insight. I almost feel like the biggest difference is whether or not you prefer serif or sans serif font on the front panel ;)
Fond memories of trundling an EM1, ES1 and Yammie RM1x around Hamburg. People danced. Job done. Had a bunch guitarists and drummer too to cover our incompetence 😂
I use only the audio in with a microphone, for the epic delay effect of ES1. I dont know really why but i still got it, like EA1. Thanks for this video
Impeccable timing! I took delivery of my ES-1 mkII just 3 days ago. Unfortunately it's a "For Parts or Not Working" eBay bargain, so it'll be a couple of weeks waiting for replacement components from AliExpress before I can fix it, but after watching this I'm even more excited to get it paired with my ER-1 (another resurrected from the dead eBay bargain) for some super-sloppy timing retro bangers 😜
@@AudioPilz Parts arrived... parts fitted... it's still dead! Well, not quite as dead. It now says "ELECTRIBE" on the LED display, but just keeps going and going. Also, one of the four DRAM chips is so hot you could fry an egg on it. I'll get there...
I’ve used on a number of tracks. Got mine around the time it came out. To me the sound of the ES-1 has a lot of punch. The ER-1 sounds amazing though and arguable more useful overall if you want TR-style drum sounds. Regardless, Korg makes great gear that’s usually a good value. The limitations were a bit frustrating 20 years ago but now there are so many options out there, they’re kind of fun if you aren’t limited to just this machine :)
@@AudioPilz 🙌 please do the Nord Modular (G1) next. You just need a Mac running OS 9 (I shiess you not!) or an unsupported modern version of the editor, or I guess a PC running Win 98? for actually editing patches. An advanced degree in electrical engineering might help too. But…it is worth it. Spoiler: it’s not actually “bad gear” but “great concept good sounds amazing gear that Clavia abandoned too early”. Seriously you can make any sound with this thing, apart from real sampling, there are so many patches that you do t need to bother (and thereby making a glorified Nord Lead) AND YOU CAN PLUG IN A MIC TO THE EXT INPUTS AND IT DOES VOCODER.
I remember when I've decided to sell the Elektron model Samples: after one hour of live set recorded in with only the Es1. I’m absolute in love with the first Electribe series, Em1 and Es1 was my first dawless gear before the dawless TH-cam era.
I love the depth of instrument gadget history perspective this excellent video reveals-way to compare this dated Korg with the contemporary P6! …and then leavened with meme sugar, clever desert dancing, and tasty jams to boot
Went from a volca sample to this box and feels way nicer to use a human sized interface. Resampling is possible but a little clunky. You can emulate an sp404 style unquantized workflow but you run out of memory very quickly. The pieces of sliced samples can be pitched and played with the pads and then resampled, allowing you to chop up samples nicely. I often will find nice sample chops and then just resample into ableton to actually make a song. You can set each track to a different midi note easily also and use it to sequence other gear, and then resample into the box while applying the fx as well. So many cool tricks you can do that tutorials on youtube don't touch. There's a cool tutorial on yt about just using resampling and fx to make your own drum sounds just via resampling. Song mode is easy to use and useless all the same.
Back in 2009, I had three instruments. A FutureRetro Revolution MK2, a Korg EM-1, and a Korg ES-1. The ES-1 was the only step sequencer sampler out in the market. Getting in a 909 in some stereo/mono samples was the best offered at the time. I used SmartMedia, and I had at least 99 percussion hits. Today, that's replaced with the Roland Aira Compact line; and honestly, I wished I had them a decade ago.
This video so fun to watch as I had ES-1 for many years and loved it. Same w ER-1 and the purple synth one. ES-1 had limits and so forth but damn just use it and such a good interface incl the menu matrix printed right on the front! Buttons smelled like smoke- left it in front of a positive ion air filter the sharper image shit that smelled like ozone. Wait, it was ozone. It worked.
