Elektron Musical Instruments

excuse the grammar in my last post. i need sleep

>From: "Steven Henry" <pierrefighterpilot@...>
>Reply-To: elektron-users@yahoogroups.com
>To: elektron-users@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [elektron] The sidstation is fucking weak -- a detailed 
>explanation.
>Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 04:18:08 +0000
>
>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


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