Elektron Musical Instruments

> Actually, it is the other way around. You want to
> compress your bass drum first, and then bring
> eveything toghether in the mix (since you cannot
> compress stuff separately in the MD- at least not
> internally-, you can compress everything together
> towards the low end and then you can bring up that hh
> and snare you're talking about wanting to be more
> snappy with the EQ)

I should mute all tracks but not kick, adjust the compressor, and then 
adjust levels and eq of all tracks. Am I right?

I will try this, even if I have started achieving good results (= 
snappy snare!) with the other way (kick not compressed and on 
individual out, everything else compressed by the dinamix).
Isn't the HP sidechain in the compressor designed to not let BD 
influence the compressor? That would make sense with what I'm doing....


I'd really like to have more compressors on the MD, but I remember to 
have read that this is not possible because it would need too much dsp 
resources, and PI synthesis already sucks many.
But why not leave the choice to the user?
I never use 16 tracks of PI synthesis, and I doubt that anyone does.
Elektron, are you reading? ;-)

>  I've
> also felt this sometimes, while trying to compress
> minimal techno tracks and trying to achieve a sort of
> warehouse feel. If this is what you're trying to
> achieve yourself, then let also the reverv be big into
> the mix (with a lot of low freq, and little hi freq.,
> so that it gets "lost" after you compress it)

I've already tried that. That's a nice effect.

Tip:
Has anyone tried routing MD outs to an analog filter and overdrive, 
like the Electrix Filterfactory?
Awesome! Really "dirt" drums.

I hope not to be the only one interested in this thread!