I had the ER1 MK2. I think overall the MK2 machines were just...they were 1.1 of the original machines but should've been the first release. That said, the general 'one knob per function' is always nice even if there's not a lot of knobs....meaning not a lot of functions.
Now you gotta talk about the Esx!!! I have almost always used my esx for drums and bass lines. It just does what I need it to. I have the emx, too but the esx is just a magic box.
I bought an ER1 new and it was awesome. It dropped in value to almost worthless and is now back to the price I bought it for (not including inflation..). The main advantage of the ES1 etc is that they can be used live, I would not want to use the Aria in a club in the dark as the buttons are so tiny and its hard to read and remember what the buttons do. The major advantage of the Aria P6 is that samples can be played chromatically, ie you can sample a choir and play a tune with it, like 80s samplers, this is awesome and was a feature missing from a lot of cheap samplers.
@@AudioPilz a friend bought one 2nd hand in 2004. I can remember his string of complaints to me on its inability to do anything he wanted. I’m like “don’t complain you get what you paid for at least it’s not 22khz sampling rate”.
@@gossamersixteen well yes they were worst received out of the bunch when they came out. Like a bad afterthought on the range. But they do some things great.
U can get mine. Gotta few pieces from that electribe series. ( Drum machine and synth machine too ) Made like 3 or 4 projects from the ES1. It was dope. Kinda holds nostalgia but I buy more stuff than I need. I'm probably a great place to go shopping for samplers. Rs
I love my ES-1 and I would buy a recreation in a heartbeat even with marginal new storage or features. The follow up ESX has some good ideas but cluttered the formula and lacks the immediacy of the original electribes.
I have all the electribes and Im pretty bothered by how little the E2 series seems like an electribe. OG electribes are the only machines Ive ever used song mode on. Love these things.
i use those memory cards for my old Olympus digicams they seem less reliable than modern SD cards so make sure you back up anything important on there!
I’m waiting on mine now - Yike. I actually bought the P-6 because I was eyeing a used Electrybe Sample. I also wished the Korg Volca sampled without the pc. I figured the Roland P-6 solved both problems…
Black Friday is going to be a make or break litmus test of the real success of the P-6! I’m planning on not making my purchase before while looking for videos just like this one that provides the perfect comparison to gear that has been dependable for at least a decade! 🎉❤🎯💯
Will we see the EMX/ESX here too? On one hand they are legendary in my eyes and I have never heard any hate directed at them on the other I really want to see Florian jam on them. P.S. Congratulations on finally having all first gen Electribes on Bad Gear❤
As a fellow DAW user (and developer), modular enthousiast, and a overall gearhead: I loved that Electribe to death back then. And I'm definitely getting a P-6 :) Oh and btw: I played livesets in rave parties for years with just a SP505 and DX200, please roast those :)
yo, own this one too, great for industrial or glitchy kind of beats, making note off is quite a pain in the backhole, even make backups with usb to smartmedia adapter haha
'Tribes are still the best. And now that you'll have driven up the second hand price for the ES-1 again, I might have to think about selling mine! 😅 But I'd really miss it and I don't want to break up the family...
Checking ALL the P-6 Videos.... many of them Playing the Factory Preset Patches Full thru. So I decided to "Sample" them ALL Into My Dr. Sample 202....then ran them thru My Lemondeop....Audio Interface ... Computer....then back to My 202....Ian I can Send You a SD Card....of these Processed P-6 Samples.....Run it thru Your ES-1....it will be like having a PES-7!!!
The earlier Electribes don't really speak to me, But I have fond memories lusting over a ESX-1 as a teenager. When I asked the store clerk how much it costs he told me to get fruity loops instead, lol
So basically like an Elektron Digitakt II, but with obscure zero years media formats (oh why not a SD card- it LOOKS like one, sigh) still a lot of cheap card readers can still read smart media cards at least.
@@AudioPilz Yea, I have Roland color-coded caps on every pot on my T-8, S-1, and J-6, from Thonk in the U.K. They feel correct now. Cheap to do, and they look and feel fantastic.
