Elektron Musical Instruments

Anyone try an external knob box yet?


--- In elektron-users@y..., James David Beard <jdb9s@c...> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:22:48 -0000 buzzard2uk 
> <nosebleed@a...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been using the MD for awhile now, completely happy with it, 
> > but wouldn't it be great if you could assign whatever you want to 
> > the 8 pots once you've got your song done for a jam. 
> > 
> > ie. Once your song is done, you then could assign,say, kick 
> > decay to pot 1, then hi hat decay to pot 2, then the pitch of 
your 
> > cymbal on pot 3 etc. so you could do a proper jam in one go (like 
> > the real 909). It could be a preference that you could turn on or 
off 
> > on the song edit page. 
> > 
> > I, for one, would love this feature, what do you guys think?
> 
> I agree. This really would be nice. I just finished putting 
> together my first song on the machinedrum, and I very much 
> would have liked to have this feature. It's not such a big 
> deal in the studio cause you can record the parameters for 
> one instrument at a time, but I believe that the 
> machinedrum has the potential to be on of the greatest live 
> electronic instruments / sequencers around, and this 
> modification would give it a lot of strength. 
>    Being able to jam out on all the pots in real time is 
> just about the only advantage I can think of that the 909 
> has over the machinedrum.