Elektron Musical Instruments

oldmanfury wrote:
> --- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "Gert van Santen"
>> The Schrittmacher seems to have a load of options -
>> There are 4 tracks, each track is 16 steps, and there are 8 lines
>> for controllers per track.
>
> For comparison, the MnM has 6 tracks, each track is 64 steps, and
> there are 4 controllers + length, velocity, and pitchbend + 3 LFO's
> and an arpeggiator per track.  Add this to the 6 synth parts that may
> also be used as midi-controllers to some extent.

That does sound good indeed.

Now if they would
> just include different note length polyphony in the MIDI section, I
> would have nothing to complain about.

So could you explain the polyphony thing in short, please. Can I play, say,
3-note chords on track 1, another track of 2 note-chords on 2, and still
have 4 mono channels left. Or does this work with external synths only? Or
not at all?

Thanks.

Gert
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