Elektron Musical Instruments

Hi guys,

I've had a MachineDrum for quite a while now, and I've been using it 
more and more as a live instrument in my setup.  The problem I am 
starting to have is in the GLOBAL section.  In GLOBAL I go into the 
MIDI setup and am forced to allow 3 MIDI channels to recieve, the 
problem is that I am exclusively using the machinedrum as a 
standalone sequencer synced to my PC's sequencer.  Since I have a 
bunch of multis and gear setup on the same MIDI chain, the 
machinedrum's sounds are triggered by MIDI information that happens 
to be on one of the channels it has selected.  There is a way to 
circumvent this behavior however, which is by going into GLOBAL and 
some setup page that relates to key and pattern assignment.  I merely 
go to all 16 tracks and 16 patterns, and turn the knob left until I 
get an "-".  This to me is a big pain, because there's no way to 
speed up the process.  I've recently made a SysEx backup of Global, 
so I can do a factory reset when working on a new project, and just 
upload the GLobal SysEx.

Has anybody had the same problem?  If so, how did they fix it?

I personally think a better option would be for Elektron to allow a 
faster way to make sounds and patterns to NOT be triggered over MIDI, 
and just allow the machinedrum to receive clock information.  Also, I 
would also like a way to reduce the MIDI channels to 1 channel, since 
it's not always useful to have access to CCs if you are just 
triggering sounds.  I use a lot of my synths in multimode, and it's 
quite easy to fill the 16 channels of MIDI...  Having the MachineDrum 
using 3 channels by itself is wasteful in my setup the majority of 
the time.