Thanks again for the tutorial James, nothing terrible about it! You didn't seem satisfied yourself in the end. If it helps and if you ever feel like doing a part 3: what I am most curious about is how you work around the annoying limitiations of the E2s, like the small storage for samples and especially the cutting off of sounds and fx between patterns. I'd love to hear more on how you go about those.
Best damn groove I’ve heard in a Long time. . It’s hard to believe all those rich sounds are coming from One groove box! This makes me highly consider upgrading from my em1. (Yes, I have GAS). ;)
These tutorials are amazing!! Thanks for these I have watched a few times and it has helped immensely. I use a Roland MC707 and your workflow, tips, techniques have really changed my workflow and inspired me!
Hi. I rushed out and purchased a KORKG ELECTRIBE 2 SAMPLER today. Is your ELECTRIBE the standard model or the SAMPLER version? Id like to follow along with your awesome tutorial. Thanks.
I bought and sold this thing twice. Always thought it sounded great (much better than people gave it credit for) but the sequencer never quite did it for me. No doubt, Korg getting rid of that gap between pattern changes was the biggest improvement they made to it. Nice to see your process. I work in a similar way on my MPC.
It took about 20 years for emx1 to stop getting whaled on and become a *legendary sword* sort of instrument. It sells for double its original price now. Wait until after this is out of production and it'll be the same story eventually. It's only the kit that sounds objectively bad that never becomes classic. Akai Rhythm Wolf, Quasimidi Raveolution, Roland Gaia etc.
you are always in beautiful locations, so sad you are no longer in britain. shame the D&B scene treated you so badly for being honest about the looting and destruction of our nation by foreign agents/forces who have no business controlling or influencing us. but also, the scene losing you and baron (he went to america) was probably a blessing for you both. D&B scene is run and controlled by self centred idiots who always destroy the progress it makes and the people who join along the way. love the music, hate the people. but the music you make now, its much nicer on the soul. i hope you are happy and proud of what you are doing. all your "new" videos are from beautiful places and the music fits with love from oxfordshire.
I just make music. Any music, as long as i find it amusing to make. I'm not a scenester. I'm allergic to collectivists and group-think. I can't do it. If a good idea works then it works. It doesn't need a byzantine industry of aparatchiks mandating it to everyone and silencing all conversations to the contrary. Music scenes have some of the most rabid types of those people. They're in everything now tho, from video games to the aviation industry. At best they just mildly shittify an industry with red-tape and HR policy. At worst they stop the wheels of entire societies from turning with their terrible ideas.
@@MistabishiTV just making music you enjoy is the best. alot of people make music just to offload it to enrich themselves. they dont care for it. they got their degrees from music university and now they want money to repay it lol. all the best
Drum & Bass is so far removed from anti establishment-ism these days it's frightening. No one in the scene that I'm aware of spoke out about the nonsense we've endured over the past 4 years. You've got the likes of Goldie accepting an OBE from those inbred f**ks, it's an absolute embarrassment from a genre of music that's supposed to be underground
ua-cam.com/video/m_opM5dq8rc/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared It is a sentiment shared by very few in the scene. Chris is an intelligent guy, and he saw the way things were heading too
Finally joined the Electribe 2S club last night and got my hands on this beauty. Found myself lost in the music, oblivious to time.. but wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude, James, brother, for all the positive vibes and inspiration over the years from the first time I heard your first sonic signature. Thanks for illustrating the limitless potential of this machine, and for sharing your knowledge! Wish that the factory firmware had your sampler data on it, or at least there should be a 'm i s t a hack masterclass' firmware update so that everybody could jam and study all the patterns and sounds, enjoying them endle55ly :)
Mista my man, you gotta know that shift + mfx will take you directly to that page! It certainly is menu-divey to a degree, but there are a ton of shortcuts. I've defaced mine with masking tape and sharpie everywhere as the pads are impossible to remember.
@@MistabishiTV Hah, understandable. Great track, as per usual. Couple moments gave me flashbacks of scrolling my way through Dog God and trying to wrap my head around the machine years ago. Really opened my eyes to how much automation was in there seeing it first-hand. I imagine if I were in a position worth doing a tutorial, it would come out rather similar to this. Conclusion being "it kinda just happens". Although my process is entirely different, at the foundation it's still one choice leading to the next obvious musical step.
