Elektron Musical Instruments

I spent a little over an hour last night working with a kit from scratch
(Init), altering sounds, and creating a short sequence.  It was my first
real foray into ³glitch² or ³IDM².  It sounds a bit like ³jega², but I think
it is one of the best patterns I¹ve created on the MD.  All in less than
one, happy hour.

Now I'm looking to expand on it.  Does anyone have any pointers on how to
get some cool analog-ish string pads out of the MD?

Thanks!
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W. Brent Latta :-: wbl@...
Official 3DMC Website :-: http://www.3dmc.org
Download tunes :-: http://www.3dmc.org/studio.shtml
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: Now I'm looking to expand on it.  Does anyone have any
: pointers on how to
: get some cool analog-ish string pads out of the MD?

Buy a Virus and trigger it from the MD! ;P (as I've been for the past 2
nights instead of sleeping...) I'm starting to feel like I could put
together a solid live set with just these two boxes... This is really
exciting.

Other comments and observations on the new MD (mostly frivolous):

-The buttons feel a little chincy (=cheep/fragile)
-It could be thinner. Feels kind of bulky and makes me want to rackmount it,
rather than carry it in my messenger bag with a car adapter [Road trip beat
boxing!]
-Along those lines, some nice bar LEDs would suit it nicely...

more seriously:

-No storage for single machine sound patches [or management thereof] is a
bit of a bummer
-Add to the wish list: a Grid Display on the lcd of multiple tracks (perhaps
scrollable)
-and perhaps a piano roll for the Midi Machines? This would totally kick
ass.

But of course it already does! I'm really loving working on this box.

>--Original Message Text---
>From: Eric Peterson
>Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 23:55:02 -0500
>-It could be thinner. Feels kind of bulky and makes me want to rackmount it,
> rather than carry it in my messenger bag with a car adapter [Road trip beat

Are you really doing this? How does your car adaptor thing work? What is it? 
Just a wall socket adaptor you plug the MD power supply into?

>-Add to the wish list: a Grid Display on the lcd of multiple tracks (perhaps
>-and perhaps a piano roll for the Midi Machines? This would totally kick

My wish list has had only one item on it for months:
- show which patterns in a bank are non-blank using the [DRUM] LED's when 
the bank's key (A-H) is held down. 

For instance, say you have patterns stored in B4,B5, and B15, and the rest of 
bank B is blank patterns. I'd really love it if holding down [B] lit up LED 4, 5, 
and 15 while keeping the other [DRUM] lights dark, so I would know which 
patterns are blank without having to check each one. Is there a feature 
request address?
-andr00_tsx

--- In elektron-users@y..., "W. Brent Latta" <wbl@c...> wrote:
> Does anyone have any pointers on how to
> get some cool analog-ish string pads out of the MD?
> 
> Thanks!

Try the FM sounds, most flexible of the machines. In particular, the 
FM hihat. I made a demo using 3-part strings, that I think will be 
featured on machinedrum.com very soon. :-)

Regards,
Nils

> -No storage for single machine sound patches [or management thereof] is a
> bit of a bummer

not sure if you noticed this, but you can copy and paste individual
machines between kits, that helps a bit...


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