Out of pure curiosity, I remember I used to check out the old electribe units and still consider them to be amazing boxes. Then they announced Electibe 2 (with a sampler version).
I read somewhere that they released them way too early (and the sampler way too late past the initial maketing hype). I heard there was a terrible “bug” where small 16 step patterns were making a pause when being chained. I heard that the sampler model had a ton of “bad” samples.
So all this is from Google searching, forums…old forums. But nothing recent. Korg seems to be a big and a proffesional company, have they really abandoned 2 of their most accesible grooveboxes? The famous electribes have been quitely put to death? Honestly I find it hard to believe. The legacy of the original electribes is very strong, you could have picked up a used one years ago and still sell it today for minimal loss (if any). It’s hard to imagine Electribe 2 wouldn’t picked up with support and fixes.