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It's official, now all my gear has been on this show! I really thought you'd spare this one.
Bad Gear Bingo!!!
Big ups
I’m envious. I still have the Behringer Solina String machine and Electron Monomachine short of a BG bingo!
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Oh shit I hadn't thought to check, wonder if the Neutron, Model D (deserves a spot for the freaking astronomical pitch drift alone), Deepmind or VR09 are in the backlog...
this is the best gear review channel anywhere. he takes instruments that MANY people have panned or outright discarded, and proves time and again that it isnt the tool its the musician... if I was a manufacturer, thats exactly who I would want reviewing or maybe even help designing my products. there are a LOT of gear review youtube channels out there, some with a LOT more views and subscribers, but NONE of them have very good music. or even any music at all....
Well said. Some of them looks really slick, well produced, but they clearly haven't researched the gadgets they're reviewing, often regurgitating the intro section from the manual, or even guessing at functionality. You can tell Florian takes his time to dig into each machine. He's often mentioned features/bugs that only experienced users would know by trial and error (definitely for some of the machines I've got!)
audiopilz is bis
Thank you so much!!!❤️❤️❤️
"Drunk" needs to be a standard button for some sort of hyper swing that adds a shallow lfo to the swing
True that!
There’s a new ‘drunk’ punch in effect on the new teenage engineering EP-1320 medieval which is pretty much exactly that
@@ambrosiajam8008 Me "I want "
Other guy "Teenage engineering already did that"
Me "Now I'm angry instead of happy for some reason"
@@arcadeuk LOL 😅🤷♂️ I don’t even own a lot teenage engineering stuff, just that medieval thing haha. But yes, it is a pretty cool effect
I mean, it's something that's technically possible with modular gear by patching an LFO into the tempo input of a sequencer that already has a swing mode. It's only a matter of time before someone decides to implement it in a non-modular machine.
I love how this episode is basically Florian talking about how much he wants Roland to take the jump and give him a sponsorship with full creative freedom and showing his GAS for the P6 😎🤓
You have a point there;)
@@AudioPilz I bet they’d start sending them if you put out a banger using only all of the Aira Compacts😆😏
… but you’d have to record it outside in the park, sitting on a blanket with the Aztec style patterns on it… also while wearing a Baja hoodie
"I would shill the hell out of it" was a subtle hint.
My first ever sampler and what inspired me to make beats!! I love this thing with all my heart and I’m so happy you finally made a vid of it ❤
❤️❤️❤️
Sippin' sizzurp in my ride, like a P-6
Now I'm feelin' so fly like a P-6
Like a P-6, like a P-6
*delay pedal on*
Now, now, now, now, now, now I'm feelin' so fly like a P-6
I'm so old...
I feel you!!!
5G gangsta
That song isn’t even that old hahah
@@drew335 only 15 years
😂
Finally! One of my absolute favorites on the channel. Your early EA-1 video was my gateway to the channel, because I had one at the time and it was so fun to hear your take on it. Now I also have the ER-1 and ES-1 and I love them both, but you just do not see anyone talk about the ES-1. Even when people are looking for old school samplers for a crunchy feel, it never comes up, and there's very, very little TH-cam content on them. Although I don't want the prices to go up, I'm glad to see at least SOMEONE talking about them and having a go at making some music with them. Even if that person is talking smack.....
Thank you so much!!!
For real, most hardware samplers just don't "click" with me. But this one looks quite compelling 👀 I'm sure it's not just because of the turquoise...
@@collapsingruins haha having to process and send-over files instead of recording them directly is one of my bugbears on many others :) thanks for the extra info!
I got a TB-3 because you hyped it up so much. I am not disappointed, it’s got so much going on, and it’s an absolute joy to kill time tinkering with it.
Thankyou.
Thanks!!!
I almost sold mine, one of my first hardware synths that I bought. The editor software that recently came up light really has me excited.
