Elektron Musical Instruments

Hi everyone,
I was the one who put the noise question for the first time 2 weeks ago, and here are some thoughts:
- The MD is a very flexible and powerfull drum machine. 
- The MD is far from having a good building quality. (Not even close to a nord for example)
- The alternative outs are not usable for 2 reasons: 1- The noise floor when using 6 outs is RIDICULOUS (louder than my TB 303!) 2- If you use any out separably (A or B or C ....) there is a decay noise (try hard panning a kick drum on st out to L and solo R on your mixer...) which really interfers with any decent sound design you may want to do.
- Apart from that there are strange noises coming from inside the MD caused by the efx card and/or LFO.
- The MD has (at least with the beta 1.09v) midi issues: Difficult to sync with soft seq. with the MD as Master.

I have adressed Elektron with these issues and I was amased that they did not noticed before. At this point they are still trying to find out what it is. They could not guaranty that they were software related (therefore reparable with a OS update) and they told me that it may well be structural hardware problem. 
In my opinion they rushed on releasing the MD and saying that it was "the best drum machine ever..." instead of adressing this problems and making it perfect. Than people would say that the MD is the best. I was quite disapointed with Elektron regarding this!

After considering all this I was seriously thinking about returning my MD (money back). BUT I DID´NT!
During this last week I worked on a song with the MD using just the main st out, all the master efx levels at 0 and using the MD as a sound module (logic as sequencer), and I the result surprised me. It sounds really good and you can easily get were you want, even to further new places. Imagine fruit loops flexibility with all sorts off amazing and powerfull sound possibilities!  So I´m still with the MD.
Also consider the cool T-shirt that comes with it.

Peace
Preto from Barcelona





  

 



-----Original Message-----
From: Flavio Alvarez <srminimo@...>
To: elektron-users@yahoogroups.com <elektron-users@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 5-Fev-02 16:32
Subject: Re: [elektron] MD noise



A million thanks Rui. The original plan still stands.
Machine Drum it is. By the way I tried listening to
your tracks but was not a member of that thing. I'll
join and listen to them later for sure.
Many thanks
Sr Minimo

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