Elektron Musical Instruments

On Mon Feb 17 2003, Polyhex . <dsp_remote@...> wrote:

> I'm sequencing my MD in cubase and wondered if there's a way for the MD to 
> respond to note-off messages to cut the triggered sound dead. i.e regardless 
> of the decay setting of a bass drum it stops dead when the note is released 
> (rather like the note cut off option in the kit edit menu but without the 
> hassle of programming all the notes).

As far as I know, no. On one sound you can actually do this, the E12
open hihat (I use that quite often). But for all other sounds, no.

> I'm writing a lot of complex breakbeats and want the percusion as tight and 
> clipped as possible, it would be loads easier than writing in a load of 
> decay ctrl messages for each part......

If you record the output from the MD to audio, you could use a gate to
achieve the result you are after. Be warned though that you might want
to record the drums as separate audio tracks to have different gate
options per drum.

/Janne