brambos wrote:circuitghost wrote:Well, I gave up the wait and bought myself an Analog Rytm instead. The engine in that instrument is a thing of beauty.
Analog Rytm is a wonderful machine, of course... but three times the price of the Electribe so not exactly comparable in the context of this discussion

That's true. I guess I just got carried away by the moment.
I bought the Rytm for its sample playback abilities only and I'm still looking forward to the Electribe Sampler. There are no hardware samplers today that offer this same approach, treating the sample like an oscillator, using filters, amps and whatnot to shape its sound. Considering that the Electribe out now sounds great if you just take a slice of audio and play with it, I'm hoping the sampler will offer the same, but with one's own samples.