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Owner’s Manual
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Precautions THE FCC REGULATION WARNING (for U.S.A.) This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the Location FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential Using the unit in the following locations can result in a installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate malfunction. radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in • In dire
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Table of Contents Recording a new sample ............... 21 1. Introduction ...................... 7 Sampling...................................................21 Preparations for sampling ....................................... 21 Main features ................................. 7 Sampling mode settings .......................................... 21 Saving your data on the ESX-1 ................................. 8 Recording the sample ............................................. 21 About the vac
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Specifying the center note ....................................... 44 5. Pattern mode .................. 35 Changing the scale of the arpeggiator ..................... 45 ARPEGGIO SCALE List .......................................... 45 Playing patterns ............................ 35 Editing sounds .............................. 46 What is a Pattern? ................................................. 35 Playing a pattern .......................................35 Assigning a sample to a part ...
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Comparing the currently-edited pattern with the Deleting a pattern ......................................79 saved pattern (COMPARE) ..........................67 Erasing data from a song ...........................80 If you erase song data by accident .......................... 80 Motion sequence ........................... 68 Changing the pattern in a specific position ...80 What is a motion sequence? ................................... 68 Maintaining the part mute settings even when Recording a
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About MIDI ........................... 89 8. Appendix.......................... 97 About MIDI channels .............................................. 89 Using the ESX-1 as a sound module ............89 Troubleshooting ............................ 97 If you connect a multi-track MIDI sequencer to the ESX-1 Can’t control the ESX-1 via MIDI .................97 ..................................................................... 89 Sound is distorted ......................................97 Setting
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1. Introduction 192 internal patterns programmed for many genres of dance music 1. Introduction The ESX-1 can hold 256 patterns in memory. Each Thank you for purchasing the ELECTRIBE SX (sub- one lets you store a sound and sequence (of up to sequently referred to as the “ESX-1”). 128 steps) for each part. When shipped, 192 of the The ESX-1 Music Production Station can be used internal patterns are pre-programmed specifically by anyone - from beginner to professional - to cre- for dance music a
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SmartMedia™ slot Saving your data on the ESX-1 Patterns and songs you create on the ESX-1 can be The patterns and songs you edit and create on the saved on SmartMedia™. ESX-1 will be lost (the patterns and songs will re- WAVE files or AIFF files you create on your com- turn to their un-edited state) if you select a new puter or another device can be loaded via pattern or song, or turn off the power before sav- SmartMedia™ and used. ing your changes. If you want to save a pattern or song that you
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2. Parts and their functions 2. Parts and their functions Top panel 6 1 23 4 5 9 7 8 1. MASTER VOLUME 5. Common section (☞ p.10) This knob adjusts the output volume of the line The controls grouped in the Common section al- out jacks and the headphone jack. The master vol- low you to switch modes, to use the display to edit ume does not adjust the volume of the individual parameters, and to control playback and record- out jacks. ing. 2. TUBE GAIN 6. Edit section (☞ p.11) This knob adjusts the l
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Common section 5 1 2 6 3 4 8 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 1. AUDIO IN THRU key 10. RESET, ERASE key Selecting this key will send the sound from the au- Pressing this key will immediately reset the cur- dio in jack directly to the line output jacks and rent pattern or song back to the beginning. Dur- headphone jacks unchanged. ing playback, you can hold down the shift key and When this key is on, the effect, part common, press this key to erase data from the current part. modulation, and filter param
