Elektron Musical Instruments

I owned a sid station, i found it kinda cool.  but the sound it had 
was too niche.  i couldn't use it for many musical styles.  so i  
sold it.  and the noise on the output was a problem.  the monomachine 
seems more versatile though?  sid was an easier "lets pick it up and 
check out if it's cool" thing cuz they were $350-400 at the time on 
the used market.  i did find that many monophonic analog synths can 
replicate it's sound, minus it's bending pitch sound...which is such 
a great sound...

I was thinking about machine drum. but i was worried about a niche 
sound.  that and i hadn't heard a sound on it I really thought was 
far out, and worth the price.  As well as my friend owned one and 
said it was more abou tthe sequencer than the sounds.  this is what 
worries me about monomachine!

the monomachine seems like something a little different, a way to 
create some vastly psychedelic sounds that other machines aren't 
capable of.   i'm reallly interested in the formant synthesis 
aspect.   but i hope it's not all IDM BS that can be accomplished on 
an emax with creative sample looping?  

there's a lot of elektron fans...so there must be osmething to it.  
and i hope it's not limited gear experience, or obsession with niche 
sounds?:O

-ryan



--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Federico Ciapi 
<federico.ciapi@t...> wrote:
> > I'm simply wondering what this synth can do that's different than
> > other synths.  a 6 voice synth for 1900 is very high priced.  so 
it
> > ought to do something spectacular.
> >
> > i'm curious to why epople are such elektron freaks?:o
> >
> > i'm wondering if it'll do something amazing? i'm used to very high
> > quality synths, not electribes and rs7000s, and mc505s...
> >
> > i'm not really going t obe using hte monomachine with the 
sequencer,
> > just want to use it for the sounds.
> 
> 
> Just a question: do you own any other Elektron product?