Elektron Musical Instruments

> I do ambient/abstract and a little dancemusic etc.and futuristic 
> soundscapes..I don't use alot of grunge and distortion...i love it but don't 
> make that kind of music...more futuristic/otherworldly ambient etc and light 
> maybe?....I'm looking for sounds never heard of on planet earth before..not 
> so much menacing as bewildering and inspiring......all the sidstation 
> reviews seem cool.. the user reviews sound very very positive...is the 
> sidmaster able to do subtle..ambient..arp warblings etc? whats the wavetable 
> capable of...I get the feeling something is lurking in the sidstation..am i 
> right.

I do FSOL/Orbital stuff and I find it fits in well, but definitely try to
find a friend with one, like every synth you consider.  

You are right in saying there is something in the 'station in the
wavetables.  You can make three parallel melodies running at different
speeds that transpose along with the midi note...and they can affect each
other to some extent through the sync and ring mod functions.  That's really
nice for LCM effects.

Also the knobs can control the voices individually, to fade between
sequences if you want!  I also suggest Generator/Reaktor if you're desiring
otherworldly ambient landscapey stuff...


> P.s ..is there a problem midi'ing the sidstation up to an atari sequencer 
> (creator)

shouldn't be...for note, program and controller messages, MIDI is a simple
standard and if it works on two or three machines it will work on all.
I suspect the user with mpc problems was having mpc configuration issues