Elektron Musical Instruments

Dear list,
I have to confess, 'cause I can't keep it to myself anymore.
I haven't participated in the contests.
I am so sorry.
But judge, I was way too busy!
I swear I will from now on. =)


And I also have an idea for another concept:

A group of members teams up and the first one makes one track, then 
passes it to the next team member. He adds another track without 
changing the first one and passes it to the next, and so on...
Multiple groups could compete like this to have the best pattern in the 
end. Or just do it for fun to see what people come up with.
Restrictions like what machines to use can be added or not.


Grts, dtr

> And I also have an idea for another concept:
> 
> A group of members teams up and the first one makes one track, then 
> passes it to the next team member. He adds another track without 
> changing the first one and passes it to the next, and so on...
> Multiple groups could compete like this to have the best pattern in 
the 
> end. Or just do it for fun to see what people come up with.
> Restrictions like what machines to use can be added or not.

Nice idea!! Maybe one or two tracks/one member..

Toni.

This may  be an old idea but forgive me for not keeping up with the 
Elektron stuff as much while living overseas.

I agree, this would be very cool.  This would, of course, also work 
very well as a concept to apply to MnM contest.  Doing an MnM contest 
monthly on an individual basis would be nice, but would be different 
than the MD contest because "regular" instrument use is that much more 
readily available.  I think the multiple person use of the MnM in a 
contest is intriguing, especially if the early tracks are not allowed 
to be changed.  You could set a number that had to be in a team, and 
how may total tracks that each person could do.  example such as team 
of 3, 1 track each.. team of 3, 2 tracks each.  team of 4, 1 track 
each... etc.

Don't want to overload the Yahoo site, though, since space is so 
limited, but who would be interested in either individual or team MnM 
only contests?  And finally the mother of all Elektron contests (that 
would be the source of some other nice promotional material for the 
company, as is the current contest in my opinion) - the Elektron 
freestyle contests.  MD+MnM class (current production) and True 
Freestyle (MD, MnM, +SID optional in any combination).

This is the kind of thing that, if not only for webspace and 
organizational ease, would be better served by a privately run public 
bbs or content management system as was heavily argued earlier on the 
list.

Yours,
Chris

On Nov 2, 2004, at 5:05 AM, tahvenaine2002 wrote:

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>> A group of members teams up and the first one makes one track, then
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>> changing the first one and passes it to the next, and so on...
>> Multiple groups could compete like this to have the best pattern in
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>> end. Or just do it for fun to see what people come up with.
>> Restrictions like what machines to use can be added or not.
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> This is the kind of thing that, if not only for webspace and 
> organizational ease, would be better served by a privately run public 
> bbs or content management system as was heavily argued earlier on the 
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I'm interesting MnM collaborations.  I can host uploads as well, as soon 
as my hosting provider (suso.org) gets Metadot (metadot.com) up and 
running on his equipment.  I'll prod him now and see what happens.

/Scott

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Dieter Vandoren 
<theartistformerlyknownasvandoren@h...> wrote:
> And I also have an idea for another concept:

Great idea, I was thinking of something like that too.
Count me in for any concept, it sounds very inspiring to work on 
tracks with different people.

Anyway's, who is the winner of the MD since two persons ended with 
the same no of votes? And what will be the next month's machine 
choice? I would like to start again since I want to win once :-)

And of course I've been busy with the MnM and MD combo and came up 
with a hypnotising techno track starting with a hint of tribal 
flowing into something a bit more ominous........(beware, watch your 
back!)
http://roonan.fiberworld.nl/Demo/Roonan-Demo-2004-014.mp3

Enjoy, Ronald.

> Great idea, I was thinking of something like that too.
> Count me in for any concept, it sounds very inspiring to work on 
> tracks with different people.

I'm in as well. It's good to see that this group is becoming very 
creative. :-)
 
> Anyway's, who is the winner of the MD since two persons ended with 
> the same no of votes? And what will be the next month's machine 
> choice? I would like to start again since I want to win once :-)

I guess it's a tie. :-) Anyway I think Joe should decide, since I got 
to decide last month.

> And of course I've been busy with the MnM and MD combo and came up 
> with a hypnotising techno track starting with a hint of tribal 
> flowing into something a bit more ominous........(beware, watch 
your 
> back!)
> http://roonan.fiberworld.nl/Demo/Roonan-Demo-2004-014.mp3

Excellent stuff, even from the crappy inbuilt speaker of the PC I'm 
using now. :-) Do you have any plans to release your stuff on record? 


Regards,
Nils

> http://roonan.fiberworld.nl/Demo/Roonan-Demo-2004-014.mp3

Very pro and 'ready-sounding' stuff here. :)

Toni.

