Korg Electribe Sampler Red

Limitations breed creativity they say, and I feel this applies to the Electribe sampler. It's fun to use and makes it really easy to come up with ideas, but it'll also remind you of its limitations quite often.

The effects are kinda shabby and the polyphony is kinda ridiculous. Since it's not properly explained in the description: one note of mono sample uses one polyphony, a stereo sample uses 2 parts and so 2 polyphony. Having filter or insert FX enabled eats 1 polyphony each, per part. So for example playing a single note using a stereo sample with both filter and FX enabled, gobbles up 6 notes of polyphony! This way you'd only get 4 notes and you're already out of polyphony.

The upshot is, since it's a sampler, it'll sound just as good as the sounds you feed it are. Also the way you can mute parts, jump to arbitrary steps on the sequencer and being able to chain patterns makes it really fun to arrange entire songs out of loops. After you get used to the rules of this machine, it's really nice.

Also, huge plus for the blinkenlights! <3