Elektron Musical Instruments

One technique I use is I will control the MD using an external sequencer
that acts as the midi clock source.   This of course can be something
software based or hardware based such as the MPC - I've used both.

O.K. that is obvious, but to take advantage of the "parameter lock" features
of the MD (one of its strongest points in my opinion), I will program all my
patterns in extended mode on the MD of course.  I will then trigger these
patterns from the external sequencer.  This is done by setting up the midi
mapping in the global settings of the MD.  You can assign a midi note (which
corresponds to a midi note number) to a particular pattern number on the MD.
You can even map individual sounds of your kit to these midi note numbers
and trigger them externally.  The MD comes from the factory with patterns
A01 to A16 already mapped to certain midi notes.  You can of course change
these and also map the additional pattern banks B thru H.

So when you play back your external sequencer, you can decide where you want
the MD to come in and out of the song and instantly switch between patterns
and at any given point in time which by the way performs better than I
thought it would.  I thought there would be some lag time when switching
between patterns that use entirely different kits, but it actually does this
quite smoothly just as it does when using the MD's internal sequencer.

With this technique I've discovered new and rather exciting ways of MD
programming and incorporating it into my tracks as a whole.  Playing partial
patterns, switching between two rapidly, etc.  For any MPC users out there
this is a great way to use the MD with the MPC.  For example, one bank of my
MPC directly maps to various patterns on the MD.  With the touch of the pad,
I can kick off the MD in sync with what I'm doing on the MPC and make the MD
do some crazy stuff.

As an interesting side note, I was experiencing some occasional instances
where I could not "boot up" the  OS of the MD when switching it on.  I
contacted Elektron, and they indicated to me there is a known bug if you
initialize your midi mapping settings in the MD (setting them to basically
map to nothing), the OS won't boot correctly.  At one point I had done just
that, initialized my midi map setting to nothing not knowing the
consequences.  They indicated to me this would be fixed in the next OS
release.  Luckily if any one ever has this problem, you can always access
the function menu.  You can do a "Soft Reset" to make it boot properly
again.  However, be forewarned, this will initialize ALL your global
settings in the MD when you do this (but not your kits and patterns
thankfully)!!  I found this out the hard way.  So always do a sysex backup
of your MD.  But I'm confident Elektron will continue to make improvements
to it's stability - they already have.

Happy machine drumming.
-nate


----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Peterson <eric@...>
To: <elektron-users@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: [elektron] MD songs locked to software sequencer?


> I'm trying to integrate the MD with my CubaseSX sequencing rig. I don't
have
> a preference as to which is the MTC master, but I need to be able to
> navigate around and play back sub-sections of songs both for composition
and
> editing.
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> Is anyone using the MD in tandem with a software sequencer? How have you
got
> it setup? Any pointers?
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> Sorry if this is vague, but I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to rig this
up.
> I fell in love with the MD, but it's got to get along with the family
> eventually... ;P
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