Bad Gear - Korg MPC ZERO 

Audiopilz: *slaps roof of YT channel* Full Tracks, Extended Jams, Sample Packs: www.patreon.com/audiopilz Follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/audio.pilz/

We are the Korg, you will be Volcanized 👀

Bad Gear is my GAS cure. Nothing is safe. Bad Gear is king.

Hey Florian, I'm an old guy but a synth noob and also new to your channel. I just want to say that I absolutely love this series. It makes me literally laugh out loud. I just wanted to say thank you and keep up the great work.

As a 1st gen Electribe user: This release was a crime. As is the fact that its still be sold new for as much money as they're asking.

The highlight of pretty much every episode, no matter how crappy the device -- the jams! No exception here.

Ok well done. The Sine wave into bald head got a genuine lol. *slow clap*

Funny how it still has more voices than most elektron gear. Woof.

The Beck meme had me in tears.😂

Best device i ever spend my money for, so much fun, so creative, never had any noise problems and build quailty is amazing.

Finally a product that really deserves the "Bad Gear" sigillum.

Always a pleasure, thank you for all your hard work 🙏

Quality videos for years 🐐🐐

That carnival sample is incredible

Yeh I've already got tinitus so that 12k really zapped me, HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE!!

Florian, you are a staple of my friday evenings (together with Andrea di Giorgio - Zerofriendly): gym, shower, dinner, beer, joint and Bad Gear

That sine wave with the heads was visual banger of a treat. You're a twisted genius and I'm glad I'm subbed to this channel to cheer me up in dark and difficult times. 🤟🤗

You always create amazing stuff through whatever gear you're using. The limitations push creativity!

Korg's firmware philosophy on the Electribe2 synth was what stops me from buying anything from them. Sold it and bought a Deluge instead.

I love the imagery you chose for the final jam

I was about to sell my Volca Sample 2 to get an Electribe 2S, but this video convinced me to keep my funky VS2; limitations are what give these instruments their character and I "love" the VS2's limitations. Great video as always!!! cheers from southern Chile!

The way you cover over 20 topics in less than 10 minutes is impressive, as it’s really concise and does the work 👏

Very interesting review - as always. Korg Electribe Sampler never was on my radar... and it looks like it won't change. Cheers!

The day of the week I look forward to the most. 🌞

The meshuggah reference at 4:20 lol!!

my first grooooovebox! You give it a hot rod - cool jams!

Korg is definitely due for a new Electribe. I used to have an ESX-1 and loved it but it definitely had limitations.

This piece is only suitable for Mista Bishi and no one else.

I really liked the lofi house beat. Always look forward to hearing your jams on each episode :)

Ah, my first ever hardware sampler and my first dive into electronic music making. I love how it looks, there's plenty of valid criticism (noise, menu diving, polyphony) and I outgrew it eventually and moved to an MPC One and Digitakt but I'll always have fond memories of cutting my teeth with this little box.

Another fantastic video... I used two of these for a live show several years ago, and your analysis of the limitations is spot on. Now using an MPC and haven't looked back...except to dream about a 4 man super group using nothing but electribes :).

Oh yes! another great friday upload

Bling, bling per square inch ... you made my day once again .. thank you for that --again! 🤗

"... that led to the show's cancellation after only one season." killed me. I have one of these, and I enjoy it despite its limitations (not to mention my own; I'm nowhere near an expert regarding its full functionality). It's a fun device to sit and engage with.

I love the electribe 2s. If you get used to a few menu shortcuts then it is super fun to jam with. I changed the original sounds with the ignition soundbank a few years ago. Very nice!

Great video!

Electribe 2 had the audacity to call itself a sampler... 2 minutes of mono sample memory (in stereo it's like a minute)... you have to manually convert samples from the internet to 16 bits\44.1 hz... than import EVERY. SINGLE.SAMPLE.MANUALLY using 1997 Windows 95 menu twisting the knob like crazy... no USB transfer... and after you forgot ONE option all of your hard work is GONE... after that i was seriously disappointed in Korg and Korg knew they shat the bed. No wonder nobody in Korg never even teased the idea of Electribe 3... Still love this little thing tho. Still waiting on Electribe 3.

