Elektron Musical Instruments

On Sep 14, 2004, at 9:59 PM, niall munnelly wrote:

>  right.  i don't know how you can do that, if your BD param tweaks 
> don't send midi.
>  midi machines send midi data;  "drum" machines send nothing.

yes they do.  check the back of the manual. it's something like this:

1) assume your channel span is 1-4
2) all trigs are transmitted on channel 1 (not necessary for this; but 
useful info)
3) tracks one through four (i.e. BD/SD/HT/MT) all transmit their MIDI 
data to
channel 1 when you turn the knobs; tracks 5-8 transmit to channel 2, 
etc.
4) the first track transmitting on each channel has its parameters 
mapped to
10 through 27 Hex, which is 16 through 39 decimal; second track is 
40-63;
third track is 72-95; fourth is 96-119

there's also a document in the files section displaying all this data 
exactly for
each machine (so that you don't have to do the math).  but usually if 
I'm doing
software control, I set my software to record and then just turn the 
knob(s) I
care about and make note of their numbers/channels (lazy man's approach 
:-)

also note that no parameter locks are transmitted from the internal 
sequencer.
so the above parameters are only sent when you change them in real time.

***Note for the very adventurous: people have complained in here before 
that
the MD EFX aren't controllable by the sequencer (for example, setting 
locks
for the delay feedback would be great fun!); but it's possible to 
sequence them
if one's software allows it - they can be controlled through individual 
Sysex
messages 

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