Elektron Musical Instruments

I was deep in SDS land yesterday when I realized that between my two 
Simmons boxes, I now have 7 Toms.  That got me thinking - what the 
hell do you use toms for?  The Simmons drums are easy to warp into 
other sounds... but the MD has HT MT and LT... none of which get used 
much on my machine.  Of course, you can warp these into interesting 
sounds, but I never really use the preset toms.

Here's the question:  What type of music would actually use all three 
toms?  I use an occasional tom, but _never_ all three.  Maybe I'm too 
entrenched in one specific genre?  Maybe I need to try bosa nova?

-gerald

p.s.  I hope elektron wasn't too upset by the fact that you 
kids 'backdoored your way into divulging their well kept secret.  At 
least, knowing _what_ it is doesn't diminish my anticipation.

I used them all once after listening to the Cure.  My fiance was 
listening to them alot so I decided to try to do one of thier style 
drum tracks with an echoed bass from my virus.  I did from high to 
low toms.  I guess you can always do that kind of tom pass if you are 
going for real drum sounds.  They have a nice ring and can add a 
tribal sound to a techno song i guess.  Just some ideas.

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "oldmanfury <erinys@s...>" 
<erinys@s...> wrote:
> I was deep in SDS land yesterday when I realized that between my 
two 
> Simmons boxes, I now have 7 Toms.  That got me thinking - what the 
> hell do you use toms for?  The Simmons drums are easy to warp into 
> other sounds... but the MD has HT MT and LT... none of which get 
used 
> much on my machine.  Of course, you can warp these into interesting 
> sounds, but I never really use the preset toms.
> 
> Here's the question:  What type of music would actually use all 
three 
> toms?  I use an occasional tom, but _never_ all three.  Maybe I'm 
too 
> entrenched in one specific genre?  Maybe I need to try bosa nova?
> 
> -gerald
> 
> p.s.  I hope elektron wasn't too upset by the fact that you 
> kids 'backdoored your way into divulging their well kept secret.  
At 
> least, knowing _what_ it is doesn't diminish my anticipation.

I use a lot of of toms! My style iss Techno ,I tune them on the 
bassdrum and  put it on 
3-7-11-14-15. Tom da Tomz

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "oldmanfury <erinys@s...>" 
<erinys@s...> wrote:

> Here's the question:  What type of music would actually use all 
> three toms?  I use an occasional tom, but _never_ all three.  Maybe 

  I use 'em for tribal/hand drumming type sounds, personally.

  Generally set them pretty low in the mix or else they tend to 
dominate.

>>>>> erinys  writes:

  g> p.s.  I hope elektron wasn't too upset by the fact that you kids
  g> 'backdoored your way into divulging their well kept secret. 

  if elektron were actually trying to keep the monomachine a secret
  they were wise to become musical instrument designers and not spies.


  k.

-- 
kevin montuori

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On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:23:54PM -0000, Mind Mechanic <machanic@...> wrote:
> --- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "oldmanfury <erinys@s...>" 
> <erinys@s...> wrote:
> 
> > Here's the question:  What type of music would actually use all 
> > three toms?  I use an occasional tom, but _never_ all three.  Maybe 
> 
>   I use 'em for tribal/hand drumming type sounds, personally.
> 
>   Generally set them pretty low in the mix or else they tend to 
> dominate.

Yes, a good way to create nearly subliminal bass.

Also, I like making on deep quick tom sound for emphasis, before
changing parts in a song.  Picked that up from listening to
Bad Religion, The Gray Race.




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--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Crackpot <shifty@g...> wrote:

> Yes, a good way to create nearly subliminal bass.
> 
> Also, I like making on deep quick tom sound for emphasis, before
> changing parts in a song.  Picked that up from listening to
> Bad Religion, The Gray Race.

  I'll have to try that out.  Probably more interesting than the 
standard reversed cymbal :)

I use them constantly. Tribal techno is all about
them, plus you can have lots of fun in electro with
toms also

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