Stimming presents modern classics: Korg Electribe ER-1

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In this latest episode of our Modern Classics series our much beloved host Martin Stimming reviews one of Korg’s iconic releases over the years, the Electribe ER-1 Groovebox. This was Stimming’s first drum machine so holds a special nostalgic place in his heart, it’s frenzied interface and manipulability can seem almost archaic at times, you can really go crazy with as is so wonderfully displayed by Stimming in this video.
Under the hood of this rectangular silver and red box is an analogue modelling synth built around four analogue modelled instruments and four PCM samples, a 64-step sequencer and adjustable oscillator, envelope, modulations and a built in delay. Nowadays these things are retailing on the used market at around 200-300 euros and at this entry level price are more than worth the investment.
Tune in to find out more about this special Korg creation out of Japan.
Stimming's gear recommendations: thmn.to/thocf/qj6ez1cyou
Note:
After this episode we’ll be taking a little hiatus from reviews as we tip our focus towards new ideas and concepts exploring the wide and wonderful of electronic music production.

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@zamplify 2 года назад

Didn't expect childhood Stimming beats.

@stevensinclair4931 Год назад

The Prodigy used this on the track Memphis Bells.

@calixtetayoro5719 2 года назад

Watching this video made me better understand where Stimming's beatmaking style comes from. Time to re-watch him reviewing other drum computers :)

@drconflict629 10 месяцев назад

I use the ER-1 with my Digitakt and other stuff and imo it still blasts out epic techno groove with ease. Almost 25 years old and still kicking!

@Superjenson 2 года назад

Stimming reviewing the ER-1 i had back in 2000, sold, when i switched to ableton and bought again 2 years ago, because i kept thinking about that awesome little machine = 1 instant like.

@aceboo7541 2 года назад

The notification announcing a new stimming test stay in my top 3 of most enjoyed notification i guess

@WARDISWARD Год назад

It was also my first machine , bought it in 2000 . A nice little bleep box but I sold it a year later after waldorf released the rack attack vsti , which was vastly superior both in sound and features . Good times ! For anyone interested , the electribe R was the inspiraton for the amazing sonic Charge's microtonic vst , according to Magnus the developer

@rorschach1 2 года назад

Great and joyful demo! I have a feeling a bunch of viewers are going to hunt for an ER-1 after this.

@voltphantom 2 года назад

Really dig that you played your old patterns! thank you. cheers.

@SecondhandSynth Год назад

I love my ER-1. Brings back so many memories of hanging out with my friends at guitar center just jamming out in the synth section for hours. I agree it sounds a little thin but you can fix some of that in post and get some great 90s vibes with it. Great video... keep em coming!

@MijkvanDijk Год назад

Lovely review. You pointed out every bit I could have said about it. I love the ER-1 for it's simplicity and characteristic sound. It's not a rave machine but wonderful for experimental beats and live performances. Each of the 4 drum modules could be everything. If only realtime record/save/change pattern was possible without stopping the machine.

@LauraTVK2023 4 месяца назад

Superb review @MStimming, thanks ❤

@MrRozzwell 2 года назад

I'm just about to watch. I sold mine over 10 years ago. Let's see if Stimming makes me regret my decision. Edit: predictably, he makes it sound a damn sight better than I ever could. Not sure if I regret selling mine but do I wish I had a drum machine.

@Leo9ine 2 года назад

Grab yourself a Korg Volca Drum. $150 or less, sounds exactly like the electribe, even down to the waveguide delay and motion recording. It's just their modern equivalent and it's fantastic once you learn basic drum synthesis and go beyond presets.

@alexwestconsulting 2 года назад

@@Leo9ine yes volca drum is fantastic. I still live the er-1 though.

@rorschach1 2 года назад

I’ve had mine since 2005. I loved it so much that I ended up getting an ES-1 as well. the ER-1 is just so easy to use and it always sounds good. And it pair with other synths so well! Especially with the audio in tricks.

@vznquest Год назад

howabout the mk2...any notable improvements? worth $200? already have an EMX-1!

@jayhatchy4413 Год назад

Its the very same other than the Ring Mod is now a Cross Mod on the MK2 and it has new patterns

@marcelfrehse 2 года назад

LOVE this machine!! got mine 2 years ago in almost mint condition :))

@christdolphin69 2 года назад

the es-1 is absolutely worth buying though, because of that BEAUTIFUL 12 bit sampling straight into the adc. so crunchy and nice

@cybernaumemusic Год назад

Er-1 is so fun to use! had one in 2005, and now have it again and ES-1.

