Elektron Musical Instruments

On Wed Aug 16 2000, Magnus Ahlden <mga@...> wrote:

> > Finally, I love all the old c64 tunes which obviously have percussion and
> > bass and lead all at once.  Is it a real nightmare to write one of these
> > using a MIDI sequencer, because there's only one MIDI channel?  (I'd buy a
> > SidStation right away but I'm concerned about this...)
> 
> Yeah, this is done by using "tables", it sort of a mini-sequencer that
> control how a patch should sound. personally I would recomend to do the
> bass line, drums and lead separately and then sample the drums & bass
> and use the sid-station for the lead alone (so one could tweak a bit).

But this makes the song you are composing very limited. The same drums
and bassline thoughout the entire song. I would never make a tune that
way.

What I feel is lacking in the sidstation today is the option to use
three different midi channels to control each of the three voices. But
Elektron has made their decision, either a monosynth with three
oscillators or a three voiced polysynth using one oscillator per
voice. On one midichannel.

Now, are there any hackers around? Make your own OS! Flash it! :)

> The sidstation is fun, but a very diffrent instrument - I personally use
> it alot (in almost all my tunes) but often in a sampled fashion. The
> filters in the sid is remarkable, but for at least, a bit hard to handle.

I've never heard anything that sounds so
distorted/evil/broken/wonderful straight out of the box. It has the
sounds that people use lots of effects to get, but without the need of
anything else!

/Janne

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Janne G:son Berg, d3berg@...   http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3berg
              "nu \ufffdr man ett \ufffdmkligt kr\ufffdk som dricker vichyvatten"