Elektron Musical Instruments

Hi people,

someone suggested I should post this here :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQpdwD_oxI8

I am very proud to announce a new firmware for the MIDI Command which  
allows you to play the MachineDrum as a 16-voice polyphonic  
synthesizer. Just plug the MIDI Command into the MachineDrum and add a  
MIDI keyboard, and play all the machines you ever dream of as a  
polyphonic synthesizer. Discover how you can turn a snare drum into an  
awesome Rhodes sound, how you can layer noise with samples to emulate  
wavescanning monomachine sounds, and much much more.

This is such an incredible firmware that it makes the MachienDrum into  
a completely different instrument. I was trying out things for fun and  
I nearly fell out of my chair when I realized how deep this is (actuel  
as my witness .

In addition to being available on the MIDI Command, you can try out  
the new features with a small PC and Mac program that allows you to  
use the MachineDrum as a synthesizer in conjunction with your PC.  
Download it on our support page: http://ruinwesen.com/support . The  
zip file containing the MacOSX and Windows version can be found here:http://ruinwesen.com/support-files/MachineDrumNotes-0.1.zip 
  , and the user manual here:http://ruinwesen.com/support-files/MachineDrumNotes.pdf 
  .

This is early software, so please contact me if you have trouble,  
especially with MIDI. I tested it on macosx 10.5 intel and windows xp  
sp2 , but seeing how broken midi is everywhere... oO Also, I'm very  
open for all kind of suggestions. Working on integrating:

- pitch tracking the filter and other parameters
- mapping velocity to other parameters
- crossfading sounds
- making "unmelodic" machines melodic, for example playing filtered  
noise by contorlling the filter pitch, or for example retrig on  
specific sounds.

Don't forget to visit our site at http://ruinwesen.com/ , follow my  
twitter athttp://twitter.com/wesen and follow the rss feeds for our  
blog athttp://ruinwesen.com/rss/ruinwesen-blog

Cheers, Manuel


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forgive me if i'm wrong,
but all you're doing w/ the firmware (and the device) is setting up  
sequences of sysex messages, right?

jl

On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:19 AM, Manuel Odendahl wrote:

>> I am very proud to announce a new firmware for the MIDI Command which
>> allows you to play the MachineDrum as a 16-voice polyphonic
>> synthesizer. Just plug the MIDI Command into the MachineDrum and  
>> add a


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Hi j l,

On Oct 7, 2008, at 8:45 AM, j l wrote:
> forgive me if i'm wrong,
> but all you're doing w/ the firmware (and the device) is setting up
> sequences of sysex messages, right?
>






Yep, reading/analyzing global settings and kits using sysex, and then  
sending CC + note ons for the triggers.

Cheers, Manuel

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How do you handle the midi frequency -> tuning parameter ? Through a 
hardcoded table ?
Congratulations on the HW, it's a great hack on the MD.

Marc.

Manuel Odendahl a \ufffdcrit :

>
> Hi j l,
>
> On Oct 7, 2008, at 8:45 AM, j l wrote:
> > forgive me if i'm wrong,
> > but all you're doing w/ the firmware (and the device) is setting up
> > sequences of sysex messages, right?
> >
>
> Yep, reading/analyzing global settings and kits using sysex, and then
> sending CC + note ons for the triggers.
>
> Cheers, Manuel
>
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>
>

Hi,

On Oct 7, 2008, at 1:29 PM, M-.-n wrote:
> How do you handle the midi frequency -> tuning parameter ? Through a
> hardcoded table ?
> Congratulations on the HW, it's a great hack on the MD.
>






Yes a bunch of them. The tuning to freq is not very linear, even on  
machines where it "would" be. :}

Cheers, Manuel

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