> And of course I've been busy with the MnM and MD combo and came up 
> with a hypnotising techno track starting with a hint of tribal 
> flowing into something a bit more ominous........(beware, watch 
your 
> back!)
> http://roonan.fiberworld.nl/Demo/Roonan-Demo-2004-014.mp3

One question: Is this done just with MD+MnM or is there something 
else too?? Live recording (I've understand that live is your thing) 
or 'hardrive-edited'? 

Toni.

ps. well there was actually two questions...

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "Nils Odegaard" 
<nilsodegaard@h...> wrote:
> Excellent stuff, even from the crappy inbuilt speaker of the PC 
I'm 
> using now. :-) Do you have any plans to release your stuff on 
record? 

Actually I'm not doing much effort to release or find someone who 
will. Untill now I alway's wanted to do better, I'm a perfectionist.
But lateley the reactions are getting more and more enthusiastic so 
maybe it's time to send some demo's again. Any suggestions where to 
start?

Ronald.

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "tahvenaine2002" 
<toni.ahvenainen@p...> wrote:
> One question: Is this done just with MD+MnM or is there something 
> else too?? Live recording (I've understand that live is your 
thing) 
> or 'hardrive-edited'? 

Well, to be honest, it's not 100% Live and not 100% MnM and MD, but 
most of the sounds you hear are from the magnificant couple!
It's made with one pattern on the Mnm, one pattern on the MD, some 
sound fx from an KORG ESX-1, some FX from the Kaosspad II.
I recorded the main structure Live playing with these. (wich I 
usually do) When I'm satisfied with the overall flow and atmosphere 
I load it into Logic and put some extra accents here and there 
because I've only got two hands and my imagination goes far beyond 
the capabilities of them. I also play two synthtracks Live into 
logic to give a more natural feeling over longer time. These were 
from native instr. FM and i guess with some tweaking you can get 
them from the MnM as well.
So yes, everything is done Live but not in one go, when I would do 
this kind of music with a partner I would def. do it all live.


Ronald.

On Nov 3, 2004, at 9:09 AM, Nils Odegaard wrote:

>  I guess it's a tie. :-) Anyway I think Joe should decide, since I got
>  to decide last month.

no, you won 5 to 4.  the results were sent out yesterday.  it would 
have been nice
to win, but it's nice to see that the person I voted for won.  which 
unfortunately didn't
happen in other much more pressing matters this week :-(


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--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "Roonan" 
<Roonan@p...> wrote:
> And of course I've been busy with the MnM and MD combo and 
came up 
> with a hypnotising techno track starting with a hint of tribal 
> flowing into something a bit more ominous........(beware, watch 
your 
> back!)
> 
http://roonan.fiberworld.nl/Demo/Roonan-Demo-2004-014.mp3
> 
> Enjoy, Ronald.

This sounds great and very inspiring!

For me still a lot to learn with these wonderful machines, but to 
hear the work from other Elektron users is really a motivation!

For the contests ideas I'm all ear! MD + MM + Sidstaton.

-Armand

I just checked the polls section, and it says we got 5 each. Whatever 
the result I think someone else than me should decide, so go ahead 
Joe! :-)

As for the much bigger decision made this week, I'm sorry too, both 
for the American people and the world.. :-( 

Joe, how was your gig??

Regards,
Nils


--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Melnyk <jmelnyk@c...> 
wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2004, at 9:09 AM, Nils Odegaard wrote:
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> >  I guess it's a tie. :-) Anyway I think Joe should decide, since 
I got
> >  to decide last month.
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> no, you won 5 to 4.  the results were sent out yesterday.  it would 
> have been nice
> to win, but it's nice to see that the person I voted for won.  
which 

> unfortunately didn't
> happen in other much more pressing matters this week :-(
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> Actually I'm not doing much effort to release or find someone who 
> will. 

I know what you mean.. I've been doing electronic music for 15 years, 
but I still haven't released a single record. It's fun, though. :-) 

> Untill now I alway's wanted to do better, I'm a perfectionist.
> But lateley the reactions are getting more and more enthusiastic so 
> maybe it's time to send some demo's again. Any suggestions where to 
> start?

I'm sure you could get your music out on record if you wanted to. You 
obviously have talent. I'm sorry that I have no good suggestions, 
like you I've made no effort to find out.

Anyone else have any suggestions?

Regards
Nils

On Nov 4, 2004, at 2:40 AM, Nils Odegaard wrote:

>  I just checked the polls section, and it says we got 5 each. Whatever
>  the result I think someone else than me should decide, so go ahead
>  Joe! :-)

hmm.... you're right.  I guess I just misread the email then.

alright, well I guess I'll choose EFM-CY then; just to make it the 
complete opposite of
the EFM-BD used last month.

>  Joe, how was your gig??

weird.  you wouldn't think it would take them an hour to troubleshoot a 
DI box, but it
did!  so everything was delayed and half of my friends had to leave... 
but my set
went pretty well so all's not lost.

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I'd definately be interested in this for the MnM....how much space
would be needed to run a site as I might be able to help out on that
to.

J