Elektron Musical Instruments

Hi Pete.

>did you just played in the pattern mode or
>did you used the song mode too?

Glad you enjoyed listening.  We actually prepared by creating 
a "palette" for each one of our songs.  A "pallette" for us is one 
pattern on each MonoMachine and MD, but is "loose" to allow for us 
to improvise and read the crowd.  We pre-programmed the joystick 
mappings, some basslines and melodies and had tracks ready with kits 
to play on the keyboard.  We used between 1 and 3 MM tracks per song 
per Monomachine.  Between songs we'd just jump to a new bank and 
we'd be ready to go...oh we also had to adjust the tempo too since 
this isn't stored with a pattern.  

We each were in charge of percussive and melodic elements on the 
MMs; of course the MD was just percussion and sometimes bassline.  
For the performance we then just stayed in that one pattern on the 
Monos and tweeked parameters, arpeggiations, the joysticks and 
played on the keyboard--we had several tracks to mute/un-mute to 
allow for flexibility (there were some tracks designated 
as "backups" that we never used).  The MD we just mute/un-muted 
machines and pre-sequenced patterns and tweeked.  

With these palettes set up before hand it allowed us to go with the 
flow and have a good time.  The MonoMachine definitely allows for us 
to be spontaneous and perform!  Guaranteed that we'd never be able 
to recreate these tracks exactly! 

This is the power of the MonoMachine in my opinion, is the ability 
to create a palette (kit) and then use the arpegiations, knobs, 
joystick and keyboard for flexible performance options.  I 
personally prefer some kind of performance rather than a laptop 
performances where the person could be playing solitare while he's 
watching his pre-sequenced stuff role along.  The MM allows you to 
perform if that is your thing while also have some pre-sequenced 
stuff for back tracks or backup if needed.  This is truely a 
revolutionary performance machine if you ask me!

I'd be even happier if I didn't have to remove my hand from the 
keyboard to use the Function button to mute/unmute tracks, or do 
anything that requires the Function button...hence my suggestion for 
a function "pedal" switch or something similar!  <hint hint>

I have never played with Song mode by the way, so there could be 
some big pleasures awaiting me there!

--davealex