Stereo Bass and drums blew my head.🎉

I love your content. I once had a friend who asked you to listen to his track and create one of your crazy genres back. They dont talk to me anymore. And it's cool.. I miss him sometimes though. Oh well. Life goes on. Anyway. I am goinna buy one of these now. :) thanks for the content.

Thank you for underlying the need in which Korg has to apologize for this iteration of the electribe series. We don't need another Hiro. Or maybe go back to the original concept and attempt to get back on path. The Analog tubes were not that much of a novelty after all.🎉

"Look mom! I made it on Bad Gear!" 09:04 (I almost forgot I had this meme out in the wild)

It's not the gear, it's you.

Those drum and bass kits sound sick

That little Korg still sounds great to me for studio or live use. Once again your videos are hilarious and total genius in my opinion, brilliant!

Woooooo 🔥🧪🔊 AudioPilz spittin' bars

The previous versions will remain, long after all life on earth

Chromatic-style keyboard, all the oscillators and filters from the synth version, pads that aren't crap as a crap thing, and analogue EQ from the volca sample. Thats all I want.

Starring a bear, a seal, and a t-rex? I only know one person who would ever dream of even writing a cop show like that! ...it's me. I would definitely write that story xD

Korg gets the most out of a love and hate relationship

I’m so glad you reviewed this. I was so shitty when I found out you could not choke samples outside of two samples. That was the first sampler I bought. I liked the work flow though and that size/features were good for its price.

I have this and love it/hate it. It's very portable and has a sound. The sequencer timing is tight af, and I think it suits House/EDM styles well.

Three seconds into the intro, I started grabbing for the RU-vid Streaming Quality Settings. Turns out... that was the gear. Ok then.

Nice to have some good ol’ truly Bad gear on the show once again. I remember really wanting to like this when it came out because the OG electribes hold a special place in my heart and were so capable and sonically potent. What a turd though. Thanks for clearly articulating exactly why.

Such a great machine

Had one of these 2015-2018. Was trying to use it as a sequencer for other gear, so built a fake "midi thru" using a midi splitter + midi merger (actually worked pretty well). Also was able to use the sync out + in pulse as a sync track on 4 track to get midi sync for overdubs

I had the synth version, and comparing the Moog style filter on it to my Sub37 filter I couldn’t tell any difference.

Really great

I got one used in 2018 and had a lot of fun with it. It didn’t have everything I wanted to I got an opz. That was also missing something so I got an sp404 mk2 and I have found my machine. Bringing in just a phrase and trimming it up to make my own one shots is really fun! Also love to pull quotes or phrases out of movies and tv shows I watch.

That was fun. Merciless and fun. 😀

00:17 welcome to the gun show

ive been getting into drum and bass again, jam 2 was lovely.

The sampler that made me realise that I needed an MPC live!

i knew you would revisit it. 🙂 i enjoy the event recorder even better than song mode on most machines. I have been focusing on my mpc 500 and mpk249 with mc software lately though. Keep up the good work mr österreich. ❤

“A choo choo train?” “No it’s 5lbs of veal”

Once again perfectly summed up. Among others the Picard "Reverb" meme ( 03:29) is very, very amusing & of course the AKAI Rapman (09:11), what makes one wonder if that spawn really exists. Does it? This time's suggestion is the perhaps overdue CASIO CZ-101 or better CZ-1. Programmed properly both are amazingly capable.

ive got on OG Korg emx-1 which i used for years, but it had only 3 effects, you couldnt process drums like you can on the electribe 2.( i have the blue one) The only thing i miss from the emx-1 are the tubes, they should have included those. I find the sequencer more versatile with polyrhythms, and the groove templates are also a great feature. The arp has now more options in generating grooves. The filter modeling has also been improved with a series of modeled filters. I really like that you can now do more processing with the drum sounds than you could on the emx-1. max 4 notes for a part is nice. But i bought it knowing that it couldnt deliver 24 note polyphony. I have an Roland mc 707 which a mainly use for sample based things. I would have liked another edit option on the sound generator, just as the emx-1 had. But those MFX sends are totally nonsense, even back in the days my mc-303 had sends that u could dial up. The emx-1 has this same problem. But having an MFX is an improvement on the old one i think. The emx-1 and the 2 have both their own identity, but are different. I still have my emx-1, maybe in the future i will use it as a midi sequencer. Too bad the audio in on the emx-1 is mono, because i would love to use it to get sounds through the tubes. The tube saturation on the emx-1 glues everything nice together and makes the sounds thicker and thats the main thing i miss on the 2. I wouldnt get the sampler because its too much hassle, but i dont fully understand the hate against the electribe 2 models. emx-1 and the 2 have both their own identity and their own flaws in it. But i still like the concept of these boxes. Last thing to say i really like your shows!

