Elektron Musical Instruments

> spdif is a waste of time to me.. personally.  a couple adat i/o 
would be a gold mine.

Optical usually (and perhaps inherently?) got more jitter than an 
electrical connection, AFAIK. Word clocking everything sort of works, 
but then you have the problem finding a decent master clock. Devices 
like apogees big ben or rosendahls nanoclock costs silly amounts of 
money! And you still got the problem with phase locked loops tracking 
the word clock input on the actual devices. 

The outputs of the elektron gear is a big part of the sound. Guess the 
machines wouldn't have the same appeal if users went trashing the 
sound through a lousy sound card, which is bound to happen if there 
was digital connections! Better to leave it to the user to sample it 
as best as they can than to risk the nice sound being ruined by a 
sound blaster. 


Oh, and BTW, speaking of connections: most gear operate unbalanced 
internally. Adding balancing stages on the output (and input of the 
next device) would probably make matters worse than not having it 
there in the first place. Balanced works great for long connections 
and the theory is a good one. In actual applications with most gear 
being unbalanced internally, it only adds a layer of unecesarry 
components. 


Cheers, 

Andreas