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MachineDrum again & again...

2001-03-12 by krupir@hotmail.com

Since the issue is on the tracks again, no pun intended, I had a
question for whoever may answer :
I don't know much about synthesis, and I think it's been told what
kind of synthesis the machine drum will use, still, I don't know what
it means at all. The thing I think that all drum machines I know are
disapointing for, or not as fun as one (= I,hehe...)can expect is the
fact that the basic sounds (samples, templates, whatever you might
call it) are pre-recorded ones. You can't build a sound out of the
blue, the way you can do it on an analog-like synth, where you can
push a key and no sound would come out of it until you've tweaked an
oscilator or filter, starting with the basic bleep and turn it into
something else, a pure electronic bleep. You know what I mean. So the
question is :
Will the MD have this kind of synthesis or does it come with basic
sounds, like pre-recorded ones or something, some one can clearly
identify, or some that have been worked on already and you can't go
under the level it's been worked to (example : get one of your
sidstation patches, you can burn it down to the root of it, like to a
square wave or a sine. Start with an blank one is the same. The pure
wave is free of everything, it's pure electricity (or so it feels to
me...)Doesn't sound like anything but a wave.)You know ? Get a noise
wave and turn it into a snare with many parameters. Can we do that on
the MachineDrum ?
Anyone ?
Anyone ?

Virgile- THanks-

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