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Re: [elektron] Re: Monomachine reviews ?questions etc!

2004-01-22 by Automatic Panic

this unit is awesome! I want one so bad to join my MD.
Any chance you guys will be selling through our US
dealer Musiciansfriend? If so I am going to buy one
right now with my card through them! If not I'll have
to wait till I save some more money :( 


--- daniel_elektron <daniel@...> wrote:
> --- 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
> 
> 
> 


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