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Re: [elektron] Assigning the pots

2002-04-30 by James David Beard

doh! that's a good idea. I'll see if I can hook it up to my
microwave XT...

>   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.
> 
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