Elektron Musical Instruments

Hi,

>Interesting you say that, it's not exactly a workhorse synth ...

Yes exactly

>I'd like to get something a bit more standard soon too, like a nord micro..


Hmm thought about them too .. tho I was interested in the keyboard version
of the big brother to micro .. but I realise now that a sampler is going to be the
best thing for my limited home studio ..

>it's very temperamental .. sometimes i swap sounds and go "yikes! - this
>sound bad!"...

Yup.. Know what you mean .. However I have made some really freaky
ringmodulation sounds .. really cool , goes very well to ambient techno stuff .

>however, effects make a big difference, and these days i find myself tuning
>into a desirable SID sound, then just patching it through effects and
>leaving it on that sound. If you assign the DCs to some setting you can a
>wide range of sounds from the front...

I have tried some filtering stuff on it , sending a drum loop
thru it\ufffds filters really rocks =) .. 

>The distortion *can* be nasty yes, and is uncontrollable..


Hmm .. so it can\ufffdt be changed at all then ?

/RL