{"id":153464,"date":"2026-05-14T21:27:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=153464"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:28:20","slug":"prelude-fugue-for-korg-er-1-drum-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/05\/14\/prelude-fugue-for-korg-er-1-drum-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Prelude &#038; Fugue For Korg ER-1 Drum Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fugue for My Drum Machine (Piano and Electribe ER-1)\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NOUJm7nBqkw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Synthesist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@your.americancousin\">Hank Mason<\/a> shared this live performance of his original composition, <em>Prelude and Fugue for the ER-1<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Mason has to say about it:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;The Korg Electribe ER-1 has 4 voltage-controlled oscillators \u2014 the exact number needed for a 4-voice fugue. So I wrote one. Because it seemed like one of the dumbest things I could do with a drum machine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This is a Prelude and Fugue for the ER-1, performed live with piano accompaniment on an early 1900s Krakauer Bros. grand piano.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gear Used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Korg Electribe ER-1 Rhythm Synthesizer<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Krakauer Bros. Grand Piano<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synthesist Hank Mason shared this live performance of his original composition, Prelude and Fugue for the ER-1.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/05\/14\/prelude-fugue-for-korg-er-1-drum-machine\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prelude &#038; Fugue For Korg ER-1 Drum Machine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,40],"tags":[359,30670,10673],"class_list":["post-153464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drum-machines-groove-boxes","category-music-videos","tag-korg","tag-korg-electribe-er-1","tag-live-performance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/korg-er-1-drum-machine.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153465,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153464\/revisions\/153465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}