Elektron Musical Instruments

"splank!" wrote:

> I have a wish for the next OS:
> 
> - please no display-change when you go into "mute"-mode.
>   you see what´s muted and what´s not on the LEDs below
anyway,
>   so I think it would be better to free the screen from the
>   additional displaying of the muted buttons - And you would have
>   a free view on the parameters to squeeze.
>   This would be 100% better for playing live.

even better for playing live, I think  would be even easier for live 
mode to      ---***wow Im stoned***--- sorry               

I meant to start to say....   
not even having to go into a separate "mode" to mute/unmute tracks 
would be even better for playing live. Make it a simple key press 
away at any time for any track..  would be great for building up 
tracks from scratch live.. I guess though, if you can go into the 
mute mode without the pop up screen display blocking the knobs then 
that would work just as fine! 
> 
> - maybe I couldn´t find it yet: But i think a "shortcut-button"
>   for the single tracks would be nice. E.g. you press the xy knob 
and
>   the "BD" Track -> with the same effect as if you turn the "sound
> selection"-wheel,
>   but faster when you are one with the machine.

These are two great ideas, both geared for live playing... The area 
where the MachineDrum is the undisputed drummachine king imho. so 
many sonic options!  Get your DJ friend to play some music through 
the MD!!!!!  super cool shit.

but yeah, I think that a sequencer-as-a-track would be a cool idea 
too, I dont know DSP or code or whatever it takes to change this 
stuff up, but it seems to me that it would be easy to adapt the 
machiedrum's hardware and screen/menu system to become a sequencer.. 
The thing IS a sequencer for cryin' out loud.  SO having a midi 
sequencer track, even if just one, (two, three!? : )  seems to be a 
very obvious lacking feature.. the elektron toys would be great for 
eachother.  Maybe even make a specific knob set-up for the Sid.  But 
leave a blank one too, so you could save customixed MIDI knob maps 
for your different MID synths/programs whatever... then send the Sid 
through the MD!! oh my!

I like how the Copy Paste delete functions are laid out.. super cool 
easy.
I like how mostly everything can be done while the sequencer is 
running..  
I like the size/ergonomics of the MD...

just a few things that i managed to remember here tonight!

it rules!
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