Elektron Musical Instruments

On Aug 6, 2004, at 6:06 AM, crvenazvezda91 wrote:

>  What are the key differences between the keyboard & desktop?  Just
>  that the desktop is missing the keyboard & the joystick? Is that it?

mainly, yes.  but I find that it's really easy and convenient to have 
the LED's there
to graphically display the notes you're sequencing as you're inputting 
them.  it makes
sequencing very quick.  and I like to use the keyboard for triggering 
and playing
overtop of things as they're playing. so I figure that if I'm going to 
use the keyboard
a lot anyway, why not have it there?  but if you have other keyboards 
around the
studio or that you use live, then it's not as necessary.

>  The joystick: have a kaoss pad if I want to do that kind of midi
>  control

make sure you can get full functionality with it, though. it uses 
modulation,
pitch bend and breath control for the directions (I think, check the 
manual online).
the joystick is a great live control, so you might want to use it a 
good deal.

> How do people find the functionality and the stability of the
>  MonoMachine?

both of them are great. it's very easy and fast to use, very simple to 
come up
with new and interesting sounds and so far, it's been stable for about
a year now.

>  I would probably look at selling the Korg MS2000 & Juno 106 if I got
>  a MonoMachine....

that's too bad - the juno 106 sounds great!  but there's two ways to 
look at it: those
aren't that expensive so maybe you can get by without selling it. OR 
since they're
not so expensive and they're easy to come by, you can replace it later. 
:-)

> though the RS7000 may be on shaky ground as well if the MM & MD
>  syncing = sik live action.

they do :-)

there was some (off-topic) discussion over the RS7000 recently in here, 
if you
want to search for that.

Joe

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