Re: [elektron] Q&A + new demo
2001-03-02 by Sean Welch
NOw this is the shit .... ooooo.....gabber beats...fucked up bass strands...i'm in love man....I'm SOLD! NOW THAT IS A DEMO!! POST THAT MOMMA ON UR PAGE -sean >Hi! > >I've uploaded a new Machinedrum soundclip. This one is quite freaked, and >shows a new side of the MD-sound. All different synths are used. >You'll find it in md_demo. Full URL: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elektron-users/files/md_demo/md_germanica_192.mp3 > >I'll try to answer some of the questions put by people on the list the >past day: > >1) No, Machinedrum is no Stomper. Has no similarities. > >2) Yes, you can use MIDI-note-messages to trigger patterns. You can also >trigger individual drums over MIDI if you'd rather do that than press the >trigger-buttons. > >3) Open ended? It is flash-upgradable, and we will supply upgrades. If we >get the inspiration we could add new machines or even synths. But users >can't write their own drums. This is much harder than you might think. > >4) The bassdrum sound sounded like it shifted in sound on different >trigs? This is partly because of that some machines work that way - they >can differ between different times when they are trigged. But most of it >came from that the system wasn't really healthy at the time I recorded the >bdsd_example. > >5) What effects (external) are used for the demos posted so far? None. The >Machinedrum is connected straight to a soundcard and recorded from it's >internal sequencer. OK - they have been normalised. :) > >6) What effects does the MD have? First, it has a 16 track effect system. >One for each drum track. This has a 1-band EQ, resonant low/band/high-pass >filter, Dist, Sample rate reduction and Amplitude modulation. Each track >has sends to the Rhythm echo and Gate-reverb. The stereo master effect >system include EQ and Dynamic processor. The demos at the md-site almost >only use clean machines. The germanica-demo uses all kinds of (internal) >effects. The reverb is not yet ready and has not been used in the demos. > >7) Synth-engine specs? I'm sorry - would take too long. I might come back >to this one... Samples are used in the E12 synth, but it hasn't been used >in the demos so far. > >8) How many Machinedrums are planned? 100 will be produced in the first >batch. These will be offered to SID-customers and friends in the beginning >of April at an introduction-price. We will not be able to produce very >many at the beginning (they are really costly to produce) so there might >be a shortage. > >9) No limited edition is planned. The Machinedrum will be limited by >itself for the time coming. > >10) When can we see the manual? It's not ready yet. Most of our time goes >to developing at this moment. The MD is still in development. > >11) Are you doing any new things? We've been very hard with the >Machinedrum and haven't had time for any other project. > >Daniel > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com