Elektron Musical Instruments

it's a good thing none of this information regarding the MnM's awful  
'circuitious step sequencer' was public knowledge before you bought  
the device, or otherwise i'd think you qualify as a complete moron.


On Nov 18, 2005, at 1:13 PM, poperzengott wrote:

> hi everybody. now, as some time has passed, i have to say that i  
> didn't change my opinion
> on the monomachine's workflow. it's a horrifying creative brake to  
> me. i mean, i'm a child
> of the computer age, wtf do i need a circuitous step sequencer for  
> composing if i have two
> 24" tfts giving me enough space to run a more sophisticated ui? i  
> mean, let everybody
> work the way she/he wants, but the mm simply doesn't address this  
> demand. i wanna
> simply use it as an expander, because of it's great sound. when i  
> have a pattern in my
> head, i edit it, choose a synth, choose a sound by skipping through  
> the banks till i found
> one which fits or modify it till it does. simple as that. but it's  
> a pity this doesn't apply to
> the monomachine. if no one else shares this opinion, it's bad luck  
> for me. but: as i need a
> souddiver adaptation or a standalone to control the bitch, i might  
> be good luck for you.
> tell me how much money you want for creating such a piece of code,  
> and we'll make a
> deal. if nobody is interested, i'll probably have to do it myself.  
> anyway, i think i'm not
> touch the mm until i don't have the editor. so if you're  
> interested, feel free to contact me
> at taubmann@...
> there's another thing to say about the hardware implementation of  
> the monomachine. for
> the terrible dial and knobs/the overall quality/and the thumbnail  
> display, don't tell me it
> would have been so much more expensive get it right. the rackears  
> for  100euros are a
> joke. the proof for only 700 bucks more can be found here:  
> www.cwejman.com. i refer to
> the s1, which i own, and which is of the highest quality of analog  
> components. cheap
> digital circuitry for 1300 quid is simply barefaced.
>
> hope no one takes this as an offence, regards from berlin, clemens
>
> --- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, niall munnelly <aleph@a...>  
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 03:12:44AM -0000, poperzengott wrote:
>>> interesting, how diverse opinions on this matter are. maybe i'm  
>>> simply too
> demanding,
>>> because of my background in high-end graphics software ( k, ain't  
>>> no hardware, but
> that's
>>> where workflow/ interaction is really on top of it ). just to  
>>> mention a couple of points:
> no
>>> mute buttons next to the track selectors - two handed operation  
>>> necessary!
>>
>> function + bank puts the triggers in mute mode - six
>> internal synths and the six midi tracks.
>>
>>
>>> would they
>>> have made the device much more expensive?! also, the function,  
>>> global, enter, cancel
> and
>>> cursor section is located on the left of the panel...not meant to  
>>> be an offense, but isn't
> the
>>> majority of us right handers?
>>
>> you could argue about left and righthandedness in relation
>> to most of the buttons on this synth, and i don't think
>> anyone would come up with a more satisfactory arrangement.
>> what do you recommend?
>>
>>> the soft dials are by far too closely arranged, and the
>>> pressing behaviour for parameter increment change should have  
>>> been inverse for my
>>> taste.
>>
>> you're not het first person to say this, but i don't think
>> either implementation has been made a standard.  it's an
>> easy thing to grok with one or two uses, anyhow - hardly a
>> paradigm shift.
>>
>>> and the last thing is that the small display is forcing parameter  
>>> names to be
>>> abbreviated beyond recognition.
>>
>> this also becomes easier with a little use.  come back after
>> a month of use, and let us know how your concerns have held
>> up, please.
>>
>> -- 
>> yours,
>> niall.
>> .. .  .   .    .     .       .           .             .              
>>     .
>> aleph null.                             a simple insinuation  
>> around silence.
>> http://syncretism.net
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>>
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