Elektron Musical Instruments

On 9/27/05 8:29 AM, "John Gellings" wrote:

> Yeah, I am aware of that... i like beatboxing and I
> wasn't saying you can't make good music with cheap
> gear...but I'd rather use some quality gear that makes
> life easier than something like the Korg ER-1 which
> takes a ton of time to make sound good.  I'm not
> talking about programming...the thing is easy to
> program...but it just sounds so damn flat that you
> have to process the hell out of it in order to make it
> sound good.  That is not the case with the Elektron
> stuff...or even Reason or Live IMHO.

It sounds good by itself, then esp with just bit of eq and compression. It
depends what kind of music you want to make, the ER-1 is made for electro
type stuff, don't go trying to do something like drum and bass with it. No
tool is necessarily crap, you just need the right tool for your job.