Elektron Musical Instruments

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:11:29PM -0800, james.d.stark wrote:
> 
>  "rob.euroh1@..." <rob.euroh1@...> wrote: 
> 
> >All in one solutions are not the way forward. A decent >reverb is a decent
> >reverb - not a drum machine. Besides the reverb quality >adds to the
> >distinctiveness of this machine.
> >I bought mine because I wanted a unique drum machine, >something that was not
> >available to absolutely everyone semi interested in making >a noise like the
> >electribes!
> >What you are buying here is a modern day classic that won't >flood the market
> >and be heard on every demo cd that gets sent out. Buy a >decent reverb.... It
> >seems everyone wants something for nothing.... ask yourself >are you shopping
> >for a drum machine or an fx unit?
> >If you limit yourself to one or two bits of kit then you >are putting certain
> >disadvantages in your creative equation. If you try and get >things done all
> >at once in one bit of kit, then there are big trade offs.
> 
> I have to disagree with you here. You can have high quality reverbs in units that aren't just fx boxes, particularly in this day in age. For instance my Kurzweil K2500 has KDFX, which reverbs and other effects are better quality than any of my outboard gear. And I do have good quality outboard gear. The great thing about having FX built in, is you can store all the effect settings galore in your pattern, song, or what not so its not a mess to keep track of your settings and wiring. You also have more flexibility to wire the fx anyway you want, without the hastle of using "real" cables. Again all stored in the song, you just load it and your ready to work again.


I think the reverbs is pretty good, but at the same time,
there's only the single reverb unit.  with 16 voices, I sometimes have
multiple tracks I wish to send to different reverbs.
e.g. I like to send my kick, hats and snares to separate
reverbs.  that's why I lurv the MD's ext. outputs.  
(I dig the ASR-X's reverbs!  I also have an old-school
spring reverb...)  

same thing goes for the dynamics, I like to using my
external compressor along with the built-in one.



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