Elektron Musical Instruments

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 08:19:14PM -0700, Paul Love wrote:
> Thanks for your reply I guess I could go out of the MD 6  outputs 
> Unbalanced to the anolog input of my 192 i/o db25 connector and then i 
> could record up to 6 single hits to 6 seperate mono tracks in Protools 
> at a time right? How do you specify in the MD which hits in you drum 
> sequence are assigned to the 6 different outputs on the MD and is that 
> the best way to do it in your opinion?

not to be a jerk, but the manual IS available at machinedrum.com and
it answers a lot of these questions.  I personally found it very
useful to read through it before the MD arrived; that way, I could
get to programming it right away instead of reading with it sitting
there unused :-)

> The other question is since the 
> output jacks on the MD are all unbalanced quarter inch and the only 
> possible connectors on my 192 I/O ARE DB25 CONNECTORS would I need some 
> kind of modified custom cable or just go out the 6 MD outputs 
> unbalanced to DB25 unbalanced -10db anolog input?

I don't know about db25 connections. but I do know this: the MD
outputs are +4dB outputs.  so if you plug them into the -10dB
inputs, you're going to get noise and distortion.  the only way
around it is to attenuate them prior to sending them to the -10dB
input. the master volume can serve this purpose for the A/B
output, but you'll need a mixer to attenuate the C/D/E/F outputs.
unless your interface can switch to +4dB; if so, then do that.