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Re: [elektron] MachineDrum wiring to Protools ???????

2004-09-22 by Paul Love

Thanks again sorry to bother you regards Paul
On Sep 21, 2004, at 10:12 PM, Joe wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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