Cheers! I looked into it and it's not stable enough for the way I use the instrument. I completely rinse the processor using loads of automation. (I sometimes reach a point in a pattern where i can't add anymore automation as it is). It regularly crashes when it's running the hack. The ideal is to convince Korg to do a 3rd electribe 2 unit that has a new firmware that can run the architecture of both versions at the same time with a more powerful processor under the hood...
If you chain reverb>mod-delay>reverb together on EMX1 you can make really nice spacials. Just play with the values of two reverbs and a mod delay chained together.
The sampler is a more complete instrument for making any kind of music with, but the synth version can sound ever so slick. The engine is the same as the King Korg synth. A lot of time was spent on that engine.
@@MistabishiTV Alright, I guess I'll stick to my original plan then: buy back my E2S and throw Hacktribe on it for the oscillators and filters. Best of both worlds! Thanks James!
For drum parts, do you use the device's grooves or automate/sequence velocity variations, or just assign different variations of the sounds to different parts as you illustrated here? Also, thanks for making these videos.
@@MistabishiTV I tried two things out that you mentioned - treat it like composing four bars at a time, instead of muting/unmuting/sequencing improvisationally like many video workflow tutorials gravitate to, and using multiple parts for variations on the “same” sound - and suddenly the whole machine makes a lot more sense. I think the mental block I personally had is 16 parts = 16 sounds = 16 polyphonic sequences = 16 midi channels, so i was doing stupid stuff like having only a single part with the snare sound and trying to sequence rolls with roller IFX on/off events, ghost hits with velocity, and so on… When it really just works much better if there is a pad for a strong hit, a pad for the roll, and a pad for the ghost note. And motion recording everything I can into sequences makes the patterns feel much more polished… even if I want to improvise on an instrument with the filter or with playing notes live, the trick is to have everything else in the pattern sounding good, and then leave the featured part without any notes and/or motion recording. thanks again for taking the time to explain what you do, because the music sounds so good for such an inexpensive and criticized machine.
@shuwig aha brilliant!! Yeh literally NO ONE uses it in the way we intended. These sorts of machines used to be called Micro Composers (MC101 was the first in the early 1980's). Altho you can do the whole finger-drumming loopy-jamming thing on them if you want, where they actually shine as instruments is when they are filled to the brim with a full bank of user-programmed patterns. Obviously the user still has full control over every element and can let patterns loop for as long as they want andjam over the top, but the idea was always to fill the thing up with user programming and make a feature length album. I wish someone other than me would do this... unless I've missed something and there is someone else out there playing like this? I've been subtly trying to get people to do this for ages now...
@@MistabishiTV I wonder if people would have got the message if there were only 10 songs with 10 patterns each in the factory defaults instead of a lot of song fragments with only a couple patterns each.
@shuwig Whenever i look into "the scene" of it all, I just think the current crop of electronic music makers don't have the inclination to do it like this. They all seem to either make 5 minute .mp3 singles on their laptops to gain entry to the dj circus, or they cobble together convoluted modular/hardware setups with loads of different bits of kit to do basically the same thing. The djs all seem obsessed with genre categories and the sync button. The music makers seem obsessed with having as much esoteric gear as possible on show at all times. It's all very cringe. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place... maybe there's a scene of people out there based around one instrument where everyone is swapping long suites of notated musical programmes to play... oh wait, there is! It's called the piano with a library of sheet music!
