Elektron Musical Instruments

or 'A different way to use the MD'...

Last friday, we had a huge night here in Brussels devoted to the
'micromusic' community. For those not knowing, it encompasses the broad
genre of people using old gameconsole & computer to do music. Being part of
that scene (I'm writing tracks exclusively using gameboys), I had the
priviledge of being part of the live acts in the middle of really respected
people from the scene...

Now, if there's a thing gameboys lacks, it is in the bass department. I
always wanted to have a way to add nice deep end to my kicks and since I
have a MD and that for once I didn't have to carry my rig in some remote
locations, I wanted to use the TRX-BD2 to double the kicks in some section
of the songs, where the whole thing would get pumpin. Of course, gameboy are
a little tricky; you can sychronize them using MIDI clock but it meant using
the MD as master which felt a bit awkward since I am use to the sequencer I
am using in the gameboy and kept wanting using it as the center piece.
So I decided to investigate the audio input trigger.. since they're
expecting audio signal, I was pretty sure I could find a sound from the
gameboy that would trigger the MD appropriately... Sure enough, after a
little digging, I fould a bass sound that would steadily trigger the MD and
since I could synch this one with my main gameboy, I created some basic
pattern containing 1,2,4 hits that would give the filthiest kick from the
MD.

The whole trick worked like a charm, so there I was, using the expensive MD
to produce only kick sound, triggered from a supercheap $20 element. It was
a lot of fun.

For those interested; there's a couple of pictures at the following url:

http://www.benetbene.net/site/Gallery/microbeatbeach.htm

u can see the MD in front of the crowd and the green color gameboy (foremost
one) used to trigger it.

I thought I'd share the story :)

PS: If there's any sweedze around, I'll be playing in Stockholm next
saturday (but without the MD this time) at the next microdisko (
http://www.microdisko.net/ ). Come and join us !

Cheers,
M-.-n
http://discodirt.10pm.org

I want to hear!

-M


--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "M-.-n" <nostromo@a...> wrote:

> or 'A different way to use the MD'...
> 
> Last friday, we had a huge night here in Brussels devoted to the
> 'micromusic' community. For those not knowing, it encompasses the broad
> genre of people using old gameconsole & computer to do music. Being part of
> that scene (I'm writing tracks exclusively using gameboys), I had the
> priviledge of being part of the live acts in the middle of really respected
> people from the scene...
> 
> Now, if there's a thing gameboys lacks, it is in the bass department. I
> always wanted to have a way to add nice deep end to my kicks and since I
> have a MD and that for once I didn't have to carry my rig in some remote
> locations, I wanted to use the TRX-BD2 to double the kicks in some section
> of the songs, where the whole thing would get pumpin. Of course, gameboy are
> a little tricky; you can sychronize them using MIDI clock but it meant using
> the MD as master which felt a bit awkward since I am use to the sequencer I
> am using in the gameboy and kept wanting using it as the center piece.
> So I decided to investigate the audio input trigger.. since they're
> expecting audio signal, I was pretty sure I could find a sound from the
> gameboy that would trigger the MD appropriately... Sure enough, after a
> little digging, I fould a bass sound that would steadily trigger the MD and
> since I could synch this one with my main gameboy, I created some basic
> pattern containing 1,2,4 hits that would give the filthiest kick from the
> MD.
> 
> The whole trick worked like a charm, so there I was, using the expensive MD
> to produce only kick sound, triggered from a supercheap $20 element. It was
> a lot of fun.
> 
> For those interested; there's a couple of pictures at the following url:
> 
> http://www.benetbene.net/site/Gallery/microbeatbeach.htm
> 
> u can see the MD in front of the crowd and the green color gameboy (foremost
> one) used to trigger it.
> 
> I thought I'd share the story :)
> 
> PS: If there's any sweedze around, I'll be playing in Stockholm next
> saturday (but without the MD this time) at the next microdisko (
> http://www.microdisko.net/ ). Come and join us !
> 
> Cheers,
> M-.-n
> http://discodirt.10pm.org