Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "philipp_angleitner"
<Philipp_Angleitner@a...> wrote:
> first question: is it possible to make some absolutely "digital" 
> beats with this machine?

yes. yes. yes.


yes!

> or are there only beats possible which have 
> something like an analogue feel?

well, it's not analogue, but the appropriate machines do an excellent
emulation of it.

 
> second question: how many parametres are there for the different 
> sounds? how many different values do the parametres have? i mean: 
> the 
> jomox xbase has 127 values per parametre. so how many offers the 
> machinedrum?

for each machine there are up to 8 synthesis parameters (decay, pitch,
modulation, tremolo, snap, tune, hardness, etc.). most of them have 8
and a few have a couple less. then they all have 8 effects parameters
(EQ, filter, sample-rate and AM (basically an amplifier)). and they
all have 8 "routing" paremeters (delay, distortion, panning, volume,
reverb and 3 LFO paramters). in addition, each machine (there's 16 per
pattern) has a dedicated LFO which can be setup to modulate any
parameter (as well as another machine's parameter) with different
waveforms.

> last question: is this tool better than the xbase? what do those of 
> you say who own both these tools?

i've only heard demos of the xbase. it sounds like it's a great drum
machine, but that's about it. many people have written entire tracks
on the MD, because of the wealth of sounds it offers. the xbase does
great analogue drums, but the MD can emulate analog drums (very well)
as well as *many* other drum and electro sounds.

check out http://www.elektron.se and click "partner"; there might be
someone in your area that can demo the machine for you. that will give
you a better idea of what it's really like to play this great machine :-)

Joe.