Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "Janne G:son Berg" 
<d3berg@d...> wrote:

> > Try using the "THROUGH" effect. That way you can route the 
output of 
> > one track into another, and use the track effects of the second 
one 
> > to add distortion to the first one, after the first filter!
> 
> Yikes! I looked briefly at the reverb effect, which didn't make 
much
> sense to me when it came to how one was supposed to set it up to 
get
> some sounds out of it. :)
> 
> Some help on that would be appreciated.

Yes, the effects is an area that probably need some explanation 
before it can be understood. It's actually quite powerful.

There are three ways the effects can be used. First there is 
the "neighbour mode". In this mode the effect will take it's input 
sound from the previous channel. So if you're on channel two it will 
steal the sound of the first channel (insert effect).

Mode 2 is so you can have it work as an insert on any of the three 
mix buses: AB, CD or EF. The mixbuses are also the same that will be 
outputed on the three pair of outputs (here you can start see that 
everything inside the Mono is stereo :). So if you want an effect to 
affect the three first tracks, place it on the fourth track, put all 
the three first tracks to output to the AB mix bus, and let the 
effect insert on the AB bus. Or, if you want the sixth track be an 
effect that effects the first and third, then put the first and 
third track to output to the CD or EF bus, and let the effect insert 
on the same bus. You can then set the output to the AB if you want 
it to make sound on the normal AB stereo outputs.

The third mode is to take it's input directly from the inputs. 

It is important to remember that each machine that you want to make 
any sound need to be trigged first. And you need to set the decay 
and release to their highest values for it to continue make sound 
all the time after that. Of course you could set them to other 
values if you know what you are doing and want to do gating effects 
etc.

So actually there is a whole lot you can do already with just 
the "through" effect. Group tracks together and have another track 
effect that you can use for filter/distortion/delay etc!

> Now I just wish for more parameters to control on the different
> synthesizers. What about an extra oscillator for the SID? Could be
> used normally, and for ring modulation and/or sync.

The problem is how you would control that oscillator. And also we 
have actually squeezed the SID into the DSP power available, as we 
wanted to make it the same way as it's done in the actual SID, with 
a very high speed counter that is divided down to the actual pitch 
and waveform you want to use. That way we get the most authentic SID 
sound, but it takes a huge amount of DSP power to calculate it.

> Even better, let the sound from another channel be used for ring
> modulation and/or sync.

Yes, that's coming. We actually already have the controls for it if 
you look closely at the SYNC and RMOD parameters, but the source is 
still taken from the PCH2 value, not the previous channel. It is 
working properly in the DPRO-WAVE sync.

Daniel