Exporting a Song / Pattern

[Avery]

Hi!


I'm new to Electribe.


One thing is unclear to me:

If I want to use a Song I've created with the Electribe in my computer
software (Logic or Live or FL etc), is the only way to achieve this to
record it via cable connections from the Electribe to the Soundcard?


Is there no way to get the song as a WAV or AIFF on the SmartMedia
card and simply just use that file?


Grateful if someone can clarify things! :-)


/Avery

[skratchdot.com]

That's correct. The only way to get the song to play on your computer
is by recording it via a cable connection (in realtime).

The .esx file does store all information (like sample data, pattern
data, etc), but to get it to "replay", someone would have to create an
emulator of some type.

I would like to eventually figure out how to convert to other file
formats, so you can import esx data into other audio programs (like
Logic/Live/FL), but in reality, I'm not sure I'll ever get around to
it (or have the time).

I haven't found an audio program with a really good "open format" to
convert to. At least that's the case the last time I looked. If you
know of any programs that publish info about their file formats, let
me know, and I may be able to look into it...

Thanks for checking out the program!

-Jeff

[Loz]

If you exported the audio via the card.. you'd completely bypass the
valves..... so what's the point?

[Avery]

Hmm, good point. 

But if I don't use the valves, and just want it to sound as pure as possible...

When I compare the sound quality between:

-Connecting the Electribe straight to speakers 

and

-The recorded version I've recorded into my computer software

...there's a noticable difference that I don't like. 

I think it's weird it's not built in to Electribe that songs are saved as WAV or AIFF  on the SmartMedia card. It would make the process so much smoother :-)?

Since Electribe Editor (superb btw!) can extract the individual samples as WAV:s, it should be possible to combine them into songs.... I guess....  but I can understand it'd be tricky. How much of a donation would You need ;-)?

Anyway, how do you guys connect your Electribe to your Soundcard to get the best sound recording..? (My Soundcard is a Focusrite Saffire, and current sequencer software is FL Studio :-/). 

Thanx!!

[skratchdot.com]

I have most of my external equipment (samplers, turntables, etc) going
into an alesis multimix mixer (which connects to my computer via USB).

I haven't been very happy w/ it b/c the drivers keep failing on it.

Before I bought that mixer, I had all my equipment going to my old
mixer, which connected to my computer via cables (using some rca to
1/8 inch converters to connect to my pc's audio in).

About the donation- it's more about time than money :) I've been
swamped at work, so haven't had any free time to work on this (or I've
been working on other projects).

I would definitely like to figure out a way to convert to other file
formats, but haven't seen any good documentation for audio software
file formats.

Maybe later this winter I can look into it some. This next month is
going to be crazy hectic for me, but once the holiday season starts, I
may have a little downtime...

-Jeff

On Oct 3, 3:39 pm, Avery <scrape5...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, good point.
>

> But if I *don't* use the valves, and just want it to sound as pure as

> possible...
>
> When I compare the sound quality between:
>
> -Connecting the Electribe straight to speakers
>
> and
>
> -The recorded version I've recorded into my computer software
>
> ...there's a noticable difference that I don't like.
>
> I think it's weird it's not built in to Electribe that songs are saved as
> WAV or AIFF  on the SmartMedia card. It would make the process so much
> smoother :-)?
>
> Since Electribe Editor (superb btw!) can extract the individual samples as
> WAV:s, it should be possible to combine them into songs.... I guess....  but
> I can understand it'd be tricky. How much of a donation would You need ;-)?
>
> Anyway, how do you guys connect your Electribe to your Soundcard to get the
> best sound recording..? (My Soundcard is a Focusrite Saffire, and current
> sequencer software is FL Studio :-/).
>
> Thanx!!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Loz <mister...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If you exported the audio via the card.. you'd completely bypass the
> > valves..... so what's the point?
>

> > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:46 PM, skratchdot.com <j...@skratchdot.com>

[Avery]

Thanks for response!

In theory at least, I thought it would be possible to use the existing data in Electribe Editor (the effects, pattern data etc is all there) and combine that with the samples (which can already be exported as WAV:s) in order to be able to export patterns and songs as WAV:s?   I'm not a programmer though, so in reality I know f**k all :-).

[Loz]

If you want to do that, what's the point of using the Electribe at
all? Just use it as a MIDI sequencer for fruityloops.

[Avery]

Why..? Because I want to use the computer as little as possible, ie only for final mixing/mastering. It's much more exciting sitting with the Electribe alone, without staring at a computer screen :-)

I still don't understand why KORG didn't include an "Export Song as WAV (to the SM card)" in global mode...

[staticwarp]

at the time the esx was released, smartmedia was the biggest, fastest portable storage medium. this was before everything had a usb port and connected itself to facebook and twitter without a second thought. smartmedia has a max capacity of 128mb per card. wave files get really big, really fast. the average mp3 is about 128mb if it is 1:28 long. a wave file of that length would be about three times that size. this is why there is no way to save your songs as an audio file on the electribe.

 

this idea would make sense for the esx-sd, as we can get huge sd cards nowadays that could easily store multiple .esx files, thousands of samples and plenty of songs. but korg did not actually update the esx with this functionality, they just popped in an sd slot and called it a day. they should have put on a usb port too, but whatever.

 

the thing i don't get is why i always see this come up - no matter what electribe discussion i'm looking at. if you want to record your song, you get an audio interface and record your song. record each part as a separate track so you can master it if you want. if you like the way it sounds already, just record from the audio outs.  it's the same with the esx as with any other instrument: there is no need to save an audio version of your song on your instrument, then you wouldn't have to play your instrument.