Elektron Musical Instruments

Ugh...

I had put off digging into the details behind programming the 6 Midi 
tracks, and having just read that section of the manual and tried it 
out a bit, I'm pretty disappointed with it.

a) you cannot record note lengths by playing them?  You have to set 
each note-length after the fact? And the note length values are 0-
127, not 1/16, 1/8, 1/4, etc.

b) you cannot have a chord with different note lengths.  That means 
you cannot have a whole note under several quarter notes without 
using multiple tracks and recording each separately.  This wastes 
tracks, time, and patience.

Shouldn't a "performance synth" actually record my performance to 
some minimal extent?  My $10 Casio SK-1, made in the early 80's can 
record what I play faithfully, why can't my $1500 MnM do this?  I 
mean, I'm not even an accomplished keyboardist, and yet the MnM 
cannot keep up with my lame-ass chords.

I _really_ want to use the MnM sequencer with my other keyboards, but 
very few of them are monophonic, and I'd rather not have to put forth 
a Wendy Carlos Williams effort, creating a polyphonic piece by 
layering multiple more-or-less monophonic tracks.  

I tried to sequence the simple (criticized as such) track I posted a 
link to last week, and... it may not even be possible!?  And if it 
is, it will take 6 tracks for two _simple_ synth parts?

...what to do...

-gerald