Elektron Musical Instruments

wow, thanx. i didnt think about layering. i always over look 
layering. im going to layer everythting now.
thanx
x



--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "tahvenaine2002" 
<toni.ahvenainen@p...> wrote:
> 
> > 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.