Elektron Musical Instruments

I have one of these:
http://www.metasonix.com/TM1.htm

"YOU HAVE NOT HEARD BERSERK, GRINDING
DISTORTION--UNTIL YOU HAVE TRIED THE TM-1."

It is very unique.   a bit brain-damaged and perhaps misguided,
but if you treat it with respect and care you will get sounds
few other devices can create.



And then there's always the Deathe Synthe, made by myself, 
and its large number of associated, uncommercialized
effect processor algorithms:
http://gweep.net/~shifty/death
http://www.gweep.net/~shifty/death/death/index.html



The Korg Mono/Poly is one of the more unique synths- it
has these crazy "Effect" modes in which FM, Soft-Sync'd
oscillators and an arpeggiator conspire to make some of
the weirdest sounds.  


I give props to the Droid-3, but I think it's more
of an art project between friends than a shipping
product!


Also, the Ensoniq Mirage is very unique
in its interpretation of sampling theory.  It sounds
very "rich" because it uses variable-speed D/A
converters, and forgoes the sinc convolution step in
resynthesis of sampled waveforms.  It is a
pain to use.  heh.  

You're probably already familiar with the Lexicon Vortex...

I have this green, plastic, frog's head-shaped speech-learning
toy a friend gave me.  It's certainly capable of unique
sounds, such as barely-intelligible speech.  

Okay, you want *really* weird?  lookup the triadex muse!
There's even a Windows-based simulator for it, but it
doesn't do the original justice (although it does
have MIDI output!)  A wooden, 70's style
box with huge, long, funky sliders, and an option
add-on light display.  Designed in part by MIT Artificial
intelligence genius marvin minsky.





On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:14:38AM -0500, Rhen, Kris wrote:
> What other unique HARDWARE is out there the Elektron Users would recommend?
> By unique, I am not talking about analog-style (Access, Waldorf and
> Clavia are all excellent). I am talking about different.
> 
> Any ideas?
> ----------------------------
> As far as 'uniqueness', the Hartmann Neuron is about as unique an approach
> to synthesis you'll find now - though cost a bit more than an evolver :-)
> KRIS
> 
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