Elektron Musical Instruments

Hello elektrons,

> 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.

I've done pretty much same thing. It's enough management for me,
although there is also the output-question. I would love to use
separate outputs, but they seem to mess things for two reasons:

1. Some kits will grow different from MD management. It's not serious
at all, but when you have different pads assigned to different outputs
it will create a mess when recorded (talk about switching kits in song
mode).

2. The mixing balance gets screwed up too easily when using AB+
separate outputs. AB can still be controlled from main volume, but
other tracks arent. This isn't satisfactory at all. One touch with the
main volume knob and all kit balances are out.

I think the ideal solution would be this:

1. You could name the output groups from global settings. and then you
could assign different pads to different output groups from kit menu
_and_ kits would save this information.

2. You could disable the main volume knob from global settings. This
way it wouldn't mess your kits up. There could also be option at the
global settings, where you could choose 'mix to ab'; then all outputs
would be mixed to ab, regardless of the kit settings. This could be
handy when you move on to different locations with your MD and not
everywhere is 8 channel soundcard available.

Toni.