Elektron Musical Instruments

This is actually important for me too, with any new hardware I buy
(and that's usually groovebox's).  I spend a lot of time thinking
about how I want to organize things, and which sounds are going to go
with with parts/channels, etc.  Kind of a hold over from my live pa
days, where I needed to always know what gear was playing what sounds.
 Usually without much prep time.

I've tried a few different methods with the MD now, and I've more or
less settled on the simplest solution.  I keep my drum sounds on the
same labelled tracks.  BD and snare on 1 and 2, tracks 3-5 are more or
less general percussion sounds (bongos, drums, etc), while 6-8 are for
more metallic percussion. I use vague names for those two groups of
sounds to give myself some leeway :)  Tracks 9-12 are the same as
labelled (CH, HH. Ride, Crash), while 13-16 are for two RAM machines,
or maybe CTRL/Input machines if I feel the need per pattern.

Seems easiest in the end to not fight the labelling.  :)  That's
actually a small complaint I have with the MD, the generic drum sound
labelling.  I'd rather they were just labelled 1-16 in big numbers.

On 6/12/06, niall munnelly <aleph@...> wrote:
> I've been thinking about "best practices" for my Elektrons,
> especially since there's no librarian available for them,
> and I have allowed my kits and patterns to become very, very
> disorganised.  I have no idea what beat's where, yech.
>
> So, I'm thinking of capturing what I have, doing shit with
> it, and then completely redoing K+P according to some kind
> of standard to which I'll stick from now on.  I'm terrible
> at sticking to things, though.
>
> It all seems a bit procrustean, and I wonder if what I have
> in mind will work {six main tracks, six aux tracks of the
> same sounds - then again, maybe different sounds, for
> variations, two controller machines and two RAM machines}.
> Has anyone here overthought and applied some "rigour" to
> synth management?  Successfully?


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