Elektron Musical Instruments

Hi all.  have a MnM, a MD and an Evolver. I've read numerous posts on 
the archive but havent found exactly what I was looking for. 

My problem is the following: I'd like to use the MnM to sequence the 
Evolver, but I cant do it the way I want. I used to use a RM1x to 
trigger notes, and my sequences on the Evolver on NSr mode (I think), 
so when a note was triggered the Evolver would play a sequence for 
the length of the note, when the note was muted it would stop playing 
and when another note was played the sequence would start again.

My problem with the MnM is that note lengths are really weird 
implemented, and if I use a 127 length note, the Evolver sequence 
wont stop playing if I mute it. I can use a trigger off on the MnM 
(on the last step of the midi sequencer), but then I would have to 
mute the track in between that last step and the 1st step (when 
Evolver is retriggered), because trigger off notes arent send on mute 
mode (logic).

I've also tried using the Evolver in N1r and NS1 modes, but the MnM 
sends a Start-Stop message at the beginning of the midi sequence, so 
the Evolver doesnt start playing until the second time the MnM midi 
seuqence is repeated.

Yeah, I know its weird, lol.

I may be doing something wrong, I think it would be easily done with 
the MD, but I want to do it on the MnM so I can have my melodies on 
one side and my beats on the other.

The solution I've found so far is to have the Evolver always playing 
in the background and mute/unmute it from my mixer, but I'm sure 
theres a better way.

In any case, if someone knows how to do it and could give me a brief 
description on his settings it would be really cool. Maybe its 
something on the globa settins of the MnM, dunno. I dont want to 
carry around my RM1x just to trigger the Evolver (-:

Thanks a lot for reading all that.

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "microkorg666"
<glamourofviolence@h...> wrote:
> Hi all.  have a MnM, a MD and an Evolver. I've read numerous posts on 
> the archive but havent found exactly what I was looking for. 

I have the same setup and know your problem, because I use my mixer a
lot during realtime arranging I also use it a lot for muting. Works
fine for me. 

Maybe there is another solution, you could use a volume change (CC 7).
If you have the joystick version you can assign CC 7 to joystick down.
When you have to mute, pull the joystick down and switch to another
channel, you can let the joystick go then since it doesn't transmit
when on another channel. Or program another pattern with a CC 7 with
value 0 as the first trig, you can unmute then by switching patterns.

Ronald.

Thanks for the answer Roonan. I'm going to try the volume CC trig and 
see if it does the trick for me. At least now I know its not just me 
having this problem!

Thanks