dude.. you already know my thoughts on the korg electribes and ensoniq stuff. honestly if i saw someone at a gig and i saw them with an electribe performing i would be like "wuss!". total cheese, dude. first of all the sequencer blows on the es-1. no swing, and no quantization, no shuffle. not sure if you're using any of those facilities but that's a big no no for me. how boring sounding. plus no real filters or LFO's. big deal if it says "filter". gee thanks. what kind of filter? lp/bp/hp at the very minimum let alone all the esoteric types in between must be implemented. no LFO's and no selectable waveshapes for those LFO's for the filter, pitch, etc. the ASR-X would allow you individual outs too if you bought the 8 output board. you can add a scsi board too for $100 from thesoniq.com
also the electribe effects are absolute cheese. that';s not an effect engine... not sure what that is. but ASR has the same chip in the DP4 for the most part. that's a real effects mainframe. one is a workstation and one is a toy. you can make music with the korg but it's really really limited.
don't waste your money bro on an electribe. get the ASR-X.
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Matt <somatt@...> wrote:
Did u get it and how do u like it? I am thinking of asr-x from ebay or of electribe esx. I already have rs7000 sampler too but thinking of selling since it sits in the corner for difficulty of use and also I can't seem to program it on the fly. Or maybe I just need to spend more time with the manual.
On Jan 12, 2011 2:06 PM, "Szőnyi András" <andras@...> wrote:
>
> Sorry for a new non-E-MU question but I've just found an old machine for a
> reasonable price.
> Does anyone know the Ensoniq ASR-X Pro? - btw it looks like a prototype of
> the E-MU Command Stations. :)
> (http://www.vintagesynth.com/ensoniq/asrxpro.php)
>
> I'm especially curious about the sound of that, not the sequencer
> capabilities. (The CS's sequencer or a DAW is good enough for me.)
>
> I know it is difficult to objectively talk about the sounds,
> I try to give an example what kind of sound I'm looking for:
> Until now I owned two samplers: E-MU ESI32 and an AKAI MPC 4000,
> to be honest I felt the ESI has a much better sample playback.
> (Unfortunately both machine had to be sold...)
>
> Do I think right the ASR-X Pro has an ESI32-like sound or better?
>
>
> Andrew