Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "erolerolj" <erolerolj@y...> wrote:
> My first questions is: does anyone know whether the demos on the 
> Monomachine sound page such as  E-LE-KTRO by Ziggy and Shiderman by 
> Storm are made on Monomachine only, or are any other instruments 
> being used on these.

perhaps Daniel will verify this. but I would guess that they are,
since when Elektron was accepting MnM demos in here before, one
requirement was that the demos were MnM only.
 
> My second question is: would Monomachine be a capable drum machine --
> I understand that the limitations concerning the number of tracks 
> would be a concern, and that MachineDrum, on the other hand, is 
> designed more for synthesis of percussive instruments, but would 
> there be any other reasons why one would choose MonoMachine over 
> MachineDrum as a his primary drum machine.

the MnM's drum machine has pros and cons. overall, I'd say that its a
great machine; much better, in fact, than the Boss DR-X machines that
I've owned. however, its very limited compared to the MD. you
essentially have one of the MD's four synthesis engines, but its
scaled down and all percussion sounds are tied to it. as a result, the
sounds always work together well; but the palette of sounds, though
vast, is VERY limited compared to the MD. it can do some things that
the MD can't (like retriggering all drum sounds rather than just one,
or creating drum arpeggiator tracks), but its not really a substitute
for the MD.

as far as choosing the MnM drum machine over the MD: I actually use
both a lot. the MnM creates a base drum track and the MD does the more
interesting/complicated drums and spices things up a bit. I would
probably choose the MnM over the MD in instances where I want basic
drums that sound good together and can be controlled as though they
are one. but I wouldn't want to have that as my only drum machine.

So my sumarized answer is: the MnM will work as a good drum machine; 
but ONLY until you can recover from its purchase enough to buy an MD. 
:-)

Joe.