Elektron Musical Instruments

Hi, I'm new to this list. I've recently bought a machinedrum but 
wondered how I could achieve dotted notes and triplets as well as 
straight notes so I can work with 6/8, 12/8 time signatures. I've 
asked Elecktron support but they have yet to get back to me. In the 
scale setup you can only seem to select 16th or 32nd notes. In the 
manual I can't find any mention of how to set dotted notes or 
triplets and I can't believe the sequencer would be that limited.

Giovedì, 20 feb 2003, alle 14:15 Europe/Rome, frustated2000 
<conapt@philipkdick.com> ha scritto:

> Hi, I'm new to this list. I've recently bought a machinedrum but
> wondered how I could achieve dotted notes and triplets as well as
> straight notes so I can work with 6/8, 12/8 time signatures. I've
> asked Elecktron support but they have yet to get back to me. In the
> scale setup you can only seem to select 16th or 32nd notes. In the
> manual I can't find any mention of how to set dotted notes or
> triplets and I can't believe the sequencer would be that limited.


In song mode, you can choose how many steps of the pattern you want to 
play.
That way is possible to use those time signatures.

Thankyou for your reply.

My question had to do with selecting note resolution rather than step 
length. I know that in the scale menu I can select from between 2-32 
steps per pattern. Thus, bu selecting 12 I can achieve a 12/4 time 
signature. But how can I program a pattern in 12/8??? In other words, 
how can I use dotted notes, like dotted 16ths and so on? I have yet 
to hear from Elektron on whether or not dotted notes are even 
possible!

I hope someone can help here......

Thanks in advance

C

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Federico Ciapi 
<federico.ciapi@t...> wrote:
> 
> Giovedì, 20 feb 2003, alle 14:15 Europe/Rome, frustated2000 
> <conapt@p...> ha scritto:
> 
> > Hi, I'm new to this list. I've recently bought a machinedrum but
> > wondered how I could achieve dotted notes and triplets as well as
> > straight notes so I can work with 6/8, 12/8 time signatures. I've
> > asked Elecktron support but they have yet to get back to me. In 
the
> > scale setup you can only seem to select 16th or 32nd notes. In the
> > manual I can't find any mention of how to set dotted notes or
> > triplets and I can't believe the sequencer would be that limited.
> 
> 
> In song mode, you can choose how many steps of the pattern you want 
to 
> play.
> That way is possible to use those time signatures.

I really don't think you can do that.. the MD uses x0x type of pgragramming
which has always been very straight.

M-.-n
http://n0s.10pm.org/

I'll take a stab at this.

MD's Scale setup can give a time "signature" of 12/16.  Turn the 
tempo down from 120 to 60, and there you have it.  12 beats per 
measure, every 1/8 note is a "beat", i.e. 12/8.  Of course, you're 
left with half note resolution, which isn't all that nice.

A better way to do this is to leave the tempo set at for example 120, 
and choose 24/32 in the scale setup.  You get the same end result, 
but with higher resolution (quarter note) between beats. 

-gerald

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "frustated2000 <conapt@p...>" 
<conapt@p...> wrote:

> Hi, I'm new to this list. I've recently bought a machinedrum but 
> wondered how I could achieve dotted notes and triplets as well as 
> straight notes so I can work with 6/8, 12/8 time signatures. I've 
> asked Elecktron support but they have yet to get back to me. In the 
> scale setup you can only seem to select 16th or 32nd notes. In the 
> manual I can't find any mention of how to set dotted notes or 
> triplets and I can't believe the sequencer would be that limited.

But the problem is: I can't sync the MD to other drum machines and 
sequencers using 12th or 24th note clock time. Sure, I could sequence 
everything from the MD itself, but the MD's sequencer is very basic 
and doesn't support polyrhythms.


--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "oldmanfury <erinys@s...>" 
<erinys@s...> wrote:
> I'll take a stab at this.
> 
> MD's Scale setup can give a time "signature" of 12/16.  Turn the 
> tempo down from 120 to 60, and there you have it.  12 beats per 
> measure, every 1/8 note is a "beat", i.e. 12/8.  Of course, you're 
> left with half note resolution, which isn't all that nice.
> 
> A better way to do this is to leave the tempo set at for example 
120, 
> and choose 24/32 in the scale setup.  You get the same end result, 
> but with higher resolution (quarter note) between beats. 
> 
> -gerald
> 
> --- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "frustated2000 
<conapt@p...>" 
> <conapt@p...> wrote:
> > Hi, I'm new to this list. I've recently bought a machinedrum but 
> > wondered how I could achieve dotted notes and triplets as well as 
> > straight notes so I can work with 6/8, 12/8 time signatures. I've 
> > asked Elecktron support but they have yet to get back to me. In 
the 
> > scale setup you can only seem to select 16th or 32nd notes. In 
the 
> > manual I can't find any mention of how to set dotted notes or 
> > triplets and I can't believe the sequencer would be that limited.