Elektron Musical Instruments

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>Still, 1350(?) euros is quite a lot of money for a drum machine, no
>matter how good sounding the MD is. Compared to a RS7000 for 1499
>euros at www.thomann.de, the MD does seem ridiculously expensive.
>Premium price for premium tools, I guess.


I don't understand why people keep saying this, the MD costs the same as 
most mid-range synths(Virus, Microwave XT, Q-rack etc) on the market. It 
has equivalent or maybe even more DSP power, loads of I/O and plenty of 
panel hardware. Why on earth should it cost less just because it's a drum 
machine?

As for sequencing whole tracks in the MD, I think it is perfectly 
possible(especially with the recent addition of a mute mask for each song 
step). The way I usually use it is to have one MIDI machine controlling the 
SidStation(seems made for that) and another couple sending messages to 
Max/MSP which then triggers other sound-generation. Works like a charm :-) 
Admittedly sequencing everything directly from the MD would be a bit 
limiting, but that doesn't mean some good music couldn't result!

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