Elektron Musical Instruments

cool, butthis is exactly what i do NOT want to do and where the bugs come
in, it's when you erase those pattern midi notes that everything goes
annoyingly buggy.........in my experience at lesst. elektron seem to think
it is in the midimachines...perhaps there are two bugs? or mine only appears
in midimachine kits?
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>> Do you use the MD in song mode, pattern mode, or are you just
>> triggering loops?  How do you have your global settings set up? Thx
> 
> I have it in pattern mode... Here's what I do:
> 
> I get a kit together with the MD in Extended mode, and create a
> bunch of patterns which I then record into the MPC, one sound at a
> time (e.g. one track for bass drum, one for snare, etc).  When I'm
> done, I totally empty out the pattern (so it's basically just an
> empty pattern assigned to a kit) and then assign that pattern to a
> note in global settings.  Then I have the first note of the MPC's
> sequence trigger the appropriate pattern in the MD (by playing the
> note), and I can then manipulate the pattern in real time by turning
> on and off tracks in the MPC.  The only bitch is parameter locks,
> which are not transmitted by the MD -- I program those into the MPC
> manually.  Elektron tells me that the MD doesn't transmit them
> because they can't be sequenced.. But I find that to be totally
> untrue.
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