Elektron Musical Instruments

Thanks for the tip! 

I recently found a vinyl simulator called Izotope which is a free
plugin for WinAmp. Most of the settings tend to distort a little but
the grit is certainly there. This DSP plugin can be combined with the
disk writer plugin to route the output straight to a WAV file.

Sten


--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "berries_gulberry"
<berries_gulberry@...> wrote:
>
> 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%
> >
>