Great video, Ive owned the ES-1 MK2 and sold it years ago. Always regretted it. I ended up picking up an OG ES-1 and its super easy to use and has a decent sequencer. I also have an EA-1 which i use to sequence my Volca Keys and Bass while using thr NTS-1 for effects. Simple, fun, sounds decent especially when using external effects.
You can play melodies, as tune knob is present.I used to use tuner to tune each note and adjust by pitch knob. It's not fast way of creating melodies but at last it is an option.
Thanks for the heads up!!!
I owned one of these back then. Only thing i hated was the space and bit rate limitations, but this made me get creative. Those demo songs give me nightmares. I used it just for beats, but Korg made a whole line of these that were supposed to be used together. They even made mk2 versions with tube amps.
I have all 4;)
Man its been decades since i deleted those stock sounds.. feel nostalgic hearing them again
Classic!
I think you can still find the files online. I was able to…. Like 10 years ago.
BRO!!! My first vinyl release was made with two of these green bad boys and a roland DJ2000 mixer! Wondeful to see this thing on your show
Happy to hear that!!! Thanks!!!
😂 4:39 There is a fix… lift off the plastic knob completely, insert “cut up” pieces of tubing/hose that will fill the space between the chassis casing and the metal rod protruding.. put plastic knob back on and BANG! no more wobbly knob.. it’s a little squeaky and chaffy, but gets the job done.. thanks to the person that came up with this idea (read it on a forum years ago).
If anyone has any more info on this, I've been plagued with encoder wobble with my ER-1.
If the korg knobs are similar to the Roland mc-505’s (in my case) ?..this method works great to fix the wobble. the tube/hose i bought from home depot.. either the type that you would find on a talk box, water pump, or a retractable kitchen sink hose etc..
remove plastic knob, measure depth from bottom off gaping hole to the top. cut tubing to that length, insert the cut piece into hole. it shouldn’t protrude. replace knob. * you’ll know diameter of hose you’ll need once knob is off 🕳.
Nice technique!
two of them here- wore the first one out. they really should/could have made the delay into an effects pedal of its own- the way it interacts with midi sync is fabulous, & they dropped it on the later models, the one with the glass in it..... I used mine as a master clock, because of the giant tap-tempo that I needed to hit to follow a real drummer. excellent box. sleeper.
Looooooove that delay!
The first pattern being A.55 is gorgeous, but the "extra dirty Phil" is straight up inspired
Thank you!!!
I got my ES1 MKII in 2009 to go along my ER1 and EA1, stubbornly ignoring the laptop-controller live set era of those years. I even used it to play live gigs standalone, parameter-recording the melodies. A year later I got an ESX so they all went to other hands, of course regretting that later. I was an Electriber from 2000 to 2016 when I switched to Elektron.
Sometimes one needs to move on❤️
@@AudioPilz btw what happened with the telegram group?
You forgot to mention its sequencer and that it can sequence other gear. These machines has amazing swing and can sequence 9 miditracks at the same time. I use it only to sequence my Vermona Drm1 mkiii. The Vermona has 2 hihat generators and both have one short and one long trig. witch has its own midichannels. 4 channels for the hihats alone, but it sounds really smooth. So use it as a sequencer guys 🥳
Thank you for the heads up
Ooh, this one's going to hurt. I love the ES-1 - an almost perfect balance of features and a surprisingly good interface. The resampling is such a great feature, sculpt a sound with effects and motion automation, then resample it to free up the effects.
Agreed!!!
I own some amazing gear, and it sits next to my ES mk2. It’s so fast and easy to use. It’s a notepad sampler and a true production device. I run it through two channels on my mixer with effects and inserts. It bangs hard. Gotta put good samples into it. Love it!!!
😀😀😀
My favourite way of cleaning rubber buttons is with polish and one of those yellow cloths. You get both to smudge the decals and little bits of yellow lint stuck to everything.
