Elektron Musical Instruments

At 3:39 PM +0000 9/23/08, Jon S. Lunde wrote:
>Do you have dedicated kits to specific patterns?

That's what I do most of the time. Sometimes I'll have several 
related patterns use the same kit, but if I'm intending them for a 
different tune they'll have their own kit. I don't trust myself to 
remember that the kit I'm using today shouldn't be changed because I 
used it in a pattern I made last May. I'd rather have the same kit in 
several different memory slots rather than risk messing up a 
completely different pattern that I'd totally forgotten about which 
also happens to use the same kit.

>If you have a kit dedicated to a spesific pattern, do you name the
>kit "G08" for instance?

Exactly, except I also put in the tempo as well. I'll name a kit 
something like G08 132 so I know which pattern it goes with and what 
that pattern's tempo should be.

>How do you avoid making unwanted changes to
>your patterns when playing them live?

As long as you don't save the kit that shouldn't be a problem (but see below).

>And how do you balance this with
>your "songs"...?

I don't really use the song feature. What I do is put the related 
patterns in a row and switch them manually as I'm playing.

>  I back up my K+S+P a lot to my PC via sysex, is that
>someting you people do as a way of keeping order?

Well, just in case I -do- screw up my kits, I do this constantly. 
Even without using the Turbo button on the MIDI interface, which 
basically never works for me, it's still pretty quick. Backups are 
your friend.


          Seth




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