Korg Electribe S vs AKAI MPC 500 (simple techno beat)

I got 2 new toys - comparing them as a drum machines. The same samples, the same beat, the same effect (reverb on all parts except kick). I perform crossfade transition between them (syncronized via midi).
AKAI MPC has better reverb imho, but it adds some 'color' to the sound. Electribe offers more realtime controls. On the other side, MPC 500 can act as a multitrack pattern sequencer for external hardware.

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Music

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• Korg
• Electribe
• vs
• AKAI
• MPC
• 500
• ES-1
• comparison
• drum
• beat
• techno

[aikighost]

How many FX can you run at once on the MPC? More than the Korg I think no?

[graywolf2004ru]

@aikighost MPC - 2, Korg - 1 as I remember. But I hated MPC'c chorus - couldn't get it sound right, it sounded like a chewed tape. But you can load processed stereo samples into MPC and forget it. Korg is more intuitive, and has more solid lo-fi sound (cause it has 32 kHz DA converters)

[TR0jAX]

thank you for this comparision, i always thought the mpc has better A/D converters. But it seems the electribe is good like the mpc in terms of sound quality. But i got a question, in your demonstration every machine is playing with their own sequencer right, cuz i have the feeling the mpc is tighter.

[graywolf2004ru]

@TR0jAX Yes, every machine plays it's own sequencer.

[graywolf2004ru]

The kick drum on MPC doesn't differ that much, probably a compression issue...

[drumandbes]

mpc sounds much much much better!!!

[On1836]

Thanks for comparision!

Don´t you have it in wav or (good mp3) quallity?

MPC 500 has dope-bass-wet..."Akai sound", Korg is sharp....

[rintin2]

can you put 1 full track on the mpc 500 and assign it to 1 pad? Also can you load multiple tracks to the mpc 500 and assign them to different pads? I have a 16 gigabyte card and I would like to do this.

[MrBoxxed]

quasimidi ......

[househash]

mpc sounds much better

[househash]

mps sounds much better