😂 ahah, would it be doable for you to record the whole creative process from scratch to refined tune? I know it's likely to get over 12 hours.... Maybe in several chapters, or in a live show... Just wondering
Hey Mista How many tracks can you program before the unit is full ? I mean, by just changing every four bar, how long time of music do you have, approximately (even thou it will depend on the BPM)
I did a full 250 bank set called Te5taro55a that started at 85bpm and went up 0.5 bpm every 4 bars, ending at around 140bpm. It lasted 40 minutes. ua-cam.com/video/fu68JoPxnUI/v-deo.htmlsi=WyvzonQ3M7b3m7W_
Thanks Do you think that it would be possible to save the unit content on a SD card, and get as many cards as tracks. For instance 4-5 tracks that would each load the unit on the 250 slots available ? I don’t get my E2 and ES2 right now with me to check that, but I’m really not sure if it would be possible
@@MistabishiTV Hey Mista, me again :) Let’s suppose, if you create your “250 patterns Set” for a live, and “Export All Patterns” on the SD Card. Then, you can delete all the patterns to start a new “250 patterns Set” But, what’s happen if then you again “Export All Pattern” ? Will it overwrite on the previous Set ? (Because we can’t Edit any name for the Export file) Thank you
Thanks again for the tutorial James, nothing terrible about it! You didn't seem satisfied yourself in the end. If it helps and if you ever feel like doing a part 3: what I am most curious about is how you work around the annoying limitiations of the E2s, like the small storage for samples and especially the cutting off of sounds and fx between patterns. I'd love to hear more on how you go about those.
That was amazing mate. Your drum programming is crazy. So much happening so quickly. The littlest details really glue that break together.
Best damn groove I’ve heard in a Long time. . It’s hard to believe all those rich sounds are coming from One groove box! This makes me highly consider upgrading from my em1. (Yes, I have GAS). ;)
My!!! The drops!!! Another legendary tune. It‘s awesome that you‘re sharing your creational process.
❤🎉❤
These tutorials are amazing!! Thanks for these I have watched a few times and it has helped immensely. I use a Roland MC707 and your workflow, tips, techniques have really changed my workflow and inspired me!
Just bought an Electribe 2 sampler arriving next week! 🤗 when is part 3? 😃
Love this track, all ethereal and banging. 'You're Not Alone' is an all time classic---one of my absolute favourites.
Hi. I rushed out and purchased a KORKG ELECTRIBE 2 SAMPLER today. Is your ELECTRIBE the standard model or the SAMPLER version? Id like to follow along with your awesome tutorial. Thanks.
This is the sampler version
I bought and sold this thing twice. Always thought it sounded great (much better than people gave it credit for) but the sequencer never quite did it for me. No doubt, Korg getting rid of that gap between pattern changes was the biggest improvement they made to it. Nice to see your process. I work in a similar way on my MPC.
It took about 20 years for emx1 to stop getting whaled on and become a *legendary sword* sort of instrument. It sells for double its original price now. Wait until after this is out of production and it'll be the same story eventually. It's only the kit that sounds objectively bad that never becomes classic. Akai Rhythm Wolf, Quasimidi Raveolution, Roland Gaia etc.
@@MistabishiTV I may pick another one up at some point. I still miss it sometimes.
you are always in beautiful locations, so sad you are no longer in britain. shame the D&B scene treated you so badly for being honest about the looting and destruction of our nation by foreign agents/forces who have no business controlling or influencing us. but also, the scene losing you and baron (he went to america) was probably a blessing for you both. D&B scene is run and controlled by self centred idiots who always destroy the progress it makes and the people who join along the way. love the music, hate the people. but the music you make now, its much nicer on the soul. i hope you are happy and proud of what you are doing. all your "new" videos are from beautiful places and the music fits
with love from oxfordshire.
I just make music. Any music, as long as i find it amusing to make. I'm not a scenester. I'm allergic to collectivists and group-think. I can't do it. If a good idea works then it works. It doesn't need a byzantine industry of aparatchiks mandating it to everyone and silencing all conversations to the contrary. Music scenes have some of the most rabid types of those people. They're in everything now tho, from video games to the aviation industry. At best they just mildly shittify an industry with red-tape and HR policy. At worst they stop the wheels of entire societies from turning with their terrible ideas.