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2. Parts and their functions part in the stereo field for the line out- Edit section puts (L/MONO, R) or headphones. If a part is set to the individual (3/4) output 23 bus (☞ p.26: Output bus) this control will adjust the panning to the individual out- 1 puts (INDIV. OUT 3, 4). LEVEL : Adjusts the volume of each part. For an accent part, this will adjust the strength of the accent. START POINT : Sets the playback start point for the sample assigned to each part. AMP EG : Selects the amp envelop
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Part select section 123 4 56 1. (DRUM PART) 1...5, 6A-6B, 7A-7B (drum part keys) 5. SLICE (slice part key) These keys select drum parts. By pressing these This key selects the slice part. By pressing this key keys you can hear the sound that is assigned to you can hear the sample that is assigned to the each part. slice part. 2. ACCENT (accent part key) 6. AUDIO IN PART (audio in part key) This key selects the accent part. This key selects the audio in part. By pressing this key you can hear the
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2. Parts and their functions 5. Select LEDs 6. Step keys 1...16 The upper row of LEDs (green) indicates the loca- These keys can be used to enter data into a pat- tion within the currently-playing pattern (length tern, and will light to show the position or timing 1 through 8). where each part will sound. The lower row of LEDs (red) indicates the posi- When the KEYBOARD key is on (lit), you can use tion shown by the step keys (length 1 through 8). these keys as a keyboard to play a keyboard part
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Rear panel 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1. ~AC 9V 5. AUDIO IN, ST./MONO (audio in jack) Connect the included AC/AC power supply to this This jack is used by the Audio In oscillator type connector. setting. The sound input from this jack is used as the sound of the Audio In part. If you want to make 2. STANDBY, ON (power switch) connections in stereo, connect a stereo phone plug Pressing this switch will alternate between power- to this jack. on and standby conditions. 6. INDIV.OUT 3, 4 (individual out) jacks
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2. Parts and their functions Items and functions in the display 45 1 3 6 2 7 8 1. Parameter display 8. Part status indicator This area displays pattern names, song names, and This shows the status of the following parameters parameter names. for each part. PLAY: Indicates the mute status of each part. 2. Value display On (lit): This part is not muted. This area displays the selected parameter’s value. Off (dark): This part is muted. SWING: Indicates which parts have the Swing 3. PATTERN, SONG, S
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N N N N N N I I I I I I A A A A A A V V V V V V B B B B B B G G G G G G 3. Basic operation Preparations Connections You must turn off the power before mak- ing any connections. Careless operation can damage your speaker system or other equipment, and may cause malfunctions. AC MIC1 MIC2 MIC3 MIC4 MIC5 MIC6 STEREO AUX RETURNS 1 AUX SEND1 TAPE TAPE MAIN OUTS L INPUT OUTPUT L MICR 14-CHANNEL MIC/LINE MIXER O SERIES 1402-VLZ 2 2 R R BAL LEFT(1/MONO) RIGHT ALL BAL/UNBAL BAL/UNBAL UNB BA OR AL L UNB B
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Playing a Demo song The ESX-1 contains several demo songs. Here’s how you can listen to the demo songs to get an idea of the ESX-1’s sound and potential. 1. Press the SONG key. The SONG key will light. 2. The display will show the current song name and number. If it does not, press the SONG key a second time. 3. Turn the dial to select a song. 4. Press the PLAY/PAUSE key to play back the song (the key will light). When the song ends, playback will stop automatically (the key will go dark). To pa
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4. Sample mode In this mode you can record (sample) a sound to create a new sample, modify samples in various ways, or delete an unwanted sample. Sample mode Sampling procedure on the ESX-1 Sampling area = total 285 seconds Monaural samples 000....255. (Slice samples displayed as ) Here’s the procedure from sampling a new sound to assigning the new sample Edit in (Stretch samples displayed as ) Sample mode to a part. Normalize, Stereo samples 000 ...127 (Stretch samples displayed as
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Auditioning samples 1. Press the SAMPLE key to enter Sample mode (the key will light). 2. Press the [ ] cursor key to make the display read “(sample name).” 3. Turn the dial to select a sample. There are six types of sample. “001”: monaural sample “001 ”: stereo sample “001 ”: slice sample “001 ”: stretch sample “001 ”: stereo stretch sample “001 ”: slice stretch sample 4. Press the PLAY/PAUSE key or one of the part keys to hear the sample. To stop playback, press the STOP/CANCEL key. In Song
