Elektron Musical Instruments

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:38:48AM -0000, needle201 wrote:
>    can somebody tell me how "deep" the Swave Machine on the Mono is? Is
>    it able to do all the stuff a more simple VA would be possible to
>    achieve?

not really.

>    Like 2 OSC, with Saw, Sine and Squarewave, PWM and
>    detuning/panning going to High/Low/Band\Pass Filters and then to
>    Filter/AMP ADSRs?

nope.

>    or is it a very "own" animal doing a specialized thing in the way the
>    Machinedrum has certain parameters for each Machine?

now you're getting close :-)

all MnM machines have the same amp/filter/effect/lfo parameters. then
they each have their own respective synth parameters (up to 8 of them).
the superwave machines are dedicated to either sawtooth or pulse
waveforms (not a combination of the two). their synth parameters focus
mainly on the width of the waveform and the fatness of the overall
sound (using sub-oscillators of the same waveform).

this may sound limiting, but I don't think it's intended to do what most
VA's do (e.g. Nord, Ion, Virus, Q, etc.).  I think their intention was
only to create great analog mono sounds. in other words, the SWAVE
machines basically do one thing, but they do it *very* well :-)

the filter sounds teriffic, by the way. it's very simple and you can get
some great effects from it. oh, and it's a combined high/band/lowpass
filter.

Joe