Elektron Musical Instruments

On Tue Feb 12 2002, James David Beard <jdb9s@...> wrote:

>  I was thinking today how nice it would be if there was 
> a bank of function keys where you could store different 
> data for immediate call up. It could be data such as mute 
> settings or effects settings. One could perhaps press 
> function+drumpad to recall the settings.  This would well 
> increase the sophistication of the sequencer for use in 
> live performances.

I totally agree! Then add the possibility to define which parameters
within the drumkit that the eight knobs would control, this could
either be per pattern och per kit. Instant tweaking of your eight
favourite parameters!

In song mode you can now (v 1.10 of the OS) record a mute mask for
each row in a song. Combine this with the feature of infinite loops,
and loopswitching that is mentioned (too) briefly in the manual (for
version 1.00 of the OS) on page 44.

Has anyone tried out this feature with loops in songs, especially for
live usage? How hard is it to switch between loops? From what I've
gathered from the manual, I think I'd prefer to use the 16 lower
buttons to switch between the loops.

>     A parallel idea would to be to have a kind of function 
> machine that could be programmed into the step sequencer 
> like any other machine. Each time it's triggered it would 
> change some set of parameters. It could perhaps even have a 
> duration so that you could modulate paramaters for a couple 
> beats or bars.

Hmm... what's wrong with the LFOs? 

I use them quite a lot, one neat trick is to use external audio
sources and then auto pan the with a triangle LFO.

/Janne

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Janne G:son Berg, d3berg@...   http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3berg
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