Electribe 2: How to write bass, lead, and chords with scale, key, and chord set 

Totally true. I don't play much guitar anymore, but it works great for the same sort of things with keyboard / piano. Sometimes when I'm practicing I'll set up a repeating chord progression on the ET and then just jam on the keyboard and improvise different parts in the same key. Its really fun!

Thanks! I posted another video right after this with some information I meant to put in this video but forgot while recording. Basically, the pad layout in chord mode is different than in keyboard mode. So, in keyboard mode the tonic in the higher octave repeats twice: bottom row pad 8 and top row pad 1, thus making every top pad in keyboard mode the same note an octave above the corresponding bottom pad. In chord mode it doesn't repeat the tonic, so the top row pad one is the supertonic, thus the chords are staggered so that each top pad is an octave up from the pad one to its right on the bottom row. So confusing!!!! Hopefully that helps.

if it's not in one of the poly modes, it will only play single notes (similar to keyboard mode) and not chords. So yes, it must be in poly for chord mode to function as intended. You only really need to worry about scale mode being turned on if you intend to *change* the key/scale your piece is in after you've inputted notes and you want everything to stay in scale. Usually you don't want this on percussive sounds, although I think it can sound kind of cool sometimes when you do xD

I would say most of the time drum samples don't sound that great when you change the pitch , unless you are dealing with an analog drum source. Like the pocket operator tonic kick drum sounds great in every pitch, if you want to tune it , it will still sound like it isnt being slowed down or sped up ...but I'm guessing these drum samples are similar to a drum machine or a keyboard sampled at a specific pitch and it sounds kind of off when you go too far up or down from the original "note" maybe +1 or minus 2 for the kick to be more sub or flatters, or to get a snappier snare. But I would say your stuck in the "key" of whatever they recorded the drum sample

I think you can use keyboard mode and tap the pads, or go into Step Edit and raise the note there

Neon Beat prolly figured it out but make sure your part is set to poly. Also make sure you haven't reached the max number of voices in your track already- it's easy to do after building up a full loop. Anything that doesn't need to be polyphonic, set to mono. Only the first 3 pads are poly by default. If you have a loop built up and are running out of voices, but aren't sure what you can sacrifice to make your chords work, set the priority of your chords part to high, and listen to what is now being cut off when those chords trigger. It could be an occasional kick, or hat, or some noise, or something with a delay on it that was originally cutting off your chord part. If it's you don't even notice it, you're probably okay. If it was something integral to the loop, go and do the same high priority setting for that part.

Taylor H its considered a synth if u get thee regular one and not the sampler. It has all the typical drum sounds a drum machine would have plus many waveforms for synth options

Yeah! When Scale Mode is on your notes will be transposed if you change the pattern's key and scale. Say you create a pattern in C Ionian and record a bunch of parts and then go into the menu and change it to G Aolian. If scale mode is on every th ING you recorded will be transposed into the new key. If scale mode is off it will be left as is but any new parts you record will be in the new key.

I just ordered one of these, I have never played any electribe before. But, to me it looks like you can choose which mode that the pads are set to... trigger, keyboard, or chord, and then ( as long as record is off ) you would be able to improvise on the pads over the pattern as it is playing... I just saw on another video. In chain mode, you can set the next pattern to play after so many repeats. So, you could copy patterns to make a chain of variations, end up with a complex mix of parts looped . I would guess you can save the parts in a way so you can continue to play pad 1 through to the next pattern and have the same sound over all the patterns in a chain Hopefully.

i choose scale buy it doesnt apply to pads!

What issue are you having, what you typed is rather confusing. The sampler and the music production station are almost exactly the same, aside from the sampler being able to sample things and having less built in oscillators.