Elektron Musical Instruments

I am upset by the price because I suspect that it will be such a useful
machine for me that I will have to end up saving for it.  What I would like
to know is if you could make it possible to trigger patterns by a certain
MIDI note event, so you could map the patterns across a keyboard or
something...  What are going to be the ways of interacting with the machine?
Give us some hints!!  Are you going to keep it open ended in some way?


-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Hansson <daniel@...>
To: elektron-users@yahoogroups.com <elektron-users@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: [elektron] machinedrum


>
>First, about the sound example I posted - please allow everyone to have
>their own opinion. Everyone must not have the same idea if it's good or
>not. I did not post it to be praised for it being exactly what everyone
>was looking for. I wanted some reactions from the people who were looking
>for a harder bassdrum-sound. Specifying what they were looking for in a
>bassdrum. Just to form a picture.
>
>Second, you have to understand that we do not try to please everyone with
>our products. That's the job of Roland and Yamaha. The result is often
>uninspiring to me. We try to do uncompromised things that are really cool
>in some aspects, but probably won't appeal to everyone. That is what I
>think adds most to the music instrument market, and we think is the most
>rewarding to develop. Look at what we state to do: "Our aim is to pioneer
>the development of electronic music instruments by creating innovative,
>user friendly and magic sound sources." It doesn't say "we want to do the
>phattest emulation of todays big sounds".
>
>Third, if you don't like the sound or the price or the interface or
>neither - don't buy it! This whole MD-thing is a gamble of that our
>view of what is cool agrees with at least some other people so we can
>continue doing our thing.
>
>Fourth, the estimated price is USD 1100 for the American market. What is
>this "I could get a XTR, 909 or 303 for that price"? Sure you can, and if
>you think that is better value - go for it. In the MD we have been serious
>about drum synthesis. The MD is a synthesizer just as much as the
>Microwave or Virus. Drummachines might usually be simple toys, but this
>certainly isn't. We could have decided to set the goal lower (to ER-1
>standards perhaps) and get a lower price. But we aimed higher and you'll
>have to respect that. As a small synthesizer developer (smallest?) we can
>never compete with price - so we go other ways.
>
>As for the bassdrum demo, it was just a quick thing to get some responses.
>Perhaps it was a bad idea as I didn't have the time to follow it up with
>further examples, but I thought it was good to get some feedback. I'm
>satisfied with the replies I've got and it will influence our plans for
>MD-upgrades.
>
>Take care,
>
>Daniel Hansson, Elektron
>
>On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Sean Welch wrote:
>
>> > >weve heard $1100  u.s.
>> > >ouch!
>>
>> 1100??! SHA! sorry elektron...u can fly solo on this one. thats a
rediculous
>> price for a box man. even if its offering all that stuff.....still, i
could
>> buy almost 4 tribes for that. hell..get myself a microwave XTR for that.
I'm
>> sorry, but the machinedrum is side gear...like the sid. its not something
u
>> NEED. shit...for that, u can get a 303 (i know..u need one like a hole in
ur
>> head...personally, i'd curcuit bend one), or 909, or 808.
>>
>> and especially, comming from a 17year old (experienced electronic
musician
>> here), That price is plain unfair! Its hard enough pulling bux together
to
>> get nessisary gear ( i do work, and sale fine art ).
>>
>> if u want some serious market status on the machinedrum, i suggest
greatly
>> lowering that price.....like about half.  find a way to produce it
cheaper,
>> or what ever ( Not FIZMO cheap ....thats just irresponsible). But bring
it
>> down man...... I've been psyked about this thing for close to 5 or 6
>> months...and this is just down right dissapointing.
>>
>> out
>> -sean
>> >
>> > >weve heard $1100  u.s.
>> > >ouch!
>> > >
>> > >Sean Welch wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > ok....but I do need to know something...what is the expected USD
>> >PRICE?
>> > > > I'm sure everyone else is wondering this to...SO HOOK US UP!
>> > > > -sean
>> > > >
>>
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