Elektron Musical Instruments

2 specific problems make the sidstation a complete piece of crap for 
any musician wanting to push sonic bounderies.  

1.) A slow register update speed of 4x (200hz) is, at best, lame.    
The best sounds (instruments) start at 10x speed (minimum).  Listen 
to GRG's 10x speed tracks like GRG in cyberspace and you'll 
understand why I'm bitching.

2.) Addressing all 3 oscillators with a single MIDI channel is just
stupid. I noticed someone else mentioned this would be a nice 
"feature" for Elektron to add.  From my perspective it is a 
"necessary function" that is currently missing from the OS.

I find it funny that Elektron speaks about the most active hacker 
community ever in reference to the sidchip and then creates a machine 
that does nothing to expand on sid chips amazing capabilities.  

I just purchased 2 c64's and am using TFX player 2.8.  I can do 
register updates at 63x for pal frequencies (50hz) and that allows me 
to create some sick instruments that interact with notes being keyed 
to all three osc's.  Try that on your puny sidstation.  Of course 
it's difficult to use in a studio (the noise is more significant but 
I'm using an 8580 at 12volts [this helps]) - syncing it to anything 
useful is another story.

If the creaters of the sidstation read this.  I suggest an OS update 
that allows all your users to create atleast 10x instruments.  Or is 
the sidstation limited to 4x50hz?

I have to hand it to the Acme design crew - the synth is housed in a 
beatiful retro styled case.  The sidchip is a unique and beatiful 
sound source.  Hopefully this posting will prompt the Elektron crew 
to push their OS a bit and maybe I'll end up a happy sidstation 
owner. 

-Anthony Bisset