Nice technique😂😂😂
Sweeeeeet. 😎👍🏼
I had one of these. And though it was built a bit like a VHS Casette with gummi bears for buttons, I quite liked it. Wasn't powerful or hi-fi, but had a satisfying sound, and simple workflow
Nice analogy;)
Celtic River Dancing reindeer?! You're such a trip! ❤
❤️❤️❤️Slàinte❤️❤️❤️
back in my more ambient/noise days, this was a main part of my rig, but more for the external sound processing than as an actual sampler. I still use it from time to time!
Great processing capabilities
A reminder for me to dust off my old one and get playing again!! A fantastic inspiring machine I always felt!
Oh, the Master himself! Didn't know you had one of these!
@@AudioPilz Like me, it's rather battered, tattered but somehow still functioning! 🤣
Love my es-1, got some really interesting textures out of it using non-standard sounds and longer slices.
You forgot to mention its powerful resample feature!!!! That was a game changer, especially if you then turn that resample into a slice, then resample that with another pattern 🤯
Thanks for the heads up!!!
I've really been enjoying all the dirty break chopping in a lot of your demos lately!
Thank you!!!
it does make me think back to the late 80s when i used to aquire "machines and i never kept them because they nearly all needed a computer or were very hard to programme ,or even get a single noise out of ...i still know the guy who i used to sell stuff to and hes a well known record producer from bristol ..im so glad that they have all gone down in price i can enjoy my mid ''life revival with my choice of electronica
👍
Two absolute bangers for jams that need full tune status...
Thank you so much!!! Shameless plug: full tracks and extended jams can be found on my Patreon;)
I did have both EM-1 and ES-1 for a while, my ES-1 which I still have went bad, and non-accented notes are now very quiet, which limits it's use. The EM-1 I had to sell a decade or so ago to raise some cash, but I do miss it, as you could knock up a tune on it with no other gear.
EM-1 is underrated!
this was my first delve into korg electribes way way back when jesus just a budding demi god. it was my drum machine for live gigs and yes i programmed my set with song mode. pain staking
Nice!!!
I really like the look of those early Electribes and they're hands-on fun.
The P6 is a 'want' but it looks like a Volca stripped of personality in a quest to make it sophisticated.
Definitely more sophisticated than more upscale Rolands;)
Ahhh No
Why do Roland products have such ugly designs these days ?
That was the best intro of yours I've heard so far!
Thank you so much!!!
“UK pirate radio” - nailed it. That finale could have come straight from the lo-fi badlands beyond 102.0 FM on my 2003 car stereo
Thank you!!!
The Electribes were so much fun! Between my 2 brothers, we had like 3 different versions! I had to get the the iPad version. Made some of my best DnB in a long while with it!!
😀😀😀
It really is wild how close this is to the P6. Interesting insight.
I almost feel like the biggest difference is whether or not you prefer serif or sans serif font on the front panel ;)
That's the deal breaker feature;)
Fond memories of trundling an EM1, ES1 and Yammie RM1x around Hamburg. People danced. Job done.
Had a bunch guitarists and drummer too to cover our incompetence 😂
Nice!!!
I use only the audio in with a microphone, for the epic delay effect of ES1. I dont know really why but i still got it, like EA1.
Thanks for this video
Thank you! That delay is so awesome!!!
@@AudioPilz Yeah, one of the best delay effect ever in case of "90'S box"
Omg this demo sounds better than any pos p6 demo
Thank you so much!!!
Just imagine what happens when he'll got P-6 😀
We’re all waiting for it…
Impeccable timing! I took delivery of my ES-1 mkII just 3 days ago. Unfortunately it's a "For Parts or Not Working" eBay bargain, so it'll be a couple of weeks waiting for replacement components from AliExpress before I can fix it, but after watching this I'm even more excited to get it paired with my ER-1 (another resurrected from the dead eBay bargain) for some super-sloppy timing retro bangers 😜
Nice, sounds like a great project!
