my finger is on the button

December 11th, 2005

ok I did it! it came from left field, but after close to six months of obsessive research and deliberation, I made purchased my next piece of expensive dust collection. I bought an electrbe from Korg, the EMX-1.

Let me say that so far it is one bada$$ piece of technology and sound generation. I know that I had mentioned in my last post that I was looking for a sampler, which would have been cool. I know that the EMX has a brother named the ESX which would have fit the bill, but after reading quite a bit of reviews, the ESX seemed a little bit limiting in terms of synth parts. Honestly, I don’t have the energy or time right now to tweak with samples. From using my microkorg, I wanted to explore sound synthesis more and even more so, I wanted something that was complete in one box.

The EMX-1 has over 200 really nice sounding drum samples which can occupy nine parts of the drum pattern with an additional five synth parts, each drum and synth pattern can also have a motion sequence part, etc. The level of sophistication that this box has is really mind blowing. However, it is pretty intuitive to start putting ideas down to track; hell, even my 4.5 year-old was able to create this small drum loop, just by pushing the drum keys while loop-recording.

I could go on and on regarding the coolness factor, but really it’s just so much fun to noodle around on.

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