Elektron Musical Instruments

are the sounds worth the price for the table top
version? 


--- hal3001 <hal3001@...> wrote:
> i'd love to see ANY company that'd answer ANY of
> these questions 
> truthfully:
> "I don't know. there's simply too much speculation
> going on. if you 
> want to
> know these things, mail Elektron and ask them:
> 1) how much DSP power is in the Monomachine
> 2) which components received the highest portion of
> the build cost
> 3) whether they are good or bad programmers"
> 
> on the sounds worth it, i'd say NO they aren ot
> worth the price, but 
> the se quencer is incredible.  i'm not sure if that
> equates the price 
> though.  I think if your'e using it as a sound
> module it's definately 
> not worth the money.  but combine the whole
> package...:) and maybe 
> it's worth more?  
> 
> i think the sound section is very softsynthish, with
> better outputs, 
> but the sequencer is what makes it real nice.  
> 
> again i'm more into psychedelic sounds.   I remember
> the sid really 
> made some nice psychedelic osunds..  this thing
> makes great nes type 
> sounds, and c64...:)...real fun for that
> 
> hey i have a question, is anyone NOT making idm, or
> idmish electro 
> with this unit?  
> 
> ;)  
> 
> on the whoel "it's named monomachine so it should be
> monophonic"....  
> why's it say 24 voice on the box?!?!?!
> hehehe....that therein lies 
> the problem!
> 
> 
> 
> --- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Joe
> <jmelnyk@c...> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:45:59PM -0000, hal3001
> wrote:
> > >    i'm not trying to bash elektron, i'm just
> curious and i think 
> there
> > >    can be a lot more done than there has
> been....:)
> > 
> > I don't know. there's simply too much speculation
> going on. if you 
> want to
> > know these things, mail Elektron and ask them:
> > 1) how much DSP power is in the Monomachine
> > 2) which components received the highest portion
> of the build cost
> > 3) whether they are good or bad programmers
> > 
> > and then, based on the answers to these questions,
> you can decide 
> whether
> > or not the machine they designed is capable of
> polyphony.
> > 
> > Joe
> 
> 


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