@@AudioPilz Parts arrived... parts fitted... it's still dead! Well, not quite as dead. It now says "ELECTRIBE" on the LED display, but just keeps going and going. Also, one of the four DRAM chips is so hot you could fry an egg on it. I'll get there...
My Depeche Mode meme immortalized in an episode of Bad Gear! 1:58
Nice one, thank you so much!!!
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And we need more Depeche Mode content on this channel 😎 I’ve been very happy to see so many NIN references through the series tho 👨🎤
Memulator II by Creative Labs 😅
Ahh yes, Martin's bondage goth phase. He certainly had his nip nips out quite often in those days. Big Depeche Mode fan, here. The meme is solid
I’ve used on a number of tracks. Got mine around the time it came out. To me the sound of the ES-1 has a lot of punch. The ER-1 sounds amazing though and arguable more useful overall if you want TR-style drum sounds. Regardless, Korg makes great gear that’s usually a good value. The limitations were a bit frustrating 20 years ago but now there are so many options out there, they’re kind of fun if you aren’t limited to just this machine :)
Love the ES-1
@@AudioPilz 🙌 please do the Nord Modular (G1) next. You just need a Mac running OS 9 (I shiess you not!) or an unsupported modern version of the editor, or I guess a PC running Win 98? for actually editing patches. An advanced degree in electrical engineering might help too. But…it is worth it. Spoiler: it’s not actually “bad gear” but “great concept good sounds amazing gear that Clavia abandoned too early”. Seriously you can make any sound with this thing, apart from real sampling, there are so many patches that you do t need to bother (and thereby making a glorified Nord Lead) AND YOU CAN PLUG IN A MIC TO THE EXT INPUTS AND IT DOES VOCODER.
That acid jam at ~6:30 is awesome! 🎉
Thank you!!!
I remember when I've decided to sell the Elektron model Samples: after one hour of live set recorded in with only the Es1.
I’m absolute in love with the first Electribe series, Em1 and Es1 was my first dawless gear before the dawless TH-cam era.
Love all four too!
I love the depth of instrument gadget history perspective this excellent video reveals-way to compare this dated Korg with the contemporary P6! …and then leavened with meme sugar, clever desert dancing, and tasty jams to boot
Thank you so much!!!
Went from a volca sample to this box and feels way nicer to use a human sized interface. Resampling is possible but a little clunky. You can emulate an sp404 style unquantized workflow but you run out of memory very quickly.
The pieces of sliced samples can be pitched and played with the pads and then resampled, allowing you to chop up samples nicely. I often will find nice sample chops and then just resample into ableton to actually make a song.
You can set each track to a different midi note easily also and use it to sequence other gear, and then resample into the box while applying the fx as well. So many cool tricks you can do that tutorials on youtube don't touch. There's a cool tutorial on yt about just using resampling and fx to make your own drum sounds just via resampling.
Song mode is easy to use and useless all the same.
Interface is great here
Back in 2009, I had three instruments. A FutureRetro Revolution MK2, a Korg EM-1, and a Korg ES-1.
The ES-1 was the only step sequencer sampler out in the market. Getting in a 909 in some stereo/mono samples was the best offered at the time. I used SmartMedia, and I had at least 99 percussion hits.
Today, that's replaced with the Roland Aira Compact line; and honestly, I wished I had them a decade ago.
Great setup!
This video so fun to watch as I had ES-1 for many years and loved it. Same w ER-1 and the purple synth one. ES-1 had limits and so forth but damn just use it and such a good interface incl the menu matrix printed right on the front! Buttons smelled like smoke- left it in front of a positive ion air filter the sharper image shit that smelled like ozone. Wait, it was ozone. It worked.
Thank you!!!
Love u man, have a great weekend everybody
Have a nice weekend too!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Great review of the Not P-6 😁😁
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Another great show. This is the only one of the original Electribes I’ve never owned but the ER1 is always in my rig. Keep up the good work.
Thank you!!!
