Elektron Musical Instruments

This is all very true.

On the sidstation poster it promotes the synth as being built on the 
experience of the hacker scene.. though most of the ideas it incorporates 
were intended to be used with the original SID design anyway. The sidstation 
hardware itself is capable of so much more but at the moment i'm hoping 
updates have only been stalled because of the machine drum release.

When i bought my first sidstation I took it for granted that a multiple midi 
channel mode would be in the next os. unfortunately I'm still using it for 
leads and orchestral sounds, and i need two to get the thumping C64 beats I 
originally wanted.

As well as the points put forward by Anthony i would have liked to have seen 
like to see a memory upgrade, and possibly a sampler function (over sysex).

And again.. I wouldn't own two sidstations if i didn't like them, i still 
favor the over hardsid and my commodore because it has knobs on its 
hardware, and i don't really want the bother of carrying my computer (or my 
commodore) around.. I worry though. Has the sidstation been completely 
abandoned? I don't like the prospect of waiting another one and a half years 
just to be given another patchbank.

Steven

>From: "angrysavant" <angrysavant@...>
>Reply-To: elektron-users@yahoogroups.com
>To: elektron-users@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [elektron] The sidstation is fucking weak -- a detailed 
>explanation.
>Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 02:55:42 -0000
>
>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
>


_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp