Korg Electribe ES-1

Cool sampler and sequencer. Comes with lots of sounds, patterns, and songs built-in, and it's pretty fun just messing with those, or replacing the samples and hearing the existing patterns with new sounds.

Loading Samples

Loading samples from a SmartMedia card has a few restrictions:

Files need to be named in order, EG: 00.WAV 01.WAV 02.WAV 03.WAV 04.WAV (extension can be upper- or lowercase)
100 files max in the root directory. Dunno about using subdirectories.
- You don't need to keep you samples here, it's more a temp space as you'll move the individual samples into sets/banks and save those onto the card.
8- or 16-bit, 32KHz. .WAV or .AIFF. If you use a rate other than 32KHz playback speed will be distorted.
You can format the card in the ES-1. It's FAT-12.
If you get Er.3 when loading samples that means you're out of space.
- Actual sample space seems to be ~2.2MiB in my experience.
You have to load each sample one-by-one!

Renaming

I use GPRename, which I have hooked into my file manager, so I can select a directory and launch it.

Go to the 'Numerical' tab
Set 'Add numbers starting at' to '0'
Make sure 'increment by' is '1' (should be default)
'and after' field needs to have your file extension; so '.wav'
Make sure 'Keep existing names' is set to 'No' (should be default)
Hit 'Preview' to make sure things look right, then hit 'Rename' if they do.

It'd be nice to script the whole renaming and converting process, so I'll add a command line renaming guide at some point maybe.

Converting

With Audacity:

Select all audio, Tracks > Resample… select or enter '32000'.
If you want to make it mono: Tracks > Mix > Mix Stereo Down to Mono.
File > Export > Export as WAV and set encoding to 'Signed 16-bit PCM' or 'Unsigned 8-bit PCM'

With FFmpeg:

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With SoX (and Bash):

for file in *.wav; do sox $file -r 32000 -b [8|16] -c [1|2] [optional output directory/]$(basename $file); done

-r is sample rate
-c is channels
-b is bit depth
'optional output directory' has to already exist

Table of Contents

Korg Electribe ES-1

Loading Samples

Renaming

Converting

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