I had the ER1 MK2. I think overall the MK2 machines were just...they were 1.1 of the original machines but should've been the first release. That said, the general 'one knob per function' is always nice even if there's not a lot of knobs....meaning not a lot of functions.
ER1 is so awesome!
Hot damn, might need to look into these vintage Electribes!
Much recommended!
@@AudioPilz Which one would you recommend? There are few versions.
We need an album of all your bad gear jams please
That would probably go beyond the concept of an album;)
Got one of these quite cheap about 15 years ago, couldn’t get any fun out it. That P-6 though…
Intriguing...
I owned this for about 95 secs. Must admit though, the drums on your opening theme song sounded fantastic though!
Now you gotta talk about the Esx!!!
I have almost always used my esx for drums and bass lines. It just does what I need it to. I have the emx, too but the esx is just a magic box.
Long overdue!!!
This was my first ‘groovebox’/sampler and i loved it….then i moved to the esx and things got even better. Still use the esx and emx as my main units.
Classic instruments!
Now seems like most of my gear is on your show as well ! must be the power of your last video !
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Love this episode! I wish I could emulate the delay section of this on my MPC. This was my first sampler!
Delay is soooooo awesome! Thanks!
Every box with a step sequencer should have the accent track that Electribes had.
True that!
I bought an ER1 new and it was awesome. It dropped in value to almost worthless and is now back to the price I bought it for (not including inflation..). The main advantage of the ES1 etc is that they can be used live, I would not want to use the Aria in a club in the dark as the buttons are so tiny and its hard to read and remember what the buttons do. The major advantage of the Aria P6 is that samples can be played chromatically, ie you can sample a choir and play a tune with it, like 80s samplers, this is awesome and was a feature missing from a lot of cheap samplers.
I can still hear my friends disappointment in my head still after 20 years
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Hardly these rule.
@@AudioPilz a friend bought one 2nd hand in 2004. I can remember his string of complaints to me on its inability to do anything he wanted. I’m like “don’t complain you get what you paid for at least it’s not 22khz sampling rate”.
@@gossamersixteen well yes they were worst received out of the bunch when they came out. Like a bad afterthought on the range. But they do some things great.
I paid £90 for mine and it lives in a cupboard, totally worth it.
Love those first two jams, man.
Thank you so much!!!
I wanted one for a while, now the prices are going to skyrocket. The bad gear curse is real
It's usually just a little price spike
U can get mine. Gotta few pieces from that electribe series. ( Drum machine and synth machine too ) Made like 3 or 4 projects from the ES1. It was dope. Kinda holds nostalgia but I buy more stuff than I need. I'm probably a great place to go shopping for samplers. Rs
You can have mine
That second tune was so hot it belongs to an Amiga CD 32 game.
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I love my ES-1 and I would buy a recreation in a heartbeat even with marginal new storage or features. The follow up ESX has some good ideas but cluttered the formula and lacks the immediacy of the original electribes.
Totally want an ESX tho!
Es-1 was my first sampler. Made so many tracks using it.
Nice!!!
I have all the electribes and Im pretty bothered by how little the E2 series seems like an electribe. OG electribes are the only machines Ive ever used song mode on. Love these things.
Agreed!!!
Another amazing video Florian! The ES-1 is almost perfect for me, except i could never trust that broken clock/CPU.
Thank you so much!!!
i use those memory cards for my old Olympus digicams
they seem less reliable than modern SD cards so make sure you back up anything important on there!
Malfunctioning Smart Medias almost drove me nuts back in the day...
That first jam is sooooo good! Killed it
Thank you so much!!!
“4 Megs” - I just laughed in my Peter Griffin voice
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I’m waiting on mine now - Yike. I actually bought the P-6 because I was eyeing a used Electrybe Sample. I also wished the Korg Volca sampled without the pc. I figured the Roland P-6 solved both problems…
True!
I stared too long into the void, and that Life of an Artist meme stared back.
I know that feeling all too well…
Black Friday is going to be a make or break litmus test of the real success of the P-6!
