Elektron Musical Instruments

le 15/07/2003 17:46, sebastien robin à sebastien_robin@... a écrit :

> Hello,
> I'm thinking about buying a Machinedrum next christmas.

that's an idea! :)

> Few quetions :
> Is it good for Hip-Hop, Funk, I'm not looking for 'Natural sound' in
> particular.

My personnal view is that natural sound are not why the MD is here. (it's
more here to prepare the coming of the ETs ;)

The natural sounds are ok (better to have a real drummer anyway) but the
wicked side of things is more interesting

There is no MD in your area so you can have a try?

Where are you in case some mad MDer can give you shelter so you can hear and
try yourself?

> Can you recreate the Linndrum samples ?

As long as 808-909 are  (in my opinion) not in the real possibilities (this
said the works of some to get close has been rather fruitfull and
interesting). The other classics are in its reach.

Myself I'm more interested into the wicked digital saturated stuff that is
peculiar to the MD but it's personal and I have other drumsynths

> Is there anywhere on the web I can find good examples of this
> machine, despite the Lektron samples which sound to electro in my
> taste.

If they are still online they gave on the site parts of the elektron party
last year, good interesting stuff made by people outside Elektron.
Maybe not your style but it gives perspective.

http://www.elektron.se/superparty/

Outside that the samples from Elektron on the site (in the sound page) are
thinned by encoding. They lack a fullness the MD has, who stole the oooompf?

Denis U]

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