A place to exchange everything related to grooveboxes with their mostly limited feature set that sparks great creativity!
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Grooveboxes @waveform.social BKLronin @waveform.social Takeo Watanabe -Cycles
Does outdoor jams mostly focused on one instrument. Check him out if you haven't already.
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Grooveboxes @waveform.social BKLronin @waveform.social New Firmware for Electribe2 in Development!
Most of you have probably heard about the incredible Hacktribe firmware by Bangcorrupt, which greatly enhances and revitalizes the legendary Groovebox from Korg.
Now, Bangcorrupt has officially announced the development of the Freetribe branch, which had been hinted at in the past. The first stepstone has already been successfully accomplished.
This new development aims to enable several additional features that have been requested by supporters and users. The advantage is that Bangcorrupt is no longer limited to hacking the current firmware, allowing for more possibilities.
However, it's important to note that creating this firmware from scratch requires a significant amount of work. Therefore, contributions from DSP developers and financial supporters may be necessary.
If you're a fan of the Electribe series and have any resources to spare, I'm sure Bangcorrupt would be extremely grateful for your support.
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Grooveboxes @waveform.social Porphyry @waveform.social A song of mine done just on the Digitone.
Excited to get this groovebox page going with some content. I've already posted this song elsewhere on waveform, but this page doesn't have much. Looking forward to getting more made to post and checking out other people's work.
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Grooveboxes @waveform.social BKLronin @waveform.social OP-1 "Quantized Recording"
If you don´t like to record directly to tape and you are not a fan of programming drums either there is a cool little method you can try if you haven´t already.
- Switch to pattern synthesizer
- Place one element as orientation like Hi Hat or SD
- Turn on hold with red encoder
- Hold shift while playing your notes
E voila - quantized drum recording :D
I frequently combine precisely sequenced elements (shuffled) with freely recorded material on tape to create an exceptionally powerful and groovy sound.
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Grooveboxes @waveform.social BKLronin @waveform.social OP-1 "Chord memory"
If you struggle with chord changes on the OP-1 or remembering progressions in between sessions, I found the pattern sequencer can act as nice place to save and perform from.
The idea is to enter the cords into the sadly just 1 bar pattern sequencer with a bit of space between them like in the picture. Then set the envelope to a longer release and when you press the C key short enough you just hear the first chord. After that you can roll through the chords with shift and green encoder and select the next chord without loosing the first. You can record chords way more rhytmically this way and more precise instead of having to change position on the keyboard.
Next time you want to continue you still have the chords in the memory! :D
TLDR:
- Enter Chords one after another
- Adjust envelope to a bit of release
- Play first chord and record
- Roll through chords with shift and green
- Record next chord