Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Melnyk <jmelnyk@c...> wrote:
> On Oct 14, 2004, at 6:36 PM, ze2be wrote:

> >  I know, or I defenitly did when I tried it. But the fact that I 
> > deeply love thae hart of this
> >  synth, maks me want to play it!! Im seriously thinking of getting an 
> > Alesis Photon-X25, as
> >  it has endless controllers, just to play the MM!

> except you'll have a few more (is it 8 
> or 10 with that
> controller?) of them. you'd have to have a controller with 8*7*6 = 336 
> knobs to control the
> MnM without pressing buttons, since there are 8 parameters per pages, 7 
> pages
> per track and 6 tracks.


Yes I know, but I would select the ones that I use mostly musicaly. like the synth section of 
the machines, tune, filters, lfos, and others that gives expression to the sound. I could live 
with a selection of about 10-12 of the most important. I checked, and they are also fairly 
located on the same spot, throughout the different machines.


> it will be the same situation.

For me, it will be a totaly different situasion ;-)



> >  But are you saying you just need press the button
> >  once, and it stays there? You dont have to keep it pushed? Thats 
> > funny, because when I
> >  tested it, I puched them all thwe time, it made my fingers go white 
> > of blood loss!! heheh!

> no. you have to keep them depressed in order to use the coarse 
> adjustment.  but when
> you let up, the value stays where you left it; it doesn't jump anywhere.


Right, this also makes a day or night situation for me, regarding the use of a good 
external controller :-)

 
> > Well, still I would need an external controller. Do you know if ALL 
> > the parameters can be
> >  assigned to different external controllers, or do they share the 
> > knobs, like on the MM? So
> >  that you have to press shift to go between lfo and filter, on the 
> > same knob, foreksample

> each parameter has its own controller. but since there are so many of 
> them, I believe
> they are mapped to NRPN number rather than CC. and each track occupies 
> its
> own MIDI channel.

I read tha manual yesterday, and found that the controllers I was interested in picking out 
had two types of numbers; Hex and Dec. What is this, and how do I set it up on a regular 
CC controller surface, do you think?

Thanks!

Kim Svendsen