Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "schmackofanz" 
<digitalaudiodesign@t...> wrote:

> did you take any videoclips of the Namm monodemo yourself that you
> plan to put online?

No, unfortunately not.

> "Sound quality" of the clips i saw sofar and the way the clips were
> edited didnt do the mono any justice. (although it was cool to see
> the joystick in action)

Sonic State recorded 9 minutes directly from the mixer to a DAT. It's 
all the Monomachine playing presets in multi-trig mode and moving the 
joystick around.. They have an mp3 at: 
http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=1334

It doesn't sound very good though because they recorded with some 
autolimiter which takes all dynamics out of the sound.

My favourite starts around 4 minutes (digipro). The FM demo after 
that one is very cool in real life, but seems to have been too much 
for the DAT. Also check Andrews acid-track coming around 8:20.

> Well, i ordered mine at my local dealer already anyway.

I'm happy to hear that. :)

We will now start selling through some selected US dealers as well. 
They will be published at the partners page of the Elektron site when 
we're ready.

> Any idea when you will be able to start delivery of the SFX-60?

They started shipping today!

> Will it be possible to use a midicontroller like the chaospad to
> mimic the function of the joystick?

Hmmm... I don't know how you can set up the chaospad, but the 
joystick is controlled by pitchbend for left and right, modwheel for 
up, and cc#02

Just another note on the sound quality: The Monomachine is kind of 
special, because we haven't tried to get the most number of voices 
out of the unit, rather we have spent enormous amounts of DSP power 
into the six tracks we have, to get everything as good as we want. We 
use two high spec DSP's for six tracks, and we use audio hardware 
like Crystal DA/AD and Burr Brown amplifiers that should be a 
guarantee that we get the best transients and dynamics out of it. We 
have tried to be perfectionists! :)

Daniel