I still use the classic Electribe ESX-1 😊solid built and with individual outputs - beautiful machine 👍

Oh man the 2S- my music partner and I cried real tears over this one and it's sadomasocnistic workflow, but we did probably because it does have a really great, dirty and punchy sound in a mix. So down with an Electribe 3 but they won't let me check that box.

Subscribed 3 seconds into my first video of yours based on the intro alone

I lost it at the Baldgear sinewave 😂😂 Great episode, absolute masterpiece as per usual. Oh and Korg, please give us a proper electribe 3, rather sooner than later!

Those actually sound really good for some reason!

Korg has a really good machine called the Kross 2. It beats all my other Korg machines put together.

Every video I check to see that your copy of the Bhagavad Gita is there. It is! NICE!

I bought a second-hand black E2S for £99. After a long (painful..) learning curve I am happy to use it live (and will be doing so in 10 days time) as the central time keeper for a range of synced devices (Gadget on iPad, NTS-1 and eurorack). It does have some strange quirks (each pad is on its own MIDI channel) but there are a few plus points.. MIDI Program change message selects pattern (very useful), above mentioned sync functions and the FX are especially.. er.. effective!

Lawlz, Rad Sir!

This video that checks all the boxes, and your jams are unrivalled. I don't see why this costs more than a polyend tracker so I'm steering clear of it.

Let’s go!

Love this series :) have you done the korg ES-1 yet ?

As always, the tracks are exquisite. Even when you show the gear's flaws and limitations you kind of make them desirable

Been waiting for this one! Such a promising device that had some ODD limitations. Sold it but wish they could have worked on it

I plugged a blue one into a red one. Nine months later out popped a Korg Volca. 😂

wouldn't you say, it ticks ZERO boxes?

Hats off to Korg for finding the worst shade of red known to humanity.

2:27 Thats the most beautiful sine wave I have ever seen

you flattered that thing for sure.

The electribe is great for beginners who get confused easily and end up selling it for the MC 707,love your work audiopilz❤thanks for the episode's❤

People complain the MPC One is to much like a DAW, and they also complain the Electribe is too old school. If they boosted the onboard RAM, had on-screen editing of waveforms and allowed non quantized sequencing, I't would be close to perfect. There is a bit of a way around the rigid sequencer- it has groove styles which add some feel to your patterns.

The Finale Downtempo really put the hairs on my spaghetti and spanked my potato. That ticked all the right boxes 😀

That salami colored box sure is groovy! I really like the crust in the first jam. :D Would love to see you tackle a granular synthesizer! :P

That's a coincidence! I was just looking at your channel yesterday to see if you had already made this video... 😵‍💫

Genius!

Did you already review the blue synth version great EP as always

yayy fridayy!

Not sure if I like it, but I really liked that second tune you did, That was vary cool. Also, vere's my Kompliments!

Dude. I lived in Germany for 6 years, and I figured out that a "w" is pronounced "vee"--so why is it so hard the other way around? 🤣I'm just fucking with you, but it does seem to be a failure of translation... Every time you see a "v" in english, just read "W" for the win! And keep up the amazing work, you crazy diamond.

That last line summed up modern Korg. It is a music tech company stuck in 2006.

I love korg stuff in the early 2000s I used a og green es1 and blue emx 1 together for a techno live pa they sounded awesome on the 5k turbosound rig we had at the time i thought we were so cool

Love the jams. Some lovely voice stealing :)

Is it weird that I find myself humming the Bad Gear theme when I’m doing my shopping? Didn’t think so..,

There's one good thing with these Electribes and it's that you can export the audio stems of your patterns as .wav files that you can easily import into Ableton. That way you don't end up limited by the machine's outputs. Mine, however, gathers dust since I got the Maschine+.