Korg ESX 1 .. Importing multiple drum samples at once via SM or SD cards

[scyhte82]

talking bout loading multiple samples at once... have you heard of that program called esx wave organizer? it makes loading your samples a piece of cake. you can drop your files in the window, sort and rename your samples or delete unused ones (it shows you which samples are used in which patterns, which makes it a whole lot easier) or even convert them from stereo to mono and some other stuff. worth checking it out. :)

[limeyamos]

incredibly helpful, thank you

[yann27]

k seems it had 2 be mono ^^

[yann27]

:( it's not working whenever i press the shift timeslice button it's not doing anything

[kirill747]

whats the clip played in the intro? sounds cool

[danieklerr]

@kirill747 It's me playing a set in the high desert outside of Taos, New Mexico USA. Good times!

[ThomasEarl79]

great tip, but i have a question would you recommend arranging a full kit this way? Like if i wanted a whole 808 or 909 etc arrange the whole kit this way so its easily accessible? Or is there a better way of arranging? 

[danieklerr]

@ThomasEarl79 I use this method regularly for full kits.. In fact, the sample sets that I sell are arranged in this fashion! =)

[TrueBypassTheory]

Your voice sounds just like Jonah Hill

[danieklerr]

@TrueBypassTheory I had to look up who that is, lol. =)

[Willsolo12]

Also, did you make a video showing how to put heaps of new synth sounds into individual files on the electribe like you said at 4.50

[Willsolo12]

Do you have a video explaining how to completely erase all the drum sounds and demo patterns off the electribe?

[H4NDCRAFTED]

Thats such an awesome creative idea I would of never thought to do that! I used to have an emx and bought a cheap ES1...suxs they have to be numbers and you can't name each sample, is that the same on the ESX ?

[danieklerr]

@H4NDCRAFTED No, on the ESX you can name every sample. Using the method described here, I am currently in the process of creating an ESX-sample-set that contains most of the sought-after drum machines from the 60's, 70's and 80's, plus waveforms from many of the classic analog synthesizers. Using the conventional method of one-drum-hit-per-sample-slot this would be impossible due to limited sample slots. Subscribe to get info on the release! :)

[H4NDCRAFTED]

@danieklerr forgot to sub last night, I ment to as well. I'm still reading through Elektron Octatrack manual deciding whther it is worth the extra £600 to me. I may get an ESX and see how the OS updates go with that.

Keep up the good work I know a lot of people must be finding your ideas inspiring, wish ppl would bother to thanks and comment more with this stuff.

[aikighost]

So totally subscribed man :)

So what is the maximum number of slices you can have in a single slice sample for easy import?

[danieklerr]

@aikighost Good question. You can have one slice per 16th note for an entire 8 bars, so.. 128 slices are possible per sample.

[bandra8126]

great tutorial - I'm new to the ESX , and found this very useful - thanks !

[ahalpt]

excellent & really useful. thx.

[dsandwhich00]

I tried this trick and when you load the set into pad 1 you can't assign anything to pad 2. Everything in pad 1 is mono so shouldn't pad 2 be able to hold the next set?

[danieklerr]

@dsandwhich00 you must have exported them from Audacity (or whatever DAW you used) as a stereo file.. I guess I should have mentioned in the tutorial that you must change them from stereo to mono, if applicable. To see if your file is indeed stereo, switch from "pattern" to "sample" and see where the sample is located. It will have an "S" in front of it, if it is stereo. No matter.. Just hold "shift" and "record" to resample, set to mono sampling and hit one of the instrument pads.

[danieklerr]

..save and presto! Resampled in Mono :)

[dsandwhich00]

@danieklerr Roger that, good buddy. It's working now, thankee.



[dsandwhich00]

No sir, I live in (near) Seattle now. I go back once a year so hopefully the stars will align sometime...

[dsandwhich00]

brilliant!



[danieklerr]

@dsandwhich00 Thank you. I see that you are in ABQ.. Do you know Leah and Teddy? Do you ever get to the Watts parties in Taos? The opening short of me playing at the beginning of this video was shot in Taos.

[pmsan29]

I've been using my ESX for about 3 years now, and I never knew that you could hit the shift button and remove/add individual slices during the actual, sample mode, time slice process. It's also cool how you approach the whole sample storing procedure-I never thought to look at it that way-thanks for sharing your tips!!

[phillwilson]

Brilliant Idea, its worth mentioning its a great way to load in complete kits (I have some brill full samples of analogue machines)

I downloaded Shuang Audio Joiner just dropped all the files in each kit folder into that, output it as one file, dropped that wav into the ESX, sliced it and then used that one sample on each part in that programme, but with the number set to a differant slice.

its also great cos I dont use "loops" in my esx so I can use these in slice and stretch parts

[MATTSKITV]

Great Info!

[sanjac1974]

so silly simple, I can't believe I never thought of this, DUH me!!!!

[suitandtieguy]

thanks for making these videos!