Elektron Musical Instruments

on 2/2/04 3:24 AM, amos luyk wrote:

> I bought one of the first 200 MDs, and the implementation of distortion and
> SRR are the things that have most annoyed me. I would even pay a cash fee
> (100 euros maybe?) for the OS that fixes them (with maybe a couple more
> machines... GNDs and 909 hats maybe?).
> Or perhaps I have to wait for a new one to be designed and built...? Much as
> we all like the latest thing, I bought the MD as the only 4/4 based drum
> machine I would ever need. It has mostly filled that role. Improve the eq,
> distortion and SRR, and for me it will be.

amos, I so agree with you!

I would love a better distortion algo...now, I know that
good-sounding distortion in the digital realm is not such
an easy thing to do, especially if you want to keep the
total DSP use low, but the MD SPS-1 could really benefit
from a new distortion algorithm.

as it concerns the SRR...I have no real use for it.
I know some people may like it, and I respect that,
but to me, the ability to introduce quantization error
via bit-depth reduction (BDR) would be *so* much better
than sample-rate reduction (SRR)...IMHO. I and other
users have asked for this on the MD SPS-1 for so long
now, and I hope this time around that Elektron would at
least consider it, especially since so many MD users
consider SRR to be useless, especially in its current
incarnation.


cheers,
aeon