Elektron Musical Instruments

as vague as it may sound, i think it all depends on the material you're
working on or the way that you find more comfortable working with.  i
personally end up syncing both machines to song mode, just because, like
you mentioned, this method yields more editing possibilities.  being able
to access and loop parts of a pattern to re-arrange a track is great.


> I'm trying to figure out the best way to use the MM and MD in tandem.
> Ideally I'd like to master everything from the MM and compose
> complete tracks on the MM with MD patterns coordinated with the MM.
> This is turning out to be difficult in practice though.  A couple of
> options:
>
> 1. both in pattern mode, manually trigger patterns on both machines.
> pros: flexible, improvisational
> cons: can't really save "songs" this way, cool song mode features
> unavailable
>
> 2. mm in song mode/md in pattern mode, send pattern changes to md
> pros: can compose and save a "song" this way, song mode features
> available to MM at least
> cons: need to maintain 1/1 pattern correspondence between machines, no
> song mode features on the MD, can't stack multiple MD patterns against
> a single MM pattern
>
> 3. mm in song mode, use midi machine to trigger md patterns
> pros: machines track in tandem, entire song saveable
> cons: no md song mode features, correlation between mm patterns and md
> patterns not clear without digging into the midi data.
>
> 4. both machines in song mode
> pros: song mode features available on both sides, possible in theory
> to compose entire track side by side on both machines
> cons: song position pointers don't track, so non-linear editing is out
>
> I'm leaning towards running both machines in song mode with looped
> subsections and improvising by jumping between looped sections on both
> machines.  I'll play both machines somewhat "live" and dump it all to
> audio and finish it up there.  The advantages of song mode just seem
> too big to ignore.  Still, it would be nice to be able to compose and
> save an entire piece with both machines in tandem somehow.  It would
> help a lot if pattern changes could happen at some sub-pattern
> quantization level like Ableton.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>


/roby
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