Elektron Musical Instruments

hehe.. and don't forget,  less is more!
I'm considering selling all my hardware stuff, except for the MD-uw and 
MPC. With the money of the selling, I want to buy one 'great' synth, 
like the Virus-TI or likewise..
Just the fact that I have to switch 15 on/off- buttons before I can 
start -- it's too much! Lately I'm just playing with everything, but not 
'recording' and thus producing stuff..(which I would do more likely with 
less equipment).
Andy, you probably made me sell my stuff. And I will begin next week. ;)
-Chris




ANDY wrote:

> Thanks for the response Chris... Interesting comments...
>
> As far as using the mpc to trigger notes on the MD, that is fine but
> the only problem is that you loose one of the things that makes the
> MD so incredible... The parameter locks... I wish elektron would
> make it possible to just use the parameter locks even though you
> would be sequencing the notes on an external sequencer... man that
> would be killer... cause you could add a shit load of spice to the
> beats and have longer sequences... Then all you would have to do is
> load an empty pattern with a specific kit an you would be flying...
>
> I actually use the mpc as the clock master. the only thing which
> I've noticed is that when you are on a track which is attached to
> the proteus, if you tweak the parameters on the md, it also tweaks
> the controller of the proteus... The way around that is simply to
> unhook the MD out and you're all set... I just prefer to focus on
> one machine when I'm playing live...I can't imagine working without
> the mpc though but solution is probably just to record the sounds
> from the proteus as samples and only use the MPC and the MD... I
> don't really mind that except that I loose the quality of the e-mu
> filters... ... What I would love is if I could just use the MD to
> trigger the next sequence on my MPC... Funny enough, the reverb
> button on the MD acts on the Next sequence of the MPC but it's a bit
> wild..
>
> I don't know, it's trial time at the moment but I'm sure I will find
> a solution.
>
> --- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Chris Stammen <Cosmiq@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Andy, interesting!
> > I'm using the same kind of setup, but with an MPC-1000..
> > Do you use your MPC as a main sequencer? I've tried that, but
> there were
> > some problems doing so. I'm using my MD as main sequencer now. The
> > problem is that the MPC sends programchanges each time it loops.
> This
> > will reload the selected patch of the synths connected
> (2xMS2000+virus)
> > - therefor the sequence it plays is a little delayed and it sounds
> like
> > a little click at the beginning. Also, the tempo's of the
> sequences are
> > most of the time different, so I'd like some external gear to act
> as a
> > main clock for all MPC sequences.
> > Now that I've got the MD as a main sequencer, it all works fine:
> The MPC
> > starts playing when I push play on the MD. This way I can make a
> > complete song in renoise, render the song to wave, cut them out in
> > soundforge, load them into the MPC, split the samples to multi-
> programs
> > with the chopperfunction, get crazy with MPC song mode, and add a
> hell
> > lot of wicked beats with the MD, adding up synth voices with the
> M1-M4
> > channels of the MD which midi-out stuff to the external synths.
> > Layers enough, I would say..
> > then only 1 problem remains:  Saving the work... (and don't forget
> to
> > write on little notes which patterns match to which patches)..
> > (that, btw, is the only thing that stinks)
> >
> > -chris
> > ps. here's a pic:  http://members.home.nl/cosmiq/studio.jpg
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ANDY wrote:
> >
> > > Right,
> > >
> > > I've had my MD for about 3 months now and it's now full of
> > > sequences/patterns for my live
> > > set... I am using it in combo with an mpc 4000 which I use to
> sequence
> > > my Proteus 2K for
> > > bass lines and pads and also some loops and one shots from the
> mpc's
> > > internal sampler...
> > >
> > > Just curious if anyone else is using this sort of combo (even if
> it's
> > > an mpc 1000) and if so,
> > > how are you controlling the sequence changes etc... I am asking
> this
> > > because I want to be
> > > focusing on one machine to do the sequence changes... which one
> would
> > > you use, how do
> > > you go about either making program changes from the mpc to the
> MD or
> > > use the MD to flip
> > > the sequences on the MPC...
> > >
> > > one more thing... don't know of this has been discussed already
> but I
> > > would definately love
> > > elektron to make the mutes triggerable from an external peice of
> > > gear.... by this I mean
> > > making it possible to make mute mappings in the mpc to flip the
> mutes
> > > and without being in
> > > song mode...
> > >
> > > thanks for any help
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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