Elektron Musical Instruments

this is a really cool idea, roonan! right up my alley. now, if only i
had the $$ for the upgrade! 

anyone with/getting the UW willing to try this out? 

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "Roonan" <Roonan@p...> wrote:
> I've been thinking about ways to make the best of the 2mb sample
> memory and came up with a possibly interesting idea. Not sure if it
> works like I think though. It goes a little somehting like this:
> 
> Lets say you take a number of one cycle waveforms like the collection
> I have from the virus and paste them into one wavefile. Then you'll
> get a relative short wave file (128x128samples = 0,34 sec @ 44.1) Lets
> say you put in 128 waveforms totall. Then the start position (0-128)
> of the sample would be the exact start point of each waveform. The end
> position of the sample should be start + 1 and then with retrigg you
> should be able to find a perfect sustained sound of that particulair
> waveform. This way you have a kind of osc wich you can use pitch on
> and envelopes on let's say the filter. In other words, a true synth
> machine using only one sample (0,34 sec) and one machine generating
> 128 waveforms!!! Doesn't that sound nice? 
> 
> Off course it's all theory and perhaps the numbers are wrong but i'll
> sure give it a try when my machine get's updated. (hint,hint,hint
> Daniel ;-)
> 
> Ronald.