Some other mail from Elektron.
2003-01-14 by Bastiaan van de Werk
Hi, see my comments interlaced below. On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Bastiaan van de Werk wrote: > Hello, > > I own the excellent MD now for about a month and it still amazes me > with it's great sounds. Still I have a few things I'd *kill* for to see > in the next upgrade: > Thanks ! > 1. timeshifting (to shift all notes back and forth in a track by a few > ticks) > 2. custom grooves or some extra groove templetes in the Swing section (a > la cubase) 1. & 2. This is probably not going to happen. The sequencer is not designed for that kind of sequencing. > 3. I NEED THAT 909 HAT. You cannot deny me that hat...with a few > parameters that the 909 doesn't have. like 'sizzle', 'compression', > 'tune', 'noise''decay' etc.etcetc. We used up very close to all the available memory, the 909 hat is not that large but if we are looking at including the 909 ride & crash it's probably impossible. But we are aware that there is a demand for the 909 samples. > 4. not just bit RATE reduction but also bit DEPTH reduction!!! yummie Bit depth reduction sure would be nice to have but when limited by the NR of encoders we choose to go with sample rate reduction. On percussive sounds I think it's much more useful. > 5. selectable slopes for the filters..... Since we need all parameters in the Machinedrum to be instantly changeably e.g. when changing kits during a song/switching between patterns this is probably not possible to implement. We would have to mute the audio or get heavy pops when loading kits with different filter settings. > 6. the possibiliy to see variables in real unit (Hz, msec etc. instead > of 0-255) Perhaps. > 7. Extra parameters (if you press Shift to acces LFO, press it twice > more to scroll thru 3 menus, just like syntn/fx/routing) > 8. Extra parameters for distortion! Probably not. This eats memory and the parameter locks would take more time. More distortion parameters would need a more complex distortion algorithm and the DSP's are already loaded to the max. > 9. More machines, This is something we hope to do when we have time... > more fx. Again the DSP's are used to the limits, adding more fx is simply not possible. > > Please let me know if any of those are reconsidered. ;) Hope your not to disappointed with the answers... Regards David Elektron Support *** Fight Spam! Join EuroCAUCE: http://www.euro.cauce.org/ ***