Elektron Musical Instruments

Hey guys, I finally have my little home studio (mostly) set up and 
tried to get things to interact with my MD through midi and have 
had almost no success. I really wish this had some indicators to 
say it was sending or receiving data. I tried setting up a FreeMIDI 
profile and controlling the MD through my midi express and 
when that did nothing I noticed that when it was playing my 
interface wasn't receiving any data from the MD. So I did what 
little I could and tried hooking up the MD to my Juno 106 and 
despite playing an unvarying loop I ended up with beat synched 
triggers that didn't have a discernable pattern and weren't 
consistent. Now I know that the MD sends on 4 channels instead 
of one and I figure that the notes hit on the Juno were the 
corresponding track's notes according the the MD's appendix, 
but I can't figure out why when I play each of the 16 sounds once 
in a 16 beat loop, only a few trigger MIDI events and it's not 
always the same sounds. So, anyone have this working or have 
any advice? It was really a bummer to not be able to finally make 
some  recordings using the MD - actually I did record the weird 
triggering of the Juno with the MD playing each sound once per 
loop cycle at 170 bpm. It's kinda funny. Oh, also I noticed another 
bug - it seems like when I switch to a new set (perhaps not that 
often) and turn the big knob to the right it switches machine 
focus from the bass drum over to the claps without hitting 
anything in between. I don't know if it's related to the other knob-
value bug. Anyone else pick up on that?
    Danke,

    Ben

--- In elektron-users@y..., "Ben" <bdagnon@h...> wrote:
> Oh, also I noticed another 
> bug - it seems like when I switch to a new set (perhaps not that 
> often) and turn the big knob to the right it switches machine 
> focus from the bass drum over to the claps without hitting 
> anything in between. I don't know if it's related to the other knob-
> value bug. Anyone else pick up on that?
>     Danke,
> 
>     Ben

Hi Ben
This "value jump" also occurs on my MD when I turn the knobs to 
adjust a sound, especially when I'm recording parameter locks. 
According to Daniel at Elektron this will be fixed with the new OS.

Nils

I've been scrambling around for the past couple of weeks trying to work 
deals to grab an MD, while keeping track almost daily of the number of 
available units left in the original MachineFriend stockpile of 100.

Today I checked the available stock (20 now left), only to find an 
additional message: "The 100 Machinedrum friend offer is now over. The 
SPS-1 is available for public order at the main Machinedrum website."

Nertz!  Now I guess I'll just have to wait for one to come up on the used 
market...  :-(

	-c-

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