Elektron Musical Instruments

From: Julian Parker <chiba_city@...>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 22:19:24 +0000
To: Julian Parker <chiba_city@...>
Subject: Re: MD Noise Investigation

on 2/6/02 10:16 PM, Julian Parker at chiba_city@... wrote:

> After all this talk of funny noises coming from the MD I decided to see if I
> could hear what everyone means. I'm sad to say that I can too here these
> 'decay' noises. I did a bit of testing and noticed the following things:-
> 
> -The noises seems to be dependent on pairs of outputs i.e. a sound on the main
> outs triggers the noise in the main outs(A + B) whereas a sound on out C
> triggers the noise on C + D and a sound on E triggers the noise of E + F.
> 
> -The noise does not seem to pass between pairs of out i.e. a sound on out E
> does NOT trigger the noise on out A,B,C or D.
> 
> -The noise bears some resemblance to the sound that has been triggered. This
> is especially obvious with sound that have more high frequency content eg
> snares. This indicates to me that the problem could be some kind of signal
> bleed through.
> 
> -The volume and erm.. (hard to describe) shape of the noise is effected by the
> volume of the sound that has been triggered.
> 
> -There are other small, seemingly unrelated, periodic noises present on the
> outputs.
> 
> All of this seems to point to a hardware rather than software problem to me.
> Bear in mind that I am just a student and my opinion probably counts for
> nothing and may well be wrong. Would anyone with a better technical background
> (Shifty where are you!), like to lend their opinion? You can quite easily
> reproduce the noise by, for example, assigning a bass drum to out C and then
> listening with the volume up on out D.
> 
> over and out
> 
> jng[png]



P.S. despite these minor problems the MD is still a rather lovely little
bugger of a machine. And lets be honest, this noise is nothing like the
Sidstation level of noise. I like Elektron noise! it adds a nice background
to my tracks ;-)