Electribe is a group of electronic musical instruments by

Korg , founded as Keio Electronic Laboratories, is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronic musical instruments, audio processors and guitar pedals, recording equipment, and electronic tuners. Under the Vox brand name, they ...

. From its beginnings with the Electribe R to the ESX-1, this series includes both analogue modeling

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

s and sampling drum machines that can be programmed the same as a drum machine. The analogue modeling synth and sampling drum machine both share a ''drum-pattern'' section and a ''synth-pattern'' section, whereby the user can not only program drum patterns, but also synth and

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s. These hybrid machines could be considered '

groovebox A groovebox is a self-contained electronic or digital musical instrument for the production of live, loop-based electronic music with a high degree of user control facilitating improvisation. The term "Groovebox" was originally used by Roland Co ...

es'. The launch party for the product in 1999 was announced with a recorded CD invitation that was featured in Entertainment Weekly magazine as one of the best party invitations of the year.

Models

;1st generation - Released 1999-2000 * EA-1: Analog Modeling Synthesizer * ER-1: Rhythm Synthesizer * ES-1: Rhythm Production Sampler * EM-1: Music Production Station ;2nd generation - Released 2003-4 * EA-1 mkII: Analog Modeling Synthesizer * ER-1 mkII: Rhythm Synthesizer * ES-1 mkII: Rhythm Production Sampler (using

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storage. Maximum size card recognized is 64MB) * ESX-1: Music Production Sampler (using SmartMedia storage) * EMX-1: Music Production Station (using SmartMedia storage) ;3rd generation - Released 2010 * ESX-1SD: Music Production Sampler (Identical to the ESX-1, but using

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(SD) storage) * EMX-1SD: Music Production Station (Identical to the EMX-1, but using

(SD) storage)

;iPad application * iElectribe: an app for the

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* iElectribe: an app for the iPhone *Electribe Wave: an app for the iPad and iPhone ;4th generation - Announced Sept 2014 *

electribe Electribe is a group of electronic musical instruments by Korg. From its beginnings with the Electribe R to the ESX-1, this series includes both analogue modeling synthesizers and sampling drum machines that can be programmed the same as a drum ...

: Music Production Station (using SD Card storage) http://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/electribe/ * electribe sampler: Music Production Sampler (using SD Card storage) http://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/electribe_sampler/ * Electribe ER1 VST, as part of the Korg Collection released in November 2022.

References

External links

Korg home page

Korg Electribe forum

Electribe ESX/EMX forum

Electribrary files community database
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Models

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