Hi Silvia, I couldn't agree with you more. I have the same opinions as you, but I also see the positive aspects of the Machinedrum because it is so nice for drum pattern creation and hands-on tweaking. A few years ago, I posted some very similar complaints on the elektron-users website and emailed elektron directly, too. Nobody took my complaints seriously. Now you seem to have the exact same issues that I had - primarily, the double keystrokes, and the "danger" of pressing a wrong button live and switching the song/pattern/kit/etc by mistake. My suggestion to get around these issues was to create a new "live performance" mode where the front panel controls for would be different than the normal modes (i.e. classic and extended), where frequent commands (i.e. mutes) would always be accessible and the "danger" keystrokes to load new patterns/modes/kits would be disabled or made intentionally more difficult to execute. Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: Silvia Tubig To: elektron-users@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [elektron] problems with the sound of the trx bd2 --- daniel_elektron <daniel@...> schrieb: > Sometimes when reading forums you can get the > impressions there are > many bugs and problems with our gear, but I'd say > they are really > realiable, and we use them ourselves on stage like > so many others. > I had 6 gigs now with the Md and 1 gig crashed by that songmode button, i havent had a song programmed... ok..thats a feature and no bug...but realiable has also something to do with easyness off handling... at least such "features" dont create the most reliable feeling... aswell that many operations that are essential to liveplaying are only accesible with double keystrokes that make one hand handling an unreliable thing... And i had 2 times weard things with the outputs happening... seems that a midiloop in clocking can bring the MD in a state of seeing out C as Out D or the other way around... Nothing i was able to repeat yet...just an idea... and Hanging notes on the midimachines on patternchages... Many people use the MD...but for stage use?..its rather a studio machine than a stage tool... At least it dont feels very reliable for me...at least not yet... Too many issues for 6 gigs. I am doing stage things with drummachines for 23 years now...so i have quite a few experiances with other products... The MD has many nice features...but also many strange handling arrangements... little things sometimes like that the song/pattern and global are sharing one button while Kit and songsettup share another... ok..no big thing... but i just mention it because its quite exemplaric how things are structured in the Md... It appears to be a work in progress box where many features have been added one after the other reaching a state where the controls are not optimal used anymore... But that is that waht i want from a drummachine on stage.. Good working controls...spontanius access...reliable performance factor... That there is no return to the saved state of a pattern can be seen as a good sportsman attitude...but... A good sportsman attitude dont likes to press multiple buttons to deo a mute... and...sportsman or not..its often just what you want on stage to freak the thing up...do a break..and return to the initial theme... Ok..you can make copys of the patterns before..and go with a double keystrokee to another pattern page... But that is again not really the optimal solutioin for beeing spontanious on stage..or? I allready was thinking about an extra faderbox to remote the MD...but than we get to a point where the concept of a hardware drummachine gets a bit questionable... At least..the MD is versatile enough to allow such arrangements... In the studio its an allmost ideal drumcomputer...but... The only thing that makes the MD real nice on stage it is szise.. With the other features i ask myself sometimes if stage use was intended at all.. Sorry to say that... I still refused to sell it again because i like it somehow..But its defenetly the most problematic drummachine i had on stage yet... And this mainly because conceptional things than real bugs... __________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: [elektron] problems with the sound of the trx bd2
2006-07-20 by synthyscott