Elektron Musical Instruments

Does it do this with nothing hooked up to it at all?  no MIDI input
our output?

My first immediate thought was that you may have a MIDI loop sending
notes back to the MD from the external source.

Tony

On Jan 5, 2008 11:35 AM, blixa02 <197113@...> wrote:
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> I finally just got my new machinedrum uw (from factory direct)and
> after what seemed like a long wait,i am dissapointed, as it is
> defective. First of all, one of the drum buttons has some sort of
> hang up or catching problem which prevents it from functioning as
> smoothly as the other buttons.
> The other problem is that when i try to play the drum buttons
> rhythmically to record a beat into live recording, they randomly will
> double trigger the drum sounds(problem happens with all buttons).
> This throws off the beat and is completely unacceptable for a $1700
> drum machine! I read a couple posts from 2004 where someone asked
> about the same issue. Somebody replied saying that it is basically
> normal. I have to disagree with that. In all my experience with
> hardware, it is NOT normal. Also, it is not any kind of a "bounce"
> that is happening. When the problem occurs, what actually happens is
> that when the button is pressed down, it triggers once. Then, when it
> is let up, it triggers again. I once had an older roland drum machine
> with the exact same problem, but my friend who had the exact same
> drum machine did not have this problem. I replaced all the tactile
> buttons on that drum machine with replacements from the factory and
> still had the exact same problem. That whole experience made me
> realize that it had to be an electronic problem instead of a
> mechanical problem.
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> What i really need now, is for some people to PLEASE help me out by
> playing about 12 meassures(or more)at different speeds of a beat
> manually on your machinedrum and tell me if you have any double
> triggering happening. I really need to find out if this is normal
> behaviour in the machinedrum, or if i got a bad one. I do not want to
> settle for a unit that may have worse problems in the future. I have
> had a LOT of bad luck with buying hardware in the past. I am almost
> ready to completely go the software/midi controller route. I mean,
> $1700 is ALOT of money for something like a machinedrum, and it
> should be a solid piece of gear. I just can not believe how they
> seemed to have cut corners on the knobs and buttons(in a way, those
> should be the most high quality parts on the machine, as they are
> actually "USED" the most! The reason a person would spend so much on
> just a drum machine, is for the HARDWARE interface. Thanks for your
> time.
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