Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "Rui Peixoto" <rupix@h...> wrote:
> yeah, that´s right. One bad thing though is that the MD can´t record 
> entire 
> sweeps. It just assign a CC value when the note is triggered. 

that's what I meant by "assuming your changes fell where triggering
was being done" :-)

but yeah, as great as the parameter locks are, alot of times I'll
shape a melody by tweaking an effect with a specific rythmn. and often
the rythmn isn't the same as what the sequencer is playing. so i
either have to have that melody played in real-time (by me) or not
have it at all. of course, I could use the glide function. but that
would affect any other parameter changes that other machines are doing
at the time. which is usually not what i want.

it would be nice if each machine had a "dead note" which didn't
trigger anything. it just allowed you to change the parameters of a
sound that machine is already making. so THEN, sweeps would be
recorded (at least when using the internal machines).


> Another thing I´d like to add is that the midi machines can play 3 
> note 
> chords. The 2 parameters next to "note", the n2 and n3 I guess, are 
> used to 
> play different notes and work as an offset (in semitones) from the 
> original 
> note.

yes. this is very nice indeed.  my comment about MIDI triggering
polyphony was slightly different, though. that is, if you trigger a
note (or 3-note chord), the MD acts in a monophonic manner. so
whenever you trigger another note, the previous note will stop
playing, whether you wanted it to or not.

so for example, if you want to trigger a chord on note 1 and have it
sustain for 16 beats AND you want to play three more notes (say on
notes 4, 8 and 12) WHILE that chord is sustaining; you can't do it
with just one MIDI machine. as soon as you play the note on beat 4,
the chord you triggered on note 1 will stop.

so what you can do is use one MIDI machine (assigned to, say, channel
1) to trigger the chord on note 1 and a second MIDI machine (assigned
to the same channel) to trigger the notes on beats 4, 8 and 12. and
this acts as you had intended. make sense?

as you can guess, if you write a lot of parts like this, you probably
want to use something other than the MD as your synth sequencer.
because this process will suck up the available machines pretty fast!
and then you'll have nothing left for drums and sweet elektro sounds :-)

Joe.