Elektron Musical Instruments

my feeling is this:

MD: easiest percussion, can be worked to do harmonic stuff
MnM: easiest harmonic stuff, can be worked to do percussion

both are very versitle electronic instruments. i went for the MnM 
because i wasn't afraid of having only 6 tracks, it has a wider 
variety of synthesis methods, and it can do pitched sounds. 

> If you need to have lots of more traditional electronic percussion 
> (and it can get pretty crazy), I'd say opt for the machinedrum 
> now. Another option would be to get the Monomachine, and then a 
> less powerful drum machine like the er-1 (not a bad little 'toy')
> now. You could even process the er-1 or other cheap drum machine 
> through the Monomachine for some additional fun.
> 

i think this is an excelent suggestion! the er-1 is a good one (i had 
a lot of fun w/ mine, now it's lent to a friend while i dork out on 
the mono ;), but the korg es-1 may be a wiser investment. 

the er-1's synthesis would seem weak next to a monomachine or 
machinedrum, where the es-1 would add the capability of sampling--
something none of the elektron gear does.

on the other hand, the MnM has 6 channels of MIDI to control external 
gear ... so you could also just go with a sound module/sampler which 
could be less expensive than the es-1. can anyone recomend a sampler 
that is as easy to get sound into as an sk-1, but can also be 
triggered by midi (i know about the kit to turn sk-1 into midi, but 
maybe another feature i'd like is to hold more samples)? that would 
be some real fun ;D    ... i had an akai s2000 and ensoniq mirage 
before, both were real bitches to work with :[

ok bye!
j.ordan