KORG ELECTRIBE Wave Reviews

Could have a winner on their hands.

Adamsbrew

They were so close to nailing this. They got most of the fundamentals right, but seem to have rushed it out before polishing it to perfection. Cons: No metronome, instead each supposedly empty pattern has a 4 on the floor kick pre-programmed, which is just lazy and annoying. Still stuck with outdated IAA instead of going with AU. It could really use an undo system to speed up workflow.. And last but not least, the biggest drawback is no sample or wavetable import ability and while it includes 140 wavetables and PCMs in addition to a healthy number of drum samples, they only bothered to create 25 presets. Pros: It sounds wicked amazing. The lack of synth presets drawback is offset by the fact that it’s super easy to program incredible sounds with it — one of the simplest iOS synths to work with. Excellent modulation and automation system, beautiful sounding effects, very straightforward UI, with an efficient sequencing interface.. It’s a super quick workflow, allowing you to create complete songs with relative ease. I find it inspirational and loads of fun. Highly recommend, though I do hope Korg updates some of the problem areas and expands its functionality, even if it means selling us IAP with feature-set improvements. Just please don’t charge us for preset packs, when you should have included at-least 25 more to begin with.

Boring

Oldrumguy

Nothing new here just an app to make more off of pretty sad really KORG I’m ashamed you even did this nothing new like I say

Incredible New Electribe

Randy Hayes

This Electribe is packed with new features and upgrades from the original iElectribe. The synth options are a virtual playground for sound designers. It will be great if a future update extends importing PCMs for custom wavetable exploration and the ability to use the synth engine in Gadget. But for now, the sounds and sequencing available at this price make it Korg’s very best and most accessible standalone synth app that can be used to create complete songs from start to finish. To Korg, the app developers, and the demo writers, thank you for creating another excellent synth.

Lovely start

mrdogheadSHoGoAT

We need better export and pattern/song arrangement features, as others have said. Gadget integration at a detailed level is a must. If there is a wavetable-creation or wavetable-editing feature I have not yet seen or used it, but it is early in my exploration history, so it may be there. (Did I see we can use a .wav as a source? If not, get on it.) We need to see value displays on all the knobs and sliders, not just some of them (with Korg’s lovely flick-to-increment/decrement feature in place on the all). Sometimes there is a delay before activation on some sliders (on the sequence velocity sliders, for example) that needs tightening. For a Korg product, this one seems to have been released a bit too soon. Yet that is the state of the software market these days, where it is extremely rare to see something introduced with the full benefits of feature completeness and usability testing have worked to give a polished result. More typically, end users are asked to fund and often to perform some of the functions of development. In this light, while this is not among the most complete releases by Korg, it is not among the most partial music-software releases we have seen in recent years either. There is already a lot to love in this Electribe installment (and latest example of the reawakening of interest in wavetable instruments). The combination of control and power with relative ease of use is beautifully conceived. The sound-automation features alone make this worth the price of admission. With my various release-state complaints about errors and lacunae it may seem odd that I post a five-star review. But this is already a productive, captivating instrument. With a handful of additions and corrections it will be a singular, distinctive instrument on the pad platform. A few other potent groovebox-type things run parallel to this one (BeatHawk, Attack, GrooveRider, and a few others - all also worth your time - and all of which also needed multiple iterations after release to get where they are), but this has its own feel and flow and moment-suitability. The Electribe Wave has been a fine addition - it already fits itself into my work in its own crazy, quickly modulated and fine-tunable way. Sincere thanks go to the developers, but they should get right back to work completing this box of treats. Users need not wait to start getting accustomed to the way this works unless their current instruments suit all their desires or their disappointments with some particular aspect of export flexibility will ruin their days. If the latter, wait for an update or two.

Great Use of Touchscreen

Loudize

This is the first iOS Electribe to fully use the touchscreen capability. The original IOS Korg Electribes emulated the actual hardware devices with little knobs and everything they were fun but kind of wasted the functionality of the touchscreen. This baby is a whole new cat very easy to use even for beginners. I would say it’s a dessert island music app, I just want to jam on it all day. I think I will take a crack at some psytrance. Oh ya the synth is wave table meaning virtually unlimited sounds, it’s like Serum for iOS. Kudos Korg.

A lot of fun!

Squirtgun23

I’m running EW with GR16 at the moment and it’s a lot of fun! I’d like to see a few things in future updates. User samples! Let us add our own samples! I have the hardware Electribe synth version and this is a lot like it but please let us add samples! Samples with automated start/stop points, re-sample, ect. I’d also like to see preset packs to load when you add the sample functions ? more money for you if we buy sample packs!

There’s a problem with the erase button

Leom187

And that problem is it erases notes already in the sequencer AND any new notes you play. Please make it so it erases only old notes in the sequencer while allowing new ones to be recorded, auto erase replace style. If you need help, look at older versions of Gadget which had this feature before it was sadly removed. This will allow users, if desired, to hold down the erase button and continue to play/record patterns until they capture the perfect take. No more having to clear a bad take in the utility menu, or touching it up with the sequencer page, just jamming. It could be an advertised cool feature. It would also allow the erase button to be played musically right along with the keys, to replace short snippets or even single notes. Lots of fun. Also, please add an undo button for recording and consider allowing the Kaoss pad to play notes mapped to the current scale for more fun recording purposes. The app sounds nice, the chord mode is killer. A modified erase button function would get this 5 stars from me. It’s that useful.

Great automation

TheRealDutchee

Loving the sounds and the features. Especially the motion page to automate all kinds of things per instrument. Fairly easy to understand GUI too. I haven’t read any manual and figured out a lot on my own. And these would be things that feel more compicated to do in other apps, but are very straight forward and easy to learn in this app. Another great quality Korg product! Glad i bought this app. Looking forward to seeing this as a module for Gadget soon hopefully...

Great music production tool!

AR nord

Hey KORG well done! Even though you have many products you still managed to bring something fresh to the table. I have the Electribe 2 and this tool provides additional sound capabilities and faster production work-flow. Here some suggestions for future updates: - Add Song skipping and total project time - Auto load latest project that the user worked on (must have) - Group selected song patterns for quick add on and for better organization based on current project or performance - Add matrix tab with additional automation capabilities - Allow to connect external KORG app similar to Gadget app - Duplicate pattern button in song mode (must have) - Export wav song/pattern per channel to Apple files folder - Export& import user program bank - Backup to Apple files folder - Effects tab with additional fx combination (can be limited based on hardware resources... single fx per sound is limiting) - Loop in song mode (will help to decide which channel to mute when arranging song) - Make it work with the Electribe 2 (mid-out, song mode, 16 Channels) - recording/sampling for wave-tables - For better scale representation mark the keys under the sequence mode (currently the user must click on the vertical keyboard in order to see the pre select scale) Thanks

We getting there

housemachine

Nice update korg takes a bit don’t forget gadget! Going to revisit this again

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