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Re: elektron products....

2003-12-16 by m-cartwright@northwestern.edu

> yes! that is the great characteristic of the Sidstation (well, the SID
> chip, actually); the noise!
> 
> the emulation on the Monomachine is very good. it does the basic SID
> sounds very well. and by basic, I mean the waveforms and general
> sound. it doesn't have nearly as much noise and rawness to it. also,
> you can't do any wavetable programming of it (like the SID) and you
> don't have the crazy interaction of LFO's. but if you want the basic
> sound of a SID chip, then it's very good.
> 
> I actually use it a lot, and I hae a Sidstation. I prefer to leave the
> Sidstation programming for those moments when I want very wacky SID
> sounds.
> 
> oh, and there's also a SID mode for the MnM's arpeggiators, by the way.
> 
> Joe.


so basically, with the MM you can get probably tame SID sounds, but not the wacked 
out ones as much?

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