Korg EA-1 Electribe

it just can't get any simpler with this piece. every thing you need to know is laid out for you on the matrix. Some patches are slammmin' some are so so. you eventually have to save over them anyway. the manual is straight forward I haven't had any problems with it

without midi control over this it'll take a while to get the pattern you want (depending on wht your into). No accents? hey isn't this supposed to be 303 emulator? I thought it was pretty retarded myself. effects are good. you can't control distortion level but is still a good effect. filter is the best i've heard digital wise. flanger/chorus is good but there's no feedback control. overall it is a good 303 emulator.you might be able to fool somebody. oh yeah and an audio input

good analog style sounds. good effects. no kind of velocity or aftertouch sensitivity(duh!) as a tone generator i think you could pull of a live gig

i don't do gigs(not yet) but it seems pretty reliable for what it is.

never had any problems

I really like this synth box if you want 303 sounds for a lot less than a 303 price this is for you. if lost or stolen i'd probly buy another one (its a good deal for$400)

Nothing is really that hard to do on this dream machine. The only thing that's really hard is trying to hook it up with a macintosh. The manual is a bit complex but after you've read it a couple of times you understand it really well. But, you should probably do like me and just fiddle around with it until you know what you're doing, you don't have to read the manual it's pretty straight forward.

It has every feature a synth lover would want. At first I thought it was pretty weird that it didn't have slide, but after a while I really got into the Portamento. It has distortion, cuttoff, delay, resonance, chorus and flange....Enough said! Definatley a very good buy.

Sounds are out of this world, if you like Rebirth after this I can assure you, you won't. The bass can go soooo deep and the accents are just unexplainable. It's like you got Prodigy in your house except you made it.

I wouldn't use it on a gig without backup, but that's only beccause the drums aren't built in. But yeah, it would definatley be my main machine.

Can't say, didn't get right from the company.

It is definatley worth what I paid and if I had to choose between a TB-303 or an Electribe I would choose the EA-1 with no hesitation. I have been using it for about half a year and I have no complaint's. If you want to hear some of my music or just check out the site go to www.mp3.com/digitalvortex.

The EA 1 is so absolutely easy to use it's unbelievably, there is nothing to know about electronic music, just start....
The programming is very simple. I haven't looked into the manual yet, because there is no need foor reading it.

Some more effects would have been nice, and a LFO, but who needs a LFO?

Techno, people who buy still 303 for thousands of $ are just stupid, you can an EA 1 for 400$ and it's way cooler.
More effects please. The knobs are reacting a bit to sensitive.

Haven't used it live, but I will, there is no need for backups.

I don't know

I would buy it immediately again without thinking abut it. I have this machine now for 7 hours and it is so f?"$%/ cool.
It's a almost perfect machine for this price...

I have had the EA1 for a few days now and have never worked with a synth of anysort, but with a few quick references to the manual i was able to write patterns within the first hour of use, The variety of sounds possible through tweaking the knobs is great (although i find the knobs just a little too sensitve).

The versatility of the machine is astounding! Even though there are only two parts available, Writing expressive sounds and patterns is both fun and quite easy, another really fun feature is the audio in feature which lets you run external audio devices through it While one of your own homemade patterns runs simultaneously. I am i little dissapointed with the fact that the gain on the distortion can not be adjusted it is simply on or off(though both on and off are very neat sounds), Also I dont like that with the effects you either get tempo delay or chorus/flanger but never both and never neither(on one part though you can apply differnt effects to each voice). It comes with a Buttload of patterns already on it though these are no where near as fun as creating your own but they are all overwriteable and some provide a good jumping off point.Playing the KeyBoard Pad is tricky to say the least at first but slowly grows on you.

It sounds great. It may take awhile to get the appropriately horrible sound, but with a little tweaking All sorts of really great sounds that you have never heard before are capable. Unfortunatetly because the knobs are so sensitive, and the effects are So on\off, subtlety is difficult but not impossible, anyway the strength of the box is its lack of sublety (as with any analog synth i've ever heard) so i still say it sounds really, really good.

had no problems so far, I would indeed play it live because i feel that it is very improv friendly and meant to be played live.

Over all I am in love with this machine. If it were lost or stolen i would buy another in a heart beat, in fact i am saving to buy its sister model the ER1 right now( i played with it some at the store and am also vrey impressed with its flexibility.