Elektron Musical Instruments

any one notice that the left right a b label on the back of the MD is
reversed? its correct on top (left a, right b) , but on the back it its
wrong right a, left b).

i hooked up my MD, and didnt look @ the top,or the manual, and i couldnt
figure out why the panning was reversed, checked my mixer, patch bay, back
of the MD, everything. i figured it was a software bug in the MD, and then i
looked at the actual top label. oops.

i guess when the MD goes into production this will be a way to tell the 100
first units apart from the final version...

I have a wish for the next OS:

- please no display-change when you go into "mute"-mode.
  you see what\ufffds muted and what\ufffds not on the LEDs below anyway,
  so I think it would be better to free the screen from the
  additional displaying of the muted buttons - And you would have
  a free view on the parameters to squeeze.
  This would be 100% better for playing live.

- maybe I couldn\ufffdt find it yet: But i think a "shortcut-button"
  for the single tracks would be nice. E.g. you press the xy knob and
  the "BD" Track -> with the same effect as if you turn the "sound
selection"-wheel,
  but faster when you are one with the machine.

cheers
SplanK!

The Machinedrum is already a classic. You know why?
Because it\ufffds so much fun playing with it, and you come to results
that satisfy you very fast.
The sounds are strange, and it has "unlimited" possibilities.
But that doesn\ufffdt disturb. Sometimes I feel disturbed by that with other
e.g. Virtual Analogue synths. You are searching for a tone,
you play around for hours and still you think: "maybe It can be better".
With the MD I feel "this is cool, maybe leave it like that" - after 5
minutes.
But I know, I have discovered only 15% of it\ufffds features/possibilitys yet.
Same effect you have with analogue synths.

Electron-Addict
Splank!

"splank!" wrote:

> I have a wish for the next OS:
> 
> - please no display-change when you go into "mute"-mode.
>   you see what´s muted and what´s not on the LEDs below
anyway,
>   so I think it would be better to free the screen from the
>   additional displaying of the muted buttons - And you would have
>   a free view on the parameters to squeeze.
>   This would be 100% better for playing live.

even better for playing live, I think  would be even easier for live 
mode to      ---***wow Im stoned***--- sorry               

I meant to start to say....   
not even having to go into a separate "mode" to mute/unmute tracks 
would be even better for playing live. Make it a simple key press 
away at any time for any track..  would be great for building up 
tracks from scratch live.. I guess though, if you can go into the 
mute mode without the pop up screen display blocking the knobs then 
that would work just as fine! 
> 
> - maybe I couldn´t find it yet: But i think a "shortcut-button"
>   for the single tracks would be nice. E.g. you press the xy knob 
and
>   the "BD" Track -> with the same effect as if you turn the "sound
> selection"-wheel,
>   but faster when you are one with the machine.

These are two great ideas, both geared for live playing... The area 
where the MachineDrum is the undisputed drummachine king imho. so 
many sonic options!  Get your DJ friend to play some music through 
the MD!!!!!  super cool shit.

but yeah, I think that a sequencer-as-a-track would be a cool idea 
too, I dont know DSP or code or whatever it takes to change this 
stuff up, but it seems to me that it would be easy to adapt the 
machiedrum's hardware and screen/menu system to become a sequencer.. 
The thing IS a sequencer for cryin' out loud.  SO having a midi 
sequencer track, even if just one, (two, three!? : )  seems to be a 
very obvious lacking feature.. the elektron toys would be great for 
eachother.  Maybe even make a specific knob set-up for the Sid.  But 
leave a blank one too, so you could save customixed MIDI knob maps 
for your different MID synths/programs whatever... then send the Sid 
through the MD!! oh my!

I like how the Copy Paste delete functions are laid out.. super cool 
easy.
I like how mostly everything can be done while the sequencer is 
running..  
I like the size/ergonomics of the MD...

just a few things that i managed to remember here tonight!

it rules!
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