Elektron Musical Instruments

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:30:05AM -0000, oldmanfury wrote:
>    Being able to record parameter locks (minus pitch shift) with the
>    joystick would be _extremely_ useful.

I agree. But Daniel just piped in this past week to say that it isn't
possible, given the MnM's data structures.

>    If I
>    knew I couldn't record locks from the joystick I might have waited
>    for a mythical rack version... it was a huge (misguided) selling
>    point.

hmmm....I don't know about all that. they didn't market the joystick as
being anything other than a programmable parameter controller. this
makes it an incredible asset for live work, since you can assign your
favorite parameters to it and change them without paging through menus
(and while playing the keys).

see the great thing about the joystick is that you can get some
parameters to interact in ways that you might not have found otherwise;
and the locks would be nice for that. however, the joystick still adds a
great deal of expression to an already expressive synth; which makes it a
significant selling point for me.

>    My encoders "jump" periodically - that is, they do not always
>    increase monotonically while I rotate it in one direction.  Turn each
>    knob far enough, and they all exhibit this behavior.  This is easy to
>    see in testmode, but also is noticable (intermittently) when editing
>    synth parameters. Is this typical?

I think it's a bug they've never caught, personally; because it also
happens in the MD occasionally. *however* I don't know if I've ever seen
it in normal programming mode; only in special menus (LFO menu on the
MD, arp menu on the MnM, etc.).

Joe