Elektron Musical Instruments

To be honest I do find it a bit annoying that people so rarely talk 
about the SidStation. It is a "dead product" only in that it is not 
being sold "first-hand" anymore. I only got mine a few months ago, 
bought second-hand, and I'm very new to its sound and operation, and 
I'm thrilled by it.

Alas, I can hardly share that joy because all anyone ever talks about 
here is the Monomachine. And up until about two months ago, all 
anyone ever spoke about was the Machinedrum.

Now, I'm sure these are both fantastic products in their own right, 
but this tendency to immediately drop one item of conversation when 
Elektron releases a new product ("the next big thing") is a bit 
worrying. I'm sorry if that offends anyone but it's how it looks from 
the point-of-view of someone who owns a SidStation and isn't 
particularly interested in reading about the Machinedrum.

We only ever seem to hear about the SidStation when somebody's SID 
chip has burned out and needs replacing. And I don't know about 
anyone else but I'm bored hearing nothing but technical reports of 
how the MD works. Nobody ever talks about "that magic MD sound" 
or "the thrill of working with it" or anything personal or creative. 
It seems as if the only people buying Elektron gear are oddball 
technicians who want to crack the synthesis architecture before 
anyone else and aren't interested in actually making music or 
discussing the possibilities of the MnM's sound and putting up mp3s 
of their work.

Of course there is no obligation to read posts about the MD and MnM, 
but then there's hardly any obligation to come to this group at all 
since about 99% of the threads concern those two instruments, and on 
a cold technical level at that.

For all that, I'm not sure about replacing the group with dedicated 
SID, MnM and MD lists. I think it could only be done effectively with 
an actual FORUM at elektron.se. Otherwise it'd just be three 
miscellaneous groups scattered around Yahoo and I don't think the 
users of the various machines would talk much to each other.

I don't understand why Elektron haven't set up their own forum built 
into their website.





> > I think we should have a seperate group for each Elektron product.
> > Does anyone else agree?
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> > I own a Machinedrum and I'm not really interested in hearing about
> > the Monomachine or Sid Station.  Seems like all we hear about in
> > this group is the Monomachine now.
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> > I propose we have a different group for each product.  What do you
> > guys think?
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