I’m planning on not making my purchase before while looking for videos just like this one that provides the perfect comparison to gear that has been dependable for at least a decade! 🎉❤🎯💯
Thank you!!!
Will we see the EMX/ESX here too? On one hand they are legendary in my eyes and I have never heard any hate directed at them on the other I really want to see Florian jam on them.
P.S.
Congratulations on finally having all first gen Electribes on Bad Gear❤
Thank you so much!!! I'm currently on the hunt for the EMX/ESX but they have become soooooo expensive...
@@AudioPilz we want EMX 😅
As a fellow DAW user (and developer), modular enthousiast, and a overall gearhead: I loved that Electribe to death back then. And I'm definitely getting a P-6 :)
Oh and btw: I played livesets in rave parties for years with just a SP505 and DX200, please roast those :)
Wow, great setup!!!
The first jam is EVERYTHING
Thank you so much!!!
@@AudioPilzYeah, seriously when will you be doing a full set of micro-house, and where?
Florian…it is awesome that you always rake the time to reply to our messages man!. It Ickes all the boxes of being a great TH-camr. Sincerely Sid!
Thank you so much!!!
I like how it spells a rude word if you go to A55.
I have no idea what you're talking about...
80085
yo, own this one too, great for industrial or glitchy kind of beats, making note off is quite a pain in the backhole, even make backups with usb to smartmedia adapter haha
Agreed!!!
'Tribes are still the best. And now that you'll have driven up the second hand price for the ES-1 again, I might have to think about selling mine! 😅
But I'd really miss it and I don't want to break up the family...
Never sell it!!!
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The final track is soo amazing!! Luv it, luv it, luv it!
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Thank you!!!
Checking ALL the P-6 Videos.... many of them Playing the Factory Preset Patches Full thru. So I decided to "Sample" them ALL Into My Dr. Sample 202....then ran them thru My Lemondeop....Audio Interface ... Computer....then back to My 202....Ian I can Send You a SD Card....of these Processed P-6 Samples.....Run it thru Your ES-1....it will be like having a PES-7!!!
Nice technique;)
die ES-1 hab ich damals quasi als give away zu meiner EMX dazu bekommen und hatte echt spaß mit der kleinen bude.
Na das ist mal ein Schnäppchen!!!
The earlier Electribes don't really speak to me, But I have fond memories lusting over a ESX-1 as a teenager. When I asked the store clerk how much it costs he told me to get fruity loops instead, lol
I want an ESX or EMX so bad!!!
This man is absolutely amazing at production.
Thank you so much!!!
So basically like an Elektron Digitakt II, but with obscure zero years media formats (oh why not a SD card- it LOOKS like one, sigh) still a lot of cheap card readers can still read smart media cards at least.
True that!
This little box is so fantastic. I had the MKII ones. They were a bit of a pain in the butt but definitely fun and their own sound.
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Friday!
Have a nice weekend!!!
You make so much techno even your dialog is in 4/4
That’s basically true
Electribe sounds like 90s Berlin, poor but sexy^^
Nice analogy!!!
Finally! We’ve gotten A.S.S. On both Electribes!🎉
Lol i used to get that read out on my microkorg
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Mom can we have the aira p-6?
Mom: we have eldritch gods at home.
;)
I would love to see the MPC5000 coming up, I know many MPC passed the review but the 5000 has some mysteries going on...
Great suggestion, thanks!!!
A sampler with charm. It can definitely hold its own against more recent boxes. I was going to sell it when I got an ESX1 but glad I didn't.
Agreed!!!
Except the AIRA knobs are not wiggly at all.
...they're also VERY small;)
@@AudioPilz Yea, I have Roland color-coded caps on every pot on my T-8, S-1, and J-6, from Thonk in the U.K. They feel correct now. Cheap to do, and they look and feel fantastic.
great stuff as always! just sold my last electribe... em-1. I know I'll miss it, but it was time and yes I wanted to buy a p-6 w the funds :)
Thanks!!!