Elektron Musical Instruments

> ive had my md for a couple of months and luv it. great kit, but i 
am 
> having problems getting good hh and snare sounds out of it. what 
> synth is the best to start with in ur opinion for each?

I would love to talk about these kind of things more! 
I've made snares with e12-snare-machine a lot. You can also find 
somekind of brushed snare there (with high distortion I've managed to 
get it to decent snaresound). Another good snare is Trx-snare, which 
is so_close to tr808 snare! But this is what you probably know 
allready. Here is some things how I do my snares:

1. I always try set the pitch of snare very carefully. Sometimes when 
you have 'good snaresound' you find out later that it's too whimpy, 
because the pitch is setted too high. As for me, I like sizziling 
snare and it happens a lot of times. I always try to watch that the 
fundamental hit is somewhere 400 Hz. If it is higher I know it's 
going to be problem later on.

2. I have also found out, that I cannot hear if snare sound is good 
or bad, until I play it with other material. You can get very high-
end sounding snare with e12 and pitch setted only to '3' and little 
srr (8), when you have right background. This is true for trx-snare 
also, sometimes it doesn't sound like 808-snare at all when in right 
background.

3. Sometimes I layer snares. Like for now I'm doing new song and I 
have trx-snare layered with Pii-snare. I love the way it sounds! Must 
be the best snaresounds I got from MD!

4. I like to do fills and rolls with snares a lot. Because of this I 
almoust always do one snare that is the accented one. It might be 
layered. So I hit my accents with this. Then I usually use e12-snare 
with retrigs to do rolls and stuff like that at lower velocities. 
Getting a good rolls is really a matter of velocities and I feel it 
doesn't matter whats the basic sound on those rolls, just make it 
soft enough and they start to work.

Thats some of my snare techniques. I would love to hear how other 
people aproach on this thing (sorry no hihat-techniques here..)

Toni.