Elektron Musical Instruments

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 06:49:12AM -0000, xxxxxxx232001 wrote:
>    hmm...yeh, i dont want to change tracks with my nord, guess i just
>    want to use the md midi machine 1 to trigger the synth in bank one
>    of my nord mod and the md midi machine 2 to trigger the synth in
>    bank two of my nord mod.

you mean you want to use the MD's MIDI machine to create sequences for
those two banks, right? you need the MIDI machines for that.

>    all the rest of the md machines i want to
>    do nothing but trigger internal sounds ie-trx, gnd ect.(unless there
>    is a way that i can have a track trigger both the internal machines
>    and trigger my nord, or just play the internal sounds).

there is!  I guess I didn't explain it well enough :-) sorry about that.

the internal tracks are mapped to MIDI note #'s. these can be set in
the global menu. their mapping to MIDI note #'s allows you to play
the drum parts from an external keyboard or sequencer (or your mpd-16).
it also allows you to play other gear from the MD by pressing the track
buttons. when you do this, it generates the MIDI note # for that track
on the MD's out port. if there is a device listening to the same channel
that these notes are being sent on (which is the base channel), then it
will respond.

so you see that if you're Nord is listening to the MD's base channel, then
it will respond to you pressing the track buttons by playing the notes
those tracks are mapped to. AND it will play the notes of tracks
as those tracks are being trigged internally. so if you map your bass drum
to C3 and play it on beats 1 and 4, it will make the Nord play C3 on notes
1 and 4.

>    i wish there was a way that u could set the midi channel for each
>    track, or set them off.

I only wish for the latter case, since I pretty much do everything
internally with the MD.

>    if i understand correctly the midi machines
>    correspond to the midi channel by the name, ie midi machine 1= midi
>    channel 1, midi machine 2= midi channel 2 all the way to 4,

the MIDI tracks do correspond to the channel of their name, so you're
right there. but there are 16 of those machines, one for each MIDI channel.

> 	becuase
>    the base channel is only 1-4, right?

the channel *span* is four channels. so the MD requires four channels to
operate. the base channel is just the first channel in that span. you can
change what channels are being utilized. so if you're using 1-4 then
1 is the base channel. if you're using 13-16 then 13 is the base channel.
the base channel is what all the track trigs are sent/received on. it's
also utilized for parameters of tracks 1-4, tracks 5-8 are on the second
channel, etc.

Let me know if you need more help,
Joe