@devmiles 2 года назад

It's indeed a rhythm synthesizer and quite funky and innovative for it's time. The late 90's were very much about virtual analog, pcm, the digital grooveboxes etc, not the thickest sounding stuff. Nowadays we are quite spoiled with lots of analog or hybrid options. I had both ER-1 and EA-1 from the beginning, they made a great couple and with some additional analog drum machines and synths i did some great livesets, good times!

@fuggles2544 2 года назад

The first ever hardware you bought - me too! I remember putting a deposit in a pawn shop and saving up for weeks to buy it! I was still at school...

@howgill4829 2 года назад

Bought it when it first came out, still own it, and many of the knobs are worn down like pencil erasers.

@lundsweden Месяц назад

I had this red one, the blue one and the green one at different stages (early 2000s). The red one was my favorite, but I never liked the drum sounds that much, but I like the zippy-zappy Kraftwerk-in-a-box type sounds!

@tylon2999 2 года назад

After using the MX for about a year decided to obtain all of the electribes except the samplers, since they were used and not popular at the time I didn't have to spend more than $250 and most were much less. I've reprogramed all of the useful presets and still use them for remixes and in my DJ set's. It's a shame that Korg has abandoned them along with the Kossilators and Wavedrums as I think they still have potential today.

@trevormalcolm4328 2 года назад

I remember making a mad dash in my lunch break down to Turnkey (a famous music store in central London) back in the day, to pickup one of these babies!

@Lhenndyn 2 года назад

The Volca Drum gets a lot from that one, I think. Interesting ! As always.

@seantan4207 Год назад

A guitarist's first groove box - bought in way back 99. Loved it!

@ringtangting 2 года назад

This was my first machine. It's weird how much you can love a thing and also be really sick of it too. Sold it some time ago and never really missed it. But I have sweet memories of programming this thing late at night as my first steps into making bad electronic music.

@stefan1024 2 года назад

Love this machine! The Mk II is even better, they fixed the modulation between the first two voices there.

@dfreeman120 2 года назад

Great piece of kit, just bought my second one on reverb

@fouldeathrat 2 года назад

I also had one of these as my first hardware synth along with the EA-1, at about the same age and price too! You can certainly get some interesting stuff out of them...

@ruudvincent6078 2 года назад

Never sold it. One of the best

@dodgingrain3695 2 года назад

Its a great sounding box that is actually pretty flexible.

@zachshult 2 года назад

Is this Stimming’s channel?? love this dude!

@maxdiamond55 2 года назад

Fabulous video Stimming, also my first purchase back in the day. I suggest getting the shaman firmware put on it, this allows much more control and freedom to put your own samples onto the unit.

@80iesDude45 2 года назад

there is a video about he shaman firmware on the «Bad Gear» (or better gear) channel ;-)

@griffithmorgan4966 Год назад

The Korg Electribes are really like two halves of one groove box. People complain about the EA-1 but they really need to pair it with the ER-1. Both have such powerful features I use both a lot. They are like an Mc505 in two boxes with more controls.

@mathewreeve8634 Год назад

superb video, the ER1 sound reminds me of Model 500’s Deep Space album

@waveforthefrequencies 2 года назад

He cracks me up in this one.

@billysunshine9100 2 года назад

When A38 came up I smiled so big and then you said, "You know this one?" Did you see me?!?!

@H4NDCRAFTED 2 года назад

I had v1 emx , very metallic sounding. iPad version sounds identical. The electribe wave they have done on iOS makes excellent drums if you again ignore the stock

@gunark 2 года назад

Had it and A/B’d it with the iOS version and it sounded better on iOS. Controls aside, I’m still happy with the ER1 being nicely represented in a cheap app.

@TheCALMInstitute Год назад

I always loved these, but when I saved my money for 6 months at a similar age, I bought a Yamaha AN200. It was a great synth, but sometimes I wish I bought that ER-1. I got a po-33 recently though- it’s a great, cheap successor to this machine.

