Elektron Musical Instruments

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:31:29PM -0800, Gene Schwartz wrote:
>    Suppose I want to set up Track one as sequencing both a MM machine and
>    Virus
>    channel  1. I haven't found a setting on the Monomachine that tells it
>    not to
>    send out MIDI data when I turn the knobs. So, I first recorded a short
>    MIDI
>    sequence, then recorded a Monomachine sequence on the same track. Well
>    -
>    every time I edited the sound on the on the track one machine, it sent
>    out
>    controller values which changed the sound on the Virus.

I think the issue here is that your MnM track (internal track 1) is set to
the same MIDI channel that you want the virus to be listening to. so the
controller messages of the MnM are affecting the virus. look at the global
menu and change one of them so that they don't overlap. for exmample, set
the MnM to use channels 7 through 15 (in global->control->midi chanls)
then set the MIDI sequencer to use channel 1 for track 1
(in global->MIDI seq->MIDIseq set) and set your virus to receive on channel
1. now use MIDI track 1 to program the virus's sequence.


>    I  also  was  unsuccessful  in  recording  the  MIDI sequence into the
>    Monomachine
>    from  another  keyboard.  My  preferred  setup (usually) is to run the
>    whole
>    system through Logic, but I was running into all sorts of logistical
>    difficulties.

"logistic".... pun intended? :-)

>    If I sent note data through the keyboard to Logic, then
>    out to
>    both  the  Monomachine  and the Virus, it just doesn't work. The notes
>    received
>    by  the  Monomachine  trigger its track one machine, but don't seem to
>    record
>    the MIDI values. Is it even possible to record a MIDI track on the
>    Monomachine from a remote keyboard?

I don't know really. I have the KB version. but I would think that one
of two cases would make it happen:
1) set the controller to the MnM's auto track channel, then enter MIDI mode,
   select the track to be recorded, press record+play (or just record
   for step mode) and do your thing
2) set the controller to the MIDI channel you wish to record to (i.e.
   the channel that the MnM's MIDI track is sequencing), enter MIDI
   mode, select the right track, hit the respective record and do your thing

the way that Daniel explained it when the MnM tabletop was released was that
setting the controller to the MnM's auto track channel would have the
same effect as using the built-in keyboard. so I would think that #1 would
be what you want.

anyway, hopefully that helps... let us know what does it. I'm sure that
Elektron implemented something to enable this recording.

Joe