Elektron Musical Instruments

hi users and abusers!

lately i tried to create some music without pc attached, the machinedrum as
head of my set, controlling a sidstation, and an ensoniq esq-1. i played
around for some hours... imho the midi machines could be improved a bit.
building up a melody line is some kind of trial and error and it really
takes a long time to get the final result i imagined (if i compare to a
piano roll on pc for example).

yes, i know, it's a drummachine, not a groovebox... but what for example
speaks against that the 16 step keys could be misused for entering pitch
data via a special key combination...?

for me the md is so much of an all purpose machine, it would really be great
to have better possibilities when controlling & sequencing external gear.

ideas/opinions?


greetz from snowy austria,

gert aka sid / http://www.zerozillion.net