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I am really enjoying mine as well, I was hoping to have more time on it over Christmas but was ill for some of it and did not have the motivation to do much.
I am getting to grips with quite a few of the functions and the menu system, I found it really useful to have paper copies of the instructions, shortcuts and in particular the parameter guide.
I have sussed their version of automation, it is a but fiddly but can have some good effects. The next things for me to learn are how to link/sequence different parts and how to use the sample function.
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still playing around with the electribe. been trying out the different functions and menus on the machine over the last month or two. exploring the machine in a bit more depth. going through each sample and seeing how it can be tweaked
the electribe doesn't have a built in speaker i just connected a denon envaya to the back and the sound is pretty good, have also tried my grado headphones but the envaya's sound is good enough for me
as mick says above he has 1000's of sample on his 101 i've found the range of samples a bit limited on the electribe. loads of bass, drums snares and cymbals but i find the range of other instruments ( sound samples ) is a bit limited. i often wish for a few more sound options when searching through for new audio part. some bjork type sounds bleeps and blurps a few more orchestral instruments and some artificially created noises to mess around with. i find myself returning to a handful of noises that i like. which limits things slightly.
that being said it is very easy to tweak a sample out of all recognition and change it completely with the fx and modulation dials.
haven't touched it since before xmas but i was spending a couple of hours each evening creating a track then playing around with it before deleting. haven't saved anything as yet even though i've made maybe three tracks i really liked in the time i've had it
still enjoying it but would like a few more sound samples. it's also helped me appreciate tunes by professional artists and been listening to the structure of music in a bit more detail when listening to radio 6 and my mp3 player.
i have also discovered i lack any sense of rhythm, i am often a beat or two out when trying to manually put sounds down via the keypads, often take two or three goes to lay down a drum or synth line with some sounds out of time
still enjoying it hugely though