Elektron Musical Instruments

that's f'ing cool, real time driving soundtrack, now you just need to embed
a midi controller in your steering wheel.

From: Crackpot <shifty@...>
Reply-To: elektron-users@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 10:39:53 -0400
To: elektron-users@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [elektron] going for a drive..





So, yes!  I got my MD and power supply back the other day
from repair and even though you're not supposed to expect
to get your data back intact, all my old songs were in
it!  

So I put my AC inverter into my car's cigarette lighter, and
the headphone jack into my car's tape player interface and threw
everything from the passenger seat (tapes, CD's, an 8-track of
Led Zeppelin), into the back seat.  I threw enough stuff from
the dashboard (train schedules, more CD's) into the backseat

Then I headed to my friend's
house to see if he wanted to go for a little spin.

When I pulled into his driveway, I head "Carl Jungle" blazing,
with the reflection of the LED's bouncing off the windshield like
an F-16.  My stereo has terrible IMD (Intermodulation Distortion),
so everytime the bass drops it blares out all frequencies.  But I
like that.  

Anyway, his roommate was mad chillin' on the front porch, just sitting
there looking at the sky with his hand in his pants ;P  I go inside,
but Keith was mellowing out with his girlfriend on the couch.  It
had to be a solor ride.

It took four tries for my car to start.  Each time, I watched the
MD boot...Then, blam!  everything fired to life at once.  I switched
to the next song and rolled to the video store.

Of course, I didn't know where the store was that I rented the
tape, so I drove around for half an hour or so, listening to
half-written songs, scheming on them.  On the way home, I learned
the joys of *tweaking while you're driving* !  Okay, this is a
little tricky with a manual transmission, but at least the
upgrade made my knobs extra smooth to turn.

I found a nice house song, but the bass was really taking over
everything so I moved the hold down.  Mmm.  much better.  Then
I rolled through Davis Square tweaking the pitch knob.  I was
trying to focus on people on the street, and tweak the knob to
grab their attention.  Too many people were wearing walkmans!!

Then, I noticed a nice feature of the song sequencer that I hadn't
before:  you can have several closed loops in it.  If you leave
the song playing by itself, it will never reach parts of your song,
however, if you cursor over to a separate block and press Enter,
then you can have several sub-songs within a song@!  I counted
this as rad.  It was at this time that I also noticed you can press
Exit while cursoring through the sequencelist to return to the
currently being played sequence.

Well, there was more, about the policeman shouting into his
cellphone in the parking lot of the hospital, but i gotta run.

Peace,
-N




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