@RandomNoiseMusic 2 года назад

I had the MK2 when it came out, still regret selling it. I got the iOS version for the nostalgia :)

@RandomNoiseMusic 2 года назад

iElectribe on iPad is also cool: Jamming with Korg iElectribe on iPad ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h1ze-DV_avc.html

@christopher_ecclestone 5 месяцев назад

Four Tet was using one of these in his live set a few years back. He taljed about it on Why We Bleep, and there's footage of him using it too. Also, Legowelt touts this as a future classic on a RU-vid video where he's giving a tour of all his synths. I think he runs it through a Boss Compressor/Sustainer pedal. If its good enough for those two, it's good enough for most people.

@mack_solo 2 года назад

You know you're old when people refer to 23 year old equipment as "classic" 😄 To me ER-1 was the opposite of easy: too much time had to be spent on designing the drums out of synths - so I shelved it for a decade and a half. At a time Akai samplers were the thing and to get good drums you'd use sample playbacks. Then when I started to be a bit more experimental with my creations, and after watching someone else do it, I re-discovered the ER-1: "'hey, you can design your own drums out of synth engines!" 😜 And I can honestly say that the reason I pounced on Korg Volca Drum (and highly recommend that one too!) was because of the ER-1. 3:00 - best phrase: "you still see it ...somewhere" 😄

@ryanaccount3591 2 года назад

can you upload another video please. you're very fun to watch, and you show off some gear that I don't think I'd have been interested in otherwise

@BachelorMachinesTV 2 года назад

Excuse me sir, the hats on the ER-1 are great, I love them! Especially once motion sequencing gets involved.

@musictalk-tech 2 года назад

Standard 08/15 hat 🤭

@stefan1024 2 года назад

The samples are limited, but it's fun using them in unusual ways. They fit to the philosophy of the machine. In recent years an alternative firmware came out, which allows you to load different samples but I haven't tried it.

@iswas Год назад

as can be heard from your demos, the electribes were huge in early 2000s mnml / micro house. In an old interview Thomas Melchior says an electribe is the one piece of kit he'd recommend new producers

@videomove Год назад

super, wie immer... 😊

@solongyouth 2 года назад

cool to find out Villalobos used this, you can really hear it.

@martinsp90 2 месяца назад

He said this?

@al.cavalu 2 дня назад

@@martinsp90He did. I thought he meant Villa-Lobos and was like WTF.

@aikighost 6 месяцев назад

I often have mine plugged through some pedals and routed directly into my sampler inputs for "bloopy inspiration" 🤣

@jfphotoandlife8287 Год назад

C'est machines sont collector's à présent, je viens de m'acheter l'Electribe ER-1 MKII et l'EA-1 MKII ❤️

@athena9118 2 года назад

Great vid! Really wanna ask what's the machine on your right hand side that you can apply reverb on some drums individually?

@isaacanthonydj4124 2 года назад

i paired it with my Novation Drum station, and barely used the internal osc, because i wasn't good enuf to get anything out of it.

@christianseebauer3830 2 года назад

You can also get this one as an App for iOS, sounding almost the same.

@adamoliver82 2 года назад

I always wanted one of these, I bought an mc-303 off someone I knew instead...

@gooneybird808 2 года назад

the very first hardware piece I bought was the es-1 haha miss it

@alteregomickiego1251 2 года назад

Great video! What audio interface do you use?

@80iesDude45 2 года назад

I love my Electribe ER-1, and actually the Claps are not that bad ;-)

@SanplerVarondaro 2 года назад

muy buen video saludos desde tijuana BC

@chaoswires2734 Год назад

This is why i love reviews by Stimming

@Jason-nx3hl Год назад

This might be a dumb question but I’m wanting to buy one of these on eBay is there anything I should know before buying? Because the sounds are really cool from what I watched!!

@dreadful_privation 2 года назад

YES!

@peterfuzz3887 Год назад

you can apply some external reverb to a dedicated trig in the sequence ??

@C90Recordings Год назад

what's the album you mentioned at 6:58?

@dfreeman120 9 месяцев назад

I used the iOS version from Korg on a track and it worked very well

@aikighost 6 месяцев назад

I have that app too, and while it is a very good emulation its just not as fun and instant as the hardware ER1 is, though the beat mod chaos pad on the app is great. 👍

@dfreeman120 6 месяцев назад

@@aikighost of course, the ER 1 hardware can’t be beat !

