Elektron Musical Instruments

i am still saving for my MD, and am interested in possible live 
action with it. has anyone used an external controller to switch 
between patterns and the like when playing live? would it even be 
possible? i've been looking at the akai MPD16 as a possible 
controller in this way but was curious to hear what seasoned users 
had to say. some of y'all don't like the MD pattern-change 
function(s)--have you found a way around this?
any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
wendell.

Although I haven't gigged out w/ it yet, I've been practicing in my 
studio using my MPC2000 to change the patterns and control the MD.  
Works well.  My only complaint is that when recording MIDI sequences 
produced by the MD, parameter lock information isn't transmitted... 
Anyone know if that's a limitation of the machine, or if there's some 
option I have turned off that will do it?


--- In elektron-users@y..., "scutopus" <scutopus@y...> wrote:

> i am still saving for my MD, and am interested in possible live 
> action with it. has anyone used an external controller to switch 
> between patterns and the like when playing live? would it even be 
> possible? i've been looking at the akai MPD16 as a possible 
> controller in this way but was curious to hear what seasoned users 
> had to say. some of y'all don't like the MD pattern-change 
> function(s)--have you found a way around this?
> any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
> thanks,
> wendell.