Elektron Musical Instruments

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:14:28AM -0000, oldmanfury wrote:
>    Hello,
>    I'd love to see a listing of the editable parameters for each synth
>    on the MnM.  Anyone willing to take the time to do that?

it wouldn't really help too much at this point.  I could list them, but
I don't know what some of the abbreviations mean.  I have an idea of
what they do, but don't know for sure and the manual doesn't say (yet).

>    I'm just
>    wondering how much control / complexity each synth has.

there's a good deal of control and complexity, I think. there's eight
synth-specific parameters (the drum box has four though) per synth
machine. the filter/amp/effects/LFO's sections are identical.

but you can do a lot with them, I think.  especially when you consider
their interaction with the filter.

>    ADSR, or 8
>    part envelope?

the amp envelope is odd; it's AHDR = Attack, Hold, Decay and Release.
the hold parameter really helps when you're trying to set the length of
each sequenced note. it's actually a pretty intuitive envelope, though I
don't know if it's limiting or not. but that's the amp section (along
with distortion, volume, pan and portamento).

the filter has parameters base, width, Q, attack, decay, BOFS (base
offset) and WOFS (width offset). these should be fairly
self-explanatory, I think.

effects has: EQF and EQG (like the MD), SRR, DTIM (delay time), DSND
(amount of track sent to delay), DFB (delay feedback), DBAS and DWID
(filtering offsets). I'm excited that they will be adding extra effects
engines too. they've planned flanger, phaser, ringmod, chorus and
distortion. but those will (I'm assuming) be synth engines and thus will
require a dedicated track to use.

the LFO's are similar to the MD's but slightly different. they can
modulate any parameter from the track as well as the overall pitch of
the track. they can't, however, modulate any other track's parameters.
the waveforms are the same as in the MD, but you can't combine them; you
can only use one at a time. the timing is slower, but can be stepped
up - there's a MULT knob which multiplies the LFO speed value (set by
another knob) by powers of two (1, 2, 4, 8 and 16). and since there's
three LFO's per track (though they are shared with the respective MIDI
tracks), you can modulate a whole hell of a lot with them.

so yeah, there's a lot of control/complexity for each track. :-)

Joe