@starshipdiscotheque6350 2 года назад

soulcapsule did they magic tracks back in the days with the elctribes ;-)

@retrogazele Год назад

Nice .. next review the korg emx 1 ! ;)

@infindebula 2 года назад

I have both ER-1 models and I love them as fun machines, but I agree that their is a plastic character to their sounds - interestingly it's also present in the MS2000 which Korg came out with around the same time. Maybe they are using similar chips or algorithms or something. Like the DRM-1, you can wake it up a bit with some good external reverb and/or drive. Still I got each of the machines pretty cheaply, and they are a great way to develop evolving beats. I love that you can make such a wide variety of sounds with so few knobs. You can be methodical, but just as easily end up with something cool if turn on the motion recording. close your eyes and see what happens.

@devmiles 2 года назад

The EA-1 uses the same sound engine used in the MS2000.

@user82938 2 года назад

6:56 what album is this he mentions here? too many search results for "villalobos".

@user82938 2 года назад

Nevermind. Found it. Villalobos ‎- Alcachofa

@RandomProductionszsz Год назад

Sold mine but want to get one again. I actually like the crappy pcm sounds a lot. Add some external drive and/or compression > Techno beast. Quite stupid though it's not possible to copy an entire pattern (only single parts). I think that was the dealbreaker for me back then :D

@benitoe.4878 2 года назад

@stimming Have a look at the Korg Modwave. Speaking about 'almighty ER-1'... They've come a long way.

@TheStreetest Год назад

I got me one in 01" I think 250 or 350. My first machine.

@astrojazzman 2 года назад

I still have mine 🎛

@sonikboom007 2 года назад

Gene belcher approves this video

@H2whoaMusic 2 года назад

What's the album you mentiin around the 7:00 mark? I can't quite make it out.

@somatamusic 2 года назад

Came here to make the same comment!

@afxtwinreverb 2 года назад

Villalobos - Alcachofa

@fromgreetings 2 года назад

I have hated this since I bought it millions of years ago. Now I use it quite a bit.

@peterjay3961 2 года назад

for anyone that likes/loves the er-1 and has eurorack, def check out analog re-creation of the er-1 engine - the blue lantern asteroid mini synth

@ouatedephoque 2 года назад

I had this box for few years. I liked a lot the sounds it can produce. Very IDM-ish, Minimale-ish... Still fresh today. But (yes, there's a but), the lack of separate outputs is a real disappointment. The need of recording track by track is a waste of time. I used it a lot to sample some random noises. I own today a volca drum, and it is very similar, and has the same issue with that lack of separate audio outputs.

@StarsWithScars 2 года назад

I miss mine

@vishnudh1216 2 года назад

15:54 four tet's evening side?

@CK-7 2 года назад

Tatsächlich war das auch mein erstes Gerät.

@jamesbarels469 2 года назад

So tonight I am going to sequence like it's 1999.

@djraymondlive Год назад

Nobody ever really gives this machine justice.... so in there own goofy world

@darrenmcintosh8471 2 года назад

i sold one of these back in the 90s to jody wisternoff back in his way out west days with nick warren

@Tony-ql6sw 10 месяцев назад

Yo Shtimmles perlon 135 is a re release of alcachofa x

@ChrisMidnite 2 года назад

Getting Paul Woolford- Erotic Discourse vibes from this one.

@MadelnMachines 2 года назад

Please do the Jomox Alpha Base

@TheFlippertube 2 года назад

Oddly, I hit like before I watch at this point.

@NeoLudditevisons 2 года назад

oh yes oh yes!

@MrBobbinio 2 года назад

Now i want to add it to my mc303.. why i saw this?))))

@sammadden5540 2 года назад

Lol I just bought one a fortnight ago, I find the old school sequencer really hard to use as someone who came into electronic music through Ableton and my first hardware was a novation circuit

@ringtangting 2 года назад

That's funny, the ER-1 was my first sequencer experience about 3 years ago. The TR-style and tap sequencing is so intuitive and simple to me.

@sammadden5540 2 года назад

@@ringtangting I think it's because you have to stop the pattern to change swing or the bar amount. Makes it unusable for live performances for me

@alexwestconsulting 2 года назад

ahhh you jerk. I'm actively trying to get my hands on one of these and you just helped raise the price. :(

@mack_solo 2 года назад

😄

@admandrsn1981 Год назад

I just found one at Goodwill for $7.50US

@TheCALMInstitute Год назад

DAMN IT

@meneerjansen00 2 года назад

The bass drum on this machine can be set very well, like an 808. The snare needs tweaking but it's reasonable. The presets, however, stink. You must create your own sounds, making it unique to you, and not a lot of drum machines have that.