Elektron Musical Instruments

Well... i don't know the price for this but i can do the same things with 
Live and a Machinedrum...
Only 20 sec of recording time ? Welcome back to 80's ^_^
I expect more from Elektron

Brain

> Spoke to Daniel Elektron at the Sounds-Expo.
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> The Ultra Wave is available as a hardware upgrade for the MachineDrum as 
> well as
> being sold as new Unit/product. You will have to send your MachineDrum to 
> Elektron
> though. He didn't say how much the upgrade would cost, but i'm sure it 
> will a lot less than
> a new unit.
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> Here is the low down!
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> Exactly the same as the MachineDrum but with 2 new machines.
> Rom Record and Rom Play.
> Boots up same as the MachineDrum then has extra Rom loading screen.
> Up to 32 Samples can be stored.
> You can have 16 Rom Play machines at once each playing any one of your 32 
> loaded
> samples.
> Sample time is approx 20 secs. Which I understand can be increased if you 
> choose a
> different sample rate.
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> The Rom Machine controls are (from memory).
> Pitch,
> Retrig,
> RTime,
> Rate, (sample resolution. Just on the record machine, i think)
> Hold (ie Decay),
> Start and End (To play sample in reverse put start to '127' and end to 
> '0'. Some interesting
> LFO modulation possibilties here!).
> There is no "real-time" time-stretch function.
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> You can record on the fly, while other Machines are playing.
> You set record in and out points as you would trig points.
> For example If you are recording a live from a sound source the Record 
> Machine will keep
> recording from the until you are happy. Then I presume it switches to a 
> play machine
> when you have finished recording. An Elektron Demo guy was doing this with 
> a loop from
> a record deck and it appeared to happen seemlessly.
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> Daniel mentioned something about offereing a fast USB Midi adaptor to 
> speed up sample
> transfers times when you buy the machine. Import via midi for a 4 bar loop 
> did seemed
> painfully slow.
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> Oh and I almost forgot. It sounded great.
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> David
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