Elektron Musical Instruments

Coincidentally, this sequencer was discussed on Analog Heaven 
recently. A comment from someone who used one:

"Yes, I've seen it, played with it and played with it last year at 
frankfurt
when it was still a beta product.
Its not bad, its bascially a 4 channel 16 step sequencer.
Each channel has 8 'layers', each layer can be note length, velocity, 
note,
CC and so on.
So you can have one channel playing a polyphonic part using 3 layers,
another layer for Velocity, another for note length and so on, upto 8
layers, per channel.
Nice interface, though I would rather have had all 16 in one line, 8 
above
another 8 isn't intuitive, IMHO.

The down side(s)?
You can't build up 'songs' but you can queue patterns and switch them.
the BIG limitation, you can't change what a layer does whilst its 
playing.
For example, you're mid gig and you decide you want to add some CC 
control
to change filter cutoff.
You can't, you have to STOP the sequencer, change that 'layers' 
function and
restart.. not cool.
The P3 and Zeit both manage this, so why can't 1600 euros worth of
sequencer?
Thats the other point, a 2U sequencer doesn't look/feel like its 
worth 1600
Euros.."


--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "Gert van Santen" 
<g.vansanten@c...> wrote:
> 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
> www.waveworld.tv