Elektron Musical Instruments

On Feb 17, 2005, at 7:42 PM, taco6 wrote:

>  What drum
>  machines are they based on?  Elektron said they are based on the 
> Machinedrum's E12
>  machine...but I have no idea what that sounds like.

check the machinedrum.com mp3's of the e12 machines.  that might give 
you some idea.
basically, they're pretty realistic sounding drums, kind of hip-hop-ish 
(in my opinion).

>   Out of the 24 sounds, how many are
>  bass and snare sounds?  What are the other sounds?  How tweakable are 
> the sounds?

they are samples, after all.  so they're not incredibly tweakable in 
the way that the MD
drums are (since those are synthesized).  but there's still a lot of 
mileage you can get out
of them.  the synthesis page in the MnM only allows for retriggering 
(makes a "stuttering"
sound or drum roll sound) as well as pitch up/down plus sample start 
time.  but then
you have to remember that you also have an excellent filter, delay 
section and LFO's.  so
you can do quite a lot with them.

of the 24 sounds, I think there's kick/snare/hats/ht/mt/lt and then 
percussion from there
on up.  so every two octaves have the same sounds mapped to them, but 
pitched up
or down by the octave shift.

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