No difference??!? Are you trying to tell me that $5,750 would be an absurd price to pay for an electribe?
In all seriousness, I think the reason my ESX sounded better after I put the new tubes in was due to running the recalibration and adjusting the pots next to the tubes a bit, and not the JJs vs ATs or whatever the stock ones were.
Was your minty one super pricey Xox?
No they donāt seem to be that expensive in the U.K. I canāt remember what I paid but it wasnāt much. I think it was around Ā£300. I found one local on Facebook so was able to check it out before I bought it. I had a quick look last night and thereās quite a few selling between Ā£300-Ā£400
Anyone with an EMX-1 able to answer this, before I go back to seller?
It arrived today. I turned it on, and had a little play for 30 mins - all seemed fine. I left it on whilst I attended a work zoom meeting, came back and pressed play ā¦
Nothing. No sound. Itās all running, notes are programmed, screen is fineā¦ No sound.
Iāve also tried sending all the channels out of outputs 3/4, but still nothing. Headphones, main outs, extra outsā¦ No sounds.
Is there any internal setting Iām missing? Any way I could have globally muted sound?
Seems fucked 
Damn, the seller could at least throw in an SD card for that price
my first rig was es1 mk2 the gold one and a dodgy korg poly 800 that someone had modded and it was fantastic sounding - still canāt beat the 808 sample kick drum out of the er1 with compression maxed out and the ride sample it comes with is unbelievable - I have heard the emx are the dogs bollocks - very solid following and loads of pro users, canāt go wrong
Iād be interested to know what strategies EMX users tend to employ with regards their selection of 3 effects. Itās hard to know quite what to use and in what order when starting out
There are no rules, when it comes to using effects; but, if youāre looking for guidance regarding signal chain, you would typically arrange effects as followsā¦
Tone: compression, EQ, distortion (the order of which depends on the objective) ā¦
Modulation: tremolo, chorus, phasers, flangers ā¦
Delay: any effect that resamples or repeats ā¦
Reverb: general ambience should always be end-of-chain ā¦
Cheers!
Delay into reverb into compressor was my standard chain.
That way I could mix the kick and bass into the compressor and push everything else out of the way. Other sounds got mixed into the other 2 fx to taste.
This is so interesting to me because my go-to chain on the ESX was almost the exact opposite. It was usually Delay 1 --> Comp --> Delay 2.
Jesus this thing goes so insanely loud! I donāt think I could ever get above about 25% of its volume output, even without giving a crap about the neighbours 
My first 45 mins or so with it, and I made a pretty viable banging techno patch that was really fun to jam out with. Happy days
Ya, all the Electribes boast a shockingly hot output.
I had to replace a drum machine last minute once, brought the Electribe in its stead, and nearly blew the windows out of the venue. Itās a good thing Iām quick on my feet, when it comes to mix engineering.
Sounded great though.
Cheers!
Ive said it before and Iāll say it again,
Nothing moves air like an EMX1
Iāve just checked where the main output volume dial is on my EMX-1 and itās usually set at around ~25% as going much higher is a little hefty, especially with the valves mixed in.
Is it possible to change the key of the scale you select?
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Yep. Transpose.
Just had an ESX SD delivered today. It is shocking how good this thing sounds and Iāve just had it for an hour. I have a studio full of Elektron and wondering why I never pulled the trigger on this sooner.
And I got so I got so credibly lucky that it was in better shape than the pics suggested. And the data wheel is t skipping by! Looks like non stock Ruby tubes. Iām trying to decide if the full tube gain might improve after I calibrate them. It that means I need to make a calibration cable. Sounds like a fun Sunday project.
Question though for the team - how often do you all calibrate? And if you do will old tubes sound better?
I really love this one, Iāve never owned one but lots of people had them, the red one sounded huge on big speakers back then, now I only have a few samples but itās a fast machine, Iād keep it around.