@@MistabishiTV just making music you enjoy is the best. alot of people make music just to offload it to enrich themselves. they dont care for it. they got their degrees from music university and now they want money to repay it lol. all the best
Drum & Bass is so far removed from anti establishment-ism these days it's frightening. No one in the scene that I'm aware of spoke out about the nonsense we've endured over the past 4 years. You've got the likes of Goldie accepting an OBE from those inbred f**ks, it's an absolute embarrassment from a genre of music that's supposed to be underground
ua-cam.com/video/m_opM5dq8rc/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared It is a sentiment shared by very few in the scene. Chris is an intelligent guy, and he saw the way things were heading too
The greatest of all time on the Electribe ❤
Thanks man this was very helpful and insightful 🙏
Great tutorial you are the master with the Korg.
I do prefer my emx1, i wish korg would make something on the same line as that.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. You have reignited my passion for the Electribe. ❤❤❤
Finally joined the Electribe 2S club last night and got my hands on this beauty. Found myself lost in the music, oblivious to time.. but wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude, James, brother, for all the positive vibes and inspiration over the years from the first time I heard your first sonic signature.
Thanks for illustrating the limitless potential of this machine, and for sharing your knowledge! Wish that the factory firmware had your sampler data on it, or at least there should be a 'm i s t a hack masterclass' firmware update so that everybody could jam and study all the patterns and sounds, enjoying them endle55ly :)
Holy sh*t wow. I wish I could be this good
I Hope there is a easy midikeyboard Option and a Analog Filter , a 8+ Band Eq , A Sampelrate Setup , onboard next Time
Mista my man, you gotta know that shift + mfx will take you directly to that page!
It certainly is menu-divey to a degree, but there are a ton of shortcuts.
I've defaced mine with masking tape and sharpie everywhere as the pads are impossible to remember.
Ah yes good tip!! I so rarely use anything other than Wet verb in the mfx section I hardly ever navigate to that page.
@@MistabishiTV Hah, understandable. Great track, as per usual. Couple moments gave me flashbacks of scrolling my way through Dog God and trying to wrap my head around the machine years ago. Really opened my eyes to how much automation was in there seeing it first-hand.
I imagine if I were in a position worth doing a tutorial, it would come out rather similar to this. Conclusion being "it kinda just happens". Although my process is entirely different, at the foundation it's still one choice leading to the next obvious musical step.
Wooow!! Soo coool brooo... True spirit in here
My favorite part of the tutorial is the sweet music you play.
I prefer the high end in this song to the others, it's got a more gritty grimy sound more akin to the EMX1.
lively little track! very energetic and 'positive'
Plz release goyalop pt. 2 👍
thanks so much for sharing this
hello Mista, r u using hacktribe firmware ? nice music as always 🔥🔥🔥
Cheers! I looked into it and it's not stable enough for the way I use the instrument. I completely rinse the processor using loads of automation. (I sometimes reach a point in a pattern where i can't add anymore automation as it is). It regularly crashes when it's running the hack. The ideal is to convince Korg to do a 3rd electribe 2 unit that has a new firmware that can run the architecture of both versions at the same time with a more powerful processor under the hood...
😮
The reverb on the e2s is much nicer than my emx/esx
If you chain reverb>mod-delay>reverb together on EMX1 you can make really nice spacials. Just play with the values of two reverbs and a mod delay chained together.
@@MistabishiTV I’ll try that. Ta love.
Btw, just wondering since you’re using both. Which version do you like better, the synth or sampler and for what reasons?
The sampler is a more complete instrument for making any kind of music with, but the synth version can sound ever so slick. The engine is the same as the King Korg synth. A lot of time was spent on that engine.
@@MistabishiTV Alright, I guess I'll stick to my original plan then: buy back my E2S and throw Hacktribe on it for the oscillators and filters. Best of both worlds! Thanks James!
@@HprFcs don't touch hacktribe. It crashes.
@@MistabishiTV Ah crap... there goes my plan. Thanks for the warning! I'll just stick to the Sampler for now then!
For drum parts, do you use the device's grooves or automate/sequence velocity variations, or just assign different variations of the sounds to different parts as you illustrated here?
Also, thanks for making these videos.
I don't use groove templates just the swing. I assign different hits and lower volumes for groove like you said.
@@MistabishiTV I tried two things out that you mentioned - treat it like composing four bars at a time, instead of muting/unmuting/sequencing improvisationally like many video workflow tutorials gravitate to, and using multiple parts for variations on the “same” sound - and suddenly the whole machine makes a lot more sense.
