Elektron Musical Instruments

Whew, kinda hard to sumarize, but here's some random thoughts on it:

Ultrabeat is bit more flexible in a way, since you aren't starting
with default kits geared towards specific sounds.  Just basic OSC and
envelopes, much more similar to say a Korg ER-1 in this regard.  That
said, the MD is a lot faster to get sounds on for precisely this
reason too.  Both sound great and have x0x style sequencing obviously,
no worries there.  UB loads samples of much longer length than the MD,
isn't limited to 12bit mono, and there's some workarounds for making
your own velocity layered samples via EXS24 as well, none of which the
MD can do.

In terms of interface, the MD kills UB imo, it's way more immediate
and easily one of the most 'playable' pieces of gear I have.  In
comprison, UB's controls are very small and fiddly, and way
modulations are handled is a bit weird compared to other gear out
there.  Nice once you get used to it, but not the easiest to grasp at
first.

I honestly find the MD a lot more fun to play with, and it's far
easier for me to come up with unique sounds.  UB's no slouch, but you
need to mouse everything as midi control surfaces like the Novation SL
don't really work well with it.  I had thought when getting Logic 7
that i might be able to make do with UB for my synthetic drums, but
honestly I didn't get on with programming it as much as I'd hoped, and
I still find myself reaching for the MD far far more often.

On 8/25/07, wavplant <waveplant@...> wrote:
> if anyone's got experience with both i'd appreciate it if you could speak to the differences
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