Elektron Musical Instruments

I sent an email to Elektron support... asking them if there was a way to change the screen color for the MD... and this is the mail back I got....

"
It's always red. :)

But if you have a light from above it is reflecting green.

All the best,

Daniel Hansson, Elektron
"

....that is.... so f'kin...... HIP!!!

THAT'S why I love those guys.  Seriously.  Has nothing to do with the ridicously cool gear.  Just that funky Swedish humor.

I just purchased a MD from eBay.... can't wait for the dayum thingy to get here.... had a couple of (probaly) premature questions...

1) Has anybody found a way to change the screen color? Lol... does anybody care?  I just prefer blues and greens to reds.

2) Has anybody used the rackmount kit?  How many spaces does it take up?  Like it?

3) Has anybody made a battery/portable adaption to their MD?  I did for my Korg EM a while ago... but that had a standard type power adapter plug... found all the bits at RadioShack.  Does the MD's power supply have a funky connector?

That's all the questions I can think of... lol... till I get my hands on the little bugger.... probally need to ask about the midi machines and trigger locks... yah.

Jiggly with anticipation...

-0behn desu0-
be4n_anikean@...

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>3) Has anybody made a battery/portable adaption to their MD?  I did for
my Korg EM a while ago... 
>but that had a standard type power adapter plug... found all the bits
at RadioShack.  
>Does the MD's power supply have a funky connector?

Would be quite tricky as it's 6VAC, not DC, thus you wont have much luck
with normal batteries. A shame really..

You could probably hand-change the LEDs. I know character LCDs are 
pretty standardized in terms of available sizes. If you could find a 
graphical LCD the same size, with a compatible controller, I don't see 
that you couldn't do it. But you take all the risk of breaking a brand 
new MD of course. :>

Imho, their color scheme is pretty hip, blue/green or not. That orange 
LCD is so mellow.

Mark

The plug is the least of your problems. A battery pack is DC, not AC.
The EM-1 takes 9VDC. The MD takes 6VAC. It wont work.

From: "-0behn desu0-" be4n_anikean@...
>Well... the battery packs I made for my Korg Electribe EM-1 were
9VAC... would 6 be harder?  Just a lower draw right?  I'm mostly worried
about a 
>funky/hard to find adapter plug... 

>Would be quite tricky as it's 6VAC, not DC, thus you wont have much
luck
>with normal batteries. A shame really..

>got ya.  i was reading the Korg page wrong.  there's no way to do a portable ac pack?  
>or a ac/dc converter portably (don't know if THAT'S a word)?

Yeah you can, but it requires a whole heap of extra circuitry. Have a look at this page for what I mean. < http://www.discovercircuits.com/C/co-dctoac.htm >

You'd probably be looking at something like this one < http://www.discovercircuits.com/Andy/DctoACconverter.pdf > which as you can see requires a bit more than a few batteries running out to a jack :-)

If you do happen to do it, let us all know your circuit, I'd love to have a portable MD ;-)

cheers,
m.




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