Elektron Musical Instruments

Hi
I have recently purchased a Machinedrum which is bringing much me 
pleasure. Everyday I am finding new features and creating new sounds 
that are to be perfectly honest making me have to wear nappies.
This is the first piece of serious musical hardware that I have 
bought (being solely a computer based head)and it has made re think 
the way I make music and opened up the possibilies to play live and 
most importantly its fun.

2  questions

1) I am very interested in the possibilites of the Input gates. If 
anyone would like to share what the are using them for it would most 
appreciated. I have searched the archives but it doesn't seem to be a 
subject that has been covered. This leads me onto my 2nd question.

2) Are the 2 separate 1/4" audio in jacks and 6 separate 1/4"
audio 
out jacks of the MD mono or Stereo. The reason I ask is that the main 
output is left and Right Stereo Channels so I am assuming the other 6 
outputs and the inputs are Mono.
 I am running a CD player playing tones etc into input A using
"INP-EA" to gate the sounds. 
I am using a 2x phono to single stereo 1/4" jack .  Would this be 
true stereo? 

Many thanks in advance 
ofthicktum

ofthicktum <electrodavid@...> wrote: 
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2) Are the 2 separate 1/4" audio in jacks and 6
separate 1/4"
audio 
out jacks of the MD mono or Stereo. The reason I ask
is that the main 
output is left and Right Stereo Channels so I am
assuming the other 6 
outputs and the inputs are Mono.
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to answer this, the Main outputs of the MD act as a
pair of stereo outs only when your global settings
dictate that this is the case (ie. if you are using
the master EQ/compressor/delay/reverb). if you set
them to function as A and B outputs, bypassing the
master FX section, then they act as mono outputs the
same way as the rest of the outputs do. this is
covered in the manual.
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ofthicktum <electrodavid@...> wrote: 

I am running a CD player playing tones etc into input
A using
"INP-EA" to gate the sounds. 
I am using a 2x phono to single stereo 1/4" jack . 
Would this be 
true stereo? 
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no. essentially what you are doing here is summing the
stereo output of your CD player to a mono output
before it reaches the MD. to maintain a true stereo
signal, you should use a phono-1/4" mono adapter for
each output of the CD player, feeding the left output
of the CD to Input A of the MD and the right output of
the CD player to Input B of the MD.

hope that helps.  
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ofthicktum - judging by your handle, you must suffer
from severe heartburn! ;-)

cheers,
kevin

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