Korg Electribe - History

 The Korg Electribe is a classic series of electronic instruments the first

of which started production last century. The range is still being produced today.

They use both analog modeling & sampling technologies.

They started as synths, drum machines & samplers.

The modern Electribes are fully integrated workstations.

 

Up to today, there have been 4 generations.

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1st generation - Released 1999-2001

 

    EA-1: Analog Modeling Synthesizer 

    1999. Purely a synth.

     Two voices, 1 filter

      Distortion, Tempo delay, chorus/flanger

      MIDI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  ER-1: Rhythm Synthesizer. 

     Drum Machine

      1999. 

      10 Parts (4 synthesizer parts,

                    2 audio in parts,   

                    2 hi-hat parts, 

                    1 crash cymbal part, 

                    1 hand clap part)

      MIDI

 

 

 

 

 

ES-1: Rhythm Production Sampler

Year 2000

This was one of the first samplers that let you process recorder sounds.

They were 32kHz.

This could store up to 95 seconds (mono) or 47.5 seconds (stereo) or recording time .

100 mono or 50 stereo samples can be stored.
 

MIDI
 12 parts

 EM-1: Music Production Station

Year : 2001

 This was the first music production station.

It combined a drum machine and two synth parts.

 

 The drum machine had 8 voices.

Lots of effects.

Eg Reverb, Flanger/Chorus, Phaser, Ring modulator, Pitch shifter, Compressor, Distortion, 

delays, etc.

 

 

 

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 2nd generation - Released 2003-4

Korg released Mark2 versions of their synth, drum and sampler electribes.

  

  EA-1 mkII: Analog Modeling Synthesizer

Again , purely a synth.
   

 number of parts: 2
Memory: 256 pieces patterns_16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 ER-1 mkII: Rhythm Synthesizer

The drum machine.

combines a four-part DSP-based synthesizer with four additional PCM sound sources,
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ES-1 mkII: Rhythm Production Sampler 

    (using SmartMedia storage. Maximum size card recognized is 64MB)
 Number of parts: 12

 Maximum Sampling Time: 95 (mono) / 47.5 (stereo) seconds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  ESX-1: Music Production Sampler (using SmartMedia storage)

This is a workstation.

Interesting as they added vacuum tubes.

 16 voices

2 synth parts, 9 drum parts, 1 drum accent part, 2 stretch part, 1 slice part, 1 audio in part

 

 Sampling frequency: 44.1 kHz

Maximum 285 (mono) seconds

 

 

 

 

 
   

EMX-1: Music Production Station

2003

 (using SmartMedia storage)

 Again ... Tubes

16 voices.

  5 synth parts, 9 drum parts, 1 synthesizer accent part, 1 drum accent part

 

 4 types of filter. LP, BP, HP, BP+

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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3rd generation - Released 2010

These were identical to the ESX & EMX above, except they used SD cards instead of the Smart Media cards.

    ESX-1SD: Music Production Sampler
     (Identical to the ESX-1, but using Secure Digital (SD) storage)
    EMX-1SD: Music Production Station
     (Identical to the EMX-1, but using Secure Digital (SD) storage)

 

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Apple iPad versions

 

  

  iElectribe: an app for the iPad

This is the GORILLAZ Edition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

iElectribe: an app for the iPhone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Electribe Wave: an app for the iPad and iPhone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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4th generation - Announced Sept 2014 

Still in production

   

electribe: Music Production Station
     (using SD Card storage)
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   electribe sampler: Music Production Sampler
     (using SD Card storage)