balma wrote:Well, it's a sampler. It has "your" sound, that's what I love from samplers, most of the times, you can't blame those machines for having a 'c**p sound'. But a nice quality engine helps a lot....
It's quite interesting, but I would have a better and DEEP look to it, before investing $1600 on it. With that money I could but 4 electribes, but when I remember how rigid are the Electribe ESX on the sequencer resolution (only 1/16 or 1/32) I discard having more than one, and still wanting another sampler for live. But Jesus, $1600 for that box is a lot. I wonder if those guys visited this section....
I want an answer from another company, with half the price and analog filters....
well, I'd rather have my Machinedrum UW over 4 electribes any day, and that's after owning and loving the ESX for over four years, and the ER and EA before. it's like saying "I'd rather by a $400 Mopho than a $2000 voyager". both analogue monos, but the comparason ends there. my ESX was the backbone of my studio, and I never thought I'd find anything that could replace it. enter Machinedrum UW and I haven't touched the ESX since. In fact, now that the Octatrack is coming, I can't see any reason to hold on to the ESX any longer... the octatrack so far seems like everything I wished the ESX was. It will cost you $1600, but you'll need $3000 of other hardware to even come close (based on the assumption that the Octa will be to samplers what the Machinedrum is to drum machines and the monomachine is to synths)
You make a great point re: chromatic sampling though.
