Elektron Musical Instruments

( As elektron have promised support for monomachine from questions 
within this group ).

Can you tell us what the capacity of the sequencer memory is and 
whether it is split between external and internal modes ?

Also number of patterns / songs available .

How many presets for each synth group ?

tia

psi

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, madasagoat wrote:

>  ( As elektron have promised support for monomachine from questions 
> within this group ).

OK, let's start then. :)

> Can you tell us what the capacity of the sequencer memory is and 
> whether it is split between external and internal modes ?

The sequencer does not have the traditional limit on "number of notes". 
There are 128 patterns, each one having up to 64 steps, and you can 
program every step for all tracks if you'd like. There is a limit to the 
number of parameter locks you can do per track, but the limit is high and 
I don't think many people will ever reach the ceiling.

Each pattern have six tracks for internal sequencing and six tracks for 
external MIDI. The external MIDI allow programming of chords, and there is 
a limit of around 300 "extra chord notes" beside the monophonic trigs for 
each pattern.

> Also number of patterns / songs available .

128 patterns
128 kits with what you would refer to as 6 patches per kit
32 songs

> How many presets for each synth group ?

The beta units do not ship with any presets. These will be added for 
OS1.0. As the sound structure will change until 1.0 we didn't think it 
would make sense to add the presets already as they would need to be 
reprogrammed anyway when 1.0 is released. 

The structure of the Monomachine is so different from a traditional 
synthesizer, so it's hard to say what relates to a normal patch. It 
depends on how you decide to use it! It can be all from 128 to 128*6=768.

Daniel

> The beta units do not ship with any presets. These will be added for
> OS1.0. As the sound structure will change until 1.0 we didn't think it
> would make sense to add the presets already as they would need to be
> reprogrammed anyway when 1.0 is released.

So does this mean anything you program on OS 0.9 will no longer be valid
once you upgrade to OS 1.0?  In other words, would you lose your patches
going from 0.9 to 1.0 or would just the overall sound characteristic of the
patches themselves change?  This will be nice to know up front for the beta
testers.

thanks!
nate

I think the safest thing to assume is "All bets are off" -- for your 
patches, sequences, config params, etc.  It is *beta*.

We're payin $500 under MSRP for a reason.

On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 10:56 AM, nathan jantz wrote:

> > The beta units do not ship with any presets. These will be added for
> > OS1.0. As the sound structure will change until 1.0 we didn't think 
> it
> > would make sense to add the presets already as they would need to be
> > reprogrammed anyway when 1.0 is released.
>
> So does this mean anything you program on OS 0.9 will no longer be 
> valid
> once you upgrade to OS 1.0?  In other words, would you lose your 
> patches
> going from 0.9 to 1.0 or would just the overall sound characteristic 
> of the
> patches themselves change?  This will be nice to know up front for the 
> beta
> testers.
>
> thanks!
> nate
>
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, nathan jantz wrote:

> So does this mean anything you program on OS 0.9 will no longer be valid
> once you upgrade to OS 1.0?  In other words, would you lose your patches
> going from 0.9 to 1.0 or would just the overall sound characteristic of the
> patches themselves change?  This will be nice to know up front for the beta
> testers.

At least the sound characteristics will change. We do not see any reason 
for us to change the memory structure from this on, but we reserve us the 
right to do so until OS1.0. (It is when we need to make room for stuff in 
the memory where we didn't plan for stuff to be that people need to reset 
their memory and loose their patches)

So it is wise not to become too attached to the patches of the beta OS'es! 
:)

Daniel