Elektron Musical Instruments

Sometimes I like how clean the <D is, othertimes I hate it. It depends
which machines you deploy, I guess. I use a sherman filterbank to deal
with some of the sterility, and sometimes an old spring reverb. Any
analogue gear (filters, eq, compressors, springs) tends to help - even
if just let the MD signal pass through it without any twiddling. 

Some of the Reaktor modules sound really good (not quite analogue, not
quite digital), so you might want to chuck the MD through that. In
fact, for a 'from vinyl' sound, you could use an ensemble from reaktor
4 called BanaanElectrique, followed in the chain by one of the
compressor modules.

I"ve only just realised myself that the MD might be best seen as a
'source' to be further affected rather than a complete instrument in
itself. Not that it doesn't sound very good on its own, but because my
ears get tired (sometimes literally) of the same frequency configurations.

DG


--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "concreationist"
<concreationist@...> wrote:
>
> 
> Hello MD users,
> 
> I recently bought a SPS-1. It's a terrific piece of kit. 
> However I often find that its sound is a bit too clean for my taste.
> What do you guys recommend for adding some grit to the sound, either
> in post-processing or on the machine itself? The ideal would of course
> be to make the beats sound like they had been pressed on vinyl. :)
> 
> Regards,
> Sten - swinging at 55%
>