Elektron Musical Instruments

taco,

the drums are ok, and can be useful, but if you're going to be making 
anything at all drum-oriented it will be either "really cool" for you 
or not very cool at all.  No matter how you slice it you're working 
with, what, 24 *short* samples that can be tweaked, but not in the same 
variety of ways that one could tweak the same sample in a sampler or 
software sampler.

Also remember that the drum sample generator (i don't want to be 
confusing by saying "drum machine") on the MnM is MONOPHONIC.  so if 
you want to have more than one drum hitting simultaneously, you have to 
add a second monophonic machine.  I think for some, this leads to some 
neat sounds... but if you just want to make a 'regular' drum track, 
you're going to need some other source.

I would definitely try to find a MnM and a MD in person to play with 
before making your decision.  I've got both.  If I had to choose 
between the two, the MD would stay - but that's just me, and currently 
I don't have to make that choice.

I won't be redundant posting what Scott says he's going to make, but 
should he not post it soon just pop another mail up and I'll make a 
short recording with a single trigger of each sample.

On Feb 19, 2005, at 8:25 PM, taco6 wrote:

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>> 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 
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> Well, I will be making hip-hop influenced stuff with this...so that is 
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> machinedrum...and the Monomachine does not really get into the drum 
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> Especially the snares.
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