I think the mental block I personally had is 16 parts = 16 sounds = 16 polyphonic sequences = 16 midi channels, so i was doing stupid stuff like having only a single part with the snare sound and trying to sequence rolls with roller IFX on/off events, ghost hits with velocity, and so on… When it really just works much better if there is a pad for a strong hit, a pad for the roll, and a pad for the ghost note.
And motion recording everything I can into sequences makes the patterns feel much more polished… even if I want to improvise on an instrument with the filter or with playing notes live, the trick is to have everything else in the pattern sounding good, and then leave the featured part without any notes and/or motion recording.
thanks again for taking the time to explain what you do, because the music sounds so good for such an inexpensive and criticized machine.
@shuwig aha brilliant!! Yeh literally NO ONE uses it in the way we intended. These sorts of machines used to be called Micro Composers (MC101 was the first in the early 1980's). Altho you can do the whole finger-drumming loopy-jamming thing on them if you want, where they actually shine as instruments is when they are filled to the brim with a full bank of user-programmed patterns. Obviously the user still has full control over every element and can let patterns loop for as long as they want andjam over the top, but the idea was always to fill the thing up with user programming and make a feature length album. I wish someone other than me would do this... unless I've missed something and there is someone else out there playing like this? I've been subtly trying to get people to do this for ages now...
@@MistabishiTV I wonder if people would have got the message if there were only 10 songs with 10 patterns each in the factory defaults instead of a lot of song fragments with only a couple patterns each.
@shuwig Whenever i look into "the scene" of it all, I just think the current crop of electronic music makers don't have the inclination to do it like this. They all seem to either make 5 minute .mp3 singles on their laptops to gain entry to the dj circus, or they cobble together convoluted modular/hardware setups with loads of different bits of kit to do basically the same thing. The djs all seem obsessed with genre categories and the sync button. The music makers seem obsessed with having as much esoteric gear as possible on show at all times. It's all very cringe. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place... maybe there's a scene of people out there based around one instrument where everyone is swapping long suites of notated musical programmes to play... oh wait, there is! It's called the piano with a library of sheet music!
Is it with stock sounds, or you put some samples on it?
All stock. I save the sampler bank for vocals
@@MistabishiTV Have you done any resampling?
@@jackiechan2687 nope
@MistabishiTV Thanks for an inspiration. Will have to come back to mine. Hope there will be part 3
This is the best tutorial I would have never figured out turning that same knob was the key to such dope music.
Well, it is, so...
😂 ahah, would it be doable for you to record the whole creative process from scratch to refined tune? I know it's likely to get over 12 hours.... Maybe in several chapters, or in a live show... Just wondering
Yeh that would be the most revealing thing to do
@@MistabishiTV Avoglia
@@simoneanzani5298 uno di questi giorni lo faro...
Hey Mista
How many tracks can you program before the unit is full ?
I mean, by just changing every four bar, how long time of music do you have, approximately (even thou it will depend on the BPM)
I did a full 250 bank set called Te5taro55a that started at 85bpm and went up 0.5 bpm every 4 bars, ending at around 140bpm. It lasted 40 minutes. ua-cam.com/video/fu68JoPxnUI/v-deo.htmlsi=WyvzonQ3M7b3m7W_
Thanks
Do you think that it would be possible to save the unit content on a SD card, and get as many cards as tracks.
For instance 4-5 tracks that would each load the unit on the 250 slots available ?
I don’t get my E2 and ES2 right now with me to check that, but I’m really not sure if it would be possible
@lesha313 yeh. 250 patterns equates to about 6mb. With an SD card you can save practically endless patterns to load in.
That brings out a lot of possibilities
@@MistabishiTV Hey Mista, me again :)
Let’s suppose, if you create your “250 patterns Set” for a live, and “Export All Patterns” on the SD Card.
Then, you can delete all the patterns to start a new “250 patterns Set”
But, what’s happen if then you again “Export All Pattern” ?
Will it overwrite on the previous Set ?
(Because we can’